kiran’s pensieve

Extremist Muslims and Right-Wing Westerners can agree on one and only one sociocultural phenomenon: hating gay people. It’s painful for the moderates of both sides to accept, but it is a reality that must be confronted by intelligent people on all sides before any real, positive, progressive change can be realistically forged.

Found this off this blog:

Oh the troubles of the rich and narcissistic….

$49,267 mortgages
$16,000 clothes
$102,000 entertainment, gifts and vacations
$4,758 dining out
$35,000 for child and spousal support
$ 0savings and investments (all figures monthly spending)

Quick somebody tell Chris Crocker!

Most people saw this coming years ago.

At 10:59 a.m., a cheer went up on trading room floor

Is that in Canadian or American dollars?
“It didn’t really matter,” Mr. Feig says with a laugh. “It’s the same price either way.”

The Colbert Report has certainly made its influence. Like all intelligent beings, the Internet can also laugh at itself…. check these out:

“Go Outside. Membership is Free.” - www.getafirstlife.com

“Aren’t you tired of all of those people out there trying to grab all of these fake friends online? It’s all about how many people can I pretend to be friends with to make myself feel better. Welcome to a better way…” - snubster.com

“Helping you find where other people aren’t.” - www.isolatr.com

“There comes a time when a student must look beyond the face of things.” - www.assbook.com

“Poking fun at web 2.0 named websites.” - rdiculous.com

“Sites organized in diabolical order.” - yankovic.org

Thanks to Jake Coyle (AP).

This should make things even more interesting…

Just got back from another night of Fringing here in Toronto. Yesterday we saw a one-man show by Chris Gibbs, who is fantastic and very engaging, highly introspective and almost dangerously (to himself) funny. We actually ended up there thinking we were going to see “An Inconvenient Musical”. Turned out we had mixed up the show times! No regrets though, this Englishman is a fine comedian and writer. In his show “Gibberish”, Chris takes his obviously natural observational qualities and mashes them up with a good helping of utter irreverence, all while managing to blow a couple of balloons on stage.

Tonight we caught “F[_]ck Off and Die: Tales in Teen Angst Poetry“, a one-woman show by Sara Bynoe. Absolutely brilliant! She takes you on a bright and cheerful journey through the dark and morose and highly self-referential jungle of teenage angst poetry. It’s absolutely, deliriously hilarious for anyone, especially those of us who were grungers and misfits, who were tragically poetic and poetically bored, in the ’90’s.

Tomorrow, it’s another day, another play.
Or 2 or 3…

“I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for an American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America, I point the finger in their face and say `you helped this (September 11) happen.’”

-Jerry Falwell (Aug 11, 1933 - May 15, 2007)

…247gay.com
…NPR news