tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23681591392104251302024-03-17T22:58:58.803-05:00AKSARBENTUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-88668034647862466702023-09-09T21:16:00.000-05:002023-09-09T21:16:54.518-05:00Here are all the Cynical Girls in the fan video of Marshall Crenshaw's first single, which failed to chart but was a college radio favoriteI don't know who Rick Thomas is, but if he's not a professional video editor, he should be.
From the Youtube annotation:0:00 Bette Davis (Of Human Bondage)0:02 Greta Garbo (Anna Christie)0:03 Marie Dressler (Anna Christie) 0:04 Joan Crawford (The Women) 0:06 Jean Harlow (Libeled Lady) 0:08 Marlene Dietrich (The Blue Angel?) 0:10 Lauren Bacall (To Have and Have Not) with humphrey bogart 0:12Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-31804114993626792372023-08-26T03:43:00.000-05:002023-08-26T03:43:05.153-05:00Randy Rainbow on Trump: Don't Arraign on His Parade
And here's Rainbow's interpretation of Trump's New York indictment, which we like even better...
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-17679903114639680692023-07-03T09:35:00.002-05:002023-07-03T09:35:19.719-05:00CaptureTheFlag Twitter hashtag disappears as vandals coordinate online the destruction and theft of Rainbow flagsUSA Today reporting that social media dares, such as "Capture the Flag," are increasing arson, theft, and vandalism of Pride flags across the United States.The paper says: "In the past week alone, Pride flags have been stolen, slashed or burned in at least five states, including California, Utah, Arizona, Nebraska and Pennsylvania."Below: torched porch pride flag in Omaha
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-24375361876713850142023-06-17T13:56:00.001-05:002023-06-18T22:58:31.555-05:00Gaymers are now playing Call of Duty? Apparently, more gaymers than AKSARBENT ever suspected, waste their time clobbering people online when they could be signing up new voters to clobber Republicans. Wired just published an exploration of all this mock mayhem.
After shows, gay comedian Matteo Lane unwinds by playing video games with fellow comedians and others. "Originally, I was playing the gay version of Call of Duty–which is Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-19094098368962584962023-05-30T16:37:00.001-05:002023-05-30T16:41:18.358-05:00From Forbes:What happens when Dave Chappelle buys up your townIden Crockett, the "only black trans woman who is neighbors with Dave [Chappelle] in the world," and generally approves of him, nevertheless is not amused by his anti-trans rants:“Because what he says in regards to the life of Black men in the country is so spot on and so insightful, he gets a lot of credit, people go to him for his opinions. He is an expert on that, because he is a Black man in Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-8081653140149314722023-05-25T14:43:00.001-05:002023-05-25T14:43:40.564-05:00Want a divorce from the United States of America? It'll cost you $2,350Renouncing your citizenship is subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, believe it or not. And you have to take an oath:I desire and hereby make a formal renunciation of my U.S. nationality, as provided by section 349(a)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, as amended, and pursuant thereto, I hereby absolutely and entirely renounce my United States nationality Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-22431152334569297362023-05-25T14:10:00.002-05:002023-05-25T14:10:33.358-05:00Rep. Don Bacon to Ford Motor: if you make AM radios optional, we'll sic Pete Buttigieg on you!Don Bacon is congratulating himself on twitter for a letter he signed "encouraging" Ford Motor not to remove AM radios as standard equipment in its gas vehicles.He brags about the carrot, but is real quiet about the stick–a bill in Congress to give the National Highway Safety Administration the power to force the issue.Yes, kids: Pete Buttigieg as the head of the Department of Transportation, is Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-53598348230951636912023-05-02T20:04:00.001-05:002023-05-02T20:04:40.597-05:00Sharon Slater's Arizona hate group, Family Watch International, gets Uganda LGBT Death Penalty law resurrectedSharon Slater (photo via GLAAD)Family Watch International is a Gilbert, AZ organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center has classified as a hate group.It was founded and is led by a radical right-wing Mormon, Sharon Slater, who plies UN delegates and African governmental conferences with pseudoscientific research to persuade them to pass draconian anti-LGBT legislation in various Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-57747142334686315472023-03-02T08:59:00.006-06:002023-04-01T02:15:18.954-05:00Watch Stephen Colbert rip Ron DeSantis' new bio with some savage help from the New York Times
Colbert firebombed Ron DeSantis' tedious, whitewashed autobio in high style Tuesday, flashing 7 vicious takes on the new book to viewers during an extended diatribe in which he added choice quotes from a scorching New York Times piece, like "…can't distract from the dull coldness at this book's core." and "...courageously free of anything that resembles charisma, or a discernible sense ofUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-3428431121726459062023-03-02T07:05:00.002-06:002023-04-01T02:15:23.774-05:00Iowa's 1,600-page government "reorganization" gives GOP Gov. Reynolds power only Putin and Ron DeSantis would loveOfficial after official would now be appointed and serve "at the pleasure of the governor" in Kim Reynolds' new power grab/score settling maneuver. The Cedar Rapids Gazette, has all the details and they ain't pretty— unless you're an authoritarian, freedom-hating Republican. Here's a link to Todd Dorman's scorching exposé. He appears to have gone through all 1,600 pages with a fine-toothed comb.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-77011496946041625662023-02-28T07:13:00.000-06:002023-04-01T02:15:29.893-05:00Watch: Rachel Maddox interviews the State Senator willing to tie the NE Unicameral into knots if LB574, an anti-trans bill, is not tabled. "Take your names off that piece of poop"Machaela Cavanaugh, if you are not from Nebraska, is the daughter of former Nebraska state legislator and U.S. Representative John Joseph Cavanaugh III. What radicalized Cavanaugh was LB574, an anti trans bill introduced by Sen. Kathleen Kauth, who enlisted one of the most revolting gay grifters ever to sit in a Unicameral hearing room to testify in its behalf. &Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-38054452063070465152023-02-28T05:17:00.006-06:002023-04-01T02:15:38.524-05:00Gay 1/6 insurrectionist Brandon Straka 'brutalized and destroyed' by ban from five Omaha hair salonsGay insurrectionist Brandon Straka (Can we call him a "coupier"?), who is now on federal probation well into 2025 for his role in the 1/6 DC coup attempt, is now whining on YouTube about being banned from all five Omaha area locations of Garbo's, a hair salon, despite the fact that he is a "big tipper." From his video:It’s considered socially acceptable to ban me, to cancel me or to prevent me Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-84932232750961857662023-02-21T06:56:00.001-06:002023-04-01T02:15:42.794-05:00What happened when we told ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence program, to write a gay comedy sceneAKSARBENT tried to trick the artificial intelligence program, chatgpt, but wasn't able to. However we learned that although the program has a truly lousy sense of humor, it is capable of coming up with a surprisingly edgy line (second from last). The request: Write comedy scene in which Tom mistakes Rick, the straight twin brother of Tom’s gay boyfriend Jeff, for Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-10180689258806730732023-02-16T01:10:00.000-06:002023-04-01T02:15:46.875-05:00The real problem about George Santos...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-25581211776809401872023-02-15T15:59:00.006-06:002023-04-01T02:15:50.290-05:00Meet Mario Presents (or Mario Estrada) the bizarre gay, anti-trans activist Senator Kauth invited to testify for LB574 Meet Mario Estrada, a Gays Against Groomers gadfly who swooped into Lincoln February 8th to testify for LB574, Kathleen Kauth's bill to stop physicians from performing gender alteration procedures on anyone under 19 or even referring patients to someone who will, under penalty of a review by Nebraska's medical licensing board. The bill also allows a parent or guardian to bring Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-87388774015442186212023-02-09T13:38:00.014-06:002023-04-01T02:16:11.305-05:00 Arrested black gay reporter at DeWine presser intended to "do harm to me" — Ohio National Guard chief John HarrisLambert, rightThe presser, following a nearby train derailment, was supposed to start at 3 pm but NewsNation reporter Evan Lambert was reporting live at 5 by the time Ohio Governor Dewine started speaking. The man in charge of Ohio’s National Guard, Maj. Gen. John Harris, decided that Lambert, at the back of the gym, was too loud. Lambert objected. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-28007297308528334742022-04-20T17:43:00.007-05:002023-04-01T02:16:14.721-05:00Bucha mayor: Russian soldiers raped Ukranian menFedoruk: "The number of victims is large,unfortunately. But not only women.The guard of the children's sanatorium,the man was even raped. I say this becauseit [sic] does not exist. After all this bullying,he could not stand it and died."Both Time and The Guardian have reported that Russian soldiers raped more than women and children in Bucha.(Via OLHA POVALIAIEVA)On April 17, the mayorUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-65605352830002771162021-09-13T15:18:00.000-05:002023-04-01T02:16:19.484-05:00ICYMI: Rock-blocker Tiffany ended its 135-year ban on men's diamond engagement rings last MayFor most of its history Tiffany has refused to sell any men's diamond rings, including engagement rings—it considered them to be in bad taste. The firm introduced diamond engagement rings for women in 1886. Walter Hoving, who ruled Lord and Taylor, and then Tiffany for 25 years, firmly enforced the policy. Once, a customer tried to buy a man'sUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-86908151481418408022021-01-27T10:56:00.006-06:002023-04-01T02:16:30.386-05:00Arrested by FBI: Rep Don Bacon's radical right wing #Walkaway ally, Brandon Straka
Rep. Don Bacon speaking at Omaha WalkawayRally last Fall. Photo: Matt Johnson
Brandon Straka, who founded the Walkaway movement to urge fellow LGBTs and people of color to abandon the Democratic party, has been released from the Douglas county jail after being arrested by the FBI Monday. ThinkProgress considers the Walkaway organization a grifting operation. &Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-34915997872283964252021-01-08T12:10:00.001-06:002023-04-01T02:16:34.762-05:00Seth Meyers to Ben Sasse: What a-the fuck are you a-talking about?Ben Sasse, who holds a doctorate in history from Yale University, insisted on the floor of the Senate this week that the center of America is not Washington, D.C. and that Americans should be shoveling their neighbors' snow instead of, presumably, staying glued to their screens watching his party's leaders egg on vandals attacking the Capitol Building of the United States. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-65608515790483009792020-12-30T15:26:00.003-06:002023-04-01T02:15:10.821-05:00Free Webcams for owners of the following cameras: Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Panasonic Lumix, Sony, GoPro and OlympusNow that Zoom participation has, well, zoomed during the pandemic, decent webcams have become scarcer and more expensive — but millions of people already have digital cameras far superior to most webcams. Most can connect to computers to transfer photos and video, but live video output from most DSLR or mirrorless cameras is not in a streaming format. &Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-37354408839005080192020-11-21T19:54:00.000-06:002023-04-01T02:15:06.308-05:00Does KMTV practice journalism or merely transcribe evasive cop-speak euphemisms? KMTV's web post and on-air reporting of last night's fatal police shooting of an Omahan are marvels of "avoidant garbage" Here are some of the evasions, passive linguistic buck-passing, obfuscations and violations of recommendations by the Columbia Review of Journalism and the Associated Press in KMTV's initial story:ONE DEAD IN OFFICER_INVOLVED SHOOTING NEAR 27TH Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-62558754514276361522020-09-08T17:45:00.001-05:002023-04-01T02:15:02.315-05:00Guest Post: Hate in the Time of CholeraMargo Howard is a journalist and author, known bymany as Dear Prudence under Mike Kinsley,who started Slate Magazine.“Cholera” is my name for COVID-19, even though one is bacterial and the other viral. There is,
however, a more important difference between our pandemic and all its predecessors than
nomenclature. We’ve had the misfortune of a “leader” (that really must be in quotation marks, forUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-61719219890002093432020-07-29T20:44:00.004-05:002023-04-01T02:16:39.706-05:00Douglas Co. GOP now promoting quack hydroxychloroquine video banned by Twitter, Facebook and YouTube On its six o'clock news tonight, Omaha's KMTV reported that the Radical Republican nutballs who run the Douglas Co. GOP are now promoting on Twitter a "debate" about hydroxychloroquine, the discredited COVID-19 "treatment." The GOP send two tweets today, the first reading simply HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE!!! and the second containing a retweet of the videoUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368159139210425130.post-29825519637268765732020-07-26T16:21:00.002-05:002023-04-01T02:16:42.911-05:00One degree of Don Bacon!Left: Don Bacon; Right: Augusto PinochetYou don't have to go through all that 6-degrees-with-Kevin rigamarole with this game—it's easy! The photo on the right is of Augusto Pinochet, pal to Henry Kissinger but not so much to the mothers of the thousands of Chileans he "disappeared" and the tens of thousands he had sadistically tortured. What does any of this Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0