In 1999 I joined Working Assets long distance. I did it almost entirely because they sent you two free coupons for Ben & Jerrys with each bill, and who wouldn’t like that? In 2002 I switched to their cellphone service. In the early Wild West days of socially-responsible living, Working Assets was a gamble. It [...]
When I used to live in Philly I frequented Woody’s, the biggest and most known of Philly’s gay bars. One thing to know about Philly: they don’t fuck around. Unlike some of the more manicured gay haunts of New York and San Francisco, Woody’s was unabashedly trashy. Wednesday nights were “chicken night,” in honor of [...]
BIG month. Insert obligatory February is the longest month of the year-ism here. The Pinko family grew, welcoming fabulous new contributors: Emily Valentine, Elicia, Matthew, Ying-sun, Dinelle, Arlaina and Sandy. More importantly, we all learned something this month. ["Oh Ben do tell us! What are the highlights!? Will they include a slightly disgusting and possibly [...]
John Manlove, for Congress.
We don’t want to inundate you with action alerts, since they are easily the second most irritating facet of activism besides canvassers, but today there are two really good things you can do, quickly, on some issues we’ve followed here at Pinko: (1) Last week we gay married former (well, he’s dead. So, former…) California [...]
… but I’m sure I agree with them.
OMG John McCain totally banged a lobbyist. A New York Times investigation (just posted a little while ago) alleges that McCain’s aides were so concerned about his relationship with a lobbyist that they “instructed staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warned her away and repeatedly confronted him.” McCaingerous, of course, cheated on his [...]
So my day-job-boss at The Nation magazine, Katrina vanden Heuvel, was invited to be the first guest on The Colbert Report tomorrow when they break the writers strike and go back on the air. As The Nation’s publicist I of course self-relieved from the excitement, high-fived myself in the mirror and immediately declared that she [...]
