• The Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network hopes to combat homophobia and other forms of schoolyard bullying with January's "No Name-Calling Week". All those who utter a nasty name will have their tongues cut out and hung from the flag pole.

• In other education-related news, ACLU Florida has filed for a preliminary injunction on behalf of Okeechobee High School's Gay-Straight Alliance. Apparently the school tried to block their meetings. When will they learn: fuck with GSA and you fuck with the ACLU.

• New Jersey Attorney General Stuart Rabner issued a statement saying that religious organizations opposed to same-sex unions have the right to refuse. That's good - we wouldn't want them blurring that whole church/state line. Even in the name of faggotry.

• Robert Klein Engler's constructed an essay deconstructing constructionist queer theory. Careful it doesn't fall apart...

• New York Governor Elliot Spitzer asked homo-politico Sean Patrick Maloney to join his staff as first deputy secretary. A political match made in heaven.

• Via our favorite bear, Andrew Sullivan, here's a fun (and hairy) song-and-dance site.

• Butt is it art? Virginia teacher Stephen Murmer just got canned for his side-job: making paintings with his posterior.