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When life gives you Glenn Beck fans, make lemonade

By adamg on Thu, 07/17/2014 - 9:28am

Seems Beck has been making an issue of how Salem canceled a contract with anti-gay Gordon College several weeks early and his fans have been flooding Mayor Kim Driscoll with angry, sputtering phone calls. Driscoll's response: For every call, she'll donate $5 to the North Shore Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth.

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Kim Driscoll
Gordon College


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Comments

By cybah on Thu, 07/17/2014 - 9:39am.

Kim Driscoll is awesome. Seriously.. good for her.

By Scumquistador on Thu, 07/17/2014 - 10:39am.

yeah that lady deserves a high five

i wonder how much she's donated so far

By Anonymous on Sat, 08/02/2014 - 1:55pm.

$8,805!

Boston Globe:

When she concluded her initiative last Friday, her office had tallied 161 negative calls and e-mails, so her contribution will be $805, according to Dominick Pangallo, the mayor’s chief of staff. The alliance has also received about $8,000 in other donations as a result of Driscoll’s action.

By BostonUrbEx on Thu, 07/17/2014 - 9:46am.

Access to the URL www.nagly.org/ has been denied.

The request was denied due to a content categorization adult-and-pornography.

By Scratchie on Thu, 07/17/2014 - 9:53am.

That's funny. You actually trust web-filtering software to filter only pornography?

I would think google would have told you that it's the North Shore Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth.

By adamg on Thu, 07/17/2014 - 10:02am.

This is what the homepage of the organization looks like:

screenshot

By cybah on Thu, 07/17/2014 - 10:13am.

trust me. its not porn. my company blocks it also (but I also have a login to have it removed, which I just did)

Lots of web filters see "Gay" and just block it thinking its porn. It's silly

By BostonUrbEx on Thu, 07/17/2014 - 10:15am.

Oh, trust me, I know. I just thought it was hilarious. The filters here are awful, and don't really do much except create an annoyance when it comes to something actually useful/harmless.

By FlyingToaster on Thu, 07/17/2014 - 10:20am.

This sounds like one of those ultra-religious nanny-filters that also block sites on breast cancer and breast-feeding -- because "breast" [cue Beavis and Butthead giggles].

If it's a corporate filter, you may want to notify your IT folks that they're mis-classifying LGBT charities as porn.

By BostonUrbEx on Thu, 07/17/2014 - 10:27am.

n/t

By anon on Thu, 07/17/2014 - 1:06pm.

The Fed filters are so annoying. They were blocking archives.org for a while there, I think because of the game emulator on it. Can't visit any "comedy" sites either, apparently we can't have a sense of humor :)

By downtown-anon on Thu, 07/17/2014 - 8:45pm.

Go figure.

By Chris Rich on Thu, 07/17/2014 - 1:48pm.

I figured he'd be on insomnia Teevee flogging slicer dicer kitchen devices by now.

The stuff you miss when you kick old media to the curb.

Puyallup... ever heard of it?

Some nutjob murdered his toddlers there last year or so.

It is also the Daffodil Capital.

It has a ridiculous hick fair that is slowly dying.

And it is where Glenn Beck first welcomed the sun.

I used to have to go there to get checks from my temp agency.

It is a strange little town.

Betcha Swirls knows of it.