As fires raged in Southern California, protesters around the world gathered to voice their opposition to California's Prop 8.
* Flickr user Grant Gochnauer snaps this great sign from a Chicago protest (above).
* The L.A. Times details a 1992 Colorado battle against an anti-anti-discrimination amendment that suggests how the fight in California might proceed.
* Andrew Sullivan [...]
That guy who caused a big ruckus by getting pregnant is ready to cause a smaller ruckus: He's pregnant again! Thomas Beatie, a transsexual man, is again expecting, Barbara Walters announced on The View. Beatie & fam will appear on 20/20 tomorrow, where they will fall victim to Walters' preternatural sense of exposé. According [...]
Last week's Daily Beast feature which asked former Project Runway contestants to design a Michelle Obama inauguration gown—using only ridiculous materials and some pluck—accidentally asked the wrong Jay McCarroll to design the dress. According to Jezebel, The Beast actually contacted one Jay McCarrol, who has but one "L" in his last name, is not a [...]
The Daily Beast posed this absurd challenge to former Project Runway contestants: Design an inaugural gown for Michelle Obama using only "Laura Bush’s 2005 Inaugural Ball dress, to be chopped up and repurposed, à la Pretty in Pink; an American flag; burlap potato sacks; and $10 worth of trims of their choice." (Umm, is that [...]
* New Columbia Heights reports on a rash of violence that hit an underground Petworth brothel this month. According to an Examiner piece on one incident, wherein a robber lost his thumb to a machete-wielding victim after trying to lift cash from the bordello and gambling house. Earlier, two men were shot inside the brothel, [...]
* The Sexist's Manliest Workplace in D.C. tournament is live. Fill out a bracket to predict your manly winners and losers.
* Advanced Style, a street-style blog for the older set. Adorable, inspirational, and regularly updated, this elderly fashion watch is curated by three respectful whippersnappers.
* Jezebel asks if being a successful woman means staying single:
maybe [...]
* Naked Sarah Palin portrait in Chicago dive bar (that's her on the right, with gun, moose, and, err, rug).
It gets weirder, reports the Windy Citizen: Painter Bruce Elliot used his own daughter as a nude model for the piece. "My daughter is a heck of a stand-in for Sarah Palin," Elliot told the pub. [...]
* Jezebel debunks the debunkers of the rumors facts of Palin's rape kit debacle.
* Meghan McCain at McCain Blogette has posted another election playlist. McCain writes that she creates "playlists for almost every interesting experience," but doesn't identify exactly what that interesting experience is this time. What could the combination of David Bowie's "Golden Years," [...]
Our daily roundup of sex & gender in the District and beyond.
* Via Feministe: Taking your children to vote with you is adorable; homeless voters find obstacles at the polls.
* Slate's Trey Patterson remembers MTV video countdown "Total Request Live", set to take a "hiatus" this November:
TRL's signature moment came to pass one Thursday in [...]
* Megan at Jezebel tells dudes "How Not to Get it On":
Don't pre-emptively tell me you have a small penis.
Don't text me on a Tuesday night after midnight "I could totally eat ur puss now if u r interwssetted." I'm not.
Don't ask if it's okay to fuck me up the ass because you don't have [...]
