About a hundred Hillary-supporting diarists are “striking” over at Daily Kos, refusing to blog at the site due to virulent anti-Hillary sentiment from the site’s Obama fans. From the originator of the strike: This is a strike – a walkout over unfair writing conditions at DailyKos. It does not mean that if conditions get better I won’t “work” at DailyKos …

(Via – Queerty)

The LA Times has an interesting piece on the continuing clash between Sacramento’s gay community and the thousands of evangelical Slavic immigrants who have relocated there in recent years. With as many as 100,000 newcomers from republics such as Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus, the Sacramento region has one of the nation’s largest concentrations of Soviet immigrants. Most began arriving …

Wow. In a shocking deal reached on Sunday to save Bear Stearns, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay a mere $2 a share to buy all of Bear — less than one-tenth the firm’s market price on Friday. As part of the watershed deal, JPMorgan and the Federal Reserve will guarantee the huge trading obligations of the troubled firm, which was …

A houseguest reported that I was talking about Hillary Clinton in my sleep last night. This really troubles me.

“As an employer, I don’t wanna hear about it. This workplace is for work purposes. My advice to the gay community is SHUT UP, just don’t talk about it. If you walk around talking about what you do in the bedroom, you should be on the pervert channel.” – Oregon state Senator Gary George, co-sponsor of an initiative to repeal …

Yesterday at the Dugout I finally met New York Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell and his partner of 27 years, John Banta, who is Director of Special Events at the American Ballet Theatre. Sweet guys! Danny and I had a nice chat about the anti-bullying law he just successfully sponsored in the Assembly and the chances of getting the bill passed in …

Although George Segal never meant his Gay Liberation sculpture to evoke AIDS, by the time it was installed in Sheridan Square’s Christopher Park in 1992 the disease was at its height, causing some to read an unintended message from the figures. I know I always did.

Well, this is a fascinating development. A former aide to James E. McGreevey said today that he had three-way sexual trysts with the former governor and his wife before he took office, challenging Dina Matos McGreevey’s assertion that she was naive about her husband’s sexual exploits. The aide, Theodore Pedersen, said he and the couple even had a nickname for …

The Sunday Times is speculating that Eliot Spitzer’s downfall might have been orchestrated by Wall Street bankers angry with Spitzer’s vigorous pursuit of white-collar criminals. Both of the banks that reported Spitzer’s money transfers (which proved to be payments to the Emperors VIP Club) had been the subject of investigations by Spitzer’s office. When the case against the one man …

Via Think Progress: In a rare Senate appearance yesterday, McCain failed to attract support for a halt to pork-barrel spending, losing on a 71-29 vote. An angry McCain told voters today that he was only “doing the Lord’s work” but unfortunately was doing it in the city of Satan.” “We were voting on major issues of profound consequences with no …

“Christvertising takes a whole new approach to marketing your brand. We skip the strategic deliverables. We pass on the matrixes, the payoffs and the metrics. We ignore any viral functionality. We focus on the ultimate end-user; God. If God loves your brand, it will become stronger and more successful.” Real and scary or a very, very good joke? (Via – …

“An abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict.” I liked the suicide falafel. Here’s a cheat sheet if somehow you don’t which foods represent which countries.

Gotham nightclub FUBAR was destroyed in a construction disaster on Manhattan’s East Side this afternoon, just about a mile from my apartment. A 15-story construction crane collapsed, destroying an entire five-story apartment building and FUBAR. At least three people were killed. Something is seriously wrong with construction oversight in this town, this shit is happening every week. More photos.

I haven’t commented on the swirling rumors that Sally Kern has a gay son because there just didn’t seem to be any proof. But check out what Kern’s son himself has to say. Mixed in with his declaration of being straight but celibate (not that we’re necessarily buying that), he doesn’t say anything negative about gay people and says that …

6 train platform, 1pm Woman 1: Trust is for idiots. I have his PIN code and his email password. Woman 2: Wow. He must really love you. Or fear you. Woman 1: Whatever works.

– A musical version of Armisted Maupin’s Tale Of The City will be coming to Broadway with music written by Jake Shears and John Garden of the Scissor Sisters. Shears will also write the lyrics. Look for Tales to debut in the 2009-2010 season. – Kathleen Turner is making her directing debut with Crimes of the Heart at the Roundabout …

Speaking of things hooker-ish, four years ago this here website thingy got a huge kick in the readership when out of nowhere JMG was added to the blogroll of Belle De Jour, the secret-identity blog of an English call girl which was the fascination of the UK public. Belle landed a book deal, the book was a smash and has …

Eliot Spitzer’s last hooker hook-up, would-be pop star Ashley Dupre’, is turning into quite the media darling. Her MySpace page has had millions of hits, her name is now in Google’s top-searched list, and she’s had offers from Hustler, Penthouse, and Playboy. Dupre’s rushed-out single, Move Ya Body, is already getting nonstop play on NYC radio. You can preview the …

The shit is getting deep downtown. Bear Stearns, facing a grave liquidity crisis, reached out to JPMorgan on Friday for a short-term financial lifeline and now faces the prospect of the end of its 85-year run as an independent investment bank. With the support of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, JPMorgan said in a statement that it had …