Via the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel: Ralph Nader is back. The perennial presidential candidate will be on the Florida ballot in November. Nader’s name is anathema to many Democrats in Florida becuase they blame him for President Bush’s 2000 election. They argue that the votes he siphoned from Gore made Bush the winner in the state. With Florida’s electoral votes, Bush …

Three hot detectives go undercover at Obama headquarters….

Former Clinton supporter and major Democratic party figure Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild has defected to the McCain camp. In July she called Obama “elitist”, which is totally laughable for somebody with “Lady” in her title. Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild is an ardent Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter who raised scads of money for the New York senator’s failed presidential …

The Google phone comes out Sept. 23rd. Putting it firmly in a price point to compete with the iPhone, the Android-running HTC Dream will cost $199, according to the Wall Street Journal. The smartphone will also get an “aggressively priced” data plan from T-Mobile and receive some heavy Google branding. Some of the readers at Gizmodo find the Android “fugly” …

Via Jim Burroway of Box Turtle Bulletin comes word that the Mormon Church, already leading the fight against marriage equality in California, is now taking aim at Arizona: The campaign over whether marriage should be defined — and limited — in the state constitution could soon start to look like a fight between two politically polarizing groups: gays and Mormons. …

Out To Work, the LGBT Career Fair, takes place today at the LGBT Community Center in the West Village. Exhibitors include the NYPD, the NYFD, UPS, Commerce Bank, five agencies of the MTA, ConEd, and many others. Admission is free with your resume.

Actor Brad Pitt will be donating $100,000 to fight California’s Proposition 8. Brad Pitt announced Wednesday that he’s donating $100,000 to fight California’s Proposition 8, a November ballot initiative that would eliminate same-sex couples’ right to marry. “Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to …

Did you play any team sports in high school?

I’ve posted a pic or two of Mercury atop Grand Central in the past, but yesterday’s bright skies made this one irresistible. It’s hard to tell from the ground, but Mercury is almost 30 feet tall. The clock alone is 13 feet across. Embiggens nicely.

The National Enquirer continues their quest to dig up dirt on the Palin family, today revealing that daughter Bristol smoked pot on film and that her high school dropout boyfriend Levi dealt (and smoked) Oxycontin and shot up steroids. Last week the Enquirer reported that Track Palin also regularly smoked Oxy and broke into cars to support his habit. None …

Last night Aaron and I attended the book launch party for Sandy “Pepa” Denton’s memoir of her life in Salt-N-Pepa, the five-time Grammy winning rap trio that rocked the airwaves and dancefloors of the world beginning in 1985, selling over 13 million albums along the way. As you can see, both Sandy (Pepa ) and Cheryl James (Salt) look fantastic …

The National Organization for Women, presumably a massive collective of Hillary supporters, has at last endorsed the Obama/Biden ticket. America’s largest women’s rights organisation delivered a snub to Sarah Palin’s history-making candidacy yesterday by endorsing Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s bid for power. The National Organisation for Women (NOW) is 500,000 strong and hugely influential. The feminist organisation almost never …

In response to Sarah Palin’s church’s recent “pray away the gay” event, filmmaker Sandi Bachom made this funny and heartwarming short in which gay New Yorkers speak directly to Palin. Watch the whole thing, Bachom found some wonderfully amusing and articulate people. (Tipped by JMG reader Jeff)

“Log Cabin’s tragic endorsement of John McCain exhibits an obdurate denial of his anti-gay record and a stubborn unwillingness to admit that their one-time hero is now hopeless. McCain’s VP choice, Sarah Palin, a favorite of the fundamentalist fringe, should have lead to a reevaluation, if not reversal of their endorsement. Like Palin, they didn’t blink, and are shamefully in …

Also from The Independent: 1. San Francisco2. Sydney3. New York4. Mykonos5. Paris6. Barcelona7. Amsterdam8. London9. Copenhagen10. Berlin These lists can be rather silly, but the linked story does provide a paragraph of support for each of their choices. Here’s what they say about New York: The city of Quentin Crisp and Judy Garland is surely the gay capital of the …

Via The Independent, the five worst places in the world to be gay: Saudi Arabia: Homosexuality is punished with the death penalty or, occasionally, a severe whipping.Iran: In 2007 President Ahmadinejad declared that homosexuality did not exist in his country. Should the need arise, however, there is a law against it carrying a punishment of anything from jail to public …

Well, shit. The engineer of the commuter train that crashed in California, killing 24 people, was apparently texting teenaged boys rather than watching the track signals. And he was gay. You know where this is going. In the years before his death, Sanchez led a nomadic life, with public records showing addresses in Oregon, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Nebraska and California. …

The Obama campaign has launched a religious voters outreach which includes lots of faith swag. The Obama campaign is preparing rolling out a new line of “faith merchandise” – the latest move in an ambitious effort to win over religious voters. “Check out the Believers for Barack, Pro-Family Pro-Obama, and Catholics for Obama buttons, bumper stickers and signs….” says Obama …

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