Morning Meme: How Homoerotic Is "The Eagle," the "Glee" Christmas Card, and Harvey Fierstein Joins "La Cage Aux Folles"

Remember last week when the Log Cabin Republicans went to Justice Kennedy and asked him to vacate the stay of the order ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell? The government today filed their opposition. The White House needs to pick a side, either they want the policy gone in Congress, and get aggressive, or drop the court opposition. They can’t have it both ways. And the report that the DoD commissioned shows they don’t have to.

Well, the casting on Hot In Cleveland was ruined for me today. Sherri Shepherd is going to play the judge tasked with deciding if Elka (Betty White) is competent to stand trail. Who here feels Sherri is competent to decide anything?

Nintendo is trying to trademark “It’s on, like Donkey Kong!” I think they’re a decade late, and utterly ridiculous.

Isaiah Washington, no stranger to saying things that totally tick people off, would love to work with Mel Gibson. At this point, maybe he just wants to work again. Oh, and his leaving Grey’s Anatomy was totally the fault of T.R. Knight.

Olympic speed skater Blake Skjellerup wants Santa to leave a marriage equality pamphlet in the stockings of each of the New Zealand MPs. And he’d also like an iPad.

The Tony Awards have booked the smaller Beacon Theater for their 2011 Awards. But it’s supposed to have flawless acoustics, which will only matter to the tiny audience in the theater, while those of us watching at home will be plagued by terrible audio as usual.

You can tell when someone recaps Glee and has never spent any time at all with a gay man.

Harrison Ford says that Indiana Jones 5 is definitely on George Lucas’ plate, and the internet is already speculating on how fast they can kill Shia’s character.

Sarah Palin went to make a speech at a school in Pennsylvania (indoctrination!), and to protest the “out of control nanny state” seeking higher nutritional guidelines in school provided food, she brought dozens of cookies. She thinks parents should decide if kids get Twinkies, not the federal government. Parents can decide, they just have to get up and pack the kid’s lunch. If the government provides it, it should be healthy.

If you want to read a scathing review of not just George W. Bush’s book, but the man himself, this is your review. Thank you, England.

Kalinda is out of the closet on The Good Wife. As what, nobody’s sure. Bisexual, probably. Primetime broadcast television loves a hot bisexual woman.

Harvey Fierstein is set to play Albin in La Cage Aux Folles once Douglas Hodge and Kelsey Grammer exit the show in February. He’s never acted in La Cage before, but says he fits this version, which has characters that are “a little bit more low rent.”

CBS has greenlit a pilot from BSG’s Ronald Moore to reboot Wild,Wild West as a series. This probably won’t end well.

Rep. John Shimkus is trying to head the House Energy and Commerce Committee under the new Republican majority. He doesn’t think we need to worry about climate change since he says God promised not to destroy the earth again after Noah’s flood.  Even I know that’s not what the Bible says.

You can vote for Time’s Man of the Year. About as gay as it gets is Lady Gaga. Or “Unemployed America” could get your vote. I’m gay and fit in there.

The House in Mexico has voted 232-58 to extend benefits to same-sex couples. The United States is looking less and less like the leader of the free world every day.

At the Emery Awards, most of gay New York and Hollywood hit the red carpet and was asked about their high school experiences. Cheyenne Jackson said “I was a big, gay linebacker nerd. As soon as I found music and other kinds of misfit kids like me, I started to blossom. But I definitely wasn’t cool. I had girlfriends, [but] I knew something was up. I didn’t know to call it that. I would say I was definitely in love with my best friend, a beautiful Mormon boy. Oh, those Mormon boys.”

Spoilers on Glee’s future? Bullying is an arc, not an episode, and it’s far from over. Karofsky is going to be a problem, to the point his parents end up at the school.

Jon Favreau is likely going to direct Magic Kingdom, a family film for Disney about their parks coming to life at night. So a Night At the Museum clone with better merchandising options.