Hungarian nationalists fire-bombed a Budapest bathhouse yesterday as that city readied for this weekend's gay pride events. A gay establishment in the Hungarian capital has been targeted, the second attack in a week. Four petrol bombs were thrown into sauna called Magnum in the early hours of yesterday morning. One man was slightly injured by fumes. The bombers had called the sauna before their attack and warned people to evacuate. A similar phone warning was used last week when a gay club was attacked with a petrol bomb. The sauna had kept several extinguishers at hand since last week’s attack and so the fire was promptly extinguished. Full story...
Last week New York City won a statewide contest for best tasting tap water, something Gotham has long been known for.
Politico goes to the actuaries for the hard numbers.
It’s a macabre point to raise on the night when Palin will speak to the convention here — but a look at the actuarial tables insurance companies use to evaluate customers shows that it’s not an irrelevant one.
Because I am a complete Google whore, I had to immediately download the test version of Chrome, the companay's first-ever browser, when it came out yesterday.
You should all be following along with Michelangelo Signorile either on his blog or on SiriusXM where he has gone into "Republican drag" at the convention to meet our enemies.
Yesterday Page 6 leaked a rumor that the powers that be at MSNBC are unhappy with new anchor Rachel Maddow's mannish appearance.
Via Ben Smith at Politico, who calls it one of the "all-time great TV news goofs."
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Log Cabin Republicans head Patrick Sammon was just on CNN defending John McCain. Sammon says that while he disagrees with the anti-gay planks in the Republican platform, "The platform is largely symbolic and is forgotten the day after the convention.
Now playing in Wasilla, Alaska.(Via - Band Of Thebes via Andrew Sullivan)
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Pace University student Jason Pravia, 19, was murdered in his Chelsea apartment on Saturday morning after he left a downtown party.
Joe Lieberman at the convention last night: "And that brings me directly to why I am here tonight. What, after all, is a Democrat like me doing at a Republican convention like this?"Selling out the people who originally put him in office? Going to the highest bidder? Looking for new ways to fuck the country?Lieberman answers his own question: "The answer is simple.
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