Paris Hilton hosted a party at PURE nightclub in Las Vegas this weekend. And, as you can see, Mr. Kevin Federline popped in to show his bloated, sickening face.

Yes, Cord Jefferson, this is hell.

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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"

• You really do learn something new everyday. Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell, whose work we've never read, apparently likes ladies. She liked a woman so much, in fact, she married one! Cornwell opens up to UK's Telegraph about her wife, Dr. Staci Gruber:

I finally feel rooted somewhere. I feel a sense of responsibility and stability that I didn't have before.
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I've never been a soapbox person for gay rights, but now I'm in a same-sex marriage I tend to be more open, because I am outraged that it should be illegal in other states.

Looking at this picture really puts things in perspective.

• Refinery 29 gets behind our imaginary main squeeze, Thom Browne.

• Barack, Babs, Oprah and Hillary get into a campaign menage-a-quatre.

• Legendary lobbyist Aubrey Sarvis goes after Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

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• Country crooner Faith Hill does not tolerate other women's hands on hubby Tim McGraw's package. An overzealous fan learned that the - (turn and) cough - hard way when she got too friendly at a concert this weekend. Hill wasn't trying to make any friends when she chastised the cock grabber:

Somebody needs to teach you some class, my friend. You don’t go grabbin’ somebody else’s, somebody’s husband’s balls, you understand me? That’s very disrespectful.

Read those first two sentences and tell us that's not the best study in contradiction since the concept of "friendly fire"

• Two lawyers, their sex club tenant and the legal space in-between.

• French actor Michel Serrault, best known for his stage and film work on La Cage aux Folles (The Bird Cage), has died.

• AfterElton offers you ten gay superheroes "you (probably) haven't of"! We know Lord Fanny. She's awesome. Except when she turns into that scary monster. That's not so awesome.

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• Israel's Tourism Ministry just launched a "Proud" ad campaign aimed at attracting more gay visitors.

• Meanwhile, Israel's ultra-Orthodox population has vowed to protest this year's gay pride. Shocker.

• The ultra-Orthodox may not have to protest. Israeli Parliament is may consider a bill to ban all "dangerous" public gatherings.

• Homo author Brent Hartinger just released a new teen book, Dreamquest, which concerns a girl who discovers a movie studio that produces people's nightmares. It may not be gay, but it sure sounds queer.

• Poland v. The Teletubbies (and the 1990's).

• Lindsay Lohan wants the press to respect her rehab privacy. In related news, pigs started flying…

• A Kevin Federline scored tribute to Rosie O'Donnell's time at The View.

• Portuguese gay activists wag their finger at the Russian government over this weekend's shameful pride happenings. They also take some time to blast the distressingly quiet European Union and Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates, who appeared in Moscow yesterday for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin:

The presence and silence of José Sócrates, the Portuguese prime minister, who was in Moscow and is about to take EU presidency, are [an example of] the double standard of the EU, whose rhetoric seems to be using human rights only when financial interests are not at stake.

And snap…

We've just received the universe-shattering report that after two-years and as many babies, Britney Spears has filed for divorce from Kevin Federline. Journalistic wunderkinds Star Magazine report:

Britney Spears filed a petition for divorce from Kevin Federline on Tuesday, Nov. 7 in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the day after she appeared on David Letterman sporting a hot new hairstyle and a killer new bod.

We sure hope that freedom from the walking sperm bank will cheer her up after losing a $10 million lawsuit.

To commemorate Spears-Federline union, here's a clip from happier times. We say happier because watching a stoned Spears talk about her sore jaw makes us happy.

We've still got to wait for the results of today's monumental elections, but we've got another oh-so important ruling: the outcome of the Britney Spears sex tape slander suit. (Yeah, we were on the edge of our seats, too)

For those of you who don't know/care: Spears sued tab-rag US Weekly for running a story about an allegedly missing explicit tape she made with hub-rag, Kevin Federline. The pop-tart, who hasn't made an album in years, tried to get $10 million from the magazine, but has been thwarted by a judge's dismissal. Our favorite conservative newspaper, The Daily Mail, reports:

A judge ruled that Spears could not complain about a published story about the alleged raunchy tape because she had exploited her sexuality to earn huge amounts of money.

Sure, Spears made buckets of money shaking her titties, but those days are clearly over.

How does the judge want her to make her money now if not by suing magazines? It doesn't seem like the girl has another album in her, and she absolutely cannot get an actual job. That would be humiliating. That evil judge has just taken food from the mouths of babes. Vile! Hideous! "Outrageous"!

(PS: We love that Brit-montage from Celebguru. We want to plaster it all over our bathroom for inspiration.)

Speaking of things that aren't really news…

We hate taking pleasure in other people's personal failings (okay, that's a lie, but whatever…), but we can help but laugh at news that ticket sales for Kevin Federline's tour have been so dismal that two shows have already been cancelled.

That bellwhether of journalistic integrity, Star Magazine, reports:

With the release date of Kevin Federline’s debut CD “Playing With Fire” just a day away — on-sale date is Oct. 31 — comes word that TWO of his tour dates have been cancelled, and another date is reportedly in jeopardy of being cancelled.

Kevin’s Nov. 9 gig at House of Blues in Cleveland has been cancelled…Plus, Kevin’s Nov. 10 gig at the House of Blues in Atlantic City has been cancelled…

[Further] The New York Post reports that Kevin’s Nov. 4 gig at NYC’s Webster Hall is in jeopardy of being yanked. The Post reports, “Our spies at Webster Hall say that so few $20 tickets have been sold…that ‘we may just cancel it.’”

Notice they've mistaken Cleveland for Cincinnati? At least they're in the same state…

Poor K-Fed, does this mean he'll have to go back to being a celebrity sponge?

(As a side-note: Wesbter Hall was once the venue of choice for HX Media's Gay Erotic Expo. You know, the expo at which Owen Hawk and his crew won't be apppearing…)

• Multi-Church service will contain no gay bashing, thank you. No, not even a light smack… [The Royal Gazette]

• The UN is none to pleased with Cameroon's treatment of gays. You know what that means…well, really not that much. [365 Gay]

• The Advocate takes a long, hard look at straight men flaunting it for gay men. Oh yes, a long, hard look… [The Advocate]

• Lithuanian Parliament thinks gay materials may corrupt minors. It sure as hell corrupted us… Gay NZ]

• Gay Republican insists, "Mark Foley doesn't represent me." No, really, he doesn't: I'm from Minnesota, he's from Florida… [Donklephant]

• If K-Fed can fill up Webster Hall, we'll sell our second child. We're far too attached to the first, but the second? Not so much. [Gawker]

• The rumors surrounding Lance Bass' sexuality are certain to never die down now that he's been taped leaving a club with reality hottie Reichen Lehmkuhl (see above video clip). And a car full of beards. Watch the clip. [X17]

• Just in time for Gay Pride in New York, Kevin Federline takes over the town to drum up publicity for .. well, we're not sure what, exactly. [MollyGood]

• X-Men's Ian McKellan takes Hollywood to task – once again – for its notion that gay actors should keep their sexuality to themselves. Because if who you slept with had anything to do with talent, how do you explain Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain? (Jake Gyllenhaal's rumors stand for themselves.) [PR Inside]

• Britney Spears' manny Perry Taylor has been nominated for a U.S. Veterans Award. Not for saving Sean Preston from falling to the cement ground, but for taking his naval training and applying it to something worthwhile. Like guarding America's former sweetheart. [Business Wire]

• More on Britney: She's lauding husband Kevin Federline for finally finding a job. Given that he doesn't have a record deal yet (just an album), he's signed on to become the face of clothing label Blue Marlin. [Page Six]

• Oh, so you saw a blubbering Britney Spears on Dateline last night, too? If not, the clip reel is already here. [The Malcontent]

• Take two of our favorite people and put them together in front of the camera — that's all it takes to make us simple folks happy. You too? Then you'll be pleased to hear Anderson Cooper has snagged the first U.S. interview with Angelina Jolie. [Jossip]

• Backstage with Rufus Wainwright means plenty of plastic surgery, over-tweezed eyebrows, and hotties in Rufus tees. Oh, the main act was there, too. [Timmy Ray]

• It is time for another issue of Homovizion, our favorite homozine celebrating show tunes and leather sex! [Homovizion]

• Beth Orton has a new album about to drop, which means that PopBytes has the scoop before anyone else. [PopBytes]

• Yes you too can say “I Put a Lesbian of Color Thru Law School." [eBay]

• Chad Allen talks to Genre about End of the Spear. [Genre]

• James Lipton proves just how deep K-Fed has become. Lucky Britney. [Devil Ducky]

• The Britney and Kevin sex tape is up for auction. Real or fake, we think we should be paid $1,000,000 to see Kevin Federline bare ass naked. Not the other way around. [My E Bid]

• Gay English and Welsh couples are now allowed to adopt little rugrats of their own. [Reuters UK]

• We don’t think the rumors about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ baby being the reincarnated gay son of L. Ron Hubbard are true. That would imply that the baby might actually be Cruise’s. [NY Post].

• Our favorite political ally, Barney Frank, comes out swinging against the army for not doing enough about queer soldier Kyle Lawson's gay-bashing a few months back. You don't want to piss this queen off. [Advocate]

• Something always did seem a bit bitchy about the dad in Family Circus. [World of Wonder]