Showing off his muscular legs, Greg the Gay Sportscaster from Energy 92.7 wowed the crowd with his sexy yellow football briefs at Thursday night's Bar AIDS benefit at the Mix.
25 August 2007
Underwear That's Fun To Wear
Showing off his muscular legs, Greg the Gay Sportscaster from Energy 92.7 wowed the crowd with his sexy yellow football briefs at Thursday night's Bar AIDS benefit at the Mix.
23 August 2007
Ode to K-Fed
Another song leak...this one from Britney Spears (by way of Perez Hitlon). It's a train-wreck of a track, as if a drugged out crack-whore got her hands on a tape recorder and grandma's old music box and proceeded to caterwaul about the man who done her wrong.
Take a listen to the piece o' shit here.
Take a listen to the piece o' shit here.
The Beat Goes On
A track from Madonna's upcoming album has been leaked. It's called "The Beat Goes On" and you can listen to it here. Produced by Pharrell Williams (of the Neptunes), the track is quite good. Give it a listen.
22 August 2007
The Songs of Summer
A hot thumpin' disco classic from early summer, 2003. Given the chance, I'd rock this guy's hot, humpy body all around the damn room!
"Rock Your Body" by Justin Timberlake
"Rock Your Body" by Justin Timberlake
Turning Red States Blue
DailyKos reports that a new SurveyUSA state-by-state poll shows Hillary Clinton doing quite well in three southern states:
Alabama:
(Last went Democratic in 1976)
Clinton 44
Giuliani 50
Clinton 47
Thompson 49
Clinton 48
Romney 46
Kentucky:
(Clinton in 1992 and 1996, Bush in 2000 and 2004)
Clinton 49
Giuliani 44
Clinton 51
Thompson 44
Clinton 53
Romney 41
Virginia:
(Republican since 1968)
Clinton 49
Giuliani 46
Clinton 51
Thompson 42
Clinton 53
Romney 39
That's 30 electoral votes right there. She beats Thompson in his own backyard (his home state is Tennessee) and leads all three candidates in Virginia, a state that hasn't been in the Democratic column since Lyndon Johnson's 1964 landslide.
Alabama:
(Last went Democratic in 1976)
Clinton 44
Giuliani 50
Clinton 47
Thompson 49
Clinton 48
Romney 46
Kentucky:
(Clinton in 1992 and 1996, Bush in 2000 and 2004)
Clinton 49
Giuliani 44
Clinton 51
Thompson 44
Clinton 53
Romney 41
Virginia:
(Republican since 1968)
Clinton 49
Giuliani 46
Clinton 51
Thompson 42
Clinton 53
Romney 39
That's 30 electoral votes right there. She beats Thompson in his own backyard (his home state is Tennessee) and leads all three candidates in Virginia, a state that hasn't been in the Democratic column since Lyndon Johnson's 1964 landslide.
21 August 2007
Sully, Circa 1995
Here is Charlie Rose's superb interview with Andrew Sullivan, originally aired in September of 1995 while Sullivan was promoting his book "Virtually Normal." Sullivan lays out a superb, solid, passionate case for gay marriage...almost a decade before Massachusetts legalized such unions. This interview is Sullivan at his best (man, did I have a crush on him back then), but...
His argument that essentially gives a thumbs-up to discrimination in housing and the work place (his conservative soul can't stand hate crime laws) is a bit disconcerting. Coming from a guy who's led a pretty charmed life (B.A. at Oxford, Ph.D. at Harvard, editor of The New Republic by the age of 25, etc.), you have to wonder if he has ever been denied a job or an apartment simply for being gay.
That aside, take a look at the interview. The conversation is well worth the time.
His argument that essentially gives a thumbs-up to discrimination in housing and the work place (his conservative soul can't stand hate crime laws) is a bit disconcerting. Coming from a guy who's led a pretty charmed life (B.A. at Oxford, Ph.D. at Harvard, editor of The New Republic by the age of 25, etc.), you have to wonder if he has ever been denied a job or an apartment simply for being gay.
That aside, take a look at the interview. The conversation is well worth the time.
Doh !
Elizabeth Vargas, the annoying news anch...I mean...actress, who is filling in for vacationing Charles Gibson on ABC's No World News Here, read last night's Hurricane Dean script by mentioning that it was bearing down on "Yuck-a-tan."
More On the GOP Power Grab
I'm no constitutional scholar, but it seems to me that any attempt to change the way California allocates its electoral votes in presidential elections would have to go through the state legislature and not through the voters.
From Article II of the United States Constitution:
Should that fail and should the initiative pass, I think that the wording in the Constitution would be enough to put the plan on hold while appeals are filed.
What are the chances of it passing? A new Field Poll shows 49% of state voters support the change, 42% oppose it.
From Article II of the United States Constitution:
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.(My emphasis.) At the very least the Democratic-led state legislature should make a strong attempt to keep this off the ballot.
Should that fail and should the initiative pass, I think that the wording in the Constitution would be enough to put the plan on hold while appeals are filed.
What are the chances of it passing? A new Field Poll shows 49% of state voters support the change, 42% oppose it.
What. The. Fuck.
These are the folks the make up the Republican Party's core base. Do you really think it's wise to let them have another four years in the White House?
From "GodTube" (I shit you not)...
From "GodTube" (I shit you not)...
20 August 2007
The Songs of Summer
From two years ago...the ever-talented Jamiroquai with their mid-summer classic...
"Seven Days In Sunny June"
"Seven Days In Sunny June"
Power Grab
In yet another attempt to circumvent established election laws, the California Republican Party has begun raising money to place an initiative on the February presidential primary ballot that would change that state's winner-take-all system in the Electoral College.
As with 48 other states (Maine and Nebraska being the exception), California awards its 55 electoral votes (the most in the nation) to the winner of the state's overall popular vote in presidential contests. In the last four elections those votes have gone to the Democratic nominee. In nine of the ten contests before that (back to 1952), the state was in the Republican column.
The proposed Republican power-grab would allocate the 55 electoral votes this way: two would automatically go to the winner of the overall state vote; the remaining 53 would be awarded based on results in each of the state's 53 congressional districts. With those districts being so gerrymandered the GOP nominee would pick up about 20 electoral votes that they would have not picked up in elections past.
In the past I have called for the abolition of the Electoral College. It is antiquated and, as the 2000 contest showed, can thwart the will of the people, allowing unqualified incompetents to slip into the White House.
But if the Republican Party was really concerned about reworking our national election process they would put this initiative on the ballot in other states. Perhaps the ones that have gone Republican in the last ten presidential elections. Or ones that have, over the last couple of decades, become solidly Republican (a big state like Texas, perhaps).
Oh, but wait. That wouldn't serve their unspoken party strategy of stealing elections, would it? I mean, do you think for a minute the Republicans wouldn't put another initiative on the ballot reversing themselves should California start voting Republican again?
As with 48 other states (Maine and Nebraska being the exception), California awards its 55 electoral votes (the most in the nation) to the winner of the state's overall popular vote in presidential contests. In the last four elections those votes have gone to the Democratic nominee. In nine of the ten contests before that (back to 1952), the state was in the Republican column.
The proposed Republican power-grab would allocate the 55 electoral votes this way: two would automatically go to the winner of the overall state vote; the remaining 53 would be awarded based on results in each of the state's 53 congressional districts. With those districts being so gerrymandered the GOP nominee would pick up about 20 electoral votes that they would have not picked up in elections past.
In the past I have called for the abolition of the Electoral College. It is antiquated and, as the 2000 contest showed, can thwart the will of the people, allowing unqualified incompetents to slip into the White House.
But if the Republican Party was really concerned about reworking our national election process they would put this initiative on the ballot in other states. Perhaps the ones that have gone Republican in the last ten presidential elections. Or ones that have, over the last couple of decades, become solidly Republican (a big state like Texas, perhaps).
Oh, but wait. That wouldn't serve their unspoken party strategy of stealing elections, would it? I mean, do you think for a minute the Republicans wouldn't put another initiative on the ballot reversing themselves should California start voting Republican again?
17 August 2007
The Songs of Summer
Madonna turned 49 yesterday...and she looks and sounds as hot as ever! In belated celebration, let's go back to this week 20 years ago. The # 1 single in America was...
"Who's That Girl" by the Birthday Girl herself.
"Who's That Girl" by the Birthday Girl herself.
16 August 2007
The Songs of Summer
Sit back, close your eyes, and imagine yourself sitting on the beach in Santa Barbara, along the lake in Chicago, poolside in Palm Springs, sipping a cold drink, without a worry in the world...
"Warm Weather" by Pieces of a Dream
"Warm Weather" by Pieces of a Dream
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15 August 2007
The Songs of Summer
This song was on my Walkman non-stop in August of 1985...
"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" by Sting
"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" by Sting
The Atlantic on Karl Rove
Just days before Karl Rove announced his resignation as the Deputy White House Chief of Staff, my new issue of The Atlantic arrived in the mail. The cover story? "Lessons of a Failed Presidency: Why Karl Rove Couldn't Deliver" (subscription required).
Here's one of many tid-bits from the cover story that put the entire Bush presidency into perspective:
Here's one of many tid-bits from the cover story that put the entire Bush presidency into perspective:
Hurricane Katrina clearly changed the public perception of Bush's presidency. Less examined is the role Rove played in the defining moment of the administration's response: when Air Force One flew over Louisiana and Bush gazed down from on high at the wreckage without ordering his plane down. Bush advisers Matthew Dowd and Dan Bartlett wanted the president on the ground immediately, one Bush official told me, but were overruled by Rove for reasons that are still unclear: "Karl did not want the plane to land in Louisiana."And the already leaky damn then came crashing down.
More From The Atlantic Story
Another tid-bit from Josh Green's Atlantic story about the tone-deaf White House:
"For all the years he was president," [Former House Majority Leader Dick] Armey told me, "Bill Clinton and I had a little thing we'd do where every time I went to the White House, I would take the little name tag they give you and pass it to the President, who, without saying a word, would sign and date it. Bill Clinton and I didn't like each other. He said I was his least-favorite member of Congress. But he knew that when I left his office, the first school kid I came across would be given that card, and some kid who had come to Washington with his mama would go home with the President's autograph. I think Clinton thought it was a nice thing to do for some kid, and he was happy to do it.""Courtesy" is a word that has never been - in any way, shape, or form - part of the Bush lexicon.
Armey said that when he went to his first meeting in the White House with President Bush, he explained the tradition with Clinton and asked the President if he would care to continue it. "Bush refused to sign the card. Rove, who was sitting across the table, said, 'It would probably wind up on eBay,'" Armey continued. "Do I give a damn? No. But can you imagine refusing a simple request like that with an insult? It's stupid. From the point of view of your own self-interest, it's stupid. I was from Texas, and I was the majority leader. If my expectations of civility and collegiality were disappointed, what do you think it was like for the rest of the congressmen they dealt with? The Bush White House was tone-deaf to the normal courtesies of the office."
14 August 2007
The Surge
Exactly six months following President Bush's announcement that he was escalating the Iraq War, this is what he has to show for it:
Four suicide bombers struck nearly simultaneously at communities of a small Kurdish sect in northwestern Iraq late Tuesday, killing at least 175 people and wounding 200 more, Iraqi military and local officials said.
The bombings came as extremists staged other bold attacks: leveling a key bridge outside Baghdad and abducting five officials from an Oil Ministry compound in the capital in a raid using gunmen dressed as security officers. Nine U.S. soldiers also were reported killed, including five in a helicopter crash.
Crystal Balling
With my own caveat that the Democratic Party is well known for its ability to turn what should be a cakewalk election into an embarrassing loss, Democracy Corps has some new polling results that show big changes in the American electorate that "have an enduring quality, with the opportunity to shape the parties’ prospects in 2008."
The basics:
A generic Democratic ticket leads a Republican ticket 51% to 39%.
Named Democrats beat named Republicans in congressional races 51% to 42%.
Independents prefer a Democrat for president by 19 percentage points.
After going for Bush in 2004, married women now prefer a Democratic president in 2008 by a small margin.
Down deeper into the poll:
After going with Bush in 2004 by five percentage points, Catholic voters are returning to the Democratic Party in droves, with 51% wanting a Democratic president and only 38% wanting a Republican.
Americans with college educations prefer a Democrat for president 52% to 41%.
In counties won by John Kerry in 2004 the Democratic ticket leads by a 2-to-1 margin; counties won by Mr. Bush have the Republican ticket winning by only 1 point.
Rural voters still prefer a Republican president, but only by a 48% to 41% margin (the GOP usually carry this demographic by 20+ points).
And finally, a statistic that gives me a little bit of hope for the future, voters under 30 plan to vote Democratic next year by "landslide margins," according to the poll.
That last statistic is Karl Rove's legacy, the way I see it. His destructive campaign methods and his hateful domestic agenda led George W. Bush to a method of governance that will keep younger voters in the Democratic column for a generation.
The basics:
A generic Democratic ticket leads a Republican ticket 51% to 39%.
Named Democrats beat named Republicans in congressional races 51% to 42%.
Independents prefer a Democrat for president by 19 percentage points.
After going for Bush in 2004, married women now prefer a Democratic president in 2008 by a small margin.
Down deeper into the poll:
After going with Bush in 2004 by five percentage points, Catholic voters are returning to the Democratic Party in droves, with 51% wanting a Democratic president and only 38% wanting a Republican.
Americans with college educations prefer a Democrat for president 52% to 41%.
In counties won by John Kerry in 2004 the Democratic ticket leads by a 2-to-1 margin; counties won by Mr. Bush have the Republican ticket winning by only 1 point.
Rural voters still prefer a Republican president, but only by a 48% to 41% margin (the GOP usually carry this demographic by 20+ points).
And finally, a statistic that gives me a little bit of hope for the future, voters under 30 plan to vote Democratic next year by "landslide margins," according to the poll.
That last statistic is Karl Rove's legacy, the way I see it. His destructive campaign methods and his hateful domestic agenda led George W. Bush to a method of governance that will keep younger voters in the Democratic column for a generation.
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