A Stitch in Haste

I'm having trouble coming up with a non-expletive term for our infamous local megalomaniac:
After being dealt a rare public embarrassment by the City Council, which forced his administration to acknowledge on Monday that he was legally required to send out $400 rebate checks promised to hundreds of thousands of New York homeowners, a defiant Mr. [...]

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While I was not surprised to learn that the online dating site eHarmony would eventually be compelled to cease its policy of not accepting gays as clients, I was surprised to learn that the compulsion would come from New Jersey:
Under terms of the settlement between Eric McKinley, a gay match-seeker from New Jersey, and eHarmony, [...]

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To review: There was a flash in the blogospheric pan a few months ago over a controversial book called Nudge, the authors of which (a law professor and an economics professor, both of some renown) insisted that "libertarian paternalism" is not an axiomatic oxymoron. I, along with almost every other libertarian commentator, was skeptical.
Through sheer [...]

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A slow week, outside of the gay rights rallies —
ITEM: The couple who were blocked from attending a 2005 speech by President Bush on Social Security — announced as "open to the public" — for no other reason than because their car had an anti-war bumper sticker, have lost their lawsuit claiming infringement of [...]

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"Defending Traditional Families" Update: Were any of the parents of the 31 children dumped off in Nebraska gay? http://snipr.com/5fo8c #
The new "Daily Twitter Digest" via Twitter Tools 1.5 for WP is awesome! http://snipr.com/5foio #
Is it true that LDS did not "directly" support Prop 8 efforts? One activist says no and files formal complaint: http://snipr.com/5gg1l [...]

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If there is even one Vatican autocrat with a soul, then this bastard priest will be summarily defrocked: http://snipr.com/5fjb6 #
Why is it that I never uploaded my Diamond photos to Flickr? Correcting that oversight now… #
Why does YouTube keep deleting my "high quality" preference? #
Geez now snipr.com is down? Grrr… #
Log Cabin Republicans (finally) [...]

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Attributed to Scalia in yesterday's oral arguments for Pleasant Grove City v. Summum:
"You can't run a museum if you have to accept everything, right?"
Right — Which is exactly why the government should not be running museums in the first place.
As for the outcome of this bizarre case, I think Chief Corky Roberts summed it [...]

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Time to clean out the aggregator —
ITEM: The thin-skinned soulless cretins who run the Mormon cult have issued a plea for the victims of their bigotry to stop protesting outside their temples. Perhaps their next theocratic indulgence will be trying to strip gays of their right to peaceable assembly. My California gay marriage archive [...]

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Time to clean out the aggregator —
ITEM: The Georgia Supreme Court has declared that a provision of that state's draconian sex offender residency restriction, requiring homeless offenders to provide authorities a street address (which, being homeless, they don't have) violates both the federal and Georgia due process clauses. I have blogged about Georgia's obsession [...]

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The District of Columbia's subway bureaucracy has announced that it will commence warrantless, suspicionless searches at subway entrances:
The program is modeled after one begun three years ago in New York that has withstood legal challenges. However, experts said it is difficult to measure the effectiveness of such searches, beyond assuring the public that police are [...]

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