Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek were victorious at Wimbledon. Full report plus all the ATP beef that's fit to post BELOW
Monday, July 14, 2025
Friday, July 11, 2025
Remains of the Day (07/11)
Saturday 'Stache: Your English teacher returns in the fall looking like this
"Honey Don't": If a film featuring Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans and Billy Eichner doesn't get me into the theater, nothing will!
Greg in Hollywood: Handsome Greg Rikaart gets Outstanding Lead actor in a Drama Series Daytime Emmy nod for “Days of Our Lives”
Queerty: Matt Bomer (with hubby Simon Hall) and Ncuti Gatwa wow at Wimbledon in their finest Ralph Lauren
Matthew's Island: Blue-collar beef
CNN: Websites serving Harvard undergrad women, minority and LGBTQ students taken down, Crimson reports
Speedo Sunday: Everything's bigger in Texas
Hot Cat of the Day: 4-month-old Johnny's first trip to the Golden Gate Bridge
Thursday, July 10, 2025
On the Rag, Vol. 865
This week's rag 'n' mag roundup features Felipe Scalisa Oliveira, Luke Evans, Charlie Hunnam, David Corenswet and much more BELOW.
Wednesday, July 09, 2025
And Then There Were Four
I mean, given how crazy the past 10 days have been at the All-England Club -- particularly on the women's side -- I must say we're pretty lucky to have these semifinals. Obviously I would love to see Novak Djokovic snuff out that homophobe Margaret Court's specious 24 majors co-record. But even if he does get past Sinner -- both of them are potentially not well -- the good news is I can live with his losing to Carlos again, who truly is a generational talent ... and adorable!
Here it's pretty much a win-win-win-win situation: Aryna should take home the trophy on Saturday, which would prevent her from potentially ending the year as a Slamless No. 1. I've always liked Belinda in a Madison Keys kind of way -- meaning that I've basically given up on her but would still be thrilled if she finally did it. (She's still only 28 because she was so young when she burst on the scene.) Anisimova is a brilliant player whose mind has always been her biggest weakness -- she’s constantly on the brink of tears -- so more power to her if she can put it all together. And Iga's been lost in the woods for over a year, so if she somehow won Wimbledon -- on her worst surface -- how could I complain?
Losing Proposition
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 anyone as a "right-wing freelancer" and a "major transphobe"? Ben was so destroyed by Clinton's loss in 2016 that he wound up in Bellevue, prompting the Daily Caller to gleefully make fun of him for it. (Wow, what a right-winger.) Later, Ben 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.)
How depressing -- not to mention shockingly counterproductive -- that we have reached the point where everyone who doesn't agree with 100% of the most extreme orthodoxy is now instantly labeled "right-wing" or "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 national elections until this (and more) stops.
By the way: Am I the only one who remembers how well things were going -- a pro-trans NBA boycott! -- before these unforced errors opened the door for the right to turn this nonballot issue into the most important thing on the minds of low-information voters, aka the majority of the electorate?
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