Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Short Takes: Vatican's pornographic bathroom; Chik Fil-A insults Asians, too; Slate says: 'Don't support your local bookseller'

HUD housing summit for LBGT elders

Mother Jones travels to Uganda to survey the violent homophobia fostered by the friends of American evangelists like Rick Warren. Also from MoJo: Reuters reports that Romney administration staffers spent almost $100,000 to buy up the hard drives in their state computers before Romney left office.

Farhad Manjoo of Slate (an Amazon "affiliate") says, "Don’t Support Your Local Bookseller; buying books on Amazon is better for authors, better for the economy, and better for you." Also, he thinks you should thank Jeff Bezos for "crushing that precious indie on the corner." No, AKSARBENT won't link to this Slate jerk/provocateur

But it will link to Slate's post about the Vatican's pornographic restroom

Apparently some employees at Chik Fil-A have the same contempt for Asians that its founder exhibits toward gay people when he supports antigay hate groups

New Hampshire's gay Episcopal bishop writes a Washington Post editorial sharply critical of Rick Perry

NFL player Montario Hardesty gets pushback for using gay as a synonym for dumb from Michael Musto who thinks it so tight end of him

About.com has a collection of the year's cleverest protest signs

Infertile wife of Alabama anti-gay GOP politician caught making sperm donations to lesbian couples says actions were the "utmost" in betrayal

Bruno Diaz, still a PAL employee,
partially pictured in his old job
An actor in gay porn films still mans the desk at Miami Beach’s Police Athletic League gym even though some officials thought he had been fired. No, he's not a Jerry Sandusky.

Schoolboy photographer arrested by Metropolitan Police in London for taking pictures during military parade got £4,000 in compensation after videotaping wrongful arrest. First, police tried to stop him taking photographs saying that he was breaching the privacy of the soldiers. Then they said he exhibited "anti-social behaviour" and could constitute a terrorist threat, then an inspector told him: "You were being silly, you were running around being stupid and gay." Then he was arrested for breaching the peace and was detained for 15 minutes.

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