1. Why does  anyone care what former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair thinks?

2. Should  lame duck governor Jon Corzine sign a gay marriage bill?  At first blush, I say no.

3. Why do people always include the word “hot” when they use the term Latin band.

4. Will pushing for gay marriage save New York’s David Paterson?

5. This story about  premature aging for some who are on HIV medications, proves again why safe sex is important. Wear a condom peoples.

6. Congratulations to Charles Pugh and Sandra Kurt. Local elections are just as critical as the national ones.

7. No work for me today. Levi Johnston is apparently in New York for his Playgirl photo shoot.

8. Anyone have any Palm Springs Pride stories? Please if you want to moan about how ashamed you are about Dykes on Bikes or some other “freaks”, keep the diatribe to a minimum. We all know gay marriage would be the law of the land if gays and lesbians just wore J. Crew and acted right.

9. Discovered Hill Street Blues on Hulu. I’m screwed.

10. Too many books. Not enough time.

Here at 365 some of our readers have a little parlor game. If there is a comment that gives the slightest props to a Republican and/or conservative, a few will furiously start typing  “Jews for Hitler,” “self hating queen,” or some other accusatory phrase. Well ladies get those keyboard ready!

A few months back Ross Douthat replaced Bill Kristol as the conservative op-ed writer at the New York Times. A good thing really because Kristol can be a little fact deficient when opining. Anyway Douthat was recently on a panel called “Meet the Neo-Cons: They’re Young, They’re Bright, They Tilt to the Right” (he was joined by Reihan Salam) and the topic of gay marriage came up. Apparently Douthat turned incoherent. Strange but he kept going and  explained his tongue knots thus:

“I am someone opposed to gay marriage who is deeply uncomfortable arguing the issue in public.”

Calm down folks. Not finished yet. He hasn’t jumped on the marriage train because of his religion. Will you wait please!? However, he described the conservative opposition to same sex marriage as  “a losing argument,”  thinks gay marriage is going to happen, and said something that needs to be put on your wall today.

“The secular arguments against gay marriage, when they aren’t just based on bigotry or custom, tend to be abstract in ways that don’t find purchase in American political discourse. I say, ‘Institutional support for reproduction,’ you say, ‘I love my boyfriend and I want to marry him.’ Who wins that debate? You win that debate.”

Earlier today, the New York Times posted this video about a man whose husband is serving in the military. The video shows how the man, who wishes not to be identified to protect his solider husband, suffers many heartbreaks at the hand of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

The man also reveals his fear of what will happen if his husband is sent to Iraq and injured. Thanks to DADT, he would not be directly notified about his husband’s injuries and would have to wait for a family member of his husband to contact him.

This video definitely pulls at the heartstrings and is a great example  of how those serving in the military are being affected by this disastrous law. With news coming out earlier this week that the Supreme Court has no plans to tackle this issue any time soon, it’s hard to think what it’s going to take for this thing to actually get repealed.

When even Stephen Colbert is ridiculing DADT in front of troops at a military base in Iraq, you have to wonder why Obama is so slow to act on this.

Be sure to check out In Their Boots, the documentary from which this short video is taken. The series chronicles how the war is affecting servicemen men and women (as well as their families).

The folk who run the op/ed section of the New York Times need a primer in the art of public relations. Two presumptive nominees for the White House, questions and debates on how to manage a war. One nominee, Barack Obama, gets his piece on what to do with Iraq published. John McCain, who has foreign policy chops that Obama lacks, is told his submission on the same topic does not meet the standards of the the Old Gray Lady.

Yes it’s true the newspaper asked Senator McCain for a rewrite and even offered suggestions to add some punch to what the Arizona senator first sent in. Sure the op/ed editor makes clear he wants to have McCain published, but we are talking about a guy who is running to be leader of the free world not a nameless hack who is looking for a clip that will make him a household name (”Mr Withers? Your table is ready sir.”). By not publishing McCain’s essay, the New York Times simply played into the assumption the media is doing all it can to get the junior senator from Illinois elected. A much cleaner response would have been publication based on a couple of changes. By doing that, the New York Times would have saved itself from the bias memo being peddled by Republicans.