"By hook or by crook, we will..."

You know you've got some genuine propaganda-with-a-capital-P when even the National Post notices that the Tories' new guide to Canada for immigrants leans to the right.  The new guide, says John Ivison, is "yet another incremental step in the re-branding of Canada into a conservative country, full of people more inclined to vote Conservative."

But Ivison hasn't seen the original draft, which blogger Robert McClelland was kind enough to dig up for us:

Hello, new Canadian -- welcome to the Village:

Sunday's big TV event features the delightful irony of watching right-winger Jim Caviezel and gay-rights activist Ian McKellen swapping their usual ideological roles in a redo of the classic fable of the individual vs. the state.  It's almost enough to keep me away from Lady Gaga on 'Gossip Girl' this Monday. But whether you spend it in front of the tube or not, have a great weekend!  Be seeing you...

Gotta give teen TV soap opera Gossip Girl credit for tossing out a curveball -- despite all the hype over it's cheap "ZOMG! CHUCK IS GOING TO KISS A GUY!!" ratings ploy, his final line in this clip earned a well-deserved raised eyebrow:

This is either a) a straight guy ridiculously comfortable with his sexuality, or b) a bisexual coming-out scene (as in the books the show is based on).  Time will tell but this hinting at past adventures certainly gives fans lots more material for slash fiction. 

An unlikely inspiration for slash stories would be the bumbling cops in Hot Fuzz but the film's creator Edward Wright and stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost had a field day creating some on Twitter yesterday.  C'mon guys, save it for the sequel!

Asked to write a letter to himself as a 16-year-old for a new anthology, Elton John revealed that he regrets not having sex for the first time until he was 23.  This was a surprising choice of regret considering his failed marriage to a woman or, well, this: 

But as he says, "Be proud of who you are." Like 11-year-old James Gibson-Jones, who's decided to become a ballet dancer despite the teasing his gay dads will get over it.  The Toronto Star revisited the family in its pages this weekend for a charming profile.

And finally, while everyone seems to love the new show Glee, not everyone is sold on dumb-but-lovable Finn, played by Cory Monteith. But whether you love him or hate him, there's something for everyone in this clip from a horror movie Monteith appeared in a couple years ago.  Enjoy! 

A growing 'asexual pride' movement seems to think so, as the whoopie-adjacent are now demanding society stop discriminating against them for, umm, what they're not doing.

But when I see today how gay sexuality is being used as a cheap ratings stunt for 'Gossip Girl' (hey, gay guys are the new lesbians!), I can see how the asexuals do have a point.  We all know that sex is mostly just used to sell stuff, like with this cheesy clip of "Twilight: New Moon" actor Alex Meraz making the rounds on the internet:

I am not seeing that movie and I don't care how many shirtless boys they throw at us to make us!

Then, of course, there's the serious part -- the harrowing news of one new study from the US that says gay men and other men who have sex with men contract AIDS at a rate more than 50 times greater than women and non-gay/bi men (condoms, people, condoms!!) and another finding that circumcision is not the defense against HIV some have believed.  On the bright side, I guess I can cancel that surgery appointment!

Even dating can be a nightmare (hearing this, I'm so glad I'm not a single straight girl!) and one starts to wonder if Penelope Cruz and Pedro Almodovar have the right idea.  Can you really party without sex?  And if so, does it mean having to listen to Miley Cyrus?

Could you really live without it?

It's not like we didn't see it coming.  We predicted that Stephen Harper would end up with a minority government. Stephane Dion had clearly been struggling to overcome the public's perception of him as an ineffectual wimp. But when the results came in last night, it was sad to see the Conservatives actually increase their number of seats, then to see Dion say he'll give Harper his "full cooperation" on the economy. At $300 million, this was Canada's most expensive SM scene ever as Dion squealed, "Thank you, sir, may I have another?"

But hey, we survived the last 18 months of Harper, we'll survive another 18 months until the next election (kidding!). Now we get to watch Bob Rae and Michael Ignatieff battle it out:

And as America gears up for its own election next month, the fight against the California gay-marriage ban Proposition 8 isn't going well. But wait -- we've got celebrities on our side!  There's ads from Ellen Degeneres and (wow!) Molly Ringwald but if Californians won't listen to the stars of 'Gossip Girl,' well there's just no hope for democracy!

I think our beloved gay elder statesman Elton John has finally lost his mind, revealing that he's working on an AIDS musical with Ben Stiller and that he wanted to call his special Ben & Jerry's ice-cream flavour "Fudge Packer." Oh rocket man, don't ever change!