Elaine Donnelly is the crazy right-wing lady who keeps calling Fort Hood to get Hot Gay Army Medic Darren Manzella fired for his audacious crime of not staying in the closet or out of the military as the Jeebus intended. Doesn’t she look like fun? Well, since calling his bosses all the time to demand that he be drummed out of the Army wasn’t good enough, she’s now used her illustrious position as a blogger for the National Review Online to demand that he be gotten rid of for the sake of the morale of the soldiers, some of whose lives he saved during his two tours as an Army Medic in Iraq. Oh, and she’s got her granny panties in a wad over the following photo of soldiers behaving badly.

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When I wrote about Army Sergeant Darren Manzella earlier this week, I figured that he might eventually get drummed out of the military and that would be that. Then the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network emailed and asked if I wanted to interview Darren myself and I never turn down interviews with hot guys, so I agreed. Little did I know that they had a surprise for me: Darren knew I’d called him an “insane hottie” and it turns out I can blush! Who knew?

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Army Sargeant/insane hottie Darren Manzella is an army medic and (sadly for my half of the species) gay. Like, very very gay. Gay enough that he came out to his commanders (and showed them a video of him kissing his boyfriend) when he was threatened with a third-party outing just before he was supposed leave for his second tour or Iraq. Oh, we all know what happened, right?

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* Justice Department functionary fears being “scootered,” pleads the fith. [Above the Law]
* Army recruiter’s racist homophobic rants made hilarious by use of caps lock. [Pandagon]
* John Conyers can buy and sell you. [After Downing Street]
* Vast majority of government business done over Hotmail since “whitehouse.gov” addresses make it harder to the get at the Cialis and Ambien. [War and Piece]
* Mormons abandon support of Iraq war. What’s next, drinking coffee? [Passport]
* Entire Conservative Union board quits after appointing Tom DeLay to itself, but that might just be the chron talking. [Chron]

The number of soldiers discharged from the U.S. military for being gay rose 10% over the past year, the Times reports. Makes sense — it’s not as if the Army desperately needs warm bodies right now, right? But the Army’s outing techniques have gotten a little more sophisticated than the old-fashioned way of blackballing soldiers who carried around little poofy dogs:

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