Morning Meme: Katy Perry's New Slur, Lance Bass Not Engaged and Patton Oswalt is Crabwalkin'

I'll give it to the Log Cabin Republicans, they have been persistent and successful fighting Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and yesterday they scored a victory by having the stay of the judgment blocking enforcement lifted, halting any and all discharges under the policy, unless President Obama appeals.

Should we be counting it as a victory that the National Enquirer is gossiping about gay celebrities just like any other? Because now they're reporting that Lance Bass is marrying Lorenzo Martone with Justin Timberlake as his best man.

The 2018 Winter Olympics will be held in Pyeongchang, disappointing my copy editors immensely, because they know I'll never be able to spell that consistently. It's also bad news for NBC, who owns the TV rights to something they won't be able to air live due to the time difference.

The National Organization for Marriage has been told yet again, this time in Minnesota, that they cannot keep their donor list secret as they fight to write discrimination into the constitution. NOM is expected to ignore this ruling like they've ignored all other similar rulings, and no government has done a thing to them for it.

I really have no idea what I find more terrifying – The Real Housewives of New Jersey, or The Real Housewives of the Bible.

One of summer's surprise TV pleasures has turned out to be Franklin & Bash. Not only are the leads incredibly sexy in very different ways, but the chemistry of the overgrown boys seems very real, and judging by this interview, that's because it is.

I'm going to take an unpopular position: If you live in New York, and you want to pre-register for a marriage license barely a week after the law changed in the nation's fourth largest bureaucracy, you're not allowed to bitch that the forms, paper or online, haven't been made gender neutral yet. These things take time to update. If you and your mate can't agree on who puts their name under "groom" maybe you should reconsider a lifetime commitment.

A complete skeleton for the world's largest wombat has been found. Extinct for 50,000 years, this marsupial weighed in at 7,000 pounds.

David Hasselhoff is going to play an aging adult film star on Sons of Anarchy. Well, I assume it's an aging star, I don't know what the average age of straight male adult film stars is. He could be in his prime for all I know.

Would anyone really consider making a television series with Charlie Sheen again? And why would he want to step into a role that Jack Nicholson played to perfection? Is Sheen so delusional that he fancies himself Nicholson's equal?

It seems a new study says that males with wider faces tend to be more unethical. Is that where the term "fat cats" came from? Or was that really just about evil, gluttonous felines?

Could that Travis Wall reality show that he mentioned in our exclusive interview have found a home?

MSNBC has blocked Chris Matthews making an appearance in Aaron Sorkin's new HBO series. Like you could hurt Matthews' credibility.

In her new Rolling Stone interview, Katy Perry says of herself, "You can’t be a full tranny every day of the week. That’s an exaggerated part of my personality.” Now about that ally status people keep trying to give Perry…

Image Entertainment has acquired distribution rights to the Chillerama horror anthology, including I Was a Teenage Werebear, which I found charming and sexy, and not just because Sean Lockhart danced around in a jockstrap singing.

Divorce rates are lower in states that have marriage equality. So about that weakening of the institution…

The fact that Murdoch tabloid News of the World has again been caught hacking into voicemails, this time of missing teenager Milly Dowler, may derail their acquisition of BSkyB News. Dowler's voicemails were deleted to make room for more to feed the tabloid stories, giving false hope to her parents that she was still alive and directly impeding the police investigation of her death.

It appears that we're close to a synthetic alcohol that causes no hangovers and maintains an even buzz, complete with an antidote pill to sober you up for the drive home.

Four-year-old reruns for How I Met Your Mother have been found to have digitally inserted ads for the new Kevin James movie Zookeeper. This has evidently been going on for quite some time with television shows. I'm speechless, and impressed.

Cheyenne Jackson is being seduced away from his loyal favorite lady by an evil harlot.

The Daily Mail has had Brian Sewell, a reportedly bisexual author, write a hit piece complaining that Coronation Street has devolved into filth, notably " There’s too much, not only of gay men — who are estimated to make up just 6 per cent of the population, but who dominate the storylines in the soap — but also of lesbians, bisexuals, the trans-gender community, cross-dressers and everyone else with some sexual quirk or fetish." That was what he wrote that I could stand to quote. The rest is much worse.

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