Posts from ‘December, 2009’

Although it may not look like it from this pic, the couple above — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his lovely wife, Sara — are quite concerned about their public image and looking good. So in an attempt to represent to the fullest, Israel’s first couple have recently installed an in-house beauty salon in [...]

While lot of folks have been celebrating hard-core the end of the current decade, the clever minds over at the the Culture Buzz website have been busy charting out the next 10 years. What they’re predicting is a colorful and useful mix of culture and technology which will result in some nifty new gadgets like [...]

While pundits continue to blame Bush, Obama, Yemen and Osama for last week’s terror attack, the chart above explains why we’re still likely to be flying. Because even before the introduction of new security measures, the risk of dying in an airborne security attack borders in the ZERO. Sadly, this tid bit of info will [...]

A New York Times article from yesterday confirms what we’ve been saying for weeks now — that when it comes to the GLBT political process, things are far more “glass half full” than half empty. Indeed, the piece — much like one we wrote in the Huff Post last month — zooms in on the [...]

Although they may be out of money, the folks over in Dubai have not given up on finding odd and unusual ways to blow their remaining cash. Case in point: The new trend toward human “Placental facials” — yes, face therapies using treatment products enriched with the real-life placental cells from real new-born babies. According [...]

The Spanish province of Catalonia is THISclose to banning that age old tradition known as bull fighting after a recent referendum confirmed that some 70 percent of the population is against the practice. Indeed, the Catalan Parliament passed a landmark vote on Friday to put a ban to the practice — and it must now [...]

Wow!  Who knew people even read our words. But apparently they do. It’s a chilly here in NYC, but things have suddenly heated up with the arrival of THIS posting  in my in-box. It’s from noted LGBT blogger Pam Spaudling who often writes about the crashing points between race and sexuality and has been notably [...]

Talk about about bad luck. It appears as if Netlfix kinda messed up when it launched a big-scale context back in 2006 that inadvertently exposed personal data about tens of thousands of customers — including the sexuality of one Lesbian mom who was still in the closet! The suit — a class-action affair totaling $1 [...]

Despite having to bail out neighboring Dubai and its billion-dollar bust-up, the oil rich Emirate of Abu Dhabi is still managing to have some fun. Next month, the tiny petro-state will host the annual “Ms. Camel Contest” — a beauty pageant for the desert beasts in which the humped creatures are judged for the “grace [...]