Morning Meme: Bill Heck Is Christine Baranski's Boy Toy, Aaron Paul's "Quirky Girl" and Will "Magic Mike" Go Full Frontal?

It appears the casting news (with yet another gay twist) for The Good Wife isn't over. Christine Baranski's character is getting a man – a younger man. Bill Heck, who recently played a closeted Mormon in Angels In America is set to join the cast to help Baranski get her cougar on.

Citing so-called "sources," E! is reporting that Steven Soderbergh isn't afraid to show the goods and go full frontal in Magic Mike. And I can see them slipping in a little peen, but if it's one of the four named leads as opposed to some hired adult film star, I'll be shocked – and pleased!

One of my favorite animals, a capybara, has been spotted far, far from home. One of the dog-sized rodents went for a swim in the water holding tank at a sewage plant in central California. It's most likely an (illegal) escaped pet.

Today in ridiculous news from a Republican running for president, Rep. Michele Bachmann says if elected, she will bring gas down to less than $2/gallon. But will there be free cookies on Fridays? Because I like cookies. Seriously, she has such a profound lack of knowledge about the world that I think her front runner status is what's hurting the stock market.

Hunky Eric Close has booked an arc on Ryan Murphy's American Horror Story. He's going to appear in flashbacks, presumably as a former owner of the house. Hopefully those flashbacks all happen in the shower.

In a move straight out of a Hollywood movie, a Goldman Sachs executive changed his name to go work for the chairman of the House Oversight Committee to guide legislation that favors the financial behemoth.

A New Jersey bride received a letter from a bridal shop saying she would no longer be helped at the store because she's a lesbian. The shop owner said gay marriage was illegal, and the shop wouldn't do anything illegal. But what if she just wanted the dress for a really elaborate dinner party?

Bravo may push back the premiere date of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills by a week following the suicide of a cast member. Way to keep it classy, Andy.

A Russian company has announced plans to have a commercial space hotel built by 2016, and will begin offering five day stays for the fairly reasonable price of $500,000/person.

Christine "I'm not a witch" O'Donnell says she walked off Piers Morgan because Morgan wouldn't stop talking about sex. I recall a question concerning her views on masturbation, which are in the public record already, but I don't really recall it turning into a sorority girl version of "I never." Unless she's trying to say anything gay related is automatically about sex, which wouldn't surprise me.

Yet this is the most offensive thing about marriage equality I've read all week . Gird your loins.

Another day, another music festival stage collapses and kills people, this time in Belgium. Jared Leto tweeted to fans just before the disaster, warning them of unsafe conditions. Doesn't someone inspect these things?

NOM spent $709k on anti-marriage ads in Minnesota in 2010. Can anyone tell me how any organization that claims to have Christian goals spent that kind of money on hate during a horrible recession, instead of helping people in need?

A change in how undocumented immigrant cases are reviewed will classify GLBT families as a lower priority for deportation, considering them to have community and family ties.

Should I be worried that Anne Hathaway supposedly prepared for The Dark Knight Rises by watching cat videos on YouTube?

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