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The Drive-By Porno Van

The Drive-By Porno Van will allow the government to search every car, purse, wallet and jockstrap on the street with no warrants and only the oversight they dictate.

Not-Your-Average Joe

Newly out X Factor winner (and major cutie) Joe McElderry debuts his album October 23 at G-A-Y in London.

A Letter to Fayetteville, AR Mayor Lioneld Jordan

Dear Mayor Jordan,
I wanted to write and personally thank you for your support for Fayetteville Pride this year. I am from the Washington, DC area, where we have a long tradition of Pride festivities. Every year the same tired arguments agianst Pride are pulled out and dusted off. Every year we hear that we’re “pushing [...]

From Sea to Oily Sea

This stunning (unattributed) photo was taken off the Alabama shoreline.

I <3 McDonald’s

I would never have thought an add for McDonald’s could be so poignant and moving…

That About Sums It Up

An Oiled BP gas station sign pretty much sums up national and international opinion of BP at the moment.

A Hydrocarbon Chernobyl

In this clip from CNN.com, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar cites Chernobyl as a comparable disaster to the Deep Horizon spill. Who wants to bet that he’ll regret using that analogy?

Rekers’ Rentboy

If you’ve watched Leno, Colbert or some of the other late-night shows, you might have heard about the George Rekers scandal. As is true of all too many anti-gay religious bigots, George Rekers is a homosexual.

Mattingly takes on Hayward

CNN.com reporter David Mattingly isn’t afraid to push one of the most powerful men in the world for uncomfortable answers to serious questions.

Deep Horizon: pictures worth a thousand words.

Images of the fire, and diagram and video showing what happened when the rig sank, and what BP is trying to do to fix it.