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Katy Perry today ended Robin Thicke’s twelve-week run at the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 with this track, her eighth number one pop single in only five years.  It’s a bit odd that the production video hasn’t come out until the single had already peaked.

Rush Limbaugh has written a children’s book that he says will correct the American history being taught in public schools by godless communists. Via World Net Daily: Called “Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans,” the book is designed for young people, but Limbaugh stressed it will appeal to patriotic Americans of all ages. “For twenty …

Watch the live video here. The public is commenting now. The most recent speaker at this writing brought up the subject of “anus sex.”  Here’s another video link. UPDATE: The City Council has adjourned for lunch and the vote will presumably come immediately after today’s session resumes at 1PM local time. (2PM Eastern.) UPDATE II: I’m moving this post back …

Philadelphia’s Giovanni’s Room, the nation’s oldest LGBT bookstore, is for sale. Ed Hermance, 73, has owned the independently run LGBT bookstore, nestled on the corner of Pine and 12th streets, since 1976. The Powelton resident plans to step down this winter and is exploring options for keeping the business running under a new owner, but will have to sell to …

From the Guardian: Mission Congo, by David Turner and Lara Zizic, opens at the Toronto film festival on Friday. It describes how claims about the scale of aid to Rwandan refugees were among a number of exaggerated or false assertions about the activities of Operation Blessing which pulls in hundreds of millions of dollars a year in donations, much of …

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Unlike Dustin Lance Black and George Takei, Freedom To Marry head Evan Wolfson actually lives in New York City.

“Let me put it this way, some people have balls, some people don’t, alright? Some of them truly believe that they need direction from on high and they’re not willing to do a constitutional analysis. Some of them are philosophically opposed so they wouldn’t do it unless they were brought to the shed and whacked.” – Dona Ana County Clerk …