Punk as Fuck: This is old news, but it’s important. Against Me!’s Tom Gabel has come out as transgender and will start transitioning into a woman.
Plane vs. Volcano: A Russian passenger plane flies into an Indonesian volcano, leaving no surviving passengers.
Flamin’: The Olympic torch sets out on its 8,000-mile journey to London. A dozen Greek ladies kick off its adventure in an ancient Greek stadium. Fancy!
Syrian Terrorism: More than fifty Damascus citizens died in a pair of explosions targeting the Syrian capital yesterday.
Really, New York?: Viewing child pornography online is now legal in the state of New York. Well, kind of. You won’t be criminalized for having child porn on your internet cache—for now.
Celebrity News of the Day: Andre 3000 will play Jimi Hendrix in a film biography of the late musician’s life.
Adams on the Rise: On the tail end of his mayoral career, Sam Adams’ approval rating is climbing upwards. Could be a final hail Mary attempt to get him to run again.
Jon Hamm: Tells your 16-year-old daughters the be themselves. And fart lots.
That’s not old news…it hits newsstands in RS tomorrow.
But awesome for Tom and even more awesome that her wife is so supportive and will stand by her through the process. AM! rocks something fucking twisted.
1) The Oregon Community Foundation announced that it received a $150 million bequest yesterday to fund arts and education in Oregon.
http://www.oregoncf.org/resources/news-pub…
2) A study by Rutgers University found that only 50% of people who graduated college between 2006 and 2011 have full-time jobs.
http://www.heldrichpodcasts.com/Chasing_Am…
Thanks, Reymont. Exciting! and SAAAAD/expected news.
Q: what’s it take to make Adams look good?
A: Smith, Hales and Brady.
Be sure to tip your waitress.
Rrrr. It is NOT legal to view child pornography in New York.
What isn’t legal is convicting someone of “possessing” child pornography BASED SOLEY on what is in their browser’s automatic cache. That’s all that opinion stands for.
For most crimes, you have to know you’re actually doing something wrong to be criminally responsible (otherwise, how can prison deter you and others from the same behavior in the future?). If the ONLY evidence you possessed child porn is the data from the browser cache, then the State of New York hasn’t sufficiently proved such knowledge when a browser caches automatically.
THAT’S ALL IT MEANS.
THE MORE YOU KNOW, PERVS.
RE: the Adams poll. It’s much easier to think positively of someone when you know they’re going to be gone soon. It’s death bed forgiveness.
Thank you CC. I assumed that Gawker/Alex were wrong with that article. But I was waiting for someone smart to explain why.
“Flying into a volcano” sounds much more exciting than the reality of “crashing into the side of a volcano”. Also, I did not know that many Indonesians go by just one name. Is Cher Indonesian?
Chuck is right. And WTF, Mercury? Seems like you’ve been writing glowing Adams hagiographies lately. I know that Amy already proved that if you kiss a lot of mayoral ass, you can score a staff position. But since he’s leaving, I don’t see your point. He’s not a great mayor, he’s a “meh” mayor: obsessed with building things we don’t need that he can put his name on while serving his own interests above the public’s.
Oh wait…not even a “meh” mayor would lie to avoid losing an election. Almost forgot about that. Guess that makes him less than a meh mayor.
@7, I guess they’re not technically wrong. It IS legal to VIEW child pornography in NY, because the law was written for pre-internet days. The law made it illegal to knowingly possess (the old mode of pervin’), not to knowingly view (new school pervin’).
This court just refused to expand the definition to change with the times, so the court did what it is supposed to do; it’s the legislature’s job to update the laws, and you can bet that in about 20 minutes, NY’s legislature will unanimously pass a law criminalizing viewing.
Commenty, you’re spot on. I jumped to Gawker conclusions too early in the morning. I’ll tweak it.
“This is old news, but it’s important. Against Me!’s Tom Gabel has come out as transgender”
You and I must define the word “important” differently.
Blabby, it’s important because it brings a new, prominent (in some circles, not yours obviously) voice to trans advocacy. It’s an intensely personal, difficult decision and process, and the fact that s/he will be transitioning in public (as a working musician) is of great support to the trans community (which is sometimes ostracized within the greater LGB community).
But yeah, it’s not as important as The Avengers or the Portland mayoral race or whatever is on your plate.
GOOD MORNING, ALEX!!! HOW ARE YOU?!?
CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT AN AGAISNT ME IS AND WHY I CARE ABOUT SOME RANDOM PERSON’S GENDER IDENTITY?
@6, very good point. Personally I don’t believe anyone could “unknowing” possess Child Pornography. Because I assume that if you are a sick fucked up predator, you would know it, but I don’t think you should convict someone based solely on their browser cache
Andre 3000, Tom Gabel, Jon Hamm, I don’t know who these people are, I’m too old and unhip to hang around here any more. Isn’t there any news about Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Oscar Levant, ANYBODY?