21 Oct 07 links for 2007-10-21

• JK Rowling says wizard Dumbledore is gay - washingtonpost.com
  “Rowling said she had read through a script for … ‘Half-Blood Prince’ and corrected a passage in which Dumbledore was reminiscing about past loves by crossing it out and scrawling ‘Dumbledore is gay’ over it.”
  (tags: interesting admirable books)
• “Thompson’s tendency to look down and read his remarks provided the audience with some of the most prolonged views of the top of a bald politician’s head in recent history.”
  “When you feel compelled to use an index card for lines like, ‘We must have good laws. We must do our best to stop bad laws,’ you have been spending too much of your life filming 30-second bits of dialogue.”
  (tags: hysterical neocon politics)