Wait just one second. Why does the costume-making bear get to come back to Project Runway, while staph-infection Jack Mackenroth does not? One Jack fan refuses to take this lying down, and has started an online petition: "Jack has since made a full recovery but left Project Runway due to illness instead of elimination. This petition is an effort to show support and convince the producers of the show to allow Jack to return for the competition next season." [ipetitions.com via Queerty]

At long last, the Most Dramatic Staph-Infection-Related Project Runway Departure Ever aired last night, in which contestant Jack Mackenroth developed a MRSA beneath his mouth (pronounced MER-sa, it stands for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and this is a great place to start if you'd like to learn more about antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections and you!), forcing the Dale Levitski-snugglebum to tearfully excuse himself from the competition.

News that Bravo's kissing reality cousins Dale Levitski and Jack Mackenroth are dating has spread across the internets like wildfire, conjuring heartwarming domestic scenes involving Dale asking Jack to taste his lamb jus, as Jack measures Dale's inseam for a pair of stripey trousers that will eventually find their way beneath the couple's shared Hanukkah Bush. Not everyone is wholeheartedly in favor of the union, however, as some fans have already registered concern that the openly HIV-positive Runway contestant might put the status-indeterminate Dale in danger, a matter Mackenroth addresses in a statement posted to his blog today:

Now that we've had two weeks to get acquainted with the gays and ladies vying for the title of America's Next Top Project Runway Design Star, we thought the time was ripe to turn to the internets in search of some contestant nudity.