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Tainted Love: Stewart Mocks Cain

2011-11-01T07:57:31-07:00

Jon Stewart examines the Cain controversy better than anyone so far, and makes the point that will matter most from here on out: Everything Cain will do or say in the months ahead will be tainted -- sexually and hilariously so.

Is Herman Cain Able to Tell the Truth?

2011-10-31T10:47:24-07:00

More on the allegations that the GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain sexually harassed female employees during his tenure as head of the National Restaurant Association. "What is the truth about these allegations of sexual harassment or sexual misconduct? Have you ever been accused, at any time, of either?" GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain was asked by a Fox News correspondent this morning. (Link to clip of interview below.) "Yes," Cain answered. "I have never sexually harassed anyone. Let's say that. Secondlly, um, I have never sexually harassed anyone." Ah, right. Nothing suspicious about that. And, um, nothing suspicious about that....

Bride Answers Text At Alter

2011-10-31T08:25:24-07:00

Words would just spoil this. Watch.

Gropegate!

2011-10-31T08:04:54-07:00

Another family values Christian is being accused of behavior that isn't exactly Christlike or family-approved. GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain has denied a Politico report that alleges he sexually harassed women during his time as head of the National Restaurant Association. Whether there was any groping involved remains to be seen, but given that financial payouts were handed over in exchange for silence, I'm willing to bet that Cain's hands kneaded more than dough. During Herman Cain’s tenure as the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, at least two female employees complained to colleagues and senior association...

Prop 8: Using Religion To Legalize Discrimination

2010-08-13T08:59:13-07:00

Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker lifted the stay on Proposition 8, but postponed official same-sex marriages until next Wednesday, Aug. 18. By delaying gay marriages, Walker is simply allowing the legal process to play out. And I think it's a good call. Given that the religious proponents of Prop 8 (and their supporters) want to crucify Walker for his rulings so far, it's best that he err on the side of caution. But that is not to suggest that I believe Prop 8 proponents have a legitimate defense. In my view, anyone who supports Prop 8 has only one...

"The Kids Are All Right" ... And So Are The Lesbians

2010-07-08T20:18:47-07:00

What? Annette Bening and Julianne Moore star as lesbians in a Lisa Cholodenko film? In another apparently excellent Lisa Cholodenko film? And it's not even my birthday? Whoa! Just in case you're not already dying to see the much anticipated "The Kids Are All Right," I offer up Mick LaSalle's review from today's San Francisco Chronicle. (Spoiler: He, like most critics, liked it. A lot.) One of the best scenes of any film this year takes place in "The Kids Are All Right." The setting is a small dinner party at which Annette Bening, as a lesbian with a longtime...

Perez Hilton, Miley Cyrus And Me

2010-06-19T11:11:11-07:00

Perez Hilton is to journalism what BP is to environmentalism: A disgrace, to say the very least. I'm no Hilton supporter, and I've made no secret of that. In fact, of all the sentences I've written in my career, there are three that are quoted more often than any others, and they are about him. Here's just one example taken from a 2006 essay that was published on AfterEllen.com, as quoted in the Perez Hilton Wikipedia entry: I have to question the character of a man who attacks others on such deeply personal levels, without provocation and for self-benefit, monetary...

Scathing review of the "The Real L Word" From The Washington Post

2010-06-19T10:02:56-07:00

The Washington Post's Hank Steuver is no fan of "L Word" skipper Ilene Chaiken's maiden voyage into the world of reality programming, and he's certainly no fan of the lesbians she chose to (all together now!) "tell our stories": "The Real L Word," a new reality series premiering Sunday night on Showtime, hatches from a horrifying alien egg laid by the network's defunct scripted series "The L Word," which in six seasons journeyed from lipstick-lesbian plausibility into lipstick-lesbian melodrama.... It clings to stereotypes of its own invention and self-regard, relying on codespeak about "pumps" vs. "pants," and "femmes" and "futches"...