Line of the week so far?  Jon Stewart on right-wing homophobes:  "This isn’t a cultural divide: They’re wrong."

And in a perfect segue, the "Traditional Values Coalition" is screaming mad over attempts to end the US ban on gay people serving in the military (Really?  I thought bigger armies was a traditional American value).  In typical wingnut style, they go completely foaming at the mouth:

In addition to the coming persecution of straight soldiers, what about the unrestrained drug and sex antics committed by young male homosexuals? Homosexual sex is consistently related to drug use, including crystal meth and other sexually-stimulating drugs. What sort of chaos will be caused in the military by bare-backing parties and other forms of homosexual orgies?

Sigh -- if only! But before you start thinking that TVC head Lou Sheldon and his merry band of mouth-breathers are completely insane, it's only fair to point out that they were watching what they thought was a documentary: 

Years ago, the US ratings board created an 'NC-17' rating to help protect saucy art films from being labelled as porn. Sadly, it didn't work -- NC-17 movies are shunned in many states anyway.  Such is the fate that awaits "Bruno," Sacha Baron Cohen's first film since "Borat" -- apparently, there's too much anal sex in it. We'll see for ourselves in July!

Next month's "Wolverine" film starring Hugh Jackman is sadly not rated NC-17 -- dashing any hopes I might have had after seeing this new shot of Ryan Reynolds as the insane mercenary Deadpool:

And hey, while we're passing out the eye-candy, haaaaaaave you met model Stefan Podany?



And finally, Toronto's own James Collins and "Shortbus" singer Jay Brannan both asked very nicely that we all post their new videos on our blogs and who could say no to such lovelies?

...or I'd be even more annoyed by this skin-crawlingly stupid conversation between "The View" ladies:

I swear, there are speed bumps smarter than Sherri Shepherd.  But at least these talk show hosts generally mean well.  Rush Limbaugh, however, is just a thug:

Thanks to Rush, I'm now going to try and use 'dyke' in every sentence I can!  Between listening to that kind of crap, enduring witchhunts at the Oprah school or suffering through that "L Word" finale (seriously, what the fuck?), I don't how our dyke friends keep from smacking the first person they see in the morning.

And it's not like the gay boys are helping -- see how Israel's out pop star Ivri Lider is earning Katy Perry more royalty money for her unstoppable faux-dyke anthem:

But Nashville singer/songwriter Jen Foster's funny response, "I Didn't Just Kiss Her," shows that the sisters are doing it for themselves, thank you very much. And, in a bit of good news, they're now welcomed out west, as Alberta is about to finally join the 21st century.  Watch Rush's head explode as we now change our national anthem:  "True patriot love/By all our dykes' command!"

Tomorrow is Perez Hilton's birthday!!! Are you as excited as...umm...somebody?  Well, the "Queen of All Media" expects you to be, especially if you're a corporate sponsor.  On my birthday, I sometimes get money from my parents.  Clearly, I'm going about this all wrong.

But at least I didn't stick my parents with a 60-foot penis for a year.  Now that's shameless!

Like Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore, who somehow turned a grilling over his Conservative government's refusal to help fund the CBC into a public plea to Canadians to vote Tory!  He's filmed from the chest up because the camera wasn't big enough for his balls!

How about the New Jersey police who investigated nude photos of a 14-year-old girl posted on the Internet?  Turns out the girl posted them herself.  This being America, of course, the shameless hussy was not grounded but brought up on child pornography charges. In a related story, a teen caught smoking behind the gym was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher.

But a little shamelessness is a good thing -- a new study reveals you'll need to look someone in the eye for over 8 seconds to fall in love, unless it's an oven.  I was deeply unnerved by this new Quizno's ad, in which a sexy toaster oven keeps calling my name:

A TV commercial extolling man-oven love?  You know the word...

After my "we are the champions" riff yesterday, San Francisco Gate columnist Mark Morford reminds us that society will always need a new group to hate and offers up a few tongue-in-cheek suggestions.

I think Karl Lagerfeld's on someone's list:  he's traded in his boy-toy for (literally) a younger model.

I'd suggest "National Post columnists obsessed with the 'man-date'" -- I'll assume that "I Love You, Man" director John Hamburg is kidding here but you'd never know it from the Post's annoying story.

But the award for Most Drastic goes, as always, to FOX News: they're not happy about the US government having to buy up banks but they're typically over-the-top about it:

Well, it's not completely over, of course -- there are still hate crimes, still people in the closet, still families turfing out their gay children out onto the street -- but some days, you just have to sit back and see how homosexuality is accepted in a way almost unthinkable in the 1970s.

We've got rappers apologizing to us and a straight writer in a US political magazine asking right-wingers point-blank:

"Why, given the myriad ways that our society and culture diverge from the long list of archaic norms, practices, and beliefs upheld in the Bible, does homosexuality inspire such anxiety, even panic? What are you afraid of?"

We've got actor Ryan Reynolds cheerfully joking in an interview, "I'm not gay, but I'm thinkin' about it," and we've got John McCain's daughter Meghan easily reconciling her conservative politics with an acceptance of gay marriage:

And, best of all, we have the next generation -- the ones I like to call "those kids today" -- like Vermont teen James Neiley, who rocked the Senate house voting on gay marriage with this great speech: