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More bad news on the global warming front. Climatic changes appear to be destabilizing vast ice sheets of western Antarctica that had previously seemed relatively protected from global warming, researchers reported yesterday, raising the prospect of faster sea-level rise than current estimates. While the overall loss is a tiny fraction of the miles-deep ice that covers much of Antarctica, scientists …

From the comments on a Guardian article about Barack Obama’s speaking style, whom the author says can even make a chair sound interesting. Biden: I have worked with chairs all over the world, and most members of Congress agree with my plan for how to make chairs. Bloomberg: I’ve put together a committee to survey voters on whether they want …

Hillary Clinton went on Meet The Press yesterday to defend her comments on the Civil Rights Act, which is being widely interpreted as “I am LBJ, Obama is MLK“, despite the fact that Clinton clearly didn’t quite say or mean that. However, that meme is now being widely repeated in newspapers and online, causing quite a bit of added ill …

With all that NYC has to offer, the centerpiece of my social life remains my Sunday afternoons at the Dugout. It’s like a weekly house party with a hundred of your best friends. Corny, but true. Clockwise from top left: Bob, Dudley, Damian, Dane, Superdaddy, Chris, Dustin, Scott, Dr. Jeff, Jerry, Randy.

Here are last night’s Golden Globes winners. Anybody care? Yeah, me neither.

This weekend while I was writing The Revenge Of Plan B, I couldn’t remember or find the name of the hook-up site that everybody in SF was using in 1999, so eventually I just gave up and plugged “Manhunt” into the story. Somehow during my hunt for the site’s name, I came across a place called Online Personals Watch, which …

Saw this commercial during the NFL playoffs last night. Seems a little queer, eh?

Let’s kick-start the week with Pigbag’s 1981 classic, Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag. This track still gets me going.

Wingnuts in California have failed to deliver the necessary petition signatures to challenge SB 777, the public schools anti-bullying law signed into effect by Gov. Schwarzenegger last year. “Save Our Children” needed to turn in 434,000 signatures by last Friday, but claims they could only find 350,000 people willing to sign their names to hate. Equality California Executive Director Geoff …

Black progressives are not responding favorably to an interview Hillary Clinton gave to Fox News earlier this week in which she said that while Martin Luther King may have provided the inspiration for the civil rights movement, it was Lyndon B. Johnson who made the difference for having signed the Civil Rights Act into law. The Clinton pull-quote getting the …