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Mike Wallace, late of CBS's 60 Minutes, died last night at age 93. He perished in an assisted care facility near New Canaan, CT.

Over 45 Years ago, Wallace Hosted Television's First glimpse of Homosexuality,  Given the era in which it was produced, it's admirably 
open-minded: gay folk, at least male ones, are allowed to speak their 
pieces freely and at length. (I was especially interested in the weird 
hand-wringing about the possibility of a "gay mafia" ruling pop art and 
fashion, which seems rather incidental to the segment's central 
question: Is it desirable to legislate against private sexual behavior? 
On this question, at least, it seems Wallace wished to alight gently on 
the side of history.)Within 2 Years, Gay Liberation Happened. 

by Michelangelo Signorile

Over the past few weeks it seems Rick Santorum has accused anyone who even remotely gets under his skin of being a "bully." He called Mitt Romney a "bully" back in February. Earlier in the week, at a campaign event in Wisconsin, he called unions "bullies." And he accused New York Times reporter Jeff Zeleny of trying to "bully" him.

But an incident at a campaign stop at a bowling alley yesterday betrays that Santorum is so obsessed with bullies because he looks at one one every morning in the mirror.

According to Reuters reporter Sam Youngman, who tweeted what he heard, Santorum had some advice for a little boy who was reaching for a pink bowling ball: "You're not gonna use the pink ball. We're not gonna let you do that. Not on camera."

Santorum may just as well have called the kid a "fag." Or was there some other thing he was implying the kid would look like if he used the pink bowling ball? I can't think of one, can you?

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