I’m rethinking my opinion on Mike Huckabee. Because with crackpot shit like this, maybe he IS the guy we want running against the Dem nominee. Too bad he only got 16% to Romney’s 39% in Michigan yesterday.

Mystery solved. Experts at the Heidelberg University library say dated notes scribbled in the margins of a book by its owner in October 1503 confirm once and for all that Lisa del Giocondo was indeed the model for one of the most famous portraits in the world. “All doubts about the identity of the Mona Lisa have been eliminated by …

Gotta say I’m a bit surprised to read that Mary J. Blige is named in this hip-hop steroids mess. And no mention of LL Cool J and his tree-trunk sized arms? R&B music star Mary J. Blige, rap musicians 50 Cent, Timbaland and Wyclef Jean, and author and producer Tyler Perry may have received or used steroids, according to unidentified …

Christian activists are demanding an apology from NBC for portraying Christians as “violent Bible thumpers.” A recent “Law & Order” show portraying a leader in a college Christian ministry as anti-homosexual and Christians as “Bible thumpers” is drawing ire from a watchdog group for anti-Christian bigotry. In the opening of the NBC show’s episode last week, a leader in a …

I haven’t been paying attention. What’s this year’s “one more thing”? The Apple Store is currently down pending the announcement.

The deepening banking crisis hits Manhattan hard with this news from Citigroup. Citigroup plans to announce a writedown of as much as $24 billion and layoffs that could total as much as 24,000 due to subprime and credit-related losses, CNBC has learned. Citigroup plans to announce a $24 billion writedown and layoffs that could total as much as 24,000. Slightly …

Whoa, not so fast there, haters. Organizers of the ballot measure to ban gay marriage in Florida claimed in November that they’d succeeded in raising the necessary signatures to force the issue to a statewide vote. Turns out, maybe they haven’t. A proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in Florida may not make it to voters this year, after …

PlanetOut, parent company of Out, Advocate, Gay.com, is looking for a financial savior again. Struggling gay and lesbian media and entertainment company PlanetOut Inc.LGBT] late Monday said it has retained Allen & Company LLC to assist it in evaluating strategic alternatives, including a possible sale of the company. For the first nine months of 2007, PlanetOut reported a loss of …

Doctors and hospitals are seeing a big surge in staph superbug infections in gay men around the country. San Francisco General Hospital researchers have been chasing the rogue strain of drug-resistant staph called USA300 since they first isolated it from a patient specimen seven years ago. With every turn, the aggressive and persistent bug keeps getting worse. Now, a new …

Today’s Swag Tuesday giftie is Memoirist Merritt (Secrets of a Gay Marine Porn Star) delivers thought-provoking fiction on the problem of being gay in the military. As Clinton begins putting the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy into place in the early 1990s, closeted and disturbed Naval Investigative Service Agent Jay Gared goes on a mission to catch violators of Article …

Congress returns from their holiday break over the next week with three major pieces of pro-gay legislation still to be resolved: the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act, and the bill that ripped apart LGBT and progressive groups – the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). With so many issues facing this session of Congress (the …

Improv Everywhere, who last brought us the shirtless men invasion of the Abercromie & Fitch flagship store on Fifth Avenue, yesterday staged their 7th Annual No Pants Subway Ride, which had almost 1000 Gothamites riding the rails in their boxers and tighty-whities. Numerous cities around the world joined in with No Pants rides of their own. That’s my pal (and …

Brits from ages 1-100 beat a drum and announce their age. Strangely compelling.

More bad news on the global warming front. Climatic changes appear to be destabilizing vast ice sheets of western Antarctica that had previously seemed relatively protected from global warming, researchers reported yesterday, raising the prospect of faster sea-level rise than current estimates. While the overall loss is a tiny fraction of the miles-deep ice that covers much of Antarctica, scientists …

From the comments on a Guardian article about Barack Obama’s speaking style, whom the author says can even make a chair sound interesting. Biden: I have worked with chairs all over the world, and most members of Congress agree with my plan for how to make chairs. Bloomberg: I’ve put together a committee to survey voters on whether they want …

Hillary Clinton went on Meet The Press yesterday to defend her comments on the Civil Rights Act, which is being widely interpreted as “I am LBJ, Obama is MLK“, despite the fact that Clinton clearly didn’t quite say or mean that. However, that meme is now being widely repeated in newspapers and online, causing quite a bit of added ill …

With all that NYC has to offer, the centerpiece of my social life remains my Sunday afternoons at the Dugout. It’s like a weekly house party with a hundred of your best friends. Corny, but true. Clockwise from top left: Bob, Dudley, Damian, Dane, Superdaddy, Chris, Dustin, Scott, Dr. Jeff, Jerry, Randy.

Here are last night’s Golden Globes winners. Anybody care? Yeah, me neither.

This weekend while I was writing The Revenge Of Plan B, I couldn’t remember or find the name of the hook-up site that everybody in SF was using in 1999, so eventually I just gave up and plugged “Manhunt” into the story. Somehow during my hunt for the site’s name, I came across a place called Online Personals Watch, which …