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Flying High: I've never watched "The Amazing Race," (my brother and his wife are quite the fans) but I couldn't help but notice that another couple of gay pretty boys won again -- Tyler Denk and James Branaman. Their bios could sure stand to be edited for redundancies, though: they call them "drug addicts" and "models." Let the million-dollar bender begin! (CS)

The Girl Is Spicy: Without a doubt, best drag name ever. (MySpace)

'Stroke' of Genius: Only the Democratic Party could figure out a way to lose control of the Senate before they ever even got it. (AP)

Idle Hands: Supporters of a measure to ban gay marriage sued in federal court Wednesday, seeking as much as $5 million in damages from lawmakers who blocked a final vote last month on the proposed constitutional amendment. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court by VoteOnMarriage.org, argues the 109 lawmakers violated the supporters' rights to free speech, to petition the government and to due process under the law. The group is asking the court to interpret the vote to recess a joint meeting of the House and Senate as a vote in favor of the amendment, even though many lawmakers said the vote was designed to kill the amendment. Opponents feared they didn't have the 151 votes needed to kill the measure and called for the vote to recess. This country is in the midst of perhaps the most bungled war in its history and this is what concerns these people? Idle hands truly are the devil's workshop, even in "liberal" Massachusetts. (AP)

Toxic Tacos: OK, OK. Did we say green onions? We meant lettuce. (AP)

Spinal Melt: Since her marriage in April of 2003, Lindsay Davenport has come achingly close to winning another major. She lost to Serena Williams, 2-6, 6-3, 6-0, in the finals of the 2005 Australian Open and then to Venus Williams, 4-6, 7-6 (4), 9-7 in the 2005 Wimbledon final, which many consider one of the greatest women's matches in history. As much as I didn't want to see Davenport mope around the court for another year getting my hopes up that she might actually assert herself once more and win a major -- having her retire because she's pregnant? Well, somehow that's just gross. (LAT)

Lo-Fi: The Broadway musical version of "High Fidelity," based on Nick Hornby's novel and the 2000 film about a lazy record store owner, closed after just 14 performances. The play opened at the Imperial Theatre in New York on Dec. 7 but was immediately playing to a half-empty venue. Critics have rated it among the top five musicals that should never have been made. Ben Brantley of The New York Times said the show would definitely appear in his "roster of all-time most forgettable musicals." And David Rooney of Variety magazine wrote: "This bland show is crippled by its failure to convincingly tap the pulse of pop culture or to mine the romantic heartache of its source material." As my friend Christopher -- who was forced into seeing the show -- put it: How could characters who are so cool and into music -- who would shun someone for owning a Phil Collins record -- then break into Broadway showtunes anyway? What were they thinking? (Guardian)

Game, Slut and Marriage: Everyone knows I worship at the altar of Chris Evert, but for the life of me I can't understand what went wrong with St. Thomas Aquinas High School's favorite graduate of 1973. The girl can't keep it in her pants -- and now it's just cost her $7 million in cash and securities, plus a $4 million vacation home in Aspen, Colo. Did the Adam Faith affair during your marriage to John Lloyd teach you nothing? It's enough to make a good Catholic girl blush. (People)

Yoko Oh-No! From the Good Help Is Hard to Find files: A chauffeur for Yoko Ono has been arrested for trying to extort $2 million from her by threatening to circulate embarrassing photos, and he also spoke of killing her and son Sean Lennon, police said. Koral Karsan was arrested Wednesday after Ono reported the plot, New York police spokesman Paul Browne said. Charges were pending. The security staff for Ono, John Lennon’s widow, told detectives that Karsan told her in a rambling note that he had secretly photographed her and made audio tapes of her in private moments and warned he would make the material public if she didn’t pay him, police said. On Dec. 8, the 26th anniversary of Lennon’s killing, Karsan dropped off the note and a photo of Ono in nightclothes at the Dakota apartment building, where the former Beatle once lived with her and where she still resides, police said. Thank God no one ever had to see those photos. (AP)

Calling Psychic Jackie: What the f**k is wrong with Sylvester Stallone? Perhaps if he had refused to stop his mother would have shot. At least he's finally addressing the Richard Gere gerbil-in-his-ass rumor. (source)

'Cutting' HIV Risk: Circumcision appears to reduce a man’s risk of contracting AIDS from heterosexual sex by half, U.S. government health officials said Wednesday, and the directors of the two largest funds for fighting the disease said they would consider paying for circumcisions in high-risk countries. Uncircumcised men are thought to be more susceptible because the underside of the foreskin is rich in Langerhans cells, sentinel cells of the immune system, which attach easily to the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS. The foreskin also often suffers small tears during intercourse. Confusingly, the report says circumcision does nothing to prevent spread by anal sex, which along with drug injection is the most common way the virus spreads in the United States. If the reasons for it working in male-female sex are true, why would it not also be true for active male sex partners? Sounds like I need to get Kevin De Cock (huh-huh), director of HIV/AIDS for the World Health Organization, on the blower and ask him about this. (WP)