10. Facebook profile reveals Giuliani’s daughter supports Obama. 9. Miss South Carolina talks about geography. 8. Sally Field gets bleeped during the Emmys. 7. Rosie calls out Elizabeth on The View. 6. Britney Spears sleep-clomps the MTV Awards. 5. Sen. David Vitter’s name found on DC Madam’s list. 4. David Hasselhoff’s daughter films him hammered. 3. Alec Baldwin rips into …

Aaron and I stopped in at a Canal Street temple to say hey to Buddha. I’d never been in a Buddhist temple before, it very much reminded me of my visit to the Stonecutters temple in Chelsea, only this one had a gift shop.

Courtesy of the author, this week’s Swag Tuesday item is Fruit Cocktail, the new novel by Arthur Wooten. Fruit Cocktail is published by Alyson Books. Wooten has written for theater, film, and television. Fruit Cocktail is the sequel to On Picking Fruit, also published by Alyson. His short story, Stroke Of Luck is in their collection Best Gay Love Stories: …

New Jersey, which has not executed a prisoner since 1963, officially abolished the death sentence today. The first state to ban capital punishment since the Supreme Court reinstated it in 1976, New Jersey joins 13 others states and the District of Columbia with their ban. Earlier this year a New Jersey study concluded that the cost of defending death penalty …

– Manhattan’s famed 2nd Avenue Deli has reopened – on Third Avenue. The restaurant family’s patriach, Abe Lebewohl, was murdered in 1996 in a robbery that remains unsolved. His nephew Jeremy is the co-owner of the new location. I can personally vouch for their spectacular corned beef and pastrami sandwich. – Cabbies are continuing to thwart the new credit card …

Several floors of the News Corp headquarters near Rockefeller Center have been evacuated after a chemical explosion on the 45th floor. Firefighters are reporting that “30 gallons of hazardous materials” may be the source of the explosion. There are no offices on the 45th floor, only machinery. The NY Post is on the 10th floor and Fox News is in …

Andrew Sullivan has endorsed Ron Paul for the Republican nomination. The great forgotten principles of the current Republican party are freedom and toleration. Paul’s federalism, his deep suspicion of Washington power, his resistance to government spending, debt and inflation, his ability to grasp that not all human problems are soluble, least of all by government: these are principles that made …

Staying on the ecumenical tip, the world’s first Festivus Pole lot is doing business in Milwaukee. “I got a lot of problems with you people! And now, you’re gonna hear about it.” And after that, the feats of strength.

(Via- By The Bayou.)

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), who calls himself an “Independent Democrat” has crossed the party aisles to endorse John McCain for president. One war hawk for another. No surprise here. Lieberman’s support for the Iraq war cost him the support of the Democratic party in 2006, so he became an Independent and won anyway. Lieberman’s endorsement is expected to greatly help …

In the Nation, Barbara Ehrenreich writes about the cult of Disney’s Princesses: Disney likes to think of the Princesses as role models, but what a sorry bunch of wusses they are. Typically, they spend much of their time in captivity or a coma, waking up only when a Prince comes along and kisses them. The most striking exception is Mulan, …

Chelsea, Saturday, 1AM At a Christmas party, several guys are loudly dishing a man standing ten feet away. Guy 1: “Oh, please. She thinks she is the hottest thing. I mean, look at her shoes! Who is she kidding?” Guy 2: “Would you STOP with the female pronouns already? HE is not a HER!” From across the room, the gentleman …

The Empire State Pride Agenda has commented on Rudy Giuliani’s notable retreat from his previously vigorous support for LGBT rights by releasing a list of major accomplishments achieved during his two terms as NYC mayor. Rudy Giuliani was Mayor of New York City from 1994 – 2001. During his time as Mayor, he worked with NYC’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and …

Alyica Lane, CBS news anchor for Philadelphia’s KYW-TV, was arrested in Chelsea last night for calling a female cop a “dyke bitch” and then punching the cop in the face. Reportedly, Lane and her boyfriend, radio disc jockey Chris Booker, got into a traffic altercation with a slow-moving unmarked police car. When the cops exited their vehicle to question Booker, …

This just in from New York State Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell’s office: December , 17 2007 – Under the leadership of Assembly Member O’Donnell, openly lesbian, gay, and bisexual state legislators (O’Donnell, Assembly Member Deborah Glick, State Senator Thomas Duane, Assembly Member Matthew Titone, and Assembly Member Micah Kellner) have secured a commitment from the New York State Museum to include …

I was at first puzzled by the above ad headline over on the New York Times, but it’s actually part of the Apple ad in the right column. Cute. Sound required.

Shelley is worried about this weekend’s nor’easter, but I tried explaining that tv weathermen live to plotz over things like this. Plus, they only actually get to SAY “nor’easter” about once or twice a year and I can tell that it rocks their world to do so. I actually kinda dig when a terrible storm is imminent – even hurricanes …

I find it faintly amusing that among the numerous major league baseball players named in yesterday’s massive steroid scandal is Yankee pitcher Andy Pettitte, the bible-thumping family values man who preaches against pre-marital sex and drug use. Pettitte is a favorite guest on many Christian talk shows. The title of Pettitte’s 2005 book: Strike Zone: Targeting A Life Of Integrity …

The Grill, 1st Avenue, 9AM Woman 1: Hell no, I’m not going. Fuck Christmas and fuck them.Woman 2: You have to go to get the check.Woman 1: What? If I don’t go, I don’t get it?Woman 2: I guess.Woman 1: In that case, I’ll go, but I’m showing up shitfaced.Woman 2: Just like a regular Monday.Woman 1: Fuck you..

Remember that 700 Club story about James Stabile, the gay guy who was touched by a pastor (“Fire!”) at that I-35 “purity seige” outside a Dallas gay bar and instantly renounced his homosexuality? Turns out he’s bipolar, had stopped taking his meds, and has already been kicked out of the ministry’s Build-A-Breeder home for wayward Xtians for being a “compulsive …