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Edward Snowden Reported “Missing”

The BBC reports that NSA leaker Edward Snowden checked out of his Hong Kong hotel today and that his present whereabouts are unknown. Hong Kong’s broadcaster RTHK said Mr Snowden checked out of the Mira hotel on Monday. Reuters news agency quoted hotel staff as saying that he had left at noon. Ewen MacAskill, a Guardian journalist, told the BBC …

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National Guard Marches In LA Pride

Via press release from John Perez, openly gay Speaker of the California Assembly: In a series of firsts, a delegation from the California National Guard, led by its Adjutant General, Maj. Gen. David S. Baldwin, took part in L.A. Pride, joining Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles), the first openly gay person elected Speaker, in yesterday’s Pride Parade. This …

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Headline Of The Day

The word, as most of you surely know, was “bigger.”  NPH only sang it about 30 times during the opening number. The above screen grab is from TMZ.  Here is the report from OMG Yahoo: A headline splashed across The Daily Mail on Monday morning questioned whether Harris said the “n-word” during his opening performance with Mike Tyson. The U.K. …

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Apple Announces iTunes Radio

At today’s developers’ conference Apple announced the launch of iTunes Radio, a streaming service that will compete with Pandora and Spotify.  Via Gizmodo: Apple has finally announced its online streaming and music discovery service. This is how millions of people will listen to music from now on. What we’re looking at here is a Pandora-like radio service that’s built directly …

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Larry Kramer Accepts Special Tony Award

True to form, even getting an honorary Tony Award managed to piss off Larry Kramer. Michael Musto reports for Out Magazine: Downstairs, I found gramps Larry Kramer, who’d been briefly seen receiving a special award for his humanitarian work. He was sitting, but not in a wicker chair. And his normal heart wasn’t smiling. “It was all fucked up,” fumed …

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