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Patriot Games: The hundreds of hours of game and practice scouting videotapes that league officials seized from the New England Patriots also include over 100 hours of painstakingly thorough footage of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady in the shower, sources within the NFL competition committee confirmed Tuesday. (If only!) (TheOnion)

Hyphen-Happy Brother: Wait till my brother Bill hears about this one. He's going to be one bent-out-of-shape copy editor. About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice-cream is ice cream and pot-belly is pot belly. And if you've got a problem with any of this, don't be such a crybaby (formerly cry-baby). (Reuters)

Duct and Cover: I updated last week's Crack Addict post. I think the new photo helps explain what I was trying to convey in ways that words never could. (KIT212)

They Did Invent Boxer Briefs: I grew up in the second-largest Mormon community in the world but with the exception of Andre Sheilds, I don't remember the boys ever being quite this hot. (MormonsExposed via QueerSighted)

Garden State Hate? In a twist to an already gruesome story, New Jersey gay rights activists are urging the mayor of Newark to investigate an execution-style murder that occurred in August as a possible gay hate crime. The Washington Blade reports that at least one of the victims was gay. Officials have denied that the attack was a hate crime but rather a robbery. (Advocate)

Higher Court: A Nebraska legislator who filed a lawsuit against God has gotten something he might not have expected: a response. And let's just the big guy upstairs wasted no time in calling Jacoby & Meyers. (AP)

Ain't That America: A federal appeals court has ruled that transsexuals have no civil rights. (365Gay)

Touchdown: I HEART Brett Favre. And so do the record books. (AP)

U-S-A! U-S-A! Andy Roddick clinched the United States' place in the finals of the Davis Cup. The Americans will go up against defending champs Russia, which beat Germany 3-2 in the other semifinal. (Bloomberg)

When You Don't Care to Send the Very Best: E-Cards go hipster. (NYT)

RIP: Alice Ghostley, a Tony Award-winning actress who I grew up loving as Esmeralda, the shy, bumbling witch whose spells never worked, on "Bewitched," has died at 81. In a 1990 interview in the Boston Globe she said: "I knew I didn't look like an ingenue. My nose was too long. I had crooked teeth. I wasn't blond. I knew I looked like a character actress." She added: "But I also knew I'd find a way." A way she did. She will be missed. (NYT)