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FLOTILLA FALLOUT: Madrid Pride Cancels Israeli Parade Float

Madrid Pride has announced that they are canceling the appearance of an Israeli group in their parade over heightened security concerns since the Gaza flotilla raid. The Israeli delegation, made up of members of the LGBT association and the Foreign Ministry, was scheduled to run an Israeli “bus” in the parade, for the first time since its establishment. But the …

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Blame It On The Train

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 …

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PhoboQuotable – Wendy Wright

“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 …

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DJ Earworm’s Summer 2010 Mashup

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.

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Have A Nice Day

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 …

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