UES, Second Avenue, Thursday, 8PM A feeble-looking elderly woman with a walker is on the sidewalk with her poodle. As I pass her, the dog barks and jumps at me excitedly, his tail wagging furiously. The dog’s leash gets tangled in the old lady’s walker and I stop to help her. “Thank you very much! Wow, he really likes you.” …

Late yesterday afternoon the New York City Council voted to repeal term limits, all but guaranteeing a third mayoral term for Michael Bloomberg. After a spirited, emotional and at times raucous debate, the New York City Council voted, 29 to 22, on Thursday afternoon to extend term limits, allowing Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to seek re-election next year and undoing …

McCain campaign volunteer Ashley Todd, 20, of College Station, Texas claims she was using an ATM on the “wrong side of Pittsburgh” when a Huge! Scary! Negro! mugged her. After robbing her of $60, the mugger dragged Todd to her car and became so enraged upon seeing her McCain bumper sticker that he punched her in the eye and carved …

The lovely folks at Protect Marriage have sent letters to major corporations that have donated to No On 8 to demand a donation for themselves – or else face the wrath of an ad campaign denouncing them. ProtectMarriage.com, the umbrella group behind a ballot initiative that would overturn the California Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage, sent a certified …

Not only does gay marriage cause rail disasters, now it causes human trafficking and child prostitution! From the Christian Newswire: Prop 8 Marriage Protection Amendment will help hinder human trafficking of children by reinforcing the social structure of the traditional, nuclear family. Human trafficking occurs right here in America. Every year nearly 800,000 children are reported missing. Child prostitution is …

Burn, baby, burn. Porno inferno. Until Sunday, the Rev. Mark Eldredge joked that his Westside church had one of the largest pornography collections in Jacksonville. Members of Christ Church Anglican discovered reel upon reel of ’70s- and ’80s-vintage X-rated movies recently when they took over the old Playtime Drive-In on Blanding Boulevard a few weeks ago. The Playtime showed X-rated …

It looks like Giuliani has already given up on McCain.

Dirty godless queers are on the march in North Carolina! And Elizabeth Dole’s campaign ain’t havin’ it. Via PageOneQ: A new anti-gay offensive has been launched against Democratic North Carolina state senator and U.S. Senate candidate Kay Hagan. Campaign literature produced by the North Carolina Republican Party has been mailed to households in the state, PageOneQ has learned. A new …

HIV+ North Carolina gay nightclub DJ Josh Weaver, 23, is under house arrest after admitting to violating a September court order that he refrain from unprotected sex. On Sept. 6, Q-Notes reported that Joshua Waldon Weaver, 23, who works in clubs in Raleigh and Wilmington, pleaded guilty to charges that he failed to disclose his HIV-positive status and engaged in …

(Via – FiveThirtyEight.com)

Bah. And double bah for a “freeze warning.” So much for autumn.

Finally, an actual gay person appears in a Prop 8 ad. Tim Gunn: “I’ve never seen anything as unattractive as the content of Proposition 8. It’s simply wrong to take people’s rights away!” Nice, and no points off for getting the URL wrong.

Focus On The Family, the preeminent anti-gay religious group in the nation, is “celebrating” their tenth anniversary with an “ex-gay” conference in Colorado Springs this weekend. For a decade, Focus on the Family has delved into what it believes is the biblical truth about sexual behavior through its “Love Won Out” conferences. Focus says the conferences started a national conversation …

Cool, but also kinda creepy. (Via – Wonkette)

After screaming their heads off about ACORN for a week, the McCain/Palin ticket has suddenly clammed up on the topic. Keith Olbermann explains that the GOP has their own voter registration fraud situation on their hands. (Via – Towleroad)

It’s getting impossible to keep up with all the polling, but here’s the latest on Prop 8 from the Public Policy Institute. A majority of Californians still oppose a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, but the margin is narrowing so notably that the fate of Proposition 8 may hinge on the turnout for the presidential race. A new poll …

Via No On 8: Today, the NO on Prop 8 campaign released a tough new television ad featuring California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell, who voiced his strong opposition to Prop 8 and the lies about the public education system. “Prop 8 has nothing to do with schools or kids,” said Geoff Kors, NO on Prop 8 executive …

Probabilities by FiveThirtyEight.com, a site that you should be following (if you aren’t already). The author is 30 year-old stats whiz Nate Silver.

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Wow. The dead Austrian gay Nazi/fascist story gets weirder. How is THAT possible? Conservative Austria was in a state of shock today after the male successor to Jörg Haider admitted to having a longstanding “special relationship” with the far right leader who died dramatically in a high speed car crash earlier this month. Stefan Petzner – the 27-year-old who recently …