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It looks like John Mackey, the CEO of the Mecca of urban angertwinks nationwide, Whole Foods, is about to lose his job after having been exposed for posting anonymously on Yahoo! Finance forums for the last seven years under the alias “Rahodeb”, an anagram of his wife Deborah’s name. In over 1000 forum postings as Rahodeb, Mackey blasted the operation …

Only Rep. Tom Tancredo showed up at the NAACP’s forum for Republican presidential candidates. Dig how they had Tancredo field questions amid nine other empty lecterns. Eight Dems showed for their portion.

The Floating Pool Lady, a new swimming pool on a barge moored in the East River just off of Brooklyn Heights under the Brooklyn Bridge is drawing capacity crowds. A sand beach has also been installed, although I personally cannot imagine dipping a toe into the East River. The 4-foot deep pool has a capacity of 175 and there are …

– R&B singer Brian McKnight takes over the Billy Flynn role in Chicago on October 8th. – Xanadu broke box office records for the Helen Hayes theatre after receiving an extremely positive review from the New York Times. Olivia Newton-John attended Tuesday’s official opening. Gay hottie Cheyenne Jackson (United 93, All Shook Up) has temporarily stepped into the lead, replacing …

I can help it, but every time I see the Staten Island Ferry I still think of Melanie Griffith in Working Girl. There are nine ferries making the 25-minute trip and it’s the best free ride in the country, bar none.

Armistead Maupin has launched a blog. Interestingly, he mentions wanting to meet Mike Jones, saying, “Hustlers, for my money, do far more good than pastors.” Testify! I sent Mike an email to nudge him to drop by and say hello to Mr. Maupin. You should do the same. I was rereading a bit of Michael Tolliver Lives last night, and …

“I wouldn’t be surprised if she made that African boy into a coat and wore him … for 15 minutes, and then threw it away.” – Morrisey, speaking about Madonna at his concert yesterday in Norfolk, Virginia. (via – Huffington Post.) Should this have been a HomoQuotable?

At his Senate confirmation hearing today, Surgeon General nominee Dr. James Holsinger renounced his previous anti-gay views, saying of his infamous “Pathophysiology of Homosexuals” paper, “The paper does not represent where I am today. It does not represent who I am today,” and that he would never advocate a position contrary to his conscience and that he would resign rather …

Today at 3:30pm EST, I’ll be appearing on Michelangelo Signorile’s show on Sirius OutQ to chat about the Bob Allen story. Listen here live..

Time Magazine has listed their Top 5 Worst Websites of 2007, so chosen because of cluttered homepages, clunky interfaces, slow loading time, and intrusive advertising. Time’s shitlist: 1. eHarmony2. Evite3. Meez4. MySpace5. Second Life Their Top 50 Best Sites list includes LastFM (love it!), StumbleUpon (meh), Twitter (yawn), YouTube (indispensable) and about 46 other sites I’ve never heard of.