Page 1 Roundup (01/31)

The  Daily News: Key Republican admits Dems proved their case, but still says he will vote against witnesses paving way for meaningless rapid acquittal

Fotis Dulos, accused of killing his estranged wife, dies at Bronx hospital two days after suicide attempt, lawyer confirms

Instagram: Steve Grand models his new designer underwear

The Randy Report: 'The Thing About Harry' looks like the gay rom-com I dreamed of as a youth

NewNowNext: Sam Pancake still “carries the scars” of living through the AIDS epidemic

The Week: I'm thinking of starting a GoFundMe to pay for mental-health treatment for Lou Dobbs 

Towleroad: Forget about Aaron Hernandez, I'm more interested in his hot brother. Anyone know if he has any, uh, "tendencies"? 

Suspect charged in 8-day holiday stabbing spree targeting Los Angeles LGBTQ community

Boy Culture: Adam Roberts is military-grade hot

The Sun: Not a fan of her use of the word bullying, but I'm still on Team Megan (without knowing any of the salient details)

Washington Examiner: This is just like the stolen DNC emails. Republican voters couldn't care less about this ... but Democratic ones sure do. (Notice it's a rightwing rag pushing it, too.)

OMG: Luca Argentero naked in ‘Cha Cha Cha’

New York Post: NYC’s bail reform is like a parody of bleeding-heart liberals

Simon & Schuster won’t back down on John Bolton’s memoir

Arizona man faces jail time for doing God's work

The Washington Post: Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says China’s coronavirus ‘will help’ bring jobs back to U.S.

E. Jean Carroll, New York writer who accused Trump of raping her ,wants a sample of his DNA

Rand Paul is truly deplorable

The New York Times: Sen. Lamar Alexander says Democrats proved their case, but it’s not impeachable. Translation: NOTHING a Republican does is impeachable.

Fred Silverman, 82, is dead; a TV force when three networks ruled

For Novak Djokovic, the goal is still titles, but ‘more than that’

After years of rejection, Johnny Diaz finally lands an interview with Jazz Jennings of TLC’s ‘I Am Jazz’

The Wall Street Journal: It’s 2020. Why can’t we let go of our business cards?

Now Trump's neutering the Migratory Bird Treaty Act so you can kill as many birds as you want as long as it's an "accident."

Remember the Walkman? This nostalgic update improves on a classic

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Remains of the Day (03/19)

Baseline: ATP Next Gen star Stefanos Tsitsipas shows off his vlogging talents

BosGuy: I'd sure like to taste their south ends

Gr8er Days: First look at Renee Zellweger as Judy Garland

Towleroad: Attorney for late NFL player Aason Hernandez: "This man clearly was gay"

Curbed: NYC's oldest bathhouse, long abandoned, could be remade for public use

The Associated Press: John McEnroe paid 10 times more than Martina Navratilova for Wimbledon BBC broadcast duties

Greg in Hollywood: "Will & Grace" revival renewed by NBC for Season 3; Season 2 expanded

Hunk du Jour: I could get into golf if all the players dressed like this

Erik Wemple: Sean Hannity is suddenly an expert on Trump and Mueller

ABC News: After her kidnapping was initially called a hoax, woman in so-called "Gone Girl" case recounts her nightmare

The New Yorker: A Mexican-American photographer's divided view of postwar Los Angeles

Boy Culture: Sometimes, carpenter crack is a good thing

Dlisted: Miranda Hobbs announces bid for New York governor

The Gay Almanac: Family Equality Council honors TLC's Nate and Jeremiah at gala

Matthew's Island of Misfit Toys: Do football players wear briefs?

The Randy Report: Tony Award winner Sammy Williams of "A Chorus Line" fame dies at 69

OMG Blog: Tyler French is naked in "Hunting Season"

Outsports: Several trans athletes eyeing spots in 2020 Summer Olympics

The WoW Report: Polyamorous lovebirds Nico Tortorella and Bethany Meyers marry

Pink News: Being in a relationship makes you gain weight, new study shows

Daily Intelligencer: Crazy Donald hires lawyer who thinks the FBI is framing him

HuffPost: Stormy Daniels's mom hopes Trump runs four more times, hopes her estranged daughter's lawsuit doesn't hurt him

The Village Voice: Bill Hader comes out shooting

Washington Blade: Rulings in favor of Title VII protections for LGBT workers on rise

Hot Cat of the Day: "I mean it -- no dogs allowed."

Page 1 Roundup (01/27)

The Daily News: Vegas mogul Steve Wynn accused of forcing sex on manicurist, ordering masseuse to pleasure him

“Don’t go pinning a medal on Don McGahn’s chest for living up to the bare minimum we should expect of a White House counsel,” tweeted former director of the Office of Government Ethics, Walter Shaub. “We’ve just lived through months of Trump and the White House denying that Trump considered firing Mueller, and he said nothing.” Acting attorney general Sally Yates warned McGahn that Flynn was potentially vulnerable to blackmail after lying about contacts with Russian officials. She said McGahn asked her, “Why does it matter to DOJ if one White House official lies to another?”

California man accused of killing UPenn student Blaze Bernstein is a self-proclaimed Nazi, member of far-right hate group: report

Bart Scott reveals how NFL players would taunt ‘bad guy’ Aaron Hernandez on the field

New York Post: So politicians are supposed to know the background of every person who donates money to them?

Never thought much of Nikki Haley, but she's got the 'disgusting' part right

Bride-to-be and mother-of-two real estate agent, 47, dies of flu just days after she started feeling dizzy and nauseous

The New York Times: An addict dies in a school restroom -- he was a teacher

The Washington Post: Trump’s flirtation with firing Mueller inspires new demands from Democrats to protect the special counsel

The Wall Street Journal: An antidote for a distracted age: very long ads where not much happens

Inmate Believes Hernandez Left Him a Note, Gifted Him $47,000 Watch

I'm still not 100% convinced of the "jailhouse lover" angle. But I do find it curious that Aaron Hernandez's lawyer swears up and down that one of the suicide notes wasn't for "close friend" Kyle Kennedy when everything suggests it was.

WCVB reports:

Attorney Larry Army Jr. told reporters that he believes Aaron Hernandez left a suicide note for his client and intended to leave the man a substantial gift. Army said Monday that his client, inmate Kyle Kennedy, believes he was the intended recipient of one of Hernandez's three suicide notes. However, Army has declined to describe the relationship between Kennedy and Hernandez.

"My client does firmly believe that one of the letters was written to him," Army said. "My client believes that, based on the closeness of the relationship that he and Aaron Hernandez had, there would be nobody else that he would have written to."

Army also asserted that Hernandez intended to leave a $47,000 watch to his client. The attorney displayed a photo of Hernandez in which Army said the watch was visible.

"Aaron Hernandez has told my client he was giving him this watch," Army said.

David Wedge, a spokesman for Kennedy's attorney, said Wednesday the two inmates at the maximum security the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts, had asked to be cellmates last September. He said the request initially was approved, but then denied.

Army told reporters that Hernandez and Kennedy were friends and that Hernandez had written to Kennedy's family, but said that additional information about the relationship between the two inmates will come directly from Kennedy at a later date.

Hernandez's attorney has vehemently denied that any of the letters were intended for Kennedy.

"I am reaffirming, unequivocally, no such letter to Mr. Kennedy, or any other individual, in our out of prison, exists," Jose Baez wrote in a statement. Baez also suggested that "malicious" rumors about the relationship are being "used to tarnish someone who is dead."

Is This the Armed Robber Who Stole Aaron Hernandez's Heart in Prison?

Not trying to glamorize sick f**ks who destroy people's lives. But it's hard not to be intrigued by the story of Aaron Hernandez, who rose to be a multimillionaire, Super Bowl-winning football player only to throw it all away under circumstances that increasingly seem to be related to his self-hatred over his sexuality.

The Daily Mail reports that the mystery prisoner who Hernandez wrote to before his shocking suicide is a 22-year-old man jailed for a knife-point robbery at a gas station. Kyle Kennedy was the last person to see the former New England Patriot alive and is now on suicide watch inside the maximum security Souza-Baranowski Corrections Center, sources say. He is the man to whom Hernandez gave a $50,000 watch and other property shortly before he took his life. Hernandez, 27, who was found dead hanging from a bed sheet in his cell early on Wednesday morning last week, left three suicide notes. One was addressed to his fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez, the second to their 4-year-old daughter, Avielle, and the third to a prisoner, who high level prison sources described as his prison lover.

Hernandez had been serving a life sentence without possibility of parole for the murder of his close friend Odin Lloyd, but just five days earlier had been acquitted of a separate double murder. One theory for Lloyd’s murder is that he knew about Hernandez’s bisexuality and might tell Shenea Jenkins — Hernandez’s fiancée’s sister — who Lloyd was dating. According to Newsweek, Hernandez also had a long-term gay lover before he was imprisoned who was due to give evidence at his murder trial. But shortly before the case he transferred a large sum of money into the man’s bank account.

Eventually the suicide notes will become available under state open-records laws. Until then, the speculation continues to build.

In an online profile on the website Write A Prisoner, Kennedy described his sexual orientation as "straight." 

"Hello, my name is Kyle,’ he wrote on the site in May last year. "I signed up on this website so I can correspond and possibly build friendships with people from around the world. I stand at 5’ 10” and I weigh 175 pounds, I have brown hair and brown eyes. I am also heavily tattooed. I work out, read books and write to help me pass the time while incarcerated," he added. "My hobbies on the street include racing motocross, building and customizing cars and motorcycles and doing anything that includes the outdoors. I am currently working to attain my Barbering license." He ended his profile with the words: "If you want to get to know me, I’m just a stamp away! Thank you, Kyle."

Ex-NFL Star Aaron Hernandez Reportedly Left Suicide Note for His Gay Prison Lover -- UPDATE

The Daily Mail is hardly the most reputable news source, so take reports that Aaron Hernandez left a suicide note for his male prison lover with a grain of salt. But one detail does ring true, as it's not hard to imagine the rumored jailhouse bitch sex buddy being placed on suicide watch if he had suddenly had THIS snatched away from him.

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UPDATE:

UPDATE: This story seems to be picking up steam and some validity. Newsweek is now reporting that Aaron Hernandez's bisexuality was probed as a murder motive, and also claims the note to a jailhouse "friend" is real. The magazine also says Hernandez set up bank accounts for his fiance, his daughter and for a longtime male lover (a high-school friend), who it says was interviewed extensively by authorities after Odin Lloyd's murder. (Hernandez was serving life without the possibility of parole for killing Lloyd.) Still hard to know what's true, but sadly it wouldn't be the first time someone became a monster because he was tortured by his sexuality. 

Page 1 Roundup (04/20)

The New York Post: Aaron Hernandez had Bible verse scrawled on his forehead

The Daily News: Bill O'Reilly out at Fox News amid sex harassment allegations 

The New York Times: The Case Against Bill O'Reilly

The Wall Street Journal: Phony Baloney: Butchers Are Selling Vegetables Made to Look Like Meat 

Aaron Hernandez Found Hanged in Prison

Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots tight end who was serving a life sentence for a 2015 murder conviction, was found dead in his prison cell early Wednesday morning. Prison officials say he hanged himself with a bed sheet, but his former agent isn't so convinced. Sad ending for a man who seemed to have it all yet decided to ruin the lives of countless people.

In his defense, he was born with a lethal weapon ...

Separated at Birth: Cher and Aaron Hernandez

I believe. I don't think Ms. Bono's PACKAGE is as big as his, though. 

Aaron Hernandez Found Guilty of First-Degree Murder

No winners in this sad story.We'll always have the bulge memories, though.

Bad Boy Gone Good

Hernandez called ‘model citizen’ in unit for murder suspects

If anyone has the link to the conjugal visits signup page, please send it my way. Thanks.

Aaron Hernandez Indicted on 2 More Murder Counts

All lusting aside, was there a serial killer playing in the NFL? Read HERE.

If Looks Could Kill

... Aaron Hernandez would be charged with more than one murder.

Killer Smile

Aaron Hernandez sends alleged victim's mom from courtroom in tears as judge weighs gag order 

The former Patriots star charged in Odin Lloyd’s murder was all smiles as he appeared in court Monday with his fiancée, mother and several of his sports fans supporting him from behind. A judge is now mulling defense attorneys' request for a gag order over allegations that leaks by the state could jeopardize his right to a fair trial. 

 If the family of Aaron Hernandez's alleged murder victim thought he would show some remorse in court this week, they were sorely mistaken. Read HERE.