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Hot for Teacher: Traffic on my blog went through the roof yesterday with people looking for pictures of (212) favorite Julian Fantechi, who has appeared in Playgirl a few times as well as some other gay magazines in recent years. So why all the sudden interest? Seems parents of the special-needs children at the Kew Gardens, Queens, school where he teaches just found out about his second job and some of them are none too pleased. The school district says they don't have a problem with it and evidentally neither do I, as evidenced here and here. As far as I'm concerned, Julian can tend to my "special needs" anytime he wants. (WABC)

Fired Up: Nearly a year after a city doctor said an amputated leg was the only reason Isaac Feliciano wasn't fit to become a firefighter, he got clearance to pursue his boyhood dream. One-alarm fires only, though. (AP)

McGrievances: When I heard that former New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey was seeking full custody of his 5-year-old daughter and child support from his estranged wife, my initial reaction was shock and outrage (hasn't Dina Matos been through enough?). But now that I've read more something tells me that her statement last month -- that the two "continue to have profound differences about what our daughter should be exposed to, and until they are resolved, there will be no agreement" -- means she's turning her understandable bitterness into a homophobic pawn in the matter, and for this I can see no excuse. (AP)

Seen the Light, Sort Of: The president of the leading Southern Baptist seminary has incurred sharp attacks from both the left and right by suggesting that a biological basis for homosexuality may be proven, and that prenatal treatment to reverse gay orientation would be biblically justified. The Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr., one of the country's pre-eminent evangelical leaders, acknowledged that he irked many fellow conservatives with an article earlier this month saying scientific research "points to some level of biological causation" for homosexuality. I have ambivalent feelings about this one. On the one hand it's great that a big-time church fart is admitting something that scientists have slowly been proving for years, but naturally the reverend wants to twist this information into a new form of fantabulocide genocide. (AP)

Dirty Minds: Scientists have gone and wasted a lot of time and money to tell us something we've known all along. When women meet a man their eyes go straight to the man's facial region. When a man -- gay or straight -- meets another man, he immediately checks out the guy's package. (Towleroad)

American Drama Queen: He said he dropped out of the ultra gay singing competition for "personal reasons," but Mario Vasquez neglected to mention "personal reasons" mean masturbating in front of a male staffer on the set. (GayWired)

Dreaming of Cake: Wondering why there are all of those Tostitos and Snickers wrappers in your bed, your cupboards are missing food, and your kitchen counters are overflowing with flour from baking sprees? No, you're not just a fatty. You must be taking a prescription sleeping pill. (NYT)

Track and Failed: Despite the highly negative press for her first line of clothes at H&M, which seemed to center around an endless array of tracksuits, Madonna returns with a second line at the discount retailer that the critics are calling "office-casual" Madonnawear. Her reviews for "Shanghai Surprise" didn't exactly stop her from "acting" more, so don't think she's too worried about they have to say this time around either: "Did they come and see my show? If they’d seen my show, they would cut me some slack about how simple my tracksuit was. I like the simplicity of it and live in my tracksuits." No shit, Madonna. We had to look at you in that same blue Adidas warmup for most of 2002, 2003 and 2004. About time she took a holiday from that tired-ass look -- and that goes double for 2005 and 2006's camel-toe leotard extravaganza. (NYT)

A Man and a Man: France's highest court Tuesday rejected as unlawful the first marriage by a gay couple in France, annulling the union of the two men. While the ruling isn't that big of a surprise, it is worth noting that no other gay people in France have married since this couple did in 2004. How do you say smart cookies in French? (AP)

Shootout: A beautiful evening in New York turned violent last night when a deadly gunfight broke out in Greenwich Village, leaving two police officers dead and one bartender critically wounded. (NYT)

Hooked on TV? "Intervention" is already my favorite reality show. Is there room for HBO's "Addiction"? (NYT)