Via the Yale Book Of Quotations, here’s the top ten quotes from 2007. 10. “I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history.” – Jimmy Carter. 9. “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I …

“Let me ask you something. As mayor of New York, would you live in an apartment with three gay guys? I’m not gay. I don’t hate gays. But I don’t want to live in an apartment full of them. They’ll bitch and cry and all. That doesn’t bother Giuliani. It doesn’t bother Giuliani to put a dress on to do …

Former Democratic Rep Cynthia McKinney announces her Green Party candidacy. I think there’s about six or seven Greens running at the moment. One of the last things McKinney did before losing her seat was to introduce a bill calling for Bush to be impeached.

Are all smoke detectors designed so that their batteries fail at 3am? After the beeping invaded my dreams (something about a truck backing up and I had to move my car, which I don’t have one of), I had to get up and drag a ladder out so I could rip the thing down. Bother.

In case you need to plan ahead, Saturday is the second annual Global Orgasm Day. The purpose, according to the site: “To effect positive change in the energy field of the Earth through the largest possible instantaneous surge of human biological, mental, and spiritual energy.” .

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia gave a lecture in Scotland earlier this month and brought up a 2001 ruling by the European Court Of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The court had judged in favor of a Yorkshire man arrested in 1996 when police found him in possession of videotapes showing him taking part in an all-male orgy. According to the …

Republican candidate Ron Paul has accepted a $500 campaign donation from Don Black, founder and head of Stormfront, a white supremacist organization. A spokesman for Paul said, “If someone with small ideologies happens to contribute money to Ron, thinking he can influence Ron in any way, he’s wasted his money. Ron is going to take the money and try to …

What city will you be in on Christmas? Traveling or staying home?.

Ann Coulter was on Fox News on Tuesday to say that she originally thought that Obama’s recent surge in the polls was faked because the MSM was “bored” and trying to make the Democratic campaign into a “horse race.” Coulter admitted to being surprised that Obama’s rise in the polls was actual and that Clinton may be in trouble. Then: …

The Christofascists are really losing their shit over California’s SB777, the law intended to stop discrimination against LGBT youth in public schools. Schwarzenegger signed the bill into law earlier this year. From WingNutDaily: HOMOSEXODUS! Revealed: ‘Gay’ plans to target 2-year-olds 5th-grade students could be handed ‘Coping With Sexual Orientation’ Children as young as two years of age are in the …

How to fake an attack: December 19, 2007 — This Ivy Leaguer did a bang-up job giving himself a beating. Francisco Nava, the Princeton junior who said he was attacked because of his conservative political leanings, only to confess that the wounds were self-inflicted, has revealed exactly how he gave himself a concussion, swollen jaw and cuts all over his …

Russia president Vladimir Putin has been named Time Magazine’s Person Of The Year. Putin is not a boy scout. He is not a democrat in any way that the West would define it. He is not a paragon of free speech. He stands, above all, for stability—stability before freedom, stability before choice, stability in a country that has hardly seen …

Britney Spears’ mother’s book on parenting (fo’ realz) has been pulled “indefinitely” now that Britney’s kid sis has been knocked-up at age 16. Insert your new title in the comments..

Manhattan is headed for the lowest annual number of murders since records first began being kept in 1937. District Attorney Robert Morgenthau announced that this year’s 65 murders (so far) represent a 40% drop from last year alone. When Morgenthau first became DA in 1975, there were 648 murders in Manhattan. With more time on their hands, Manhattan’s 500 prosecutors …

In what’s being described as a first for the country, a non-profit group affliated with the Presbyterian Church is one of three organizations competing to take over Washington DC’s Capital Pride, which puts on that city’s gay pride events every year. The Whitman-Walker Clinic is the current controllig organization of Capital Pride. From Lou Chibbaro in the Washington Blade: The …

Thanks to my vocabulary-lovin’ mother, last night I spent a couple of hours wasting time at FreeRice.com, where for every three correct word definitions you move up one level. Each wrong answer knocks you back a level. Supposedly there’s a 50th level and no one can get past 48. I could only manage a brief stay at 45, but it …

The Tai Pan Bakery in Chinatown is an overwhelming madhouse – people are shouting in Cantonese and you have to be alert or you’ll miss your turn. But the pastries are great, if suspiciously inexpensive. Aaron and I got foamy mini chocolate layer cakes – 90 cents each.

I’ve been thinking that the Clinton campaign was going to answer the Obama-Oprah combo with an endorsement from a major black celeb of their own. Yesterday the Clintons toured with HIV+ former NBA star Magic Johnson, who compared Obama to a rookie basketball player, saying, “You don’t want somebody in there that is young or a rookie at politics. We …

Disgusting story in Orlando: A man was arrested on child abuse charges after he beat a 7-year-old boy with a belt because the child put pink fingernail polish on his own nails, according to Orange County sheriff’s deputies. Aundre Jermaine Hill, 25, was arrested on Saturday at about 5:19 p.m. after sheriff’s deputies responded to a home in reference to …

Who would Jesus endorse? Hilarious.