Caroler Tom Daley's treasure trail goes off the deep end.

Murderess Jean Harris dies at 89.

Idiot who bought firefighter killer's guns nabbed.

Nicholas Hoult in zombie romcom Warm Bodies.

MENTAL BREAK: Puppies in the snow!

Marilyn's FBI file stripped of redactions.

Matthew McConaughey definitely not firing blanks.

The skinny on Anne Hathaway's Les Miz diet.

GAY-BAIT:  Madonna's MDNA #1 in Russia.

Log Cabin Republicans vs. RINO Chuck Hagel.

New LCR prez hearts Newt Gingrich.

Liberace's ex, Scott Thorson, tells National Enquirer he was snubbed by Michael Douglas.

Unhealthy relationship

Quote of the anti-gay:

"Some gays are actually having children. It's not right on paper. It's not right in fact."—Mitt Romney

There's your candidate, Log Cabin Republicans. He also held up birth certificates when gay parents were involved when governor of Massachusetts. A total, subhuman slimeball posing as a moderate.

R. Clarke Cooper, LCR's head & a total hypocrite on marriage equality

This is a bonehead move to Romney—he apparently met with the Log Cabin Republicans in secret and promised to support ENDA (which President Obama already supports on top of marriage equality, hate-crimes legislation, the end of DOMA, etc., etc.) in order to get their endorsement, which they gave.

Why? They're not that important and it will only piss off his base.

And he's a liar anyway, so it's unlikely he'd support it if he won. Why would he stick his neck out for ENDA while simultaneously fighting to enshrine marriage inequality in the U.S. Constitution?

R. Clark Cooper, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, defends Speaker of the House Boehner's plan for the House to defend the constitutionality of DOMA in light of President Obama's decision not to do so, and criticizes Obama's historic decision as "political gamesmanship."

Because nothing great any president has ever done has also been politically savvy or sneaky or beneficial. And of course Boehner and the Republican Party never engages in political gamesmanship by ginning up anti-gay fervor, right? What a joke. (Here's a better reason to laugh about DOMA.)

Video after the jump...

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) is saying there are now at least 62 votes in the Senate to pass the stand-alone repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and gives credit to Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut) for rounding up the support. It's odd to be happy with Lieberman...it's been a long time!

Here's Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pennsylvania, pictured) speaking out on behalf of the repeal on the House floor. Great guy, and it's so sad he'll be gone in January:

"Ha, ha! We really screwed those gays!"

The legislative repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell is apparently dead—its cloture vote failed today on party lines, with asswipe Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia the only Democrat voting against it and cloture-teaser Susan Collins (R-Maine) the only Republican voting for it. Collins voted for it only symbolically—she waited until the very end to switch to a yes.

"I never miss a chance to screw a gay!"

President Obama's "strategy" (or lack thereof) and HRC's endorsement of it was a complete and utter failure; all he can do now is own up to that and offer something proactive—which he's been dead-set against doing so far—like an executive order or dropping the government's appeal of the Log Cabin Republican case against it.

So as those of you who care/are paying attention know, the federal appeals court in San Francisco (nice irony) agreed to stay Judge Virginia Phillips's order that Don't Ask, Don't Tell not be enforced during the appeals process in that Log Cabin Republicans case vs. the law. The DOJ has until Monday to explain why DADT should remain in effect pending appeal. If they lose, DADT will be unenforceable until that appeal is decided, which I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) won't happen until after lame-duck session in November/December, giving the Senate one last chance to legislatively kill DADT for good.

HuffPo—which usually seems to enjoy turning up the heat on Obama—has an interesting, to-the-point summary of why Obama is defending in court a law he has vowed to see killed legislatively.

I can't believe I'm going to say this but...an interesting interview with Meghan McCain by Rachel Maddow last night. McCain's getting scorched for coming out and saying what many in the Republican establishment are saying behind-the-scenes, namely that Christine O'Donnell is a "nutjob."

But what interests me is that she went on to talk a bit about President Obama and Don't Ask, Don't Tell. I give McCain credit for openly—and, clearly, sincerely—disagreeing with and being hurt by her father's homophobic stance on DADT (and all other gay issues). In the past, I've been unimpressed with her for focusing on what Obama hasn't done when her father—and her party—is actively, aggressively working against gay issues. But she doesn't harp on that here, instead saying politicians should be held responsible for their failings but admitting she really has no answers as to how. (She doesn't advocate not voting for them again, protesting or other measures suggested by Maddow.)

Also interesting is that Ms. McCain seems to think that Obama has been given a free pass for his gay-rights disappointments. I'm glad Maddow pointed out to her that many in the gay community have given him no such free pass (choice comment at Joe.My.God. yesterday: "Obama can't tell his black ass from his white elbow," and it goes downhill from there on a daily basis in the comments section), but I think the central question remains: What do we do about it?

I don't think there are easy answers. I know AmericaBlog and others have advocated not to give the Democrats money. Some have argued that they'd never vote for Obama again or that they wouldn't vote for any Democrats, or that they wouldn't vote at all. Dan Choi's sincerely, passionately applied tactic is to embarrass the president by turning up the heat via civil disobedience and high-profile demonstrations; these things have worked in the past in other areas.

I'm not attracted to any of these remedies, but like Meghan McCain—and unlike those who use the word "Obamabots" in every other sentence—I don't have all the answers and don't pretend to.

DADT discharges will halt until the Department of Justice's (unfortunate) appeal of the Log Cabin Republicans' case is resolved. So I believe that means...DADT is dunzo until that appeal's decided or until the Senate votes it out of existence, whichever comes first. (I believe this includes the status of any stay that's granted, however.)

Ugh, the Department of Justice has filed appeals in both high-profile DOMA cases. This is not unexpected, but I bet the Obama Administration wasn't expecting the day's other big gay-rights news.

At what point does he take the bull by the horns on these issues? Apparently never, not until—in the case of DADT—the bull completes its umpteenth study on the topic.

And when the newly Republican-saturated (if not led) Senate refuses to get rid of DADT in November or December, then does Obama say, "Fuck it, I'm issuing an executive order?" Seems like a fantasy.