News: Python, Tim Tebow, Big Bang, Chocolate, Steve Jobs
Filmmaker gauges America's opinion with mobile Oval Office.
Humanists marry first same-sex couple in Iceland: "The bride and bride were Jana Björg Ingadóttir and Jóhanna Kristín Gísladóttir, who chose an intimate ceremony with only their closest relatives and friends present, ruv.is reports."
Michael Jackson appears in dollop of bird poop.
"Ex-gay" group accuses California senator of 'ex-gay bashing': "Sponsoring legislation endorsed by the gay lobby to ensure that children only receive gay-affirming therapy is an act of childhood endangerment and an unconstitutional attempt to deny parental rights everywhere, but especially for parents in California and those in your Torrance district."
Elton John flashes his pale behind.
Celine Dion releasing two albums in November.
El Paso County Commissioners Court votes 3-1 to extend health benefits to unmarried partners of county employees: "County Judge Veronica Escobar and Commissioners Tania Chozet and Anna Perez voted for the move. Commissioner Dan Haggerty voted against it. Commissioner Sergio Lewis was absent. Domestic partners were defined by Escobar as two people of the same or opposite sex who have lived together in the same home for at least one year and intend to stay together."
Taylor Swift releases diabolically catchy new single.
PHOTO: Obama the wizard.
Conservationists document largest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida: "The python weighed in at 164½ pounds and measured 17 feet, 7 inches long. It was pregnant with 87 eggs. The snakes are native to Southeast Asia but have established a population of tens of thousands in the Everglades, where the latest find was recorded Friday."
Physicists create Big Bang casserole: "Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, have achieved the hottest manmade temperatures ever, by colliding lead ions to momentarily create a quark–gluon plasma, a subatomic soup and unique state of matter that is thought to have existed just moments after the Big Bang."
Researchers create "healthy" chocolate in lab using fruit juice: "Our study is just the starting point to healthier chocolate – we've established the chemistry behind this new technique but now we're hoping the food industry will take our method to make tasty, lower-fat chocolate bars."
Steve Jobs' Palo Alto home burglarized: "More than $60,000 worth of "computers and personal items" were allegedly stolen, but Flattery declined to say whether they belonged to Jobs, who died last year at the age of 56, or another family member."
Actor Jonny Weston goes shirtless for Vman.
Tim Tebow strikes Jesus pose for GQ.
Zoo elephant conceived with frozen sperm: "The Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna says it is the first successful use of frozen sperm from a wild African bull elephant to impregnate a female in captivity. An ultrasound image from Operation Frozen Dumbo shows the foetus with developing trunk and legs. The mother is nine months into her pregnancy, expected to last 22 months."
Lifetime series Drop Dead Diva to tackle FDA ban on biological donations by gay men.
Trans man Luke Anderson wins Big Brother UK: "After leaving the house last night (Aug. 13), Anderson told host Brian Dowling: ‘I don't think it's sunk in yet. A big part of it was about acceptance. All my life I've been an outsider. Thank you so much.’ After beginning gender reassignment four years ago, the South African revealed to fellow housemates on day two of the contest that, in his own words, he had been born a woman, named Laura."




What I would not give for access to Tim Tebow's inner thoughts. My gut tells me he is laughing his a$$ off at both gay men and Evangelicals by titillating both in different ways.
But to what end? Just for his own entertainment? Because he has some grand larger purpose in mind down the road (i.e. finding some way to reconcile the two groups)?
Either way, the contradictions are obvious. Good "holy boys" simply do not strut their beef-cake stuff on magazine covers the way he has, nor do they frequent West Hollywood the way he does.
Something has to give eventually....and it will be fascinating to see what that is....
Posted by: Rick | Aug 14, 2012 4:23:35 PM
"Ex-gay" group accuses California senator of 'ex-gay bashing.'
They might absolutely suck as people, but the "persecuted Christians" "bullied" by the "homofascists" are downright fantastic at playing the victim card.
Posted by: kpo5 | Aug 14, 2012 4:27:09 PM
I will take Ben Cohen over Tim Tebow any day, Both in looks and personality.
Posted by: DF | Aug 14, 2012 4:45:51 PM
I will take Ben Cohen over Tim Tebow any day, Both in looks and personality.
Posted by: DF | Aug 14, 2012 4:45:52 PM
Tebow is thick in all the right places.
Posted by: Anthony | Aug 14, 2012 4:51:56 PM
Jesus pose? I would have called that a Fosse pose.
Posted by: Miguel R | Aug 14, 2012 5:08:08 PM
Tim Tebow channeling Jesus is less offensive that Missy Mitts the Mormon Prince strutting around in anticipation of achieving his own godhood in the Great By and By. And I don't want to see any of the Romney males posing in the magic underwear.
Posted by: gregory brown | Aug 14, 2012 5:17:11 PM
The last thing I thought of was Jesus when I saw Saint Timmy's shirtless hotness- and I agree with Rick- Tim or who ever is doing his publicity knows beefcake sells.
Posted by: jaragon | Aug 14, 2012 5:21:30 PM
Isn't vanity considered a "sin" in the Bible Mr Tebow ? Oh yeah, I forgot, you can pick and choose the bits of the Bible you want to follow these days since the Republicans hijacked "Christianity" in the early 1980's.
Posted by: Icebloo | Aug 14, 2012 5:58:10 PM
That Taylor Swift song sounds like its own Glee cover.
In related news, I'm never listening to the radio again.
Posted by: tim b | Aug 14, 2012 6:04:29 PM
RE: El Paso Commissioner's Court extends health benefits...
The same reverend (now Bishop from some African church) who hated the city extending benefits to domestic partners is now threatening to sue the County for redefining marriage.
Posted by: gerry | Aug 14, 2012 6:45:58 PM
Healthier chocolate? What? There is nothing unhealthy about eating chocolate. There IS something unhealthy about eating lots of chocolate. So we're not making chocolate healthier, we're just allowing you to stuff your face with it.
Posted by: Bob | Aug 14, 2012 7:12:38 PM
Taylor Swift is so awful. She has a weak voice. She's totally manufactured, and she allegedly does not believe in gay marriage.
Posted by: bruce | Aug 14, 2012 7:21:45 PM
Is it true that Taylor does not support gay marriage? I didn't know that.
Posted by: jason | Aug 14, 2012 7:48:32 PM
1st off, I HATE the US version of Big Brother. Almost every season they have these beautiful heterosexuals and then the gay guy, if they have one, is the ultimate Queen-B. WTF is wrong with America when they can't handle there might be some good looking, confident gay men out there that aren't inhibited, and are actually confident, of their queerness.
2ndly, speaking of queerness, is Tebow ever going to come out? I am sick of everyone, especially the media here in NYC, concentrating on him. I wonder if he even cares he might change the world for the better for the entire gay population if he came out.
Posted by: Michael | Aug 14, 2012 10:51:25 PM
PLEASE do not post picture of Tebow. He makes me sick.
Posted by: mike128 | Aug 14, 2012 11:41:31 PM
Taylor Swift is the go to beard, how is it possible that she does not support marriage equality?
Posted by: Blake | Aug 15, 2012 1:07:52 AM
I'm surprised you didn't notice Jan-Michael Gambill on the yacht with Elton John in that link.
Posted by: Levon | Aug 15, 2012 1:21:01 AM
Elton John calls Madoona a fairground stripper, then the next week flashes his ass. Hypocrite much?
Posted by: Graphicjack | Aug 15, 2012 2:20:50 AM
No remarks on the lifetime ban on biologicals from gay men ?
How appalling.
Isn't there a song by Madonna : "Oppress Yourselves" ?
We aren't really "equal" until we cease to be viewed as infected patients.
Posted by: "The Gay" | Aug 15, 2012 4:39:05 AM
Very happy to see Drop Dead Diva talking about gay men and biological donation. The dialogue over lifting the ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood is also starting to get more attention and coverage - hopefully it results in FDA action soon.
Posted by: Dirk | Aug 15, 2012 2:42:37 PM