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SwapperNet says via press release: In response to recent allegations from Gingrich’s ex-wife, Swappernet.com, a dating site for swingers and open marriages, attempted to erect a billboard today in Tampa (where the website was founded) but was universally rebuffed by weary media outlets. The proposed billboard features the former speaker of the house in party mode surrounded by a bevy …

That’s the actual line.

An “anti-cheese” vegan group is posting billboards. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine says cheese products play a big role in the epidemic of childhood obesity. The group wants the Albany city school district to cut cheese from its lunch menu, which is loaded with the stuff. Dr. Neal Barnard of the Physicians Committee wrote in a letter to school …

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The church is claiming vandalism.

I tried myself just now, but I just got Domino’s Pizza. Also funny.

(Tipped by JMG reader Scott)

The Friendly Atheist responds to the billboard campaign promoting Larry Taunton’s new book. Taunton thinks that because Stalin was an atheist, he committed awful acts of genocide. That argument makes as much sense as saying his mustache was the cause of all the horrors. It’s also an argument that’s been refuted over and over and over again. Stalin didn’t kill …

Commenters on YouTube seem split over whether this ad is funny or whether it trivializes an important gay issue.(Tipped by JMG reader Helen)

A couple of weeks ago I kvetched about undisclosed charges on Spirit Airlines, a carrier I’d never flown before and that I’d booked through Orbitz. JMG reader Kevin sends us this today: Beginning Jan. 24, the Transportation Department will enforce a rule requiring that any advertised price for air travel include all government taxes and fees. For the last 25 …

If you refuse to abandon your sinning family and come to Jeebus, you are deliberately splattering his blood everywhere. Or something.(Source)

A Catholic group is claiming credit for the destruction of the above billboard, which was posted last week by a New Zealand Anglican church. The billboard, in central Auckland, was slashed by scissor-wielding Catholic Action Group member Arthur Skinner yesterday, who led today’s service outside the St Matthew-in-the-City Anglican church, which was responsible for the image. He said he would …

Dan Avery wonders if we’ll hear from a certain mommy blogger about this.