Remember the good old days before political campaigns, collapsing economies and equal rights movements overtook our brains? I mean, things were shitty then, too, but at least we had the good sense to ignore our problems and leave them to future generations, blissfully unaware that we were that "future generation".

Well, it's Friday and we all need a break, so to remind us of live in the good old days, here's a little blind item fun from sister site Mollygood:

Which TV drama series is going to go off the air without wrapping storyline or telling the viewers? The network is pretending that everything is fine. The stars continue to smile, and the network continues to promote the show. However, the schedule has been shuffled and show’s writers have been told to clear out their offices.

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Patrick Dempsey appeared on lesbian entertainer Ellen DeGeneres' talk show yesterday and, yes, the conversation turned to actress Brooke Smith's recent axing from ABC's Grey's Anatomy.

Some suspect ABC gave Smith the boot because her on-screen lesbian relationship was getting a bit too serious. Dempsey gave no credence to those rumors - not because they're not true, but because network executives told him what to say:

ABC actually sends me over what I should [say]… 'We've had a great time working with her and that the conclusion of her [character] has been orgasmic' — I'm sorry, I'm dyslexic! — 'organic' ending to the story line.'
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I don't know what happened with that story line. They decided not to continue it for some reason.

We weren't inclined to believe the aforementioned rumors, but ABC's choreographing of comments strikes us as a bit queer.

Every week, a bunch of “real” people say really stupid things on reality TV. These are their stories.

10. "Elina, Annaleigh and Majorie, they had, like, a lesbian bath moment, apparently. … It was very loud." — Samantha, America's Next Top Model

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Dr. Phil today spent his talk show discussing "gender confused children," the dangers of early hormone therapy, chatted with parents of trans children and debated Focus on the Family's right-wing perspective. Obviously these are controversial topics and you can be sure Phil's message boards are positively burning up right now. But one comment more than any other has been fueling the debate:

As a Christian, I KNOW that people are NOT born gay. God created man and woman to procreate and there is no way two women or two men can naturally procreate together. God loves all of His creation, but He also gave us free-will to make a choice and being gay is a choice. Find people who have been delivered from being gay and perhaps you may be enlightened. We have to get out of this mindset of allowing children to be what they THINK they want to be. Parents are stewards of children and are expected to raise them with morals that line up according to the Word (Holy Bible) and not according to what society accepts.

The gay folk are having a field day.

Note: Apparently some of you aren't familiar with "message boards," because there's confusion on where that quote came from - it's from some anonymous Phil viewer, not the host.

Since Sarah Palin was everyone's favorite guest-star on Saturday Night Live last weekend, she might have some job prospects waiting for after she loses her VP bid.

"Any television person who sees the numbers when she appears on anything would say Sarah Palin would be great," said veteran morning-show producer Steve Friedman, citing the double-digit ratings gains her appearances on "Saturday Night Live" and "CBS Evening News" generated. "The passion she has on each side, love and hate, makes television people say, 'Wow, imagine the viewership.'"

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Rosie O'Donnell's steadily making her way back to television dominance!

First there's that NBC variety show, which will be piped in coast-to-coast on Thanksgiving eve, and now comes word that the lesbian entertainer will soon headline a new Lifetime made-for-the-boob-tube movie:

Rosie O'Donnell has signed on to star in and exec produce America, a telepic for Lifetime about a 16-year-old boy's struggles within the foster-care system.

America reunites O'Donnell with producer Larry Sanitsky and scribe Joyce Eliason, with whom she worked on CBS' 2005 telepic Riding on the Bus With My Sister.
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Set to premiere in February, the made-for is based on E.R. Frank's book of the same name. O'Donnell will play the therapist who guides the pic's title character, America, beyond his troubled past.

For those of you who never saw Riding on the Bus With My Sister - and, really, who can blame you? - O'Donnell played a mentally disabled girl. It was, in a word, absurd. Don't believe us? Check out a clip down below. (PS: Toilet seat!)

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Joe Biden avoided dancing on a recent episode of Ellen, but Barack Obama wasn't so lucky during a remote taping for the show yesterday.

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