Afternoon Meme: "Project Runway" Extended, "Glee" Sells for Big Bucks, and the World Cup and Manscaping

Plus John Waters stuns Stephen Colbert, the crazy politician disease hit Virginia, and Matt Taibi goes off in Rolling Stone.

Lifetime has announced that Season 8 of Project Runway is being expanded to 90 minutes. My question is whether anyone watched the original 60 minutes once it moved to Lifetime.

Lara Logan is a foreign correspondent for CBS News. She came out over the weekend with the theory that the Rolling Stone interview that ended General McChrystal’s career shouldn’t have happened, and that the reporter should have “forgotten” the embarrassing quotes. Matt Taibi (who I have a massive crush on) destroys her assault on journalistic integrity. If you’re a fan of Matt, you know how fun it is when he gets a head of steam going.

Take a look at werewolf evolution on the screen, starting with 1935’s Werewolf of London to “Twilight’s CGI Panda Dogs.”

In today’s round of Which Anti-Gay Politician Can Tarnish A State’s Good Name, we have an entry from Virginia, which is for (heterosexual) lovers, presumably in the missionary position. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli told a student at Boy’s State (probably around 16-17 years old, if I remember my time there) that gay people aren’t covered by the Equal Protection Clause of the 14^th Amendment, because “Frankly, the category of sexual orientation would never have been contemplated by the people who wrote and voted for and passed the 14th Amendment.”

It turns out you can mellow out your dog with “classic music with specific ambiance sound such as dog barking, human conversation and crow's crow inserted over the music.” If you don’t have that on your iPod, there is a CD you can order for $26 called Dreams for Dogs.

Prosecutors in New York are urging for harsher HIV criminalization laws. They want mandatory sentences for anyone knowingly spreading the disease. That brings up all sorts of questions, like “knowingly?” What if the condom broke? What behaviors count, since it’s difficult (but not impossible) to spread via oral sex? Do HIV+ people get tattoos so they can’t be accused of not informing partners?

The Log Cabin Republicans are seeing their Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell lawsuit move ahead. But the broad nature of the suit seems designed to cause the most embarrassment possible to Democrats. You force the Obama administration to defend a law it detests, and to win you need a liberal activist judge willing to write new case law.

Can you identify these television shows based only on the typeface from their credits?

Ryan Murphy says that season two of Glee will focus on the original cast’s storylines, and the additional players, from Charice to John Stamos are there to enhance individual storylines and not chop the show up into ever-smaller blocks of time the characters have to compete for. Seems like an apt description for a boyfriend for Kurt.

Speaking of Glee, the syndication rights for the show were just sold to Oxygen in a huge deal, to begin airing in 2013. Modern Family was sold for an eye popping $1.5 million/episode to USA Network for an exclusive cable run. I can only think of one series being sold to cable syndication after one season, and that was NCIS: Los Angeles, a spinoff.

When I was a kid, ping pong was something you played in your friend’s basement, on a table that hadn’t been touched in years. Now Susan Sarandon is making a reality show about it.

Asbury Park, NJ, which this story tells me is a gay (not guido) haven, is considering adding topless sunbathing to lure in tourists. Not everyone is thrilled, of course, because we’d be showing children who are too old to breast feed what boobies look like. Still, it’s not being dismissed, more like the debate is whether it should be allowed on the beach next to the boardwalk. 

Corey Allen, who played Buzz Gunderson in Rebel Without A Cause before having a successful career directing, has died at age 76. He was the last surviving member of the Rebel main cast.

Astronauts don’t get busy in space, according to Alan Poindexter, NASA commander of an ISS mission. My experience in life is that astronauts are human, and humans get busy pretty much anywhere.

The Daily Mail is putting forth the theory that England was knocked out of the World Cup because player Wayne Rooney waxed his chest. They spend a lot of time thinking about everyone’s personal business at that newspaper.

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Look, I knew that the military has been forced to repeatedly lower their recruitment standards to keep finding brave bodies to pile up in these two wars. Test scores fell, criminal records were waived. But I think we may have gone too far when we enlist monkeys.

At least use big scary apes.

Via my friends at The New Civil Rights Movement comes a tweet that I completely missed from Evan Williams, the CEO of Twitter. For the record, Evan is straight, and he's married, and his son will turn one-year-old in August.

Start them young on love!

Last night on The Colbert Report, everyone's favorite dirty uncle, John Waters, sat down with everyone's favorite blowhard faux conservative. They discussed John's work with kindergartners and rat skeletons, but it was John's last statement that left Stephen stunned to silence. I'd never seen that before.

All he had ever wanted as a kid was a dog, and a Star Wars AT-AT Walker. When you're artistic and grown up, you can combine all of that childhood disappointment into one fun movie.

I haven't given you a daily dose of cute in quite some time. I'm sorry about that, but I've just not seen it. To make up for it, I present a bear cub with allergies.