News 8/10/10

(Disco ball courtesy of Sarah from Brizzzzzle UK, and thecuriousgnome.)

• Today's Colorado primary not looking fabulous for incumbents.

• Jet Blue flight attendant mad as hell, not going to take it anymore. Veterans of customer service across the planet ponder canonization of Steven Slater.

• Former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens believed aboard crashed flight. No relation to the Jet Blue incident.

• Rachel Maddow reveals just how scuzzy Target is. They never met a homophobe they didn't like.

• FOX hatenozzle Greg Gutfeld wants to open a Muslim-themed gay bar next to ground zero mosque. Um... good luck with that?

News 8/05/10

(Special thanks to Anita Bryant, Lon Mabon, Maggie Gallagher and others too numerous to mention. The battle isn't over, but we couldn't have done it without your tireless hatred. Thanks homophobes, wherever you are. PS Get a job.)

• National Public Radio frets over Prop 8 ruling. Describes Walker's judgment as bad news for Democrats. Excuse me? "Baltimore is not ready for integrated dancing!"

• MSNBC wonders whether the ruling will have an impact on the mid-terms. Gosh, I wonder too.

• Towleroad has a great media round-up of telly coverage for the Prop 8 ruling. I highly recommend the Rachel Maddow footage eviscerating the pathetic bigot "experts." Rachel also chats with Dahlia Lithwick. Give it a look-see.

• Looks like Elena Kagan will be confirmed to the US Supreme Court, possibly this week. Remember her?

Morning News 5/08/10

(I am not an asshole.)

Rachel Maddow on the Rekers story: Being gay cannot be cured. Being a hypocritical piece of shit, can. I'm paraphrasing a little. (via JMG)

Everybody look busy! EU bigwigs take action to contain financial crisis.

Anybody fired by Nixon is a friend of mine. Walter J. Hickel dies at 90.

Lithuanians hold gay pride parade despite attempted firebombing.

He said... he said. Clegg may or may not have suggested that Brown resign, which may or may not have led to an angry exchange between the two.

Elena Kagan said to be at top of Obama's SC nominee list. Kagan, as Dean of Harvard Law took decisive action against military recruitment on campus over DADT.

(Picture of Richard Nixon, probably firing someone, via Wikipedia and the White House Press Office.)

Morning News 3/27/10

Rachel Maddow, the straw lesbian. JR Russell over at Lez get real has a charming essay about Mass. Senator Scott Brown's fund raising letter that makes not-so-subtle reference to Ms. Maddow's Saphotasticness which is true and fabu. But the idea that she plans to challenge him for his seat is absurd.

There, now nobody is happy. The Israelis and the Palestinians are still slaughtering one another, complicating US attempts to get them to stop slaughtering one another.

We Germans aren't all smiles und sunshine. German Chancellor Angela Merkel takes a very strong role in negotiating the Greek bail out, prompting some in the EU to resent her very strong role.

Watch out Laszlo Panaflex! Actor Dennis Hopper honored with star on Hollywood's Walk of fame.

(Image of Ray Bolger as the Scarecrow in MGM's 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz.")