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Barbara Boxer worries about global warming? Pffft! Who worries about the weather?

If the subway makes you late for work, the MTA has introduced a new online excuse note system. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority now offers delay verification reports on the Web, complete with excuse notes that riders can show to disgruntled employers. All straphangers have to do is enter a subway station, the time of their trip, any transfer information, their …

20/20 takes a look at the kids of the Westboro Baptist Church, including one daughter who has been cast out after rejecting their hate. Watch this.

“That proves the prejudice and bias of the study. This study was clearly designed to come out with one outcome — to attempt to sway people that children are not detrimentally affected in a homosexual household. You have to be a little suspicious of any study that says children being raised by same-sex couples do better or have superior outcomes …

We usually don’t hear from DJ Earworm until he issues his wildly popular end-of-year Billboard Top 25 mashups, but he’s already done one for the halfway mark of 2010. As you might expect, it’s an auto-tune-athon.

Daily Mail columnist Matthew Engel is sick and tired of American expressions worming their way into the Queen’s English. After an essay on the issue last week, today he posts the Americanisms that most annoy his readers. Top of the long hate-list was probably ‘Can I get a coffee?’ (and these days it probably would be an overpriced, overmarketed American …

On May 25th, Prop 8 witness David Blankenhorn wrote to the New York Times complaining that columnist Frank Rich had wrongly associated him with Dr. George “Anal Longstroke” Rekers. My expert report to the court — which was written entirely by me, includes a list of scholarly sources and is available for anyone to read — includes no mention of …

Another member of Menudo has followed Ricky Martin out of the closet. Matthew Rettenmund at Boy Culture reports: Angelo Garcia, once the youngest-ever member of Menudo and a bandmate of Ricky Martin’s, has come out as gay in the pages of TV Notas (Junio 8, 2010). In the piece, he says he’s never been closeted: “I’m very honest about who …

In a profile of the Log Cabin Republicans over on the FrumForum, LCR’s new executive director R. Clarke Cooper spends much of the piece dissing GOProud, who became the momentary darling of the right-wing after being slammed from the podium at CPAC earlier this year. Cooper argues that LCR offers more resources to gay conservatives than any other political group. …