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“You don’t need a gun to protect kids” says Amber Watch Alert. Oh, but here’s a super slo-mo video of angry moms shooting off their automatic weapons, just in case that’s your bag. SRSLY, what IS the message here, exactly? (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

A just-approved hike in the state tax on cigarettes will raise the cost to around $12/pack in NYC, prompting Bronx Assemblyman Michael Benjamin to claim that Gov. Paterson hates Israel. Because higher cigarette prices encourages bootlegging. Which is done by terrorists. “Criminals and terrorists will be further enticed to take advantage of the price differential between high tax and low …

The USA team just beat Algeria 1-0, moving them on in the World Cup playoffs. Apparently this is a very big deal. Landon Donovan scored in the first minute of stoppage time off a rebound, advancing the United States to the second round at the World Cup with a 1-0 win over Algeria. With the U.S. perhaps three minutes from …

Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who in 2008 dragged his scowling wife before the cameras to resign in a prostitution scandal, has been hired to host a new primetime show on CNN. CNN announced Wednesday that it had hired former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and conservative columnist Kathleen Parker to helm a new point-counterpoint show in the key …

JMG reader Sean Chapin sends us his videos of this year’s Bingham Cup rugby championships, where NYC’s Gotham Knights beat defending champions the Sydney Convicts. In the second clip, Alice Hoglan, the mother of 9/11 hero Mark Bingham, delivers a great speech.

Twin Cities Pride is warring with the Minneapolis parks department over the decision to allow anti-gay activists on the grounds of their Pride festival, where the husband and wife team of Brian and Lois Johnson is expected to attempt to hand out bibles and shout about Jeebus. Festival organizers say they paid ten of thousands of dollars to secure the …

Last week Father Tony and I attended a preview screening of CNN’s gay parenting documentary Gary & Tony Have A Baby, which follows New Yorkers Gary Spino and Tony Brown from finding an egg donor, to hiring a surrogate mother, to the eventual birth of their son. The couple’s journey is expensive and trying, but ultimately quite sweet, even if …

Booze, bears, and furry mayhem. Blowoff returns to NYC on Friday night at the Canal Room in Tribeca. Doors open at 11:30pm, advance tickets $20. Get tickets here. Subway: A/C/E/1 to Canal Station, one block from the venue. Saturday night Blowoff returns to San Francisco.

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