When it came time for Business Week assistant managing editor Bruce Nussbaum to do jury duty in New York City last week, he found himself assigned to a high-profile case. The suspects—who had been charged in some sort of gang activity—were so intimidating, so menacing, that he feared not only for his life, but also for his family's: "One of [the connotations] that crossed my mind was, you know, a nationally organized gang, very powerful, that could reach out and try to influence members of the jury." Of what horrible gang could Nussbaum have been so very afraid? Especially since the tough guy admitted he was himself in a Lower East Side gang in the 1960s. (That experience must serve him well in the corridors of Business Week!)

Chole Hilliard's Village Voice cover story features a description of a party where AGs ("agressives," or butch, "masculine" lesbians) fight thuggishly for control of "femmes."

Sandi Powledge may have been—ok, definitely was— "the furthest thing from glamour" when she met Anna Nicole Smith in 1991. But, according to the Houston Chronicle, that didn't stop the pair from embarking on a "tumultous love affair" that began in Texas, endured through Anna's rise to Playmate of the Year, and was finally ended by Anna's drinking and her inability to stay monogamous. "She was just hungry for love, hungry for approval—just like a bucket with a hole in the bottom," Powledge says. Oh, Anna! If only things had gone another way. But alas, Sandi Powledge just couldn't fill your hole.

Did former Anna Nicole Smith assistant Kimberly Walther actually ramble on "her blog" about Howard K. Stern's guilt, as Page Six reported this morning? Apparently, we were all naive to think so. Entertainment Tonight will feature an interview tonight with the formerly purple-haired, still Anna-tribute-tattooed lesbian, in which she supports Howard K. Stern's paternity claims and maintains that she "would never think that [Howard] would do anything to harm either Daniel or Anna." The weird thing is, we kind of believe her. Would a woman with a tattoo of Anna Nicole Smith lie? We'll find out when we get ours!

The real story of the week was the Sapphic cravings of popstitute Britney Spears. We turned to Lisa Parrish, the Hookup blogger for "The L Word"-based Our Chart, a randy lady-based social networking site, for help in dealing with the accusations of lesbian lady-craving leveled at Britney Spears in this week's In Touch and everywhere else.

The lead item in today's Page Six quotes embattled hip hop diva Foxy Brown as saying that "everyone reads Page Six with a grain of salt." Omg, how dare she? Everyone knows that Page Six is a totally infallible record of truth. Except, of course, when it comes to easily factcheckable details like which Wilson bro has a funny nose and whether or not gay icon comedy stars are, themselves, gay. To wit: In another item today, about Margaret Cho's election to venerable San Francisco-based sex toy emporium Good Vibration's board of directors, Cho is id'd as "the chubby-cheeked lesbian comic." Hmm. We had kind of always thought, based on every stand up routine of hers we've ever seen, that Cho was a fan of both the pole and the hole. Confirmation was sought and found at a funny website that called U.S. Asians ("Margaret Cho. A Funny Lady and she is Korean?!?!?!), and the part in her Wikipedia entry that says she's married to a dude. We're going to go ahead and say that Page Six called this one wrong. Perhaps Foxy, in spite of being deaf and apparently kind of dumb, got the grain of salt thing right. You know, maybe.

Really, you're just not going to see a lede better than this:

• Long Island City's seediest strip club reviewed. [#1HS]
• The only picture of Robocop with a pterodactyl you'll ever need. [Worker # 3116]
• The media may not have been able to solve that whole WMD thing, but, hey, they beat the shit out of Barry Bonds. [ESPN]
• DC Comics' Batwoman returns as a lesbian. Rival Marvel vows to introduce their new superhero, Rugmuncher, who plays acoustic guitar at an independently-owned coffee shop. [BBC]
• Slate's major demographic at risk of STDs, apparently. [Slate]
• Unsolicited advice for the New York Press from a blogger. That's pretty much how they make all of their decisions over there anyway. [TIWWDN]
• The 25 worst tech products of all time. This is where we do the self-referential joke. [PC World]

A strangely overenthusiastic reader writes in with a lengthy report from last night's New York Liberty game, reporting on celebs in attendance (and unveiling the team's new-to-us nickname, the Libs). The dedicated fan, however, seems to have messed an essential part of the WNBA.