Over the weekend, Lady Gaga promised to head down to D.C. for this Sunday’s Equality March. At New York City’s Bootleg party, Gaga announced:

Listen, next week is the gay pride march. And I know that I’m going to be there marching with all of you. And the most exciting thing tonight is that we’re all here together. And you can sign up at a table here to get a ticket on a free bus to D.C. So, you have no excuse. And if the buses are all filled up, there’s tons of other ways to get there . . . And there’s really no excuse for you not to go.

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The human nipple is a strange beast. Depending on the context, this “small projection of skin containing the outlets for 15-20 lactiferous ducts arranged cylindrically around the tip” has been marketed as alternately sexy, obscene, artistic, disgusting, and even sexier.

But as a consumer of nipple shots, such versatility can become confusing. It’s often difficult to know the socially acceptable reaction to every stray projection of skin that catches your eye. Should you high-five your buddy or vomit discreetly into your hands? I’m here to help.

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Everyone is talking about Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta these days—that sexy, post-post-feminist, drunk girl perspective-shattering sensation known colloquially as Lady Gaga. Gaga cites David Bowie, Queen, and Madonna as influences for her radio-friendly glam-pop. But after hearing her latest track, “Love Games,” (several dozen times) it seems clear to me that Gaga has, in fact, stolen the funk from a fictional Mighty Boosh merman known as Old Gregg. Listen to Old Gregg’s “Love Games,” below, and tell me if you think Lady Gaga’s “Love Game” hook does much more than drop the “s.”

Lady Gaga’s “Love Game”: “Let’s play a love game / Play a love game / Do you want love / Or you want fame / Are you in the game? / Doin’ the love game.”

Old Gregg’s “Love Games”: “Do you love me? / Are you playing your love games with me? / I just want to know what to do, ’cause I need your love a lot, oh come on now.”

When I first described Jamie Foxx’s “Blame It (On the Alcohol)” as a date rape jam, I lamented that the song didn’t allow Foxx’s female target on the dance floor any input into the situation. “But what about the woman in the song?” I asked. “Of course, no holla back joint has dropped from Foxx’s fictional honey, so we can’t tell what she’s really thinking.”

But I think I’ve found her! And she is Lady Gaga. In extreme boozin’ song “Just Dance,” Gaga declares:

“I’ve had a little bit too much, much.”

“Where are my keys? I lost my phone.”

“What’s going on on the floor?”

“I can’t see straight anymore.”

“What’s the name of this club?”

“How’d I turn my shirt inside out?”

Anyway, Lady Gaga is wasted. So what does she want to do now?:

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* Jezebel debunks the debunkers of the rumors facts of Palin’s rape kit debacle.

* Meghan McCain at McCain Blogette has posted another election playlist. McCain writes that she creates “playlists for almost every interesting experience,” but doesn’t identify exactly what that interesting experience is this time. What could the combination of David Bowie’s “Golden Years,” Joan Jett’s “Bad Reputation,” and Lady GaGa’s (?) “Beautiful, Dirty, Rich” be referring to? Whatever, I’m digging it.

* Via The Nation: A pastor protects Sarah Palin against “the spirit of witchcraft” in 2005. Go to the video’s 7:30 mark to watch Palin get de-witched.

* Feminist fiction writer Chimamanda Adichi wins the intellectual lottery—she gets $100,000 a year for five years and gets the nickname “genius.” [via Feminist Daily News].

* David Levinson Wilk for Politico reports on the domination of “OBAMA” and “BIDEN” clues in the New York Times‘ crossword. “MCCAIN” has never appeared. As for McCain’s Veep: “Like a cruel joke, PALIN has appeared dozens of times as an answer in the crossword grids of the nation’s most esteemed news publications—but always with clues such as ‘Monty Python member’ or ‘Cohort of Cleese and Idle.’ It’s pretty obvious: The left-wing media elite is mocking her. For shame!”

* Via Feministing: Tuesday was bisexuality day. Whoops, see you next year.

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