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- Mayor Villaraigosa is totes down with the gays: the mayor praises today's court ruling and says "he would officiate over as many same-sex weddings as possible." Props to him!!!
- The Guvnuh has a blog? Um, sort of... "Zis is not the Austria I remember! I remember a beautiful Austria where tall, tanned, buxom, lederhosen-clad Amazonian maidens would frolick about the countryside, yodeling, clogging, pumping iron and having consensual sexual relations vis blond, muscular men of no relation to zem."
- Gordon Ramsey does NOT FUCKING LIKE CUPCAKES. Do you hear him, Los Angeles? "Fuck L.A. and fuck their cupcakes. And while we're at it, fuck New York's cupcakes too."
- Why does Google have a problem with Anonymous? "Google has killed the AdSense account of Enturbulation, a site ran by Anonymous, the group that’s got their panties twisted in a knot over Scientology."
- Why was a Marine found shot to death today in San Clemente? Officials have not released the identity of the active-duty soldier stationed at Camp Pendleton.
- A very light brush fire today up at Griffith Park...oh, and the LAFD has a Twitter account! Brian Humphrey, you so cool!
- Finally, closure on the Anthony Pellicano case: homeboy's been found guilty of racketeering and conspiracy: "The jury also delivered guilty verdicts against all four of Pellicano's co-defendants who played various roles in the private eye's sophisticated and illegal schemes to gather personal information on people."
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