It’s been awhile since we’ve heard from Spokane’s gay mayor, oops, we mean Spokane’s recalled gay mayor, Jim West. But he’s back in the papers and for once, it’s actually good news. The FBI will not be filing criminal charges against him.

So what’s West going to do now that he has more free time on his hands?

Mr. West is unemployed and said he was looking for work in the Spokane area. He did not rule out another bid for public office, and said he was talking with a radio station about a talk show.

Of course! A talk show is the next logical route for someone just coming out of a political sex scandal. We think if West is as kinky as we think he is, he could turn out to be the gay Howard Stern. He’d give us interviews with male strippers, celebrities, and sex talk. More importantly, West could give his online boy toys internships at the radio station and this time it would actually be appropriate.

Yes, Chatting with Jim West could be a big hit.

No Charges After Investigation of Ex-Mayor's Online Scandal [NY Times]

• Spokane has a new mayor since ousting James West from office. No word yet on the new guy's online chat room habits. [The Olympian]

• Martha Stewart fires one last contestant tonight. You must watch because this is the show's last episode. Ever. [The Apprentice: Martha Stewart Offical Site]

• Speaking of finales, if you missed last night's Nip/Tuck and want to find out the identity of the Carver, just click the link. All we'll say is "ew." [Zap2it]

• Some people just refuse to let the whole Ford thing die. [Good As You]

• Hot on the heels of the gay civil union ceremonies in the UK this week, Aussies are asking for "marriages" of their own. [Sydney Morning Herald]

We continue our So Gay! feature with a list of some of the bad guys we faced this year. Most of the people who ended up on our list of Villains for 2005 turned out to be people directly responsible for our rights; politicians. And we found out at least one of them was secretly playing for our team!

5. James West. The Republican mayor of Spokane repeatedly voted against gay rights while in the Washington State Legislature. This year he suffered through a very public outing and a sex scandal that eventually brought him to his knees (pun intended). What’s that saying about Karma?

4. Stephen Bennett. A “former” fag, Bennett has “converted” and is now completely “hetero.” He and his “wife,” Irene, take to the airwaves every day and bitch about the homosexual agenda. ‘nuff said.

3. George W. Bush. What can we say about the man that hasn’t been said a million times before? Our own leader continues to fight for what he refers to as “traditional marriage.” Bush recently helped raise half a million bucks for Republican Marilyn “every day is a bad hair day” Musgrave the very woman who authored the failed gay marriage ban amendment. We just pray that one of the twins turns out to be a dyke.

2. Lech Kaczynski. Believe it or not, Poland elected a more homophobic leader this year than our own Dubya. Kaczynski’s very vocal homophobia and his recent banning of pride marches are pissing off the rest of the European Union. Oh, and he has a twin brother (also a politician) who hates The Gays just as much.

Who was biggest baddie of 2005? Find out after the jump.

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The people of Spokane have spoken. They’ve booted Mayor James West, who cruised for twinks on Gay.com chat rooms and offered at least one a cool city job, out of office.

West tried somewhat valiantly to save his hide by constantly apologizing to his fellow Spokanites, even going so far as to claim last week that he’s now abstaining from gay sex.

But we’re going to miss hearing about Republican (and hypocrite) West’s flirtatious emails.

Here, thinking he’s talking to a hot high school jock, West attempts to convince him to stay mum about his true identity saying, “someday I may run for Governor and this would be bad if you know what I mean.”

Well, we now know exactly what you mean.

It means Cobra 82nd‘s celibacy is getting shattered this weekend now that there’s plenty of time to troll the Gay.com chat rooms.

• Seemingly always a big step ahead of the U.S., gay Brits get to register for civil unions starting today.

• Spokane mayor James West claims he’s sworn off dick. That is until he loses tomorrow’s recall election and finds himself in a month-long gay sex bender.

• Gay porn star/jail bird Mark Dalton has been released from prison, where he likely spent most of his time practicing for his comeback Falcon video.

• Fluff piece central USA Today does a nice job of revealing absolutely nothing about interior design queen Nate Berkus. Aside from the fact that he’s just absolutely gorgeous. Come to think of it, it sounds exactly like the sort of consequential piece we would write about him.

• The Simple Life bitches continue to parlay their reality show success into more crap we’re sure we’ll just eat up. Well, almost. While we think a Nicole Richie sitcom is a great idea, even we’re tiring of image-whore Paris Hilton putting her name on just about anything.

• Wonkette points out that CNN is so aware of their queer viewers and their adoration of Anderson Cooper.

• Sounds like Drudge creamed his pants over Anderson Cooper's proclamation that "going gray is like ejaculation" even more than we did.

• Speaking of ejaculate, STD cases in the gay community are on their way up, up, up. Someone please cue the Evangelicals. This is about when they start to claim this is God's way of punishing homos.

• Images from Gay.com didn't just magically appear on Mayor James West's computer after all. Yeah, obviously.

• Radar Magazine goes all kissy face and lists the top ten guy on guy movie smooches. Funny thing is we thought this article would only end up in the straight guy pages of Details.

• Saudi police busted up a gay beauty pageant before it even happened. Among the items they confiscated were large quantities of "sex toys." Um, what kind of beauty pageant was this going to be?

• Can't wait for it to come out next week? MTV.com is streaming Madge's new disc.

Spokane’s conservative Republican Mayor James West, or “Cobra 82nd” as we like to call him, has been in trouble for surfing Gay.com on a city-owned laptop and then offering an internship to some boy toy in a chat room. Not a smart move for the mayor. (Any queer Spokanites who’ve chatted with him, drop us a line). Rumors have also been rampant about possible sex abuse while a Boy Scout leader. Oh boy.

From his recent AP interview:

Tears welled in the mayor's eyes and he paused to collect himself at one point while reading a supportive letter he received from a former Boy Scout now living in the Netherlands.

He’s publicly declaring he’s still corresponding with Boy Scouts? Someone please slap him.

"I wish I had never gone online at all. I just wish I hadn't," West said. "I scratch my head today. I can't tell you why."

We can answer that one for you. Because you like cock.

"I was never a closeted conservative or a closeted liberal."

No Mr. West, just a closeted homosexual.

The AP saved us from a weekend of nightmares by choosing not to ask him about the significance of a snake in his screen name, Cobra 82nd. We really don’t want to know.