Hi, Mary Louise Parker. You're rocking that Batman shirt.

And oh, Sarah Shahi, you're so pretty.

The AfterEllen list makes me happy.

I wish some more of these women would come out, like the guys have been doing lately -- and I'm looking at you, Jodie Foster.

Seriously.

A map of US states renamed for countries with similar GDPs. We are the world.

What other women on that list are closeted?

Queen Latifah?

I don't know why I care, really, but I do think that what's gone on with NPH, etc., has been basically perfect -- not a huge deal, generally. Not everyone has to be an activist, but I don't think having your actual partner on the red carpet should have to be a big thing, you know?

Unless someone wants to go with me to the Taste of Randolph Street on Friday to see The Broken West and Fountains of Wayne.

Oooh, I would, but by then the lingering earworm of Stacey's Mom will have sucked my will to live.

Wow, Rose Rollins is beautiful.

What other women on that list are closeted?

There are often rumors about Queen Latifah. And about Kate Moennig.

Queen Latifah?

Huh. I thought she was out.

Fred Pete, my friend C (who also has health-challenged cats) recommends A Cat Practice in Silver Spring.

Well, they didn't give her the Gay Star (TM), so apparently not.

What other women on that list are closeted?

Welllll, being all hooked into the lesbian rumor mill, which we know is COOMPLETELY accurate....ALL OF THEM!

Nah, but considering only 8 of those 100 "admit" to being gay or bi, I'm guessing there's a few more. Not to be stereotyping or anything, but if you play a lesbian ALL THE TIME, I gotta wonder (*cough*CleaDuvall*cough*KateMoennig*cough*etcetc) And there are definitely rumors about some of them, but who knows how much credence to put into them--do I REALLY think Queen Latifah is queer? Probably not. Do I wish she was, cause she's freakin' AWESOME? Yeah. Am I glad, if she's straight, that she's been awesome and played queer characters? Heck yeah.

Finally, the subpoenas are coming... to be followed by the Constitutional showdown....

This is a subpoena to a former political director at the White House, Sara Taylor. Now this is significant in that this is, in the months of the struggle between Congress and the administration on these fired federal prosecutors, this is going to be the first time we're going to see a subpoena actually go out to somebody who worked inside the White House. This Sara Taylor was assistant until really a few weeks ago, she just left the White House. She was a key deputy to Karl Rove, of course the President's chief political advisor and so what the committee has wanted to know from her, as they have from other people who worked in the White House, is what the White House's role was with these fired federal prosecutors because they are trying, have been trying to figure out, they have been investigating whether politics was at play here...obviously will set off a big political fight which is already going on, but also a Constitutional showdown...

And...

Two congressional committees are issuing subpoenas for testimony from former White House counsel Harriet Miers and former political director Sara Taylor on their roles in the firings of eight federal prosecutors, according to two officials familiar with the investigation. [...]

The Senate Judiciary Committee's subpoena for Taylor compels her to testify on July 11, while the House Judiciary Committee's subpoena for Miers compels her testimony the next day.

...Not yet on the subpoena list is President Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, but only because Democrats have not yet finished interviewing those below him, the officials said.

I'm looking forward to the Miers testimony....

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