ABOVE: Josh-in' around. Follow here.

BELOW: Keep readng for hot Aussie firemen, a beautiful story of an interracial gay couple of the '60s and beyond, Mueller report news, Castro in 2020 and much, much more ...

Such an animal! (Image via Australian Firefighters Calendar)

OMG BLOG (WORK UNFRIENDLY): The Australian Firefighters Calendar project offers not one but several sexy-as-hell 2019 calendars showing off the red-hot boys Down Under who save lives — but whose bodies might stop yours if you're unprepared for the galleries.

Pig play (Image via Australian Firefighters Calendar)

WAPO: Don't miss this piece on the two Harolds — Herman and Mays — a gay, interracial couple who lived through the racial upheaval of the '60s and remained devoted to one another through thick and thin, for a lifetime.

POLITICO: Trump sued over his attacks on the free press.

CHICAGO TRIBUNE: The Mueller report is coming — after the midterms.

CBS NEWS: Alaska's lieutenant governor has resigned over inappropriate remarks he made to an unnamed person that put another unnamed person in a bad position. The (Independent) governor has accepted the resignation. It's all very murky.

.@tedcruz “You are right that there’s a loss of civility”
*2 seconds later*
“Don’t interrupt me, Jason”
Lord 🙄 #TexasDebate https://t.co/ou2KpuWJNx

— Daniel Hernandez (@dan7121) October 17, 2018 

TWITTER: The second and final Cruz vs. O'Rourke debate in Texas had Cruz behaving like a defensive, entitled jagoff (above, snapping at the moderator while discussing civility!) and O'Rourke being as much of a passionate, principled leader as ever. Here's a juicy moment that reveals a lot (by revealing nothing) about Cruz: 

Nothing will ever give Texans more insight into who @tedcruz is as a person than the 5 seconds it took for him to begin his response to this easy question. #TexasDebate pic.twitter.com/y8YGqIGClH

— 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗 (@squeakytoy) October 17, 2018

PrPOLITICO: Julián Castro says he is leaning toward running in 2020.

JOE.MY.GOD.: Pro-Trump pimp Dennis Hof is dead at 72. Bye, bitch.

GR8ERDAYS: Justine Bateman, 52, of Family Times fame, is publishing a book — that argues fame is corrosive and unreal.

HUFF POST: Javier Bardem calls Woody Allen an unfairly targeted genius, would work with him again.

METRO WEEKLY: Trump appointed an openly gay judge for a federal appeals court gig. So Trump's not anti-gay, as long as the person in question is a Federalist Society constitutional literalist.

INSTAGRAM: Keep up on hunky (and other) celeb birthdays here.