Gloria Steinem: Sarah Palin is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.
Prescient LIFE cover from 2004 features Tina Fey and John McCain.
Sorry boys: Michael Phelps gets some ass in Vegas.
The Polaroid picture is back for the digital age.
Former ambassador Michael Guest launches international gay rights group: “The openly gay Guest is a paid adviser to the Council for Global Equality, which will have its first meeting in Washington, D.C. on September 23. The council, whose Web site is slated to go live this month, is a collaboration between LGBT and straight groups that work on human rights internationally. ‘Its purpose is to make the United States government and the State Department stand up for global LGBT human rights,’ explained Guest…”
Alan Ball draws Blood.
McCain cancels Habitat for Humanity event: because it has to do with houses? “How could McCain maintain his sense of press victimization against the backdrop of people building homes for people who look forward to being able to one day say, ‘I know exactly how many homes I own! One! Just the one!'”
“Community organizers” respond to vicious Palin attacks.
Concerned Women for America’s ‘scary’ gay wedding graphic.
Radar: Why do gays hate black music? “…the gays are afraid of urban-ness, and the gay culture is dominated by the white gays. And that is boring and a problem, particularly because it shows the lie of calling something a gay community when the “community” isn’t actually one, and it’s not one because there’s the rich gays and the poor gays and never shall they meet except on Craigslist.”
OUT presents The 100 Greatest, Gayest Albums (of All Time)…
Michael Moore releasing new film for free on internet.
Gay high school proposed in Chicago.
Dina Matos McGreevey offers to drop claim that she duped him into marrying her if he pays her the $109,000 a judge says he owes: “Dina Matos’ lawyer John Post said the fraud claim filed by his client will be dropped if McGreevey makes full payment and agrees not to appeal the judge’s divorce ruling. That drew an immediate rebuke from McGreevey lawyer Steve Haller, who said, ‘we will appeal or not appeal at our own discretion.’ A private meeting with the judge in the case is scheduled for Monday.”
Beyonce wants to be ‘iconic’.
OUT OF TOUCH: Cindy McCain’s first night “power slicker” outfit at the RNC cost $300,000.
Sweet new promos for The Office!
Subway sandwich shop fires meat handler for handling meat (site nsfw).
FLASHBACK: Homophobic comic book from the 80’s.
REVERSE: Distant object found orbiting sun backwards. “An object in the icy Kuiper belt has been found orbiting the Sun backwards, compared to most other objects in the solar system. It may help explain the origin of an enigmatic family of comets typified by Comet Halley. The new object, called 2008 KV42, lies in the Kuiper belt, a ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune. Its orbit is inclined 103.5° to the plane of the Earth’s orbit, or ecliptic. That means that as it orbits the Sun, it actually travels in the opposite direction as the planets.”
