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Keith Olbermann announced today that he’d be revealing a major career development tomorrow. Word is leaking out tonight that he’s joining Al Gore’s Current TV. This was about as unexpected as it gets, and yet it makes a lot of sense for both Olbermann and the network. Olbermann is reportedly set to take a stake in the channel as well, …

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The fantastic Billie Ray Martin is back with Sweet Suburban Disco, a lovely electro number reminiscent of her stone late 80s club classics with Electribe 101 (Talking With Myself, Tell Me When The Fever Ended) and her 1995 global solo smash, Your Loving Arms. The new track and its remixes drop on iTunes on February 28th. (The remix by Erasure’s …

Some hefty justice has been doled out to the murderer of transwoman Ashely Santiago, whose brutally stabbed body was found in her Puerto Rico home last April. Michael Lavers reports at Edge News: A Puerto Rican man who confessed to murdering a transgender woman in her Corozal home received a 111-year prison sentence on Monday, Feb. 7. Primera Hora reported …

Popular performance artist Rev. Billy and his Church of Life After Shopping will stage a mass un-wedding in Central Park this Sunday. Straight, married supporters of same sex marriage will un-marry in a mass ritual at New York City’s Bethesda Angel this Valentine’s Day weekend, sending a strong message to New York State’s leadership for the for the second year …

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Same-sex marriage is already illegal in Indiana, but the GOP wants to make it super-extra-double illegal. Republican lawmakers in Indiana have resumed their push for a constitutional amendment that would shore up an existing state law banning gay marriage. A GOP-ruled House committee voted 8-4 along party lines today to advance the proposal, which now moves to the full House …

In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Sarah Palin said that she has no problem with GOProud’s presence at CPAC. “I look at participation in an event like CPAC or any other event, along, or kind of in that same vein as the more information that people have, the better.”