Ted Casablanca's column "The Awful Truth" is all kinds of fun. (Does anyone really know who Toothy Tile really is?) Like this interview with Superman Brandon Routh:

We chatted with Brandon Routh at the Zack and Miri Make a Porno premiere in H'wood, the naughty Kevin Smith flick where Bran-hon plays Mr. Mac Guy Justin Long's boyfriend.

So, B.R., what's the biggest difference between playing J.L.'s [gay] lover as opposed to playing the man of steel?
"Lots of things," said Routhie. "No tights, no cape. It was a chance for me to do a comedy...I always wanted to do more."

So how much would it take for you to do full frontal in a film?
"Thankfully, I have not even had to think about entertaining that question."

Fun stuff followed up with something even better:

When my friend, journalist Janet Kinosian, interviewed Martin Luther King's widow, Coretta Scott King, shortly before she died, J.K. asked her not only how would King himself have felt about gay rights and civil rights being on the same level, but how did she feel:

"I don't see how you can separate human rights and the rights of all people, no matter what their sexual orientation is," King reverently said to Kinosian. "They have the same rights as I, and those of us who are privileged need to support [them] because it elevates everybody."

Gay Power is power!

Tom Toles, copyright 2008 Universal Press Syndicate

Social Populism vs Economic Populism

Christopher Buckley on The Daily Show

Democrats could dominate Congress after the election. "The Senate map, for the Republicans, is an ugly mix of tough circumstances, plain bad luck and troubled candidates."

Rising unemployment could signal higher foreclosures in 09

James Kotecki will make your ears bleed, but we have to listen to this so we know how NOT to be.

In an article in the Columbia Spectator, Columbia History Professor David Eisenbach talks about his new book "Gay Power." Eisenbach is straight. Really and truly straight. So why would a straight man write a book called "Gay Power?" He's already a step ahead of you:

When I began writing it, I tried explaining to everyone that historians had neglected gay history and my book would be a significant contribution to the field of United States history in general. But even the most open-minded people were baffled. I could see them thinking, “why would a truly straight guy be interested in gay history?”

A knee-jerk reaction lives in all of us when we hear something like this. We all, gay and straight, think he must be one of those old-fashioned gays who can't face reality. We instinctively feel bad for him and better about ourselves. But Eisenbach has an answer that should make us sit up and take notice: "Why would a straight guy care about gay history? My answer became the central argument of my book: the gay rights movement liberated and transformed straights as well as gays."

He is saying that we gays are part of something larger. He outlines the fight for gay rights the same way another historian would frame the fights for other civil rights:

For decades comedians, politicians, and journalists reinforced negative gay stereotypes of the homosexual as either the silly fop or creepy pervert. But in the early 1970s, gay activists pushed the media to present positive images of gays. Almost every sitcom suddenly aired a “special episode” featuring a likeable gay character who revealed his homosexuality but, in the end, was embraced by the entire cast. Millions of Americans heard the message: “If the cast of Alice can accept a homosexual, so should you!” . . . For better or for worse, the gay rights movement was an American Revolution that transformed our political and social landscape. And so my fellow straight Americans, if you want to understand the country you live in today ... read your gay history.

So many of us have been calling for our leaders to see that we are as important as everyone else, that we matter as much. We're part of all that's going on even when we are told we're not, and our standing up for each other matters. We should thank Eisenbach for reminding us.

Maybe William Shatner will be invited to George Takei's first anniversary?
Chicago is on the ball. Homeless shelters to get gay training. Between this and the gay high school, Obama's home state shows us how it's done.

The illusion of movement in these colored circles is just an illusion. No, really. They aren't moving.

You missed you some Maddow today? Don't worry because we have your Rachel Maddow in GQ!

Patti Labelle at Splash last night

Obama on SNL?

The Road, starring Viggo Mortenson and based on the brilliant book by Cormac McCarthy, has been moved to 2009.

People growing up watching black and white television dream in black and white. I don't know if I buy this or not, but if it's true, I'm looking forward to 3D TV even more.

Pink interview: "I wanted being a performer to change my life, but I didn’t want to let it change who I was."



I'm not an expert, but I don't think this is how this game is played.

Yes, I know Project Runway is over, but if you're looking for the last little bit of PR juice, the boys over at Project Rungay have reviews of the Final Three's Final Collections.

"We honestly assumed that Korto was going to win based on the editing of the last episode and we're going to admit that we would have been a little upset if she had. We think her collection was beautiful and dramatic but we also felt it suffered from some problems that in our opinion disqualified her from the win. We felt it was second place, but a very close second place." Check out Korto's full review: Part 1 and Part 2.



Here is Part 1 of Leanne's. Plus, Project Rungay interviews Leanne. "We got a chance to do a phone interview with the warm and funny Leanne Marshall the other day. The funny thing was she was having some trouble with her phone and stepped outside to get better reception, which resulted in her yelling 'Thank you!' every couple of minutes to passersby offering their congrats." Check out the interview here.

Via 5 Star Men, Inder Bawja, 23-year-old model from India.

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Via Daily Kos:

An exciting, recent fossil find suggest Texas was a hotbed of primate evolution 45 million years ago. Unfortunately, as the Texas Freedom Network has been blogging for months, recent history suggests Texas is leading the rest of the nation backwards in our understanding of science in general and evolution specifically.

The Young Earth Creationists just aren't having it, though. Their, uh, version of a scientific theory is being put in the ring with Science. Dentist, op-ed contributor, Young Earth Creationist, and head of the Texas Board of Education Dan McLeroy has written an especially optimistic piece for The Waco Tribune. Mr. McLeroy writes:

All we must do to maintain science’s credibility and to decide if there are weaknesses in the evolutionary hypothesis is 'to use evidence to construct testable explanations' and see where the evidence leads. Let the best scientific explanation win.

Someone is totally gonna get hurt.

An excerpt from her CNN interview.