There will be soon be a gaping hole on British newsstands.

Gay glossy AXM announced today that they will no longer publish their print edition and will instead shift their focus to the new-fangled internet:

Kim Watson, media director at Millivres, said: “Plans are currently in hand to relaunch AXM, its content and gay youth audience to digital media platforms with other online youth brands Puffta and Postive Adam. We will be announcing the launch of these new platforms at the end of the month.”

Tris Reid-Smith, [a] consultant editor of AXM, said: “The definitive factor is that we feel the digital media format is very attractive to the demographic we’re reaching – which is principally aimed at young gay men. We feel that format is going to be more attractive to our readers and advertisers in the future.”

The final print edition goes to press on November 4th. Prepare accordingly.

The right-wing's found new William Ayers angle with which to attack Barack Obama!

Obama and Ayers, a professor who once worked against the US government as a member of 60s radical group the Weather Underground, have worked together in Chicago, leading many conservatives - and Republican candidate John McCain - to claim Obama's sympathetic to the "domestic terrorist."

Those arguments began to falter last week after politicians and pundits - and polls - criticized McCain's negative angle.

Though Senator McCain has been easing up on the Ayers offensive, his supporters are hoping a new, gay line will scare voters away from Obama.

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Damn! David Frum, who once made money writing speeches for President George W. Bush, turned the tables on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow last night.

Hoping to discuss the apparent disorganization within the Republican party, Maddow asked Frum to explain his "reservations" on the John McCain's campaign. Rather than addressing Maddow's question, Frum comes out with this:

You were talking throughout the show about the matter of tone in our politics, and yet I think we are seeing an intensification of some of the ugliness of tone that has been a feature of American politics in the past 8 years. This show unfortunately is itself an example of that problem, with its heavy sarcasm and snearing and disregard for a lot of the substantive issues that are important… We're all going to have to do better than we've been doing, including in the past 40 minutes.

Obviously caught off guard, Maddow wonders if Frum actually thinks her tone can be compared to some of the vitriol unleashing against Barack Obama.

Slick, slimy Frum replies, "I don't think that's an important question. I think the question is, given the small plate of responsibility that you personally have, how do you manage that responsibility?"

Maddow's not buying his bullshit and the two get into a debate on what Maddow calls the "false equivalence" that has saturated our political culture. For example, comparing McCain's involvement with the Keating Five to Obama's friendship with William Ayers.

In the end, they agree to disagree: Frum prefers petrified discourse, while Maddow appreciates a little fun. Guess which side we took…

Check out the video, after the jump…

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It's been more than two years since Mark Foley garnered notoriety for sending salacious emails to congressional pages.

The Floridian Congressman has since resigned, come out and been cleared of any illegal wrong-doing, which means it's a perfect time for right-leaning journalist James Kirchick to come out and blast the left for addressing Foley's misdeeds in the first place.

Though he describes Foley's online activities as "reprehensible," Kirchick wags a righteous finger at "democratic operatives" and other liberal activists who, he says, simply used Foley as a political pawn.

The Congressman didn't deserve such malicious attention - rather, he needs our sympathy and understanding. Or something.

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Is Yahoo! working for the right-wing? Maybe not, but the internet company this weekend ran what appears as "news" piece decrying a San Francisco schools' decision to take a first-grade class to their teacher's same-sex wedding opens with quite the anti-gay bang…

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It's getting hot in California!

The activists with No on 8 - the group fighting Proposition 8, a ballot initiative aimed at overturning this year's gay marriage win - have called out their lawyers to take on this inflammatory commercial put out by the Yes on 8 side, also known as homophobic bigots looking to eliminate Americans' rights.

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On Wednesday, Oct. 29 at 8pm, less than a week before you cast your vote for freedom or dictatorship, Barack Obama's campaign will air half-hour commercials on both NBC and CBS.

In booking the airtime, not only did Obama throw Ben Silverman's future into turmoil by bumping the unwatched Knight Rider off its regular time slot, but he also pumped nearly $1 million into the coffers of each network. At NBC, he will pay $891,250 for the privilege, and at CBS he will spend $961,000. Those prices, of course, are ridiculously discounted…

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Barack Obama must have loads of dough with which to play.

The Democratic presidential candidate's campaign today announced they've bought a half-hour slot on CBS' prime time schedule. Though there's no word on how much Obama spent on the time, he's obviously not worried - the Senator's reportedly in talks to sign up other networks, as well:

The Obama campaign will air a half-hour primetime special on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 8 p.m.

Sources say the Obama camp is also in talks with NBC and Fox. NBC is said to be very near a deal. With Fox, the matter is likely to remain uncertain as the time period could conflict with Game 6 of the World Series.

The direct purchase of such a large block of national airtime right before an election used to be more commonplace before campaigns began to focus their end game strategies exclusively on battleground states. Such a move is not without precedent in modern presidential politics, however — Ross Perot did a similar purchase in 1992.

Well, we certainly won't be watching if it conflicts with the World Series. That would be Un-American!

John McCain and his campaign team are keeping up the attacks against Barack Obama.

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Remember this morning, when we told you about how the Advertising Council and the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network had teamed up to fight the phrase "That's so gay"? And remember how the groups enlisted Wanda Sykes and Hilary Duff to headline their first two television commercials? Well, here they are!

Ms. Sykes is up top, Duff's down below.

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Sarah Palin took to the gentle, fair and balanced Fox News this morning to discuss her absolutely pathetic Katie Couric interview, which the Alaskan governor said was "annoying."

Palin continued, saying Couric's questions were unfair and that she would have preferred to discuss all the stupid fucking lies she's been trained to believe are the truth, because she's the goddamn Manchurian candidate.

Video after the jump.

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