Another Words List

Last month Merriam-Webster picked "w00t" as their word of the year for 2007.

Now the American Dialect Society has waded in with their own list. Number one for the ADS: "subprime". Runners-up were "Facebook," "green," "Googleganger" and "waterboarding".

A Googleganger is somebody else with your name that shows up when you self-Google. My Googleganger is a teenaged British chess prodigy. Who's yours?

GLAAD's Worst Of 2007

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has released their list of the worst incidents of anti-gay behavior in 2007. In chronological order:

1. Isaiah Washington uses the “f-word” during a Golden Globe interview.

2. Snickers promotes anti-gay sentiment with ad campaign.

3. Tim Hardaway says he hates gay people.

4. Ann Coulter calls John Edwards the “f-word”.

5. General Peter Pace calls gay and lesbian soldiers “immoral.”

6. Bill O’Reilly claims existence of “national network” of “lesbian gangs.”

7. Rush Limbaugh uses vulgar slurs in discussion of transgender people.

8. New York Post uses dehumanizing references to transgender people.

All of those stories got some play here on JMG, but if you missed any of them the first time around, GLAAD provides a synopsis of each incident at the above link.

Post Of The Year Winner: Big Ass Belle's Lynette!

Beloved-by-all JMG commenter and blogstress Lynette, author of Big Ass Belle, is the co-winner for 2007's Post Of The Year for her heartwrenching AIDS memorial, Piano Music.

Every week this year, a UK-based cabal of writerly bloggers selected a Post Of The Week, which Lynette won earlier this year with the above-linked entry. A short-list of the weekly winners was compiled for the year-end decision, with Lynette tying Little Red Boat's entry, Hard Life In The Low Rises.

CONGRATULATIONS LYNETTE!

Totally undeserved self-congratulation: The Post Of The Week folks first found Lynette's story when I linked to it. W00t!

Billboard Year-end Charts

From Billboard's year-end charts:

Top Singles

1 IRREPLACEABLE Beyonce
2 UMBRELLA Rihanna Featuring Jay-Z
3 THE SWEET ESCAPE Gwen Stefani Featuring Akon
4 BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY Fergie
5 BUY U A DRANK T-Pain Featuring Yung Joc
6 BEFORE HE CHEATS Carrie Underwood
7 HEY THERE DELILAH Plain White T's
8 I WANNA LOVE YOU Akon Featuring Snoop Dogg
9 SAY IT RIGHT Nelly Furtado
10 GLAMOROUS Fergie Featuring Ludacris

Top Albums

1 DAUGHTRY Daughtry
2 KONVICTED Akon G
3 THE DUTCHESS Fergie
4 HANNAH MONTANA Soundtrack
5 SOME HEARTS Carrie Underwood
6 ALL THE RIGHT REASONS Nickelback
7 FUTURESEX/LOVESOUNDS Justin Timberlake
8 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 Soundtrack
9 NOW 23 Various Artists
10 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT Linkin Park

Club Play

1 I NEED SOMEONE Ralph Falcon
2 ROCK THIS PARTY (EVERYBODY DANCE NOW) Bob Sinclar
3 SAY IT RIGHT Nelly Furtado
4 RUNAWAY Jamiroquai
5 MINIMAL Pet Shop Boys
6 DON'T STOP THE MUSIC Rihanna
7 YOU'RE THE ONE Ono
8 CHANGE Kimberley Locke
9 DISCOTECH Young Love
10 MAKE IT LAST Dave Aude Featuring Jessica Sutta

Well, at least I know a couple of these.
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Today On OutQ: Angels & Gassies

Today Michelangelo Signorile broadcasts his annual "Angels & Gassies" show on Sirius OutQ.

Michelangelo Signorile salutes the year’s heroes – and skewers the year’s villains – with his annual “Angels and Gassies” awards. For newbies: The “Gassies” are the hate-filled, dangerous gasbags, monsters, liars, cheats, war-mongers on the right. The “Angels” are those who fight them. It’s four hours of hilarious clips, cutting commentary, and nominations from listeners!

Mike asked me to be a "special presenter" this year, so tune in (2PM EST, 11AM PST) to hear my nomination. Mine is a "Gassie". Who do you think I picked? Get a free 3-day trial of Sirius here.
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Top Ten Quotes Of 2007

Via the Yale Book Of Quotations, here's the top ten quotes from 2007.

10. "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history." - Jimmy Carter.

9. "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." - Sen. Joe Biden, speaking about Barack Obama.

8. "(I have) a wide stance when going to the bathroom." - Sen. Larry Craig.

7. "I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a 9 percent approval rating." Sen. Harry Reid, speaking about Dick Cheney.

6. "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11." - Sen. Joe Biden, speaking about Rudy Giuliani.

5. "I don't recall." - Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

4. "That's some nappy-headed hos there." Don Imus.

3. "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country." - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

2. "I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and the Iraq and everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for us." - Miss South Carolina.

1. "Don't tase me, bro!" - UF student Andrew Meyer.

You'll note that Joe Biden made the list twice.
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Vladmir Putin: Person Of The Year 2007

Russia president Vladimir Putin has been named Time Magazine's Person Of The Year.

Putin is not a boy scout. He is not a democrat in any way that the West would define it. He is not a paragon of free speech. He stands, above all, for stability—stability before freedom, stability before choice, stability in a country that has hardly seen it for a hundred years. Whether he becomes more like the man for whom his grandfather prepared blinis—who himself was twice TIME's Person of the Year—or like Peter the Great, the historical figure he most admires; whether he proves to be a reformer or an autocrat who takes Russia back to an era of repression—this we will know only over the next decade. At significant cost to the principles and ideas that free nations prize, he has performed an extraordinary feat of leadership in imposing stability on a nation that has rarely known it and brought Russia back to the table of world power. For that reason, Vladimir Putin is TIME's 2007 Person of the Year.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: Go to Towleroad where Andy Towle has compiled a comprehensive look at what gays have had to deal with under Putin over the last year. As Andy put it in an email, it ain't pretty.
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Time Magazine: Top Ten Awkward Moments Of 2007

10. Facebook profile reveals Giuliani's daughter supports Obama.

9. Miss South Carolina talks about geography.

8. Sally Field gets bleeped during the Emmys.

7. Rosie calls out Elizabeth on The View.

6. Britney Spears sleep-clomps the MTV Awards.

5. Sen. David Vitter's name found on DC Madam's list.

4. David Hasselhoff's daughter films him hammered.

3. Alec Baldwin rips into his daughter via voicemail.

2. Paris Hilton cries in court.

1. Columbia president insults Iran's president from the stage.

As much as I try to ignore celebrity gossip, I must confess that I was aware of all of these stories.