“I’d denied it ever since I was a kid. I became a Christian, I thought that was the way to deal with this and I prayed hard and tried for 30-some years and then at the end, I was just going, ‘I’m still gay. I know I am.’ And I just got to the place where I couldn’t take it …

Talking Points Memo exposes Sarah Palin as a liar with her own words. Wait for the end. (Via – Pam’s House Blend)

Trickless magician David Blaine will hang upside down over Central Park’s Wollman Rick for three days next week. At 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 22, he’ll be hoisted to a cable 60 feet above the ground, which will become his perch for three days and two nights. He’ll clamp on with electromagnetic boots but won’t have a safety net, airbag or …

The Atlantic hired photographer Jill Greenberg to shoot the current John McCain cover. Greenberg did the shoot, handed a very nice picture over to the Atlantic, then went home and photoshopped the fuck out of the outtakes for her personal site. The Atlantic is duly embarrassed. The right wing is outraged. The rest of world is highly amused, but you …

From Ultimate Improv, here’s Les Mizbarack, a little something for the Obama supporter and theatre queen in you. I played this ten times in a row last night, it’s really cute.

Lehman Brothers, bankrupt. Merrill Lynch, sold. AIG, “days to survive.” In one of the most dramatic days in Wall Street’s history, Merrill Lynch agreed to sell itself on Sunday to Bank of America for roughly $50 billion to avert a deepening financial crisis, while another prominent securities firm, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy protection and hurtled toward liquidation after it …

At the Voters Values Summit, evangelical nutjob Gary Bauer tried to stoke the fear of nuclear terrorism, saying the experts predict that “it is not a question of if it will happen, it is only a question of when it is going to happen. And the ‘it’ in this case, is when our enemy will detonate a dirty nuclear bomb …

Yesterday the New York Times published an exhaustive and blistering review of Sarah Palin’s political history in Alaska. The report cites personal vendettas and cronyism and observes that under Palin’s governorship, a current list of top Alaskan officials can also be found by paging through her high school yearbook. Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is …

– Saudi Arabia’s Islamic Sharia court has ruled that satellite television operators that beam “immodest” programming during Ramadan are subject to to the death penalty. Sheikh Saleh al-Lohaidan: “What does the owner of these networks think, when he provides seduction, obscenity and vulgarity? Those calling for corrupt beliefs, certainly it’s permissible to kill them.” – Some Hassidic Jews in Brooklyn’s …

Tina Fey did not disappoint last night, delivering an uncanny and hilarious impression of Sarah Palin. And of course, Amy Poehler (who’s about 300 weeks pregnant) was great. One of the best things SNL has done in ages. The rest of the show (especially Michael Phelps), not so much. UPDATE: The NBC video embed appeared to be borking all the …

Well, the lovely Christers at the Values Voters Summit sure don’t hide their racism very well, do they? Activists at a conservative political forum snapped up boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing Arab-like headdress on its top flap. Values Voter Summit organizers cut off sales of Obama …

WigSalon.com is hoping to capitalize on the “Sarah Palin look” which they are doing by selling their Raquel Welch “glazed hazelnut” wig with advice to pin up the back with bobby pins. But they do offer this bit of advice: No association with or endorsement from or to the Sarah Palin campaign exists. The products are those of famous wig …

“Just over two years ago in the Huffington Post, left-wing journalist and screenwriter Gene Stone asked why “any gay man or woman” would join the GOP, “a party that has stated, over and over, as clearly as can be, without equivocation, that he or she is not welcome.” Stone’s piece was little more than an angry and inaccurate diatribe, attempting …

OK, so we already know that Michael Phelps is hosting tomorrow’s season debut of Saturday Night Live. And we know that Barack Obama is going to make his second cameo appearance on the show. But guess who’s rumored to be making a surprise appearance? Hoo boy, this. will. be. good.

Wonder Woman smacks down Sarah Palin with her Lasso Of Truth! From Lynda Carter’s interview in Philadelphia Magazine: Q: I’m sure you’ve seen all the comparisons in the media and among Republicans of Sarah Palin to Wonder Woman. How do you feel about that? A: Don’t get me started. She’s the anti-Wonder Woman. She’s judgmental and dictatorial, telling people how …

Manhattan DJ Bill Pfeiffer has done a hot sleazy track from a snippet of Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech. “Take it from a gal who knows the north slope of Alaska.” Very Grace Jones circa Slave To The Rhythm. Love love it. Twenty years ago I wouldn’t have slept until I found the 12″ of this.

From today’s show, watch at the 6:00 minute mark of the first clip where Joy Behar says right to McCain’s face that his ads are “lies”. Check out McCain’s face right then. In the second clip McCain says that Roe V. Wade was “very bad decision” and he’d appoint Supreme Court justices who will strictly interpret the constitution. That’s when …

A local CBS reporter in Portland, Maine takes McCain to task over Palin.