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Gay White Killer, 31, Seeks Cell Soul Mate: My dislikes are: silly peasant mind games, liars, polluters, mindless greed, the anti-gay establishment, stupidity, ignorance and “shallow plastic robot people” aka Sheeple. I am looking for my soul mate. I believe in this concept. He will be non-christian, have a mind of his own, have some similar interests, be willing on occasion to cross dress, and must be into trying new things, both indoors and out. (Queerty)

She Went Back to Ohio: Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde has opened a vegetarian restaurant in her native Akron. (Beacon)

GOP Doesn't Like the Handicapable: Former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona told a congressional panel Tuesday that top Bush administration officials repeatedly tried to weaken or suppress important public health reports because of political considerations. And administration officials even discouraged him from attending the Special Olympics because, he said, of that charitable organization’s longtime ties to a "prominent family" that he refused to name. "I was specifically told by a senior person, 'Why would you want to help those people?'" Dr. Carmona said. (NYT)

In Other Killer Gay News: Two Virginia Beach men, accused of killing gay adult filmmaker Bryan Charles Kocis last January in rural Pennsylvania, are expected to be extradited this week from Virginia to Pennsylvania to face murder charges. Harlow Cuadra, 25, and Joseph Kerekes, 33, appearing in a Virginia Beach court in orange prison garb and in ankle and wrist chains. gave up a battle to fight extradition and will be handed over to Pennsylvania authorities. (365Gay)

Ricki Lake Redux: Long Island's own Nikki Blonsky is the new Tracy Turnblad. So happy you got the part. Now get ready for your next part: losing and gaining weight for the rest of your life on the covers of Us Weekly and People magazine. (NYT)

One Page at a Time: '70s television darling turned weight-loss spokeswoman Valerie Bertinelli is working on a memoir. (AP)

You Have to Believe: I thought I did a pretty good job of explaining why "Xanadu" worked as a Broadway play. But Charles Isherwood of The New York Times really nailed it with his review that asks: Can a musical be simultaneously indefensible and irresistible? Why, yes it can. As if Cheyenne Jackson's thighs didn't answer that question for you. (NYT)

No Laughing Matter: A new study suggests older adults have a harder time getting jokes as they age. The research indicates that because older adults may have greater difficulty with cognitive flexibility, abstract reasoning and short-term memory, they also have greater difficulty with tests of humor comprehension. This may be so but isn't it far more likely that as your health begins fail and impending death becomes more real to you more and more things just don't seem that funny? I jogged yesterday and now my left knee is about to fall off. That's not funny. (Well, maybe a little.) (AP)

Stop the Presses: Muscular young men are likely to have more sex partners than their less-chiseled peers, researchers at the University of California Los Angeles said Monday. And all these years I thought getting a beer gut and avoiding the gym was the way to land me more tail. (Reuters)

Hey, Mr. DJ: Hottie music producer slash DJ Mark Ronson would rather be known as hottie music artist. (NYT)

RIP: Charles Lane, the prolific character actor whose name was little known but whose crotchety persona and roles in hundreds of films made him recognizable to generations of moviegoers, has died. He was 102. (NYT)