News 7/06/10: Buzz Aldrin!

(Buzz Aldrin and two other guys test NASA's prototype, "anti - Richard Nixon box" after returning from the Moon. July 24th, 1969.)

Another offshore drilling ban may be in the works as we head into a potentially severe Atlantic Hurricane season.

Thai government extends state of emergency as threats of violence loom.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II visits New York City today. Atta girl!

Wake Me Up...before you smash your car into my Snappy Snaps photo shop. George Michael (and his car) lose a drunken brawl with a building. The singer apologized for screwing up again and boring everyone with his stupidity.

Morning News 5/15/10 (Pancakes!)

Yeah! Pancakes, bacon and eggs, coffee and orange juice for breakfast over at Sam's Billiards.

Nooo! US, UK embassies urge citizens to stay away from Bangkok, even essential travel.

Yeah! Mary Glasspool will be ordained Episcopal Bishop on Saturday.

Maybe! Elena Kagan's marital status discussed over at NYT.

They're a hot-blooded lot. Former Food Network Chef "the Calorie Commando" arrested for trying to hire homeless hitmen. (What did I tell you about food people?)

Kinder, gentler my ass. FB group calls on David Cameron to sack homophobic Equality Minister Theresa May.

(Photo of Pancakes from Brandon Martin-Anderson via Wikipedia. "North Americans sometimes garnish their pancakes with banana slices." Thanks Wikipedia!)

Morning News 5/14/10

Angry. Open warfare in the streets of Bangkok as protests continue.

On Second thought... Walgreens changes its  mind about carrying at-home genetic testing kits. Turns out Pathyway Genomics had no FDA approval for the kits.

Yawn. Kurt Loder describes the new Robin Hood movie as a "long history lesson in a loud, dark and unusually muddy lecture hall."

Bon Voyage. Shuttle Atlantis prepares for its final flight.

So let it be written... George Rekers's Wikipedia page now includes reference to the young man he rented to perform "daily, one-hour nude sexual massages." Rekers still claims he is totally not gay.

Oy Gevalt. Catholic school bars kid with two moms.

(Sisters Risque of the Sissyteen Chapel (SF), Sister Viva L'Amour (SF), and Sister Rhoda Kill (LA) courtesy The Jaundiced Eye/A Dingo Took My Baby)

Morning News 5/13/10

(Photo of Pad Thai by Terence Ong)

From Bad to Worse. Red Shirt Thai General Seh Daeng has been shot.

Looky Here. Feds search outside Boston for further evidence in failed Times Square Bombing.

"You think they're not going to fire me for a thing like that?" BP Boss admits mistakes were made.

LA boycotts Arizona. That city currently holds $58 million in contracts with that state, so this is more than symbolic.

Steve Rothaus airs some letters to the editor regarding closeted douchenozzle George Rekers. And via JMG this morning, here's Roy Zimmerman's song George Rekers is Completely Heterosexual:

Afternoon News 3/16/10

A "Blood Protest" Today in Thailand seems "unlikely to solve Thailand's immediate problems." No offense, but it also looks pretty gross.

Corey Haim laid to rest today in Toronto. We'll miss you Lucas.

If you keep eating that junk, it'll kill you dead. First Lady Michelle Obama speaks to American Grocery Manufacturers today and asks them to ease up on making foods "that are sweeter, richer, and saltier than ever before."

Queers still invisible to the US Census, but we're making a teensy bit of progress.

Scientists find amphipod, squid deep below the Antarctic ice where they didn't expect to find anything.