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NYC Cabbie Cell Phone Crackdown

NYC launches its latest and strongest campaign against cell-chatting cab drivers today with a three strikes system that will cost a driver his his hack license upon the third violation. Taxi and Limousine Commission agents and NYPD officers will be on the lookout for drivers using any electronic devices while not legally parked, including iPods, GPS devices and satellite radios. …

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Teabagger Convention Falling Apart

Next month’s Tea Party Convention is falling apart over questions about where the money will go. Crazy-eyed Rep. Michele Bachmann has joined the list of those pulling out. Oh noes! Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has become the latest to pull out of a scheduled speaking gig at the controversial National Tea Party Convention next year. Like Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) …

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Thing II

Here’s the link to that 2010 Bloggies Awards thingy again. I have no idea how I’m doing and Post Secret is probably kicking my ass and the ballot design is full of the bite and you gotta scroll all way to the right to find me. But you should at least check out some of the groovy sites nominated in …

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BREAKING: Pentagon To Announce DADT Repeal Details Next Week

This just popped up on Marc Ambinder’s blog over on The Atlantic. This looks pretty major, folks. Before President Obama announced last night that he would work with Congress and the Pentagon to end the military’s ban on service by gays and lesbians, the White House consulted Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint …

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Tampa Town Hall: Obama Tap Dances Around Gay Marriage Question

At a town hall meeting in Tampa today, an audience member said to President Obama, “Last night you talked about DADT. My question is, what are you doing now to put it in motion so that same-sex couples, homosexuals, are treated as equal citizens as the United States, i.e. same-sex marriage and 1000+ benefits that heterosexual couples enjoy after marriage?” …

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Maggie Knows Prop 8 Is Lost (And It’s All Because Of Violent Homofascists!)

Maggie Gallagher has posted a letter she sent to Perry vs. Schwarzenegger Judge Vaughn Walker, in which she complains that Protect Marriage’s case was ruined, simply ruined, because of all those witnesses that fled the potential violent fury of raging homofascists. The price of participating in a trial should not be the willingness to tolerate even a minimum of reasonable …

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Author J.D. Salinger Dies At 91

Famously reclusive and iconic novelist J.D. Salinger died in his New Hampshire home yesterday at the age of 91. J. D. Salinger, who was thought at one time to be the most important American writer to emerge since World War II but who then turned his back on success and adulation, becoming the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting …

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