Morning Meme: Critics Love Gay TV, Preview the "Glee" Finale, and Did Seth MacFarlane Go Too Far?

Plus the Family Research Council has sunk lower, who is Dum Dum Dugan, and Rush Limbaugh: The Movie?

The Television Critics Association Award nominations are out, and they're gay, gay gay. Modern Family, Glee, Jane Lynch, Eric Stonestreet (by character), The Daily Show, Rachel Maddow, Modern Family, Torchwood: COE, and Party Down are all up for awards, and Glee and Modern Family dominate in number of nominations.

Honestly, it’s not all Briefs Guys and kittens here. Sometimes you read news, and it’s so mindblowing that you can’t even work up outrage anymore. Joe.My.God broke the story, but Pam’s House Blend managed the outrage I can’t muster (simply because it doesn't surprise me). Signed lobbying contracts have been obtained that show the Family Research Council paid $25,000 in lobbying fees to try and get Congress not to pass a resolution condemning the Ugandan “Kill the Gays” bill. They advocated murder based on a biological characteristic.

After that, mentioning GLAAD’s petition calling on Bill O’Reilly to apologize for equating gays to Al-Qaeda seems trivial. But still, you should sign the petition.

Someone could buy me the World’s Largest Gummi Bear to cheer me up.  It’s 12,600 calories of gummy goodness.

On a happier topic, July 4^thSyFy is going to run a marathon of The Greatest American Hero, one of my favorite shows as a child.

Ford has made the decision to drop their Mercury brand. I never really understood Mercury anyhow, because they were just Fords with a Mercury badge and a 12% price hike.

Coming soon to MTV. Allegedly.

We’ve featured the BPGlobalPR Twitter account before, and how they’re managing a steady stream of hits on what’s left of BP’s reputation. There’s a letter purported to be from the man behind the account, and he may be better in long form than he is on Twitter.

The adorkable Nate Silver has taken his FiveThirtyEight statistics website to the fold of the New York Times. It’s an ideological fit for the pair, but I’m unclear of what Nate gets from the arrangement. He’s hot new media, and the New York Times has a brand, but they also have no money.

Desperate Housewives’ Neal McDonough is going to play Dum Dum Dugan in Captain America.  It seems a bit odd, since McDonough is the actor that has no nudity and no sex scenes clauses in his contract, and Dum Dum Dugan looks like something you’d see at IML in Chicago.

One reason to watch the MTV Movie Awards Sunday night is to see the first footage from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Another is so you know what I’m making fun of through our Twitter account.

The rather disgusting episode of American Dad that involved a happy ending for a race horse is going to cost Fox. The FCC is imposing a fine, not because they agree with the 100,000 complaints, but because Fox failed to provide the FCC with information about the episode. Fox says they are puzzled. I'm puzzled that this is what gets the FCC's attention.

I’ve always had an appreciation for a woman who was strong and independent, with perhaps the possibility of wielding a broadsword effectively. So the list of the Sexiest Women in Fantasy works for me.

Hollywood is running out of ways to grab our attention, so now they’re flirting with movies with the word “F**k” in the title. Obviously, this link might be considered NSFW in some work places.

So you’re a big star, and you want to earn some extra coin doing voiceovers for commercials. What does the product you choose say about your career?

Rush Limbaugh: The Movie?

This is a Bacon Moon Pie. This is not some piece of junk food, it is a work of art. A four-pack costs $33. High quality bacon, Scottish shortbread, with rice flour, bacon fat, and bacon cracklin. You add marshmallow made from Vermont maple syrup and bourbon, along with bacon fat and cracklin caramel, and top it all with 72% dark chocolate.

I gained 7 lbs. writing this.

I really don't know what's happening here, nor do I want to.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

This is real. I checked. It's funny on so many levels, since they're advertising a job in quality assurance. Then there's the obvious Beavis and Butthead "ass" joke.

Plus it had been up for three hours when I took the screenshot.

Let's start with a musical preview from Glee's finale next week. The song is "Faithfully" and maybe I'm being overly critical, but doesn't this look a little weak for Regionals? When the real glee club that New Directions is modeled on was on Oprah, they had costumes worth $50k, and here Finn's not even dressed well enough to go to church. If the one believable thing about Glee is supposed to be the overproduced musical numbers, isn't this the budget version of what's required to win? Didn't Sue Sylvester have a fourteen-minute musical performance by Kurt for the Cheerios win?

When Mario discovers the clouds and the bushes are the same, the secrets of the universe unlock for him. That, or he suffers a psychotic break.

Paula Abdul is going to receive the Always Next, Forever Now Award at Logo's NewNowNext Awards later this month. In honor the occasion, I give you the pinnacle of Paula's art.