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The 151 year-old Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, which operates 400 grocery stores under the names A&P, Food Emporium, Pathmark and others, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company said it will have access to $800 million in debtor-in-possession financing and that all of its stores are fully stocked and open for business. The company said that it …

Over the last seven days…. Indiana: Father Byron Canada sentenced to 11 years in prison in $2.7M real estate scam.Arkansas: Pastor Robert Burnham resigns after bust in prostitution sting.Indiana: Pastor Vaughn Reeves sentenced to 54 years in prison for embezzling over $13M from church construction investors.New York: Rabbi Victor Koltun charged two counts of murder in the killings of a …

Last week we crowned Naples News columnist Pamela Grothaus our Bigot Of The Day for her shrill article complaining that “homosexuals inform me of their homosexuality within minutes of our introduction.” Today Grothaus fires back in a new column that she’s hoping to be named the JMG “Bigot Of The Year.” As a result of my last blog post against …

Tonight’s Vikings-Giants game will not take place.

And it can even cure AIDS over the phone!

(Tipped by JMG reader Chev)

“It still seems an unwritten rule in establishment Washington that homophobia is at most a misdemeanor. By this code, the Smithsonian’s surrender is no big deal; let the art world do its little protests. This attitude explains why the ever more absurd excuses concocted by John McCain for almost single-handedly thwarting the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ are rarely …

“A super-human display of strength and endurance.”

The video for this nicely retro electro single from New Zealand’s Miles McDougall seems like it’s going in some gay direction, what with the solo boy and the rainbow unicorn, but by the end it’s not so clear. McDougall’s voice reminds me a bit of that Crash Test Dummies dude.

It has been a rough holiday season for the Ali Forney Center. The day after Thanksgiving I received an e-mail from the City of New York, informing me that due to budget problems, they were slashing their support for homeless youth programs, greatly defunding street outreach efforts and drop-in centers. Our drop-in support is being cut in half. I prefer …