City Hall newsaper is reporting that, despite midterm elections this week that saw a wave of Republican victories around the state and a series of setbacks for gay marriage around the country, supporters of same-sex marriage say they are closer than ever to achieving passage. According to City Hall’s most recent count, 21 Democratic Senators have expressed that they are in favor of passage, however several of those have said they would prefer it if a bill did not come to the floor right now. Read the full story here.

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Bloomberg squeaked by with a narrow victory, and according to some papers, people weren't all that excited to vote in the first place. Well, the reporters over at City Hall newspaper have decided to move and start predicting what we might be seeing in 1,462 days, when voters return to the polls once again. Read the full story here.

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Porn icon Robin Byrd has cast her vote for Senator Chuck Schumer. The star of the classic adult-film Debbie Does Dallas and host of the famous The Robin Byrd Show recently donated $500 at an event for the sitting New York Senator.

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Kids these days and their weird outfits! Girls are running around thinking leggings are an acceptable substitute for pants. Guys let their pants hang down so low that everyone has to see their underwear. Guys wear skirts that go way to far above the knees, leaving absolutely nothing to the imagination... Wait a minute!

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Just in time for the Grateful Dead light show at the Empire State Building, the Justice Department has decided that it's uncool to harsh the mellows of people using marijuana for medical purposes.

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A fan of John Lennon is attempting to get the corner of Central Park West and West 72nd Street named after the slain music legend.

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When I walked into the international relations research organization where I work this morning, I was greeted by a colleague of mine who shared with me the shock of the day: President Barack Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

WTF???!!!

Now I love Obama and would probably take a bullet for the man (or maybe just a hard slap to the face) but upon first glance in no way has he earned the same honor as Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama, men who have devoted their lives to the cause of peace.

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Of the mass of people congregated outside the Empire State Building yesterday afternoon, 20 or so were not tourists being mesmerized by the light show creating red and yellow hues on the sight-seeing institution. They were protestors. And they were not protesting what they saw as the blatant overexposure of the New York landmark for the sake of tourism, but rather what they saw as a blatant nod to communism.

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The mayor is continuing his crusade to ban smoking in parks and on beachs—but how long will the folks who live alongside city parks put up with smokers standing across from or outside of their buildings to get a fix? Then what? [via Daily News]

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Perhaps in fear of being snuffed out by an impending death panel, Sarah Palin has completed her forthcoming memoir ahead of schedule. ArtsBeat reports that Palin's book, which sports the Tom Clancy-ish title Going Rogue: An American Life, will now be released on November 17 by HarperCollins Publishers, pushed up from its original spring 2010 date of publication. Written in collaboration with Lynn Vincent, the editor of the evangelical magazine World, it will have a first-print run of 1.5 million copies.

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