Morning Meme: Robbie Williams Names His Price, Lady Gaga Has Gone Good, and Are Chris Colfer and Jennifer Saunders Besties?

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Robbie Williams was on his Radio Rudebox show when friends suggested that £5 million was a good price to pay him for gay sex. Williams considered it and decided that £2 million was fair, but not for Brad Pitt. "It’s £2 million for Santa, but it’s a freebie for Brad Pitt." He then thought for a minute and said “How much would I have to pay him?”

Good news everyone! Paris Hilton is no longer banned from the Wynn Hotels in Las Vegas after being arrested in the bathrooms. Which means it's safe for the rest of us at The Palms.

I really can't choose just five reasons we love the Peanuts gang. I'm a bit obsessed, especially at Christmas, with ornaments, dancing plushies, inflatables in the yard, and a new framed strip I was given for Christmas.

Lady Gaga topped teen activism group DoSomething.org's Top 20 Celeb Gone Good list, but the list also featured Daniel Radcliff for his work with The Trevor Foundation and Ellen DeGeneres as a Global HIV/AIDS ambassador.

When you write about GLBT issues for a living, and just had a major story break like Bil Browning did for the Salvation Army, waking up to "stupid faggot" in your inbox means you've gotten something right.

Newt Gingrich, with the dozens of shell companies and a seven digit credit line at Tiffany's, thinks he's "a middle class person."

Salon brings us the information we need, like Does Gay Sex Cause Incontinence?

George R.R. Martin has posted a 6,100 word chapter from The Winds of Winter, the upcoming sixth book in the A Song of Fire and Ice series. Sadly, he'll need dozens of these to make a book.

As if the Kardashians themselves don't tell us enough, a former nanny, from back when they were just rich and not wealthy, is shopping a tell-all book.

Verizon plans on charging customers who use the web or phone to pay their bill by credit card a "convenience fee" of $2. The only way to avoid it is a bank draft or letting them autocharge you each month rather than doing in manually.

Bishop Eddie Long keeps getting bad news. The scandal payoffs, the divorce, and now his landmark private school is closing abruptly before the end of the school year.

In a bit of legal oddness, Marvel is arguing that mutants are not human, at least for the purposes of toys. It seems that the tax on dolls (toys that represent humans) is 12%. Meanwhile the straight tax on (non-human) toys is only 6.8%, so Marvel stood to make a ton of money by arguing that mutants aren't human. And argue they did, until they won.

TV Line takes a look at Smash, trying to find faults, and at least in the first two episodes, can't. It even praises the show for taking turns that are not expected, but not out of nowhere.

The world has a new island, rising out of the Red Sea. A volcano, dormant for 100 years, started throwing lava 30 feet into the air, and on December 23rd, a new island broke the surface of the water. It's now 500m wide and growing, but whether it will become a true island or fall to the waves is still up in the air.

Rick Perry, unsurprisingly, was unable to answer questions about Lawrence v Texas, the landmark Supreme Court case that invalidated sodomy laws in his and many other states, while he was governor. But he doesn't need a legal case to know gay is icky, "My position on traditional marriage is clear and I don’t know need a law. I don’t need a federal law case to explain it to me." Adding insult to injury, Perry references Lawrence v Texas in his 2009 book, where he said “Texans have a different view of the world than do the nine oligarchs in robes.”

Grimm is the "most engaging" show, according to Neilsen. That means viewers are more likely to remember what they watched. Now if viewers could just remember to actually watch the show.