Afternoon Meme: "Tosh.0" Gets Iced, Sir Ian vs. the Doctor, and Mark Ruffalo Does Larry Kramer

Plus Zac Efron's amazing arms, Amtrak wants gays to ride them, and Google is a step above, again.

Gareth Thomas talks with the BBC about the fine leveled against Castleford for the homophobic taunting he received from the fans. He’s right, it had to be done, and a message had to be sent to fans to grow the #&^$ up.

Google has decided that their fundamental operating rule of “Do No evil” means making sure that their employees receive equal compensation for equal work, even if that means paying gay employees a premium to make up for additional taxes they pay on their partner’s benefits through the company.  They’re also adjusting the rules for fertility treatment, and for their Family Medical Leave Act rules to make things fair for all families.

Today’s geek comic HijiNKS ENSUE takes square aim at the new costume for Wonder Woman we showed you yesterday, and the gay character is front and center.

Researches are linking a 17% decline in UK bee populations and the 30% decline in the U.S. to cell phones, probably because they don’t know what else to blame, and it was time to renew their grants. Everything gets blamed on cell phones these days, but I suppose anything that migrates using the electromagnetic spectrum could have issue with how much radiation we’re spraying into it.

Kevin Alejandro says what we already know, that his character Jesus on True Blood is a fixture starting with episode five. But he does say “I promise it gets racy.” Here, here!

Adam Brody, Marley Shelton and Erik Kndsen join the already huge cast of Scream 4.  Honestly, you had me at Adam Brody. Horror movies get people naked, right?

Barry Wong, running for a seat on the Arizona Corporate Commission, says he wants to turn off utilities for undocumented immigrants in the state. Today is the fourth straight day that Arizona temperatures have topped 110 degrees.

Matt Smith wants Sir Ian McKellen to play a villain on Doctor Who. I think that sounds like a marvelous idea, because I’d love to see Gandalf get his evil on. I also think it’s a lot of fun how much Sir Ian is in the news lately, he’s like the British gay male equivalent of Betty White.

In New York City, the transit authority removed some vodka ads from buses that featured bikini clad women if the buses ran in neighborhood primarily populate by Hasidic Jews. This led to the vodka company getting a bunch of actual girls in bikinis to protest outside a Manhattan bus terminal.

I feel somewhat remiss in not noting that Tom Ford’s A Single Man was released on Blu-ray and DVD this week. I had been waiting to see it since it never came to my small town, and now’s my chance, assuming Wal-Mart stocks it.

Amtrak has started an advertising campaign targeted at GLBT travelers. Of course the Traditional Values Coalition and the Family Research Institute are losing their minds over it, since Amtrak gets a federal subsidy. If I lived anywhere in the Northeast corridor, I’d never fly. DC to Manhattan on the Acela is just as fast, and a lot more relaxing than the air shuttle.

Some people want the BBC to publish the salaries of their stars, but others are dismissing it as political grandstanding. Earlier this year there was a minor uproar when it was disclosed Jonathan Ross made £6 million/year from the trust.

The New York premiere party for The Kids Are All Right was livened up by a guest passing out, in an apparent seizure. Fortunately Rachel Dratch had brought a doctor to the party, who checked the guy out while stars like Dustin Lance Black rubbernecked on their way to the buffet.

Meryl Streep is in negotiations to play Margaret Thatcher, who is a pussycat  compared to Miranda Priestly.