Short Ends: Tom Cruise's (Political) Outing
—He was playing coy, but now Tom Cruise is outed...as a Democrat. This, of course, obviates the need for any Log Cabin Republican jokes. [via Cinemocracy]
—Dear HBO: Please explain to us why a show about a family of bounty hunters would be better than one about "an undercover investigator from the New York State Liquor Authority who infiltrated two [illegal sex] parties described [as] a wild bacchanal of unsafe sex among random partners dressed in leather costumes that exposed their private parts"?
—For reasons that we don't quite understand, the guys at TVGasm want to fix one of the Big Brother 5 competitions. Screwing with a reality show sounds like a good enough cause to us!
—Come on, everyone's doing the Lynndie! It's easy! You bring over the naked prisoner pile, we'll make sure there are enough finger-guns to go around. It'll be very! [via Boing Boing]
—Somewhere, fading MPAA head Jack Valenti has upturned his bowl of tapioca pudding and is muttering something about the evil victory of copyright-raping pirates.