Morning Meme: "Grease: The Sing-A-Long" Is Real, "Daily Show's" Best Gay Marriage Moments, and Leave Bieber Alone!

Plus, don't call Dominic Cooper a boy-toy, a solution to Don't Ask Don't Tell, and does 21 Jump Street really need a movie?

In one of the most beautifully worded pieces of editorial bile I’ve ever read, columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. tells conservatives the lessons they should learn about piety from the Mark Souder resignation last week.

I’m unsure whether this is a good idea or not, but the video game Mass Effect has been licensed to be made into a movie. Maybe it will translate – the main character is kind of hot!

ABC pushed five shows into development for midseason replacements, none of them named It Takes a Village. The most likely series to annoy me is Island of Women, described as “three male surgeons who share office space but nothing of their personal lives with each other until a perfect storm of romantic catastrophes and a lot of alcohol makes them finally turn to each other for support." Unless this is a show meant for Skin-E-Max, then all bets are off.

Are Apple’s policies for iPad content discriminatory towards GLBT comics? Some people think so, but I find their case undermined by the hand drawn naked men they use as examples  – we wouldn’t publish it here.

All those rumblings about Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repeal yesterday appear to be accurate. A deal has been worked out to repeal the policy but also delay implementation until the Army decides that a soldier knowing his buddy is gay makes no difference when they see his wee-wee in the shower. Don’t these people kill people for a living?

Maybe now Walker Burttschell can stop his hike from Norfolk to Washington D.C. in protest of the policy that stripped him of his livelihood. If he keeps going, Semper Fidelis. h/t GayTVLuver

Dominic Cooper gives a disturbingly candid interview to Salon. The headline was when the interviewer called him a “boy-toy” in his film Tamara Drewe, he corrected him to “human vibrator” which is a term I shall use from this point forward. He also let drop he’s playing a young Howard Stark in the Captain America movie.

Constance McMillen’s old school not only got picketed by Westboro Baptist Church in a piece of delicious irony, they’re still trying to convince a judge they didn’t conspire to deceive Constance with a sham prom.

In a very fun little piece, we see the holdings of all the U.S. presidents translated in 2010 dollars and compared to find out who was wealthiest. While Kennedy shared in his family’s immense wealth to the tune of around a billion dollars, George Washington’s land holdings made him worth around $500 million - maybe he shouldn't have been on the one dollar bill?

While I don’t know how reputable a newspaper The Guardian is, they’ve published documents from 1975 they claim shows Israel offering to sell South Africa nuclear weapons. This is the closest thing to proof that anyone has shown that Israel has nuclear weapons. 

When I saw pictures of this rare alligator snapping turtle, my first thought was that I was never going in the water again. When I found out it was likely an abandoned pet in China because it’s only native to North America,  I swore off showers as well. 

I was unaware that Jonah Hill was adapting 21 Jump Street for the big screen as an action-comedy. I think I just threw up a little.

In one of the more bizarre accounts of how humans can effect climate change on a global level, a new study suggests that hunting megafauna such as mammoths to extinction reduced the available methane they produced as part of their digestion (they fart a lot), and caused a mini-ice age.

Several blogs are making a big deal about Justin Bieber posing beneath this sign in the German town that bears his name. I'm holding back on jumping all over him for a couple of reasons. First, he's 16-years-old, and he's going to do dumb things, shredding him isn't a great approach. Secondly, if I'd seen that sign at 16, I probably would have taken my picture as well, except I'm not a tween idol so no one would care that I still had some growing up to do. I have a picture somewhere of a 16-year-old me under a "Bimbo" sign in Mexico. Third, I'll be honest, we don't even know if it's real. So I'm not concerned. Update: As I guessed, fake.

Not smart, but probably done without intent.

You are welcome.
 

So this is evidently happening if you live in a major city. Yes, there's a trailer at the website.

Who's in?

The kind folks at Comedy Central have edited together their favorite Gay Marriage moments from The Daily Show over the years, and largely it's one continuous punchline. Enjoy!

We mentioned yesterday that the top film at Cannes was Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives from out Thai director Apitchatpong Weerasethakul. Now we have the trailer.

One of the shows that Fox has been considering replacing Wanda Sykes with on Saturday night is Spoof from Dana Carvey and Spike Ferensten. If the whole show is similar to this skit about Darwin, it looks like they've got another winner on their hands.