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Downton Abbey: The Musical

Entertainment Weekly reports: In the parody video below, filmed at the legendary Studio 54 in New York, actor and comedian Colin Andrew Mochrie (Whose Line Is It Anyway?) plays Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes (billed in the video as Julian Alexander Kitchner-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford), who explains his decision to create a Downton musical in between cuts of …

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ENDA To Be Reintroduced On Thursday

On Thursday the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) will be reintroduced in both the House and Senate. Chris Johnson reports at Washington Blade: The bill will be reintroduced in the House by Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.), the most senior openly gay member of the chamber, who’s taking over the legislation now that former Rep. Barney Frank has retired. In the Senate, …

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NOM Launches Last Minute Bid Against Marriage In Delaware & Rhode Island

Yesterday afternoon NOM posted two separate items urging supporters to contact state legislators in advance to today’s marriage votes in the full Delaware House and Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee. From the Delaware post: The Delaware state Constitution does NOT offer citizens the right to overrule legislators through a voter initiative or constitutional amendment referendum. With nearly 2-1 Democratic majorities …

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Three Years Of Sun In Three Minutes

NASA explains: In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun’s rise toward solar maximum, the peak of solar activity in its regular 11-year cycle. This video shows those three years of the sun at a pace of two …

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NEVADA: State Senator Comes Out As Marriage Ban Repeal Advances

Yesterday the Nevada Senate became the very first state legislative body to overturn a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. The finish line, however, is more than three years away. Chris Geidner reports at Buzzfeed: After a little more than an hour of debate in which one senator publicly declared that he was gay for the first time, the Nevada Senate …

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Hillbilly National Airport

In two weeks Little Rock National Airport officially becomes Bill & Hillary Clinton National Airport in the first such re-naming for a former president and first lady.   There’s already a new nickname. “Locals are calling it the Hillbilly Airport,” one insider tells Confidenti@l. “And project managers certainly don’t want an airport named after our President called Hillbilly. In the South. …

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