Tag Archives: celibacy

Don’t Steal Bikes, Bro

Gothamist tips us to this clip of two NYC bike messengers confronting a man who was allegedly caught trying to steal their bikes. According to witnesses, the man was spotted in the act of drilling the bikes’ locks. What followed is street justice, NYC-style, and I imagine that the alleged thief might have a case for assault, although I’m unclear …

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Arizona Revokes Health Insurance For Partners Of State Employees

On Friday, Arizona’s governor signed a bill revoking health benefits from the unmarried partners of state employees under the guise of “cost cutting.” Lambda Legal fumes: State legislators for months had taken aim at the equal benefits plan approved last year by former Governor Janet Napolitano, now Department of Homeland Security Secretary. On Friday, current Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed …

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Pope Palpatine: Atheism Is The Cause Of Global Warming, Environmental Rape

According to Ill Papa’s general address last week, atheism is at the root of the world’s environmental ills. “Is it not true that inconsiderate use of creation begins where God is marginalized or also where his existence is denied? If the human creature’s relationship with the Creator weakens, matter is reduced to egoistic possession, man becomes the ‘final authority,’ and …

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80’s Flashback

J.J. Fad, Supersonic, 1988. This track made J.J. Fad the first female rap group to be nominated for a Grammy. Originally J.J. Fad stood for “Juana, Juanita, Fatima Ann Dania,” but after some member changes it was said to stand for “Just Jammin’ Fresh And Def.” Supersonic was a refreshing lighthearted tonic in the face of the nascent gangsta rap …

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HomoQuotable – David Mixner

“Are you really happy with the progress we have made over the last eight months with this Administration and Congress? Are you really happy with the progress we have made on the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)? Do you think that the leaders of our political parties have embraced marriage equality and our …

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Just Call It The Vanilla-Packing District

Remember the amusing flap of last month in which guests of the Meatpacking District’s Standard Hotel were performing sex shows and porn shoots from the floor-to-ceiling windows of rooms overlooking the High Line Park? Remember how the Standard had been encouraging such performances on their Facebook page? Well, it turns out that’s a one-way, hetero-only ride down Vanilla Street. Via …

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Unfriended By The Apocalypse

(Via – This.That.No Other aka JMG reader BStewart23)

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of the Saint-At-Large, this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is two tickets to the first gay dance party at Water Taxi Beach on Governor’s Island, where the world famous Freemasons DJ team will perform. The Saint At Large is proud to christen Water Taxi Beach at Governors Island with its first major gay dance party on Sunday, September 20th. FREEMASONS, …

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Sen. Al Franken’s Party Trick

Sen. Al Franken amused the audience at the Minnesota State Fair by demonstrating that he can draw the complete map the Unites States, including the Great Lakes and all state lines, from memory.

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Protesters Begin Weekly Vigils Outside Church Of “Obama Should Die” Pastor

This weekend a group called People Against Clergy Who Preach Hate (Facebook group) had the first of their planned weekly protests outside the Phoenix-area storefront church of Pastor Steve Anderson, who has publicly prayed for the death of the president. The 125 protesters waved signs containing scriptural admonitions against hate as well as signs supporting the president.

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PhoboQuotable – Randy Thomasson

“The [Harvey Milk Day] bill — which will honor a sexual predator, a polygamous relationship advocate, and a public liar — and extend a homosexual, bisexual, transsexual agenda as a role model to children to aspire to is going to the governor after a short stop on the [California] Senate floor. It could mean gay-pride parades on campus, mock gay …

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Keith Olbermann Calls On Viewers To Send Him Dirt On Glenn Beck

On tonight’s show, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann will call on his viewers to send him damaging information about right-wing blowhard Glenn Beck and his producers. From Olbermann’s Daily Kos diary: From the Washington Independent, linked below: Glenn Beck’s Twitter feed has become a must-read. In a message from last night, Beck told his followers to “FIND EVERYTHING YOU CAN ON CASS …

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The Teabaggers Have A Theme Song!

Using a quote from the thrice-married serial adulterer Newt Gingrich as its title, the teabaggers are claiming this as their “battle cry.” Lyrics recap: God, judgment day, revolution, guns, abortion, taxes, uppity Negroes in the White House. (The last is only implied, of course.) Note to teabagging subtitlers: it’s Capitol Hill, not Capital.

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Brutal Gay Bashing In Ontario

A gay man in the U.S. border town of Thunder Bay, Ontario faces facial reconstruction surgery after being viciously gay-bashed by six to eight cowards with bricks. John “Jake” Raynard suffered 15 fractures to his cheekbone, a broken eye socket, a broken jaw and a broken upper palate when six to eight men surrounded him near a North Cumberland Street …

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Maine Bishop Orders Special Mass Collection To Fight Gay Marriage

Bishop Richard Malone of the Maine Archdiocese has ordered all of the state’s Catholic churches to make a special second collection during mass next Sunday. The money taken during that second collection will go to the anti-gay Stand For Marriage Maine, who will be staging a rally this Sunday at the statehouse in Augusta. I suggest making your own counter-donation …

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Soap Actress: I Was Canned For My Anti-Gay Religious Beliefs

Patricia Mauceri of ABC’s One Life To Live claims she was fired from the show in late June because her religious beliefs did not allow her to go along with a storyline that involved her character’s son coming out of the closet. Patricia Mauceri says she was fired and abruptly replaced for objecting to a gay storyline because of her …

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Obama To GOP: Where’s YOUR Health Care Reform Solution?

Speaking before a meeting of the AFL-CIO, President Obama asked the Republicans where their health care reform plan was.

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Pozzers Told To Get Swine Flu Vaccine

The San Francisco Department of Public Health is advising that HIV-positive folks get the swine flu vaccine when it becomes widely available later this fall. San Francisco health officials stress there is no evidence to suggest that people living with HIV are any more susceptible to the swine flu than they would be for the seasonal flu. “They should think …

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Crack Delays Bay Bridge Reopening

Shortly after the Bay Bridge was closed on Friday for seismic retrofitting, workers noticed that a crack had developed on a beam of the eastern span. Repairs may delay the bridge’s reopening today and pose a logistical nightmare for commuters. The parts needed to make the fix were manufactured overnight by Stinger Welding Inc. in Coolidge, Ariz. Weighing about 18,000 …

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Barney Frank Eyes Obama Cabinet Post

The Hill reports that Rep. Barney Frank would like to join the Obama administration as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. But at least not until 2011 or so. Rep. Barney Frank is interested in capping his political career as a member of the president’s Cabinet, according to a new biography of the Financial Services Committee chairman. Frank (D-Mass.) …

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