Many, many gay homosexuals are angry about North Carolina Governor Mike Easley saying Hillary Clinton made Rocky Balboa look like a pansy. How dare this historic friend of the gays sit idly by while her surrogate throws around these hateful smear words? And how many agujeros de la gloria will Chelsea have to service at The Endup to win back the affections of her mother’s old pals? MORE »

All 14th anniversaries deserve extra special festivities, and the Human Rights Campaign is celebrating the big 1-4 of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy for gay soldiers by… asking if candidates will get rid of it! All this week, the organization has been queerying each Democratic candidate, “If you are elected President, what concrete steps would you take to overturn ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?’” Hillary Rodham Clinton, perhaps swayed by her platonic lover Keith Kerr, responded that she will bring her “strength and experience to bear to end this outdated and outmoded policy.” But your husband the President Bill made that policy! Clinton must obey Clinton or all Clintons fail! MORE »

• Today’s plane crash:Mark Foley::9/11:Gary Condit [TBogg]

• Bill Clinton, Commander Sulu, and Janet Jackson want you to know that you’re not fooling anyone. [YouTube]
• If you had today in the “first person to suggest using Jack Bauer to topple North Korea” office pool, you win. [HuffPo]
• Don’t let alcohol ruin your life. One crazy rave and you’ll be off the sauce for good. [Hit & Run]
• John McCain can’t get “straight-talk” letter about North Korea into any newspapers, sighs, finds willing blog. [Captain's Quarters]
• The Interior Department’s smut blocking algorithm has a decidedly liberal bias. [Atlas Shrugs]
• Florida voters to Katherine Harris: “I sometimes think that all you tell me of knighthood, kingdoms, empires and islands is all windy blather and lies.” [Washington Wire]

Last week, controversy erupted after Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), in an interview with Jeff Sharlet of Rolling Stone, made the following remarks: MORE »

• Inside the Beltway: Podesta group issues press release titled “How Not to Prepare for a Massive Hurricane, by President Bush“. . . White House pool report noted Air Force One served “the biggest cinnamon bun you ever saw, even bigger than the ones you can buy in the mall.” [WT]
• Inside Politics: Buchanan calls for Republicans to attack Bush for his immigration policies. . . Will evangelicals accept Romney, a mormon, in ‘08? [WT]
• Names & Faces: Schwarzenegger museum in Austria closes. [WP]
• Liz Smith: Bill Clinton and Desmond Tutu will receive awards from the Human Rights Campaign. [NYP]

Last week, four gay rights groups came out against John Roberts’ nomination to the Supreme Court. Our first thought: Aunt Toms. Our second thought? Hey, look, they have a point, and they’re not even being all gay about it. Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese told the WP: “Judge Roberts has such a narrow view of what the courts can and should do, it’s a wonder he wants the job at all.” Snap! Such criticism is probably the most substantative reason a liberal group has given for opposing Roberts. Certainly it’s better than “He drives anti-abortion bombers to the clinics” or whatever it was that NARAL said. MORE »