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Sex and the Gym: I didn't think Bravo could get any gayer either, but tonight the network will debut its latest reality offering, "Work Out." The show follows the lives of personal trainers at a trendy Beverly Hills gym owned by a hot blond lezzie named Jackie (who has a Brazilian-born spitfire of a lover). Jackie's "trainers compete uneasily for her approval and their rightful place in the cutthroat world of beauty and fitness, the twin pillars of Hollywood." (Do we even need to throw in that Jody Watley is one of the gym's clients for you to admit that this network is way gayer than Logo could ever be?) (NYT)

Nano, Nano: Does the Department of Homeland Security really need a report from the Government Accountability Office to figure out its employees sent to help Hurricane Katrina victims weren't supposed to be using their government-issued credit cards to buy 12 Apple iPod Nanos and 42 iPod Shuffles, worth $7,000, $1,000 beer-making equipment, 37 black Helly Hansen designer rain jackets costing $2,500, or a $7,790 on a 63-inch plasma monitor? Apparently so. A spokesman for the department said: "We're still a young department, a little over three years old."” The GAO "concluded that the credit card misuse could probably have been avoided had the department completed a long-planned rulebook for its more than 9,000 employees who spent $420 million last year using government-issued credit cards." Yeah, that would have helped. (NYT)

Straight Talk: Apparently Georgia Rep. Phil Gingrey still thinks his appearance on "The Colbert Report" was completely serious. When Democrats accused Republicans of playing politics after the GOP's attempt to pass a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage failed in the House, the conspicuously 'stached Georgia Peach shot back that the marriage issue was just as important as any other top-tier issue of the day: Gingrey said support for traditional marriage "“is perhaps the best message we can give to the Middle East and all the trouble they'’re having over there right now."” (NYT)

The Other F-Word: Fearful of parents' reactions, doctors are ignoring the heaviest problem that weighs on many young patients. (WP)

Calendar Guys: Anyone else like French rugby? (Towleroad)

Wright Now: My future ex David Wright of the NY Mets has his own blog now: See, David? We have so much in common. Maybe we could go out sometime. (use "Boogie Nights" Scotty J. voice, please). (WrightNow)

Low Fidelity: There was an cool piece in The Sunday Times about the death of record stores (these days they're fast becoming a temple of nostalgia for shoppers old enough to remember “Frampton Comes Alive!’’). The article is really well-done, but it sure made me nostalgic and kinda sad. I can honestly remember record shopping was a major factor the first couple of times I traveled to New York City and London as a teen. I can remember my friends and I spending hours upon hours combing the streets of Greenwich Village back in '85 looking for that hard-to-find Style Council 12-inch single, Debbie Harry posters or a gatefold Bananarama 45. Foreign countries were even better -- you never knew what you'd come across. And even though I am in no ways an iTunes person (I still want THE REAL THING!), shopping for stuff online is just so much more efficient that going to record stores isn't even enjoyable for me anymore (and if it's not for me then who?). CDs were always much harder to "flip through" in bins than albums, so half the time I get a back ache just trying to see what's there (what an old fart) -- so why bother when I can type what I'm looking for on my laptop and have it shipped to my house in no time? Sad, but true. (NYT)