Hillary Clinton's campaign may come to an end this week. And, on the eve of a decisive primary, we can't help but wonder if she made a fatal mistake: downplaying her femininity.

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Details recently released their "Power 50" issue. Besides being intrigued by Kevin Federline's undeserved cover slot, we're absolutely enthralled by the list's familiar number nine winner: "The Other F-word".

If you take a look back, it appears that 2007 was the year of the F-word—but not the one you’re thinking of. America’s rent-a-quote harridan of hatred, Ann Coulter, used the word to slag presidential candidate John Edwards. Presidential candidate Bill Richardson used the Spanish version (maricón) to slam a guy on the Don Imus radio show. Controversy exploded after Isaiah Washington allegedly dropped the F-bomb on a fellow cast member of Grey’s Anatomy.

It’s a word that anyone who ever spent time in an American school yard is familiar with: faggot. But some bullies grow up, get famous, and keep on using it. “I hate gay people,” blurted former basketball star Tim Hardaway. Tucker Carlson bragged about having given a dude who tried to tap toes with him in a men’s room a taste of his bow-tied brutality (“I . . . hit him against the stall with his head, actually”). Hmmm. The word faggot, it seems, is on the tips of a lot of men’s tongues. They can’t stop thinking about it. Without it they’d be lost, and that makes you wonder who really has the power.

Between this and Out's "gay" debate, queer colloquialisms sure have been getting turned out. Too bad they're not getting worn out, huh? No wonder Details lists The Other F-Word's age as "forever young"

Yeah, this Working Assets 'toon came out on a few weeks back, but it's never too late to laugh at closeted Republicans' expense!

[Thanks William, you're a super gay star! Emphasis on the 'gay'.]

• Lily Allen smokes pot. Acts stupid. Shocker.

• Yes, that is an uncomfortable bathroom experience.

• Stop calling Kanye West "gay".

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MSNBC must really have Tucker Carlson's back. Or they're desperately trying - and failing - to stop a scandal.

Carlson first came under fire after admitting he once assaulted another man after the man "grabbed him" in a public toilet.

Then Carlson and his MSNBC flacks released a statement "clarifying" the matter. Like a game of telephone, however, some of the facts got dropped in that statement. For example, the fact that Carlson "bashed" the man's head in.

Then, some crafty video editing removed the comments all together, says Media Matters:

…Both August 29 re-airings did include Carlson's claim that he had been "bothered in men's rooms," neither broadcast aired the portion in which Carlson claimed that he "went back with someone" and "hit him against the stall with his head." Both re-airings did include a portion of the segment in which Carlson asserted, "I'm not anti-gay in the slightest."

Of course they did.

Worried we gays won't approve of his violent tendencies, MSNBC's Tucker Carlson and his flacks released the following statement.

Let me be clear about an incident I referred to on MSNBC last night: In the mid-1980s, while I was a high school student, a man physically grabbed me in a men's room in Washington, DC. I yelled, pulled away from him and ran out of the room. Twenty-five minutes later, a friend of mine and I returned to the men's room. The man was still there, presumably waiting to do to someone else what he had done to me. My friend and I seized the man and held him until a security guard arrived.

Several bloggers have characterized this is a sort of gay bashing. That's absurd, and an insult to anybody who has fought back against an unsolicited sexual attack. I wasn't angry with the man because he was gay. I was angry because he assaulted me.

That's not quite the story Carlson told last night. He told the world he "Hit him against the stall with his head." Now he's saying he and his friend "held him". What, can't you get your own story straight, Carlson?

MSNBC's Tucker Carlson took to Dan Abrams' airwaves last night to discuss the Larry Craig case.

Besides swearing "I'm not anti-gay" about a billion times, Carlson informs us all that he's been "bothered" in a public bathroom. His reaction? He grabbed him - and then beat him up.

Oh, Carlson, you're so virile!