Morning Meme: Billy Campbell Forgets His Pants, Ricky Martin Wants "Más" and Dustin Zito Comes Clean

Now that Simon Cowell has picked his favorites to be judges on The X-Factor: USA, we turn our speculation to who will host the show. Right now is seems that Pussycat Doll Nichole Scherzinger will cohost with High School Musical alum Corbin Bleu. In a recurring segment, they’ll compete for a limited budget for hair products backstage.

All Out has a petition condemning the Malaysian government’s use of education camps to change boys they see as effeminate.

You know how you feel about watching Glenn Beck’s show? That’s how he feels about Glee. “This show stands out and stands against almost every value that I have. I’ve watched it in stunned horror combined with a sense of admiring awe. It is a brilliant, brilliant show. Very well done. But it is a horror show."”

The new website for the Washington Blade is live. I like the new look, but if I still lived in D.C., I think I’d still pick up the print copy for nostalgia reasons. It would remind me of when I was a scared, naïve little ‘mo.

This was the week on The Real World that Dustin Zito’s gay-for-pay past came out on the show. Reality Blurred talks to Zito about his fear of a gay roommate, and also with FratPad about why Dustin’s sex scenes were removed from the site. Meanwhile, this episode was the highest rated Real World in three years.

ABC News covered the Lisa Miller child kidnapping case and the ties that may exist to Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University in a fairly damning piece.

It seems you can get out of jury duty for just about anything these days, like being gay, or just having a ticket to one of the final tapings of Oprah.

Sometimes, it really is an extra hand, and not Photoshop.

BroadwayWorld.com talks to Seth Numrich about shooting Private Romeo with Matt Doyle while both of them were also auditioning for War Horse. They are, admittedly, very different roles.

Summit Entertainment, about to run out of gas on their Twilight cash cow just snapped up the rights to Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game with aims to make a new series. Part of me really wants to see the books turned into movies, but only if it were possible to do so without disgustingly homophobic Card benefitting in any way, and that’s impossible.

Due to filming delays, Spartacus had to recast Naevia. Flash Forward’s Cynthia Addai-Robinson will be sharing Crixus’ bed when the new season rolls around.

Considering the New York Times hated the first production of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, they couldn’t heap praise high enough for the revival.

In a new comic, Superman renounces his American citizenship after a disagreement with the government. Liberals and nerds are hailing the move, saying the alien hero belongs to the world, while the right wing is up in arms over the betrayal. I’d like to see them try and deport him.

Cynthia Tucker at the Atlanta Journal Constitution has some harsh words for Bishop Eddie Long, who is reportedly close to settling the lawsuits brought against him by the young male members of his flock. The title, Eddie Long: homophobe, narcissist, con artist, is the least of what she has to say.

Mark Pedowitz has officially been named head of The CW. This could be a good thing, since while he was with ABC, Pedowitz was the force behind Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters, Ugly Betty, Kyle XY, and Legend of the Seeker.

Armadillos can transmit leprosy to humans. Yet another reason to avoid Texas.

Richard Grieco is the man behind Gigolos. When asked why gay men weren’t part of the client base, he says “Women are making as much money as guys and want something easy-breezy, nice and easy, and no strings attached. It was a show I thought needed to be done.” Also, even on Showtime, he can show peen, but only limp peen.

Why does Yahoo!, a tech company in the heart of liberal Silicon Valley, let Maggie Gallagher write anti-gay editorials?

Lance Bass is evidently developing a new Sirius-XM radio show.

I’m going to go ahead and assume that Atlanta Braves coach Roger McDowell is guilty of those anti-gay comments and violent imagery he was accused of, because he’s come out and apologized, “I am deeply sorry that I responded to the heckling fans in San Francisco on Saturday. I apologize to everyone for my actions.” GLAAD has reached out to the Braves, who have said they are conducting an investigation.