I recently made a short horror film called Ludlow , starring Shannon Lark and Elissa Dowling . I thought I’d share all the boring details about how that came to be, because…you know…sharing is caring and if there’s one I thing I do, it’s care. Remember that thing I did called Ghostella’s Haunted Tomb ? The lezzie horror webseries thingy that had some special guest stars and stuff, and some people kind of got the idea behind the whole thing and some people didn’t? Huh? Yeah, we

From Americablog : On the heels of the hate crimes vote in the House – a vote where the religious right claimed that laws against murder would somehow stop them from verbally criticizing gays – the religious right has just launched a campaign against Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus simply for saying that Jesus loves everyone, including gay people. The story has something to do with someone called Perez Hilton, the Miss USA Pageant and that twitter thing. By way of the Gay Rights section of

Marketers are still faced with the same problem they have been facing for a while. At least for some media, marketing can be perceived as interruptive and negative in nature. Advertising on TV can be intrusive and produce the exact opposite effects. Viewers often feel as if ideas are imposed on them. The opposite happens with blogging. When done properly, advertising is not intrusive. On the contrary it can be helpful. When done in the form of a review, readers can gain from the information pres

Last week’s agreement promises to rebuild relations between Turkey and Armenia, but it does not go as far as it could have Last summer, sitting on the shore of majestic Lake Van in eastern Turkey, I gazed out at an island dominated by the stately Akhtamar Church , which for 10 centuries was a centre of Armenian religious life. The church is newly restored after decades of neglect. By paying for this restoration, the Turkish government signalled its desire to rebuild relations with Armenia. T

Banks, using their votes in the Senate, have successfully quashed legislation that would—horror!—helped consumers. ThinkProgress: Today, a proposal to change bankruptcy law and allow bankruptcy judges to cram-down mortgage payments for troubled homeowners failed in the Senate by a vote of 45-51 . The provision, which was introduced as an amendment by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), required 60 votes to pass. In recent weeks, support for the measure evaporated in the face of furious lobbying b

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Today, a proposal to change bankruptcy law and allow bankruptcy judges to cram-down mortgage payments for troubled homeowners failed in the Senate by a vote of 45-51 . The provision, which was introduced as an amendment by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), required 60 votes to pass. In recent weeks, support for the measure evaporated in the face of furious lobbying by the banking and mortgage industries . Prior to the vote, Durbin — who this week said that bankers “are still the most powerful l

(ChattahBox)—It looks like the unfair “100 to 1″ ratio sentencing law for cocaine possession will soon end. The current law contains huge disparities in sentencing between possession of crack cocaine and powdered cocaine, treating crack cocaine more harshly, and the Obama administration supports a bill to equalize punishment for offenders in possession of the drug. President Obama promised during his campaign to rectify the unequal sentencing treatment for possessing crack as opposed to powder

David Shuster, MSNBC anchor/journalist, now a part-time Biblical scholar? The former host of the canceled MSNBC show “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue” has gone on an attack campaign against Miss USA runner-up, Miss California Carrie Prejean for her stance on the same-sex marriage issue and her newly formed alliance with the National Organization Marriage (NOM). Shuster made [...]

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