Morning Meme: David Pocock's Sense of Social Justice, NPH Is Too Busy, and "I Hate My Job"

Sadly, I think that Regis Philbin is right: the timing is wrong for Neil Patrick Harris to join Kelly Ripa full-time on Live! He's got two years of How I Met Your Mother left to shoot. Which is a shame, because he and David are very upfront about preferring to live in New York City over Los Angeles.  And Neil and Kelly have amazing chemistry.

Remember the bisexual softball players who brought the lawsuit against the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance's Gay Softball World Series for disqualifying their team for not having enough gay players? They've not only won a settlement and the right to play, but they also got their trophy back for their team.

I haven't yet had time to see The Muppets (kind of shocking, isn't it?), so I can't speak to whether the ending got it right. But the rumored original ending probably wouldn't have worked for me.

Speaking of The Muppets, be it the movie or the original show, "Mahna Mahna" is one of the catchiest tunes ever sung by my little felt buddies. But I had no idea that it originated on a soft-core Italian film featuring lesbian nightclubs. How it came to Jim Henson's attention, I'd prefer not to think about.

So did Herman Cain have a 13-year extra-marital affair? His preemptive denial wasn't terribly convincing. But the part that gets me is his attorney's statement, "Rather, this appears to be an accusation of private, alleged consensual conduct between adults — a subject matter which is not a proper subject of inquiry by the media or the public. No individual, whether a private citizen, a candidate for public office or a public official, should be questioned about his or her private sexual life. The public’s right to know and the media’s right to report has boundaries and most certainly those boundaries end outside of one’s bedroom door." Has this guy ever heard of Bill Clinton, Anthony Weiner, or Mark Sanford?

If you're cheating on your boyfriend, and he's a tattoo artist, it may not be wise to get drunk enough to sign a carte blanche consent form to tattoo anything he wants on your back.

Adam Lambert is really trying to use collaborations with Pharrell to find his own voice for his new album. "There's party music, sex music, f**ked-up-relationship S&M music. But every song explores something real."

I wasn't aware that rugby star and marriage equality advocate David Pocock got his sense of social justice via his roots in Zimbabwe prior to the family farm being seized by president-for-life Mugabe.

Through a partnership with Staples, you can now order real Dunder Mifflin paper products for your office.

In a case that had been really bothering me, Gov. Brownback of Kansas has now apologized to a high school student his staff was trying to intimidate (they wanted an apology for a tweet they felt mocked the governor on a trip to the capitol). Even had she been serious, this seemed to be a real First Amendment issue, since the free speech issue was flowing down from government, though when students are involved, things get murky.

Congratulations to Anne Hathaway who is engaged to Adam Shulman. I hope her wedding is as fun as she seemed to make her gay brother Mike's wedding, but maybe without the crisis.

ABC has announced the Tim Gunn-fronted The Revolution will premiere January 16th, just after One Life to Live fades into the sunset.