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I just watched our new governor, David Paterson, being sworn in at a joint session of the state legislature. Probably like most of the people of New York, this was the first time I’d heard Paterson speak and I found him quite charming. After taking the oath of office (which was followed by a standing ovation and chants of “David! …

About a hundred Hillary-supporting diarists are “striking” over at Daily Kos, refusing to blog at the site due to virulent anti-Hillary sentiment from the site’s Obama fans. From the originator of the strike: This is a strike – a walkout over unfair writing conditions at DailyKos. It does not mean that if conditions get better I won’t “work” at DailyKos …

(Via – Queerty)

The LA Times has an interesting piece on the continuing clash between Sacramento’s gay community and the thousands of evangelical Slavic immigrants who have relocated there in recent years. With as many as 100,000 newcomers from republics such as Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus, the Sacramento region has one of the nation’s largest concentrations of Soviet immigrants. Most began arriving …

Wow. In a shocking deal reached on Sunday to save Bear Stearns, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay a mere $2 a share to buy all of Bear — less than one-tenth the firm’s market price on Friday. As part of the watershed deal, JPMorgan and the Federal Reserve will guarantee the huge trading obligations of the troubled firm, which was …

A houseguest reported that I was talking about Hillary Clinton in my sleep last night. This really troubles me.

“As an employer, I don’t wanna hear about it. This workplace is for work purposes. My advice to the gay community is SHUT UP, just don’t talk about it. If you walk around talking about what you do in the bedroom, you should be on the pervert channel.” – Oregon state Senator Gary George, co-sponsor of an initiative to repeal …

Yesterday at the Dugout I finally met New York Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell and his partner of 27 years, John Banta, who is Director of Special Events at the American Ballet Theatre. Sweet guys! Danny and I had a nice chat about the anti-bullying law he just successfully sponsored in the Assembly and the chances of getting the bill passed in …

Although George Segal never meant his Gay Liberation sculpture to evoke AIDS, by the time it was installed in Sheridan Square’s Christopher Park in 1992 the disease was at its height, causing some to read an unintended message from the figures. I know I always did.

Well, this is a fascinating development. A former aide to James E. McGreevey said today that he had three-way sexual trysts with the former governor and his wife before he took office, challenging Dina Matos McGreevey’s assertion that she was naive about her husband’s sexual exploits. The aide, Theodore Pedersen, said he and the couple even had a nickname for …