kenneth in the (212): Remains of the Day (07/09)

Wrestle Wednesday: From A to B(ulge)

DNA: How Trey Cunningham cleared his biggest hurdle and got faster

People: "Bargain Block' star Keith Bynum slams HGTV after show's alleged cancellation

Boy Culture: 52-year-old Jude Law in a white Speedo, and less

WPLN: LGBTQ Tennesseans are fleeing the state. Hear from those who chose to stay

Out: Nicholas Hoult "felt warm and safe" in David Corenswet's "Superman" arms

The Guardian: I agree with Margaret Sullivan that the Gray Lady completely missed the boat with its non-GOTCHA story about Zohran Mamdani's Columbia University application. But can someone tell me how we arrived at the place where Ben Ryan, the driving force behind the NYT piece, got labeled by activist Rebecca Solnit as a "right-wing freelancer widely described as a major transphobe"? Ben was so destroyed by Clinton's loss in 2016 (he was deemed a "Hillblazer" because he raised over $100,000 for her) that he wound up in Bellevue -- AND he also ripped me a new asshole for a comment I made online about Billy Porter's wearing a dress, which was intended to be PRO genderqueer but was written tongue-in-cheek leading Ben to think I was being otherwise. (If anything, his overreaction shows that he's extremely sensitive to the gender plight.) "Regardless of whether there will ever be any winners in the battle of the genders, I choose being kind over waging war," he wrote earlier this year, in a piece that fleshed out his unenviable position as a journalist writing about pediatric gender medicine, which led to his getting ripped a new asshole, largely by the left. (Spoiler: He believes in science, which used to be a big-D Democratic requirement.) How depressing -- not to mention shockingly counterproductive -- that we have reached the point where everyone who doesn't agree with 100% of the progressive orthodoxy is now instantly labeled "anti-trans." At least when the right idiotically called all people they disagreed with "socialists" they were going after members of the OPPOSITE party. Look for Dems to continue losing all national elections until this (and more) stops.