Recently out Star Trek actor George Takei is Howard Stern’s new announcer.

The Southern Baptist Convention says it has no plans to remove Lonnie Latham, the anti-gay Tulsa pastor who was arrested for offering to engage in oral sex with a plainclothes police officer last week. (via raw story)

Is the NEH flagging certain grant applications to follow its anti-gay agenda? One applicant thinks so and is speaking out.

Via virtual matter comes this bit of political philosophy from Morrissey:
“I find myself opposing barbarism, that’s all. People like Blair and Bush have proved that in order to succeed in politics you must be cruel and morally bankrupt. I see no difference between Blair or Bush and Saddam Hussein – all egotistical dictators. Perhaps the only difference is that Blair and Bush do it with a smile. Murder and smile …. as Shakespeare said. Good people do not succeed in politics – it’s impossible.” Like the Moz has always said, barbarism begins at home.