Oh, please, you knew it was coming.

When the Emmy nominations arrived yesterday – among the obvious nods to Family Guy, The Simpsons, and Grey's Anatomy – there came two shocks. First was Kathy Griffin's nomination for My Life On The D-List for Outstanding Reality Program. And second? Recognition of South Park's Tom Cruise-centered episode "Trapped in the Closet" for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour). Having been on the receiving end of Scientology's prowess for things like this, we understand the uphill challenge Trey Parker and Matt Stone faced when taking a dump on Cruise's celebrity. So while we won't be paying too much attention to whether HBO's Rome wins for best score, we will be holding out hope both Kathy and the South Park boys get a chance to hold their statute in front of a room full of their peers and .. do stand up.

58th Primetime Emmy Awards

• Soulforce's "tour" bus has been vandalized with graffiti. We just hope the spray paint color the vandals used is much more eye-pleasing than school bus yellow. [WBIR]

• Don't expect to see the South Park episode with Tom Cruise refusing to come out of the closet anytime soon. It seems that not only does the Scientologist have control over his wife, but also over Viacom. [NY Post]

• Who cares about drama and sexual tension on the set of Project Runway. What we really want to know, is WTF was Guadalupe on during the reunion show? [The Village Voice]

• Barefoot Britney steps on an old needle lying on the ground. Gay fans say: "Was she exposed to HIV?" Kevin Federline says: "Oh, there it is." [ShowBiz News]

• Anti-gay public school to open in Oregon. Since when are church schools funded by taxes? [basicrights]

• A male student is in trouble for wearing dress and a wig to his prom. “'The only thing that Mr. Lofy did wrong was wearing a purse that didn’t match the dress and open-toed shoes before Memorial Day," says his attorney. We had no idea lawyers had any sense of style. [MSNBC]

The United States military seems to be sending a clear message to gays these days: We’ll use you to fight in times of war, but you’re dispensable during peacetime.

The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that was instituted over a decade ago is not being enforced for gay soldiers needed to fight in Iraq. An official from the U.S. Army Forces Command says:

"The bottom line is, some people are using sexual orientation to avoid deployment. So in this case, with the Reserve and Guard forces, if a soldier 'tells,' they still have to go to war, and the homosexual issue is postponed until they return to the U.S. and the unit is demobilized."

There are an ever increasing number of U.S. military casualties in the Middle East everyday. Is the Pentagon’s taking advantage of such a hypocritical regulation a sign that the military is in desperate need of more troops?

We think Chef from the South Park movie put it best: “Human Shield, my ass.”