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San Francisco’s AsianWeek newspaper currently features an essay, “Why I Hate Blacks”, by featured columnist Kenneth Eng. After an outcry from black leaders, the story has been removed from the online edition of AsianWeek, although the issue with the offending story is still on newsstands. Kenneth Eng considers himself an “Asian supremacist” and has authored other columns such as “Proof …

Gentle readers, as my traffic has grown and the advertising requests have increased, I must report that I can no longer look away from blog advertising. I’ve been accepted into a couple of the major blog ad networks and will be adding some ads in the next week or so. I will do my best to make the transition not-so-jarring. …

George Hamilton Tanning Classic winner and closet case, Florida Governor Charlie Crist (R), has been hit by a lawsuit claiming that while Florida’s attorney general, he ignored a ponzi scheme masterminded by boy-band guru Lou Pearlman (N’Sync, Backstreet Boys), which may have defauded investors of as much as $500 million. Crist is alleged to have accepted campaign contributions and jet …

Al Gore had scarcely stepped away from the microphone at Sunday night’s Oscar ceremony, where An Inconvenient Truth won 2 statuettes, before the cries of “Run, Al, run!” began to echo even louder through the blogosphere. Check out DraftGore.com for more information. Richard Cohen has a great column on Gore’s potential candidacy in today’s Washington Post. How do you feel …

Over at the Gothamist, there’s an interesting discussion about a vacation travel site that ranks the top subway systems of the world. Mentioning attributes such as convenience, technology, efficiency, cleanliness, and architectural merit, London’s Underground wins the top spot out of 11 systems reviewed, with NYC coming in a lowly 7th. The mere fact that NYC’s subway is the only …

Elton John’s post-Oscar party raised a record-breaking $4.2 million yesterday for the Elton John AIDS Foundation, bringing the total raised since 1992 to $125 million. Among the items auctioned off were two travel packages to attend Sir Elton’s 60th birthday party and concert weekend in NYC, which went for $250,000 each. Elton’s legacy, like Bill Gates’, will be as much …

My hormones must be off or something, because a dog food commercial just brought me to tears. Damn. The voice-over is by David Duchovny. Congratulations to Pedigree’s ad agency, TBWAChiatDay out of Los Angeles. Simple, perfect. They deserve an ADDY or Clio for this one.

Thanks to an avalanche of complaints from good folks like you, gentle reader, Google has deleted Kill Batty Man, the Jamaica-based anti-gay blog that spurned so much discussion here last Friday. Some of you forwarded me copies of your passionate emails to Google and I salute your work. Well done, Google, for making the call.

The East Village’s Cooper Union was founded in 1859 as one of the nation’s few all-scholarship colleges, and is one of the most selective, rejecting 88% of applicants. Students are not required to declare a major and are largely free to select courses from any discipline. Most of the school’s operating budget comes from alumni donations.

Circuit Noize, the quarterly magazine devoted to the circuit party scene, has relaunched as NoiZe, after its founder, Steve Kammon, died last year “due to complications from a long illness”. The rejiggered magazine will continue to be the go-to source for information about parties, events and music, with a new emphasis on feature articles. In the first issue of NoiZe, …