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Fire Sale

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 …

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PhoboQuotable – Gary George

“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 …

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O’Donnell & Banta

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 …

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Morning View – Gay Liberation

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.

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Friday Night Specials:
Threeways For McGreevey, Wife, Aide

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 …

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Was Wall Street Behind Spitzer’s Downfall?

The Sunday Times is speculating that Eliot Spitzer’s downfall might have been orchestrated by Wall Street bankers angry with Spitzer’s vigorous pursuit of white-collar criminals. Both of the banks that reported Spitzer’s money transfers (which proved to be payments to the Emperors VIP Club) had been the subject of investigations by Spitzer’s office. When the case against the one man …

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McCain: DC Is The City Of Satan

Via Think Progress: In a rare Senate appearance yesterday, McCain failed to attract support for a halt to pork-barrel spending, losing on a 71-29 vote. An angry McCain told voters today that he was only “doing the Lord’s work” but unfortunately was doing it in the city of Satan.” “We were voting on major issues of profound consequences with no …

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Christvertising

“Christvertising takes a whole new approach to marketing your brand. We skip the strategic deliverables. We pass on the matrixes, the payoffs and the metrics. We ignore any viral functionality. We focus on the ultimate end-user; God. If God loves your brand, it will become stronger and more successful.” Real and scary or a very, very good joke? (Via – …

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Food Fight

“An abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict.” I liked the suicide falafel. Here’s a cheat sheet if somehow you don’t which foods represent which countries.

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