Because writing about gay male sex scenes on television does not actually pay all my bills, I have another job, and in that job I'm a contributing editor for a nationally syndicated pet column called Pet Connection. So I get sent review copies of basically every single book written in English about pets, in the hope that I'm going to review it. And that usually has no bearing on what I do here on AfterElton.com, but the other day, it did. Because I got sent Woof!: A Gay Man's Guide to Dogs.

And I asked my editor, hey, should I review this on the blog? Because you know, it's a gay book, and we write about gay books.

And he looked pained, well, I guess he did because this was in an email so I can only imagine how he looked, and said, "Okay. If you must." So I am. But first, a question.

Ever see the movie Best in Show?

MSNBC talking head Keith Obermann is well established as one of the few news anchors out there willing to really speak up about controversial topics. (For the record, I think he's great.) He's repeatedly taken on the Bush Administration, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and pretty much anyone else he suspects of being a hypocrite. Turns out Olbermann's outspokenness extends to his fellow news anchor Anderson Cooper of CNN. In a recent interview with New York Magazine Olbermann has this to say about Anderson (recently "outed" so to speak by Out magazine):

Don’t tell me you don’t want to talk about personal life when you wrote a book about your father’s death and your brother’s death. You can’t move this big mass of personal stuff out for public display, then people ask questions and you say, ‘Oh, no, I didn’t say there was going to be any questions.’ It’s the same thing as the Bush administration saying, ‘We’re going to war, but you really aren’t allowed to know why.

Don't hold back there, Keith!