Gay Fridift

The Huffington Post reported on Monday that singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked recently went off on a homophobic rant to her San Fraciscan audience during a concert. The original article from SFist reported her saying: "I live in fear," she said, "that the world will be destroyed if gays are allowed to marry."

Someone just lost their Lilith Fair privileges

Listen, what Shocked said was abhorrent, but I mean, you gotta give her credit. I mean shit, SAN FRANCISCO? You might as well have Adam Lambert performing "for your entertainment" at the annual NRA board meeting.

Thinking back on when he was relevant

I think we can say with relative certainty that Shocked's Provincetown performance has been postponed.

Here's what actually bothered me about this article: the writer leads us through Shocked's backstory, all about how she's a "former" lesbian turned evangelical, obviously to make the reader (presumably liberal, pro-LGBT) disgusted with her words and simultaneously self-congratulating for being one of the "enlightened" who can label hate when they see it. Then, at the bottom of the page, this deftly placed slideshow:

This is what blows my mind. Here we have an article that functions as a reinforcement to opposing homophobia, and an INCH below it we have a slide show perpetuating our fascination with famous people being gay. Am I missing something here?

This HPost writer should put out an article denouncing growing worldwide Islamaphobia with links to the next Homeland episode just to complete the cycle of eating his own shit. Unreal.

Barry goes to Tel Aviv

As President Obama headed to Israel yesterday, Pentagon Spokesnetwork CNN detailed the president's priorities.

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And then I was like, "controlling water supplies and electricity doesn't count as occupation"

Start your engines, folks.

CNN offers up their poll of American public opinion on Israel. Its findings: "Most Americans say Israel is a friend"

Last time I checked, "most" was a quantifier signifying 51% or more, but hey, my semantics professor was probably high that day.

As you see above, 33% of Americans said that Israel was "friendly, but not an ally."

In other words brah, yeah Israel is like the US's lab partner in chem class and all... but like... it'd be mad weird if they invited Israel to Bryce's blacklight party tonight you know?

Fun factoid: 49% of those polled responded that the US should support Israel if it decides to attack Iran in order to "prevent it from developping nuclear weapons."

And we're off!

The question "do you actually think Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons" shockingly doesn't make an appearance in this poll. It's also interesting that less Americans consider Israel an ally than Americans who'd be totally down for bombing Persians. It's only a 3% margin, but still, what a comic tragedy that there are people who say to themselves "well, I'm on the fence about Israel, but if they start making it rain on Ahmadinejad I AM SO FUCKING IN!"

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Update: CNN reported today on the President's talks with Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas. Obama said encouraging things like "The Palestinian people deserve an end to occupation and the daily indignities that come with it," and he said other encouraging things, too. The team at American Difter believes that with every new encouraging thing Obama says, peace will find a way.

The CNN article concludes with a silver lining:

In what Netanyahu called a key development, the leaders announced new talks on extending U.S. military assistance to Israel for another 10 years past the current agreement that expires in 2017.

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