Maryland Del. Emmett Burns, Jr. has backed off his demand that Brendon Ayanbadejo be forced to be 
silent on the subject of marriage equality, and his reasoning sounds awfully familiar. "Upon reflection, he has his First Amendment rights. And I have my First Amendment rights. … Each of us has the right to speak our opinions. The football player and I have a right to speak our minds." For the record, Ellen DeGeneres has offered to fly Ayanbadejo to California to tape her show this week.
The Pope is now an unwitting star in a Bel Ami porn video. Before you avert your eyes, it seems that for Scandal In the Vatican, which is being filmed onsite, the porn stars were presented to the Pope as priests, who then blessed them, and it was filmed for the movie.
Keep the Lights On did quite well in the specialty box office this weekend, averaging $12,500/screen. I wonder if our review helped with that?
While the producers of Arrow still won't say what character John Barrowman is playing beyond "He'll be male. It'll be worth the wait," they do say the pretty much the entire non-super DC universe is open to them, and groundwork is being laid for Speedy, Black Canary, China White, and more. But nobody alien or with powers.
There's a new Monopoly: Alan Turing Edition available for order, and it comes with a replica of the hand drawn board the out cryptographer used at Bletchley Park. The actual game board is based around the original, but with the Community Chest cards also telling the story of his life.
The big stars of the U.S. Open get to request music to play while they're on the court, and some of the selections are interesting. Everybody has Carly Rae Jepsen, but Serena Williams likes to rock out to Green Day, while Andy Roddick prefers Wham and Culture Club. A more recent addition to the rotation is Frank Ocean's "Thinking About You" for Sam Querrrey.
Ever wonder how much thought goes into creating a Nerf blaster for you to terrorize your office mates? It's actually a pretty fascinating process to get something that holds 144 darts that can fire 75 feet.
The most valuable penny in the universe is on Mars, so there goes any hope of me finding it on the street and retiring early.
Vice President Joe Biden reveals that he was almost arrested in Ohio for trying to get in the women's dorms at Ohio University. Had that happened, it would have been a Big f*cking deal.
Liza Minnelli has arrived in California to reprise her role as Lucille Austero on the upcoming season of Arrested Development.
Buried in a piece about Vladimir Putin piloting an ultralite to lead a group of cranes on a migration was either a swipe at communism
or a window into his sex life I didn't need to peek into. "Group sex is better than one-on-one because, as in any sort of collective work, you can shirk off."
How factual was President Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention? Not bad, according to the fact checkers. He seems to have stretched the truth rather than made up any numbers.
Salon has an interesting article up on whether porn stars should be required to be tested for HIV. Some studios require it, while others don't, and a positive test doesn't necessarily mean you can't work. But should it be 
mandatory? Logo's own Conner Habib doesn't think so. He "disagrees with 'the discriminatory act of telling someone who is HIV positive that they can’t work,' even with condoms. 'It’s the whole weird Lyndon LaRouche thing of wanting to quarantine people with HIV in the ’80s,' he says, referring to the activist who believed AIDS could be spread through casual contact. 'It’s just like, well, we understand what’s going on now. Why do you want to bring back that quarantine mentality?'” There are also concerns about records privacy. But the risks increase with gay-for-pay studios bringing straight stars across to the gay world, because straight porn doesn't traditionally use condoms the way the majority of studio gay porn does. It's a thoughtful read.
It appears that Justin Timberlake is purchasing a minority ownership stake in the Memphis Grizzlies, joining the likes of Jay-Z, Will Smith, and Usher as an NBA team owner.
Josh Henderson, Matt Lanter, Ryan Basford and Jason Kennedy got together to play volleyball for charity. Why am I never assigned to cover the real news like this?
Supposedly they were playing pros, but I never saw pictures of that
Jake Shears swipes Sir Elton John's shades, and couldn't look more natural in them
John Barrowman has been dashing around North America for the last week. Here he is settling into his seat on his way back to Los Angeles from New York. He also took a sneaky picture of his hot flight attendant.
I wonder if the flight attendant tucked him in since Scott is in Palm Springs?
Things are heating up in the Ultimate Slash Madness Tournament between Destiel and McShep, because Rodney McKay himself, David Hewlett is now actively campaigning for votes. I'd say "Where's your god now?" to the Destiel fans, but I'm unclear on Misha Collins' current angel/god status.
McShep always had better chemistry on Stargate Atlantis than any other pairing
Maybe we did the wrong Doctor Who pairing in the Ultimate Slash Madness Tournament
So. This actually happened
Of course, what do you expect when this is a real campaign ad?
It appears Broadway hunk Nick Adams is having a little quiet time in Hawaii
For those of you missing your Daily Tovey, here's a shot of him looking trim in Ibiza
And Tyler Posey with his bandmates, pants down
Colton Haynes went to Evita in New York City, and snapped this photo with the hunky Ricky Martin
Before the Video Music Awards got underway, Tyler Posey and Tyler Hoechlin decided to surprise a fan of Teen Wolf, but it's not just any fan, but Olympian Jordyn Wieber. I think it's fun when celebrities have fangirl moments.
This is one of those silly but heartwarming stories about a man who happens to be really, really, really good at carnival games. You know, those games we all assume are rigged where you can win a stuffed animal? Well, if they're rigged, this guy has the secret, because he's responsible for limits being placed on how many toys you can win in a day. And he's donated over 250,000 of the toys to children's charities.
This is Awkward Family Photos, the show. But what makes a family photo awkward? The matching outfits, the poses, the props? Sometimes it's all of it. Frankly, now I'm making plans to make sure I acquire all of my mother's photo albums should anything ever happen to her, because that stuff doesn't need to get out into the wild. I grew up in the 70s!
I can't say that I'm excited about Parental Guidance, yet another movie about parents and grandparents clashing over how to take care of children in a comedic way. But this does have one thing going for it - Bette Midler.
Seriously, if you're Rep. Paul Ryan, running for Vice President, are you getting a boner or crapping your pants at this new trailer for Atlas Shrugged Part 2? Because I can't imagine this playing well outside a small portion of the base.
Because I need something cute to wash that out of my brain (seriously, you guys have no idea how much crap I watch in a given day to make this column), here is Savannah the cheetah cub with her puppy playmate. I hope that cheetahs don't have very good memories, because the puppy isn't going to maintain his size and speed advantage for very long. And how cute is that noise Savannah makes?
Kent Larson thinks about cities. Specifically he thinks about how to build cities to hold more people and be more livable, like the new cities that China is in the process of building. He's got some neat ideas, many of which follow old European layouts which were based around immediate needs like water, rather than the sprawl that the United States is built on, which is horribly inefficient. It's long, but the good stuff with the robotic apartments is at the end, and is well worth it. I'd totally live in one of those.
This Pee-wee's Playhouse spinoff is manic. I've posted them before, but this episode is particularly noteworthy for Tim the Milkman. Seriously, he can ring twice any day.
