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Joe Manganiello from True Blood rocking a JC Rags button up and a Goosecraft jacket in this months issue of Flaunt Magazine.
Sunday Joe
Unbelievable rhythmic gymnast
Seriously. How does someone learn this? And more, how do you get this good?
Wow.
Kathy Griffin gets a new talk-show on Bravo
Bravo is bringing old favorites back with new series this year.
Bravo is giving Kathy Griffin a previously unannounced weekly primetime talk show. The one-hour series, “Kathy,” will premiere this spring and include Kathy’s expected rants plus stand-up routines, celebrity interviews and taped segments.
Griffin’s run with “Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List” came to an end on Bravo in 2010 after six seasons, two of which earned Emmys.
Rick Perry would send US troops back to Iraq
Texas Gov. Rick “bang bang” Perry said he “would send troops back into Iraq” at the GOP presidential debate in Manchester, NH.
With American forces out the country, Perry said, Iran would take over Iraq, “literally at the speed of light.”
The last American troops left Iraq before Christmas, after eight years of war that cost the lives of 4,400 U.S. troops and between $3 trillion and $5 trillion in lost economic output.
Funny of the day
Let The River Run – Carly Simon
“Let all the dreamers wake the nation…”
GOP field downgrades LGBT community’s standing in America
A few things stand out here:
One – the fact that Newt Gingrich has the nerve to speak on his ‘worries’ about the Catholic Church when he’s been through two divorces to date. Who knows what the total number will end up being…
Two – Gingrich says there’s “a lot more anti-christian bigotry than concerning the other side…” Wrong Mr. Gingrich. You are very wrong. There’s a LOT more anti-LGBT bigotry to go around than affects your casual Catholic ‘friends.’
A very interesting spin on civil rights in an attempt to garner votes in a primary.
How very sad to see somewhat prominent politicians sell their souls for votes by downgrading the rights and equality of Americans.
Not the GOP’s best moment.
Rick Santorum: Kids better off with parents in prison than with gay parents
On the campaign trail, Rick Santorum rarely passes up an opportunity to pontificate on his favorite subject: the evils of gay marriage and parenthood. Speaking at a boarding school in New Hampshire on Friday, Santorum cited an unnamed “anti-poverty expert” to claim that children are better off having a parent in prison who abandoned them than having two same-sex parents.
This wasn’t just a hypothetical some children in the audience, at least three of whom had gay parents, the Los Angeles Times reports:
For the second time in as many days, Rick Santorum waded into the issue of gay marriage, suggesting it was so important for children to have both a father and mother that an imprisoned father was preferable to a same-sex parent.
Citing the work of one anti-poverty expert, Santorum said, “He found that even fathers in jail who had abandoned their kids were still better than no father at all to have in their children’s lives.”
Allowing gays to marry and raise children, Santorum said, amounts to “robbing children of something they need, they deserve, they have a right to. You may rationalize that that isn’t true, but in your own life and in your own heart, you know it’s true.” […]
The students at Dublin School, which runs from ninth through 12th grade, were primed for Santorum’s visit, said headmaster Brad Bates. He said three students in the audience had gay parents, though they were not among those who asked about the topic.
It’s unclear to which “anti-poverty” expert Santorum was referring, or what the expert’s study said, but it is clear that Santorum is likely distorting it.
He isn’t wrong that numerous studies have highlighted the importance of keeping children connected to parents who may be in prison, but none of them include any actual research on comparisons with same-sex families.
In reality, studies have consistently shown that same-sex couples are just as capable of raising children as opposite-sex couples, and any attempt to suggest otherwise is not only wrong but hurtful to same-sex families and the children they are raising.
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New book from Vanessa Williams and mother: “You Have No Idea”
So excited to read the new book by Vanessa Williams and her mother, Helen.
YOU HAVE NO IDEA is the highly anticipated first book from award winning singer and actress Vanessa Williams and her mother Helen.
Vanessa and Helen discuss it all: from becoming the first black Miss America in 1983 and the controversy that followed, to her debut and success on Broadway, and her resurgence in recent years on network television in Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives. Vanessa has proven she has serious staying power, and as readers will learn, that survivor mentality and resilience is inherited from her mother, Helen.
No stone is left unturned. Filled with personal family photos and mementos, YOU HAVE NO IDEA is an empowering celebration of the love between a mother and daughter and the lives, thus far, of two women who have consistently defied the odds to achieve success—no matter how uncertain their paths might have been.
As readers of The Randy Report know, Vanessa and I went to college together and we’ve been good friends ever since. With all the fantastic success she’s experienced in every medium you can imagine, she has remained the same down to earth, comfortable friend to me and all of us who know her. She’s really wonderful, and so is her mother Helen, who I met during the first year Vanessa and I were at Syracuse University. Helen loves to tell it like it is. Both are great fun.
I really encourage everyone to read the new book. It’s sure to entertain and touch you. Release date is April 17th.
Banana Republic 50% off sale
Michael and I haven’t bought clothes in forever, so we hit the Banana for it’s 50% off sale.
Everything here was already marked down, and then discounted another 50% on top of that!
Whoo-hoo! Love a bargain!