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An al-Qaeda terror attack is thwarted in Canada.

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Amazing Keith Haring video.

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev charged for using WMD by feds.

White House sticking to Constitution.

Gun Owners of America honcho: Liberals "pleased" with bombing.

Bette Midler "adored" the "terrifying" Sue Mengers.

Angelyne has a not-so-nice trip.

Who would Jesus abort?

Only 3 known SF earthquake (1906!) survivors.

Barbra regrets not doing Cabaret, Klute and Julia.

Michael Michaud dishes on the late Sal Mineo.

Sofia Vergara's "great time" as a transsexual.

Meet the Imam into gays and marriage equality.

Janice Dickinson broke? 

Brenda Dickson broke and homeless?

Roberto Bolle coming to NYC.

How to find sex...offline?

Folsom Street East is off.

Phyllis Diller's final TV gig: Dukes of Melrose.

Teamsters vs. Westboro: Guess who won?

Pop Tarts: Portraits of Women up for grabs.

CRAZY FOR IT: 'Mazing Madonna megamix.

Madonna's homeless brother injured during arrest.

How Mack Sennett created Studio City.

Pop-up exhibit of Madonna's iconic wardrobe at Macy's in L.A.

Dress her up

I'm not a hard-news site, even if I'm bright and have opinions on many topics. But just waking up (in L.A., amid autoposts of other topics on my blog today through Sunday) to the Boston news, I felt I had to chime in and just say how horrifying it is for Boston and this country and the civilized world that a pair of young men who, by most accounts, seem to have been good, regular kids for a long time, could radicalize and decide it would be a good idea to kill people at a marathon.

The interview with their uncle is powerful. "Losers" who "don't deserve to live on this earth." His message of sorrow to the victims is memorable.

I hope the second brother is captured or killed very soon and that we can begin to figure out how the hell they changed, and together.

I will say, though, that I wish there were some way to put the genie back in the bottle regarding how news events are researched and reported and commented on within the social media. There is a beauty to free expression and participation, but there is also a devastating shrapnel of misinformation, compelling-sounding lies and false leads, and seemingly spontaneously generated mythologies that arise so quickly.

I just want to know the facts, I don't want to read about (phony) Twitter accounts and other nonsense,and risk becoming an unwitting messenger of bullshit. I want a glimpse into their minds so we can try, somehow, to figure out a sensible way to keep people like this from developing their twisted plans.

I scoffed at this story of three U.A.E. men kicked out of an event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for being too handsome and therefore a potential distraction/moral challenge for women, and yet as recently as last week I was advocating for the trashing of three boxes of sickeningly good chocolates from my work kitchen lest I eat twice my weight in them.

So maybe the Saudis are on to something here.

Isn't Sean Hayes one of Hot in Cleveland's producers?

Joan Rivers hits HuffPost Live, TRASHES Hot in Cleveland.

Blatantly faked "pro-beheading" Muslim call to NY1 dupes gays.

AFA radio host's manic anti-gay comments are all too real.

Jag-off Matt Lauer tweets non-apology to wronged intern.

Harry Potter actor dies following heart surgery.

"Comedian" Mike Epps goes on homophobic Twitter tirade.

I MAY FAINT: Marie Osmond is pro-marriage equality.

Via Sticky (Work Unfriendly): Rafael M. lookin' good for Dogo Wear.

Marlon Texeira behind-the-scenes.

Kellan Lutz strips to the waist for Java Heat.

Guess who's anti-gay?

Just about the funniest thing ever:

Wanted poster

A British man is verbally harassed by anti-gay Muslims proclaiming him to be walking in "a Muslim area," where he clearly should not be looking like a homo.

How about: You're Muslim and you're in England, go back to the Middle East? Doesn't sound good in that direction either, "mate."

It's insane to think that fundamentalists are resorting to this, to policing their turf in a country where they're not even the majority. Makes no kind of sense.

 

The butts were out in force this holiday season.

Sunando Sen, murdered for being brown

Erika Menendez, 31, the woman police sought in the death of a man pushed in front of an oncoming subway this week in New York, has been apprehended and charged with murder as a hate crime.

Why a hate crime? Because, as she told cops:

"I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers I've been beating them up."

She'd never met the man or exchanged a word with him, yet decided he deserved to die because he may (or may not) have practiced the same religion as the people who destroyed the World Trade Center 11 years ago. Oh, and Hindus are the same as Muslims.

Insane. She sees a Muslim and blah-blah-blah, 9/11...she's the Rudy Giuliani of murderesses.

Oh, and I have to ask: I wonder if this has any connection to those virulently anti-Muslim ads right-wingers have fought to put up in subways? Even if not, they'll be ominous viewing from now on.

"It's simple, really. Homosexuals can't exist at Patrick Henry College..." and "I am taking a reporter's word for it that one alumna has self-identified as a lesbian?"—Dr. Michael Farris, chancellor/founder of Patrick Henry College, 2012 (From here and here, respectively.)

Where have we heard this before?

"In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country. In Iran we do not have this phenomenon, I don't know who has told you that we have it."—Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 2007 (From here.)

Just another of many points where Christian and Muslim fanaticism converge.

An Evangelical group is trying to stop implementation of a landmark California ban on ex-gay "therapy," claiming it infringes on the private rights of patients. Makes perfect sense, because obviously the customer is always right.

Mathew Staver, dean of Liberty University law school, claims:

"What we have here is the state coming into the doctor-patient, client-counselor relationship and saying that you can only present one viewpoint."

Yeah, in the same way the big, bad government only allows one viewpoint on whether bleeding or trepanning people are effective ways of promoting wellness.

Speaking of theocratic nonsense, a group of gay men in Libya have spoken out about their horrifying treatment at the hands of that country's largest Islamic milita, including a man in drag being beaten until he confessed he was gay—and then being taken away, never to be seen again.

That shirt is the pits

Matthias Schoenaerts heads up a spread for Vogue.

Yasser Arafat to be exhumed, tested for poison.

Al Jazeera: Radioactive polonium detected on Arafat's belongings.

Muslim radio station fined for pushing "torture" for gays.

TRAITORS: Texans flirt with secession.

TRAITOR: Gay Tory sez LGBT people don't want marriage equality.

Amnesty International against "Kill the Gays" bill, says being gay a "choice."

Parenting and being gay no longer mutually exclusive.

Prison-sex crackdown.

What if names were farts?

Finally, a time-traveling cops Web series.

Scratch That: Meet two men who own 50 tons of 78 records.

Must be some kinda record!