Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Page 1 Consider (05/05)

  • Sidewalk Talk: Click HERE to meet Madonna's adorable (and hilarious!) new neighbors on the Upper East Side.

  • Count on It: The N.Y. Post recently ranked the worst moments of "The Real Housewives of New York City" and I have to say, they've all behaved pretty despicably at one time or another. But "The Countess" LuAnn is still the only one who came make me laugh -- on TV or in print! Check this out: After her maid returns from the Philippines and says, "You look so good," the countess replies, "I was waiting for a compliment. I don't look too bad for somebody who's had to do all of your work for the last four weeks." (NYPost)

  • I Like Your Style, Kid: Days after telling students at Stanford University that waterboarding was legal "by definition if it was authorized by the president," former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice was pressed again on the subject by a fourth-grader(!) at a Washington school. And I thought we were tough for calling out the lunch ladies about the snowball area at Hiller! (WashPost)

  • Everybody's Dirty Secrets: The results of The Stranger's 2009 sex survey are in! (The Stranger)

  • Strings Attached: Nothing bores me more than a Republican recovering from a comb-over addiction. Still, I had to share my favorite blog comment to date in reference to Rudy Giuliani's snubbing of his longtime gay friends' wedding over the weekend in Connecticut. (For those outside New York, Giuliani -- you know, from the Family Values party -- famously crashed at these guys' apartment when he got thrown out of the governor's mansion after getting caught cheating on his wife yet speaks out AGAINST marriage equality for same-sex couples.) Someone calling himself "Rog Murdock" wrote on Elizabeth Benjamin's Daily Politics blog: "How can Rudy be so anti-gay when he is such a c---sucker?" (Daily Politics)

  • Progress Report: The Log Cabin Republicans of New York, the state's GOP gay rights group, announced today a member of the the Assembly minority -- Fred Thiele -- has decided to cosponsor the same-sex marriage bill. (Daily Politics)

  • Prisoner of Love: Wentworth Miller heats up the pages of GQ Italy. (OhLaLaMag)

  • Plan Nine: Oops, she did it again. (RichWah's Blog)

  • Twist of Fate: Gay marriage legalization in several states and the public's growing acceptance of same-sex unions have Democrats sensing political opportunity and some Republicans re-evaluating their party's hard-line opposition. (AP)

  • Sex, Lies and Audiotape: I hadn't heard much news about embattled Portland Mayor Sam Adams lately. But with new reports that he telephoned his much-younger lover Beau Breedlove 33 times before the young man turned 18 plus a host of other inconsistencies in his story caught on tape, the editorial board of The Oregonian is now calling for Adams to resign. (Oregonian)

  • Move Over, Ruth: Kathleen Sullivan, a law professor who is a lesbian, is being talked about as a potential replacement for David Souter on the Supreme Court. (AP)

  • Appointed: President Obama has nominated an out lesbian to work on aging issues in the Department of Health & Human Services. Kathy Greenlee is currently Kansas' secretary of aging. (Washington Blade)

  • All You Need Is (Brotherly) Love: Warren & Derrick have the full report from the March for Equality in Philadelphia HERE.

  • Fair Game: If Graydon Carter asks any of you when Vanity Fair jumped the shark, tell them it was when Jessica Simpson was on the cover -- in 2009 (BLUSH). (PITNB)

  • Congrats! One of the least annoying couples in the world of entertainment, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, got married over the weekend in Italy. (E!Online)

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