– On the market: a five-story, century-old, 18,500 square feet Upper East Side townhouse listing for $64M. You get 30 rooms including 15 bedrooms, 17 bathrooms, and a grand ballroom. The home sold for a mere $7.6M in 2003. Now that there’s some flipping! If it goes for the asking price, it will eclipse the previous Manhattan townhouse price record …

Mike Huckabee was actually rather amusing on Saturday Night Live this weekend. UPDATE: Sorry, kids. NBC has yanked the clip from YouTube.

Didn’t she say three times during last week’s debate that she was “honored” to be in the race with Obama?

Freeheld: The Laurel Hester Story, which chronicles the fight of a terminally ill New Jersey woman to leave her pension benefits to her lesbian partner, won the Oscar for Best Short Documentary tonight. Filmmakers Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth accepted by saying, “It was Laurel Hester’s dying wish was that her fight against discrimination would benefit all same-sex couples across …

The Pride Foundation of Seattle today announced a $65M bequest from the estate of openly gay Microsoft mogul Ric Weiland, who committed suicide in July 2006 after a long battle with depression. The bequest in the largest gift ever to LGBT and HIV/AIDS organizations. Audrey Haberman, executive director of the Pride Foundation, said, “Ric was one of Pride Foundation’s closest …

Hillary’s reaction: Speaking to reporters on board her campaign plane, Mrs. Clinton expressed surprise at the news that Mr. Nader planned to run. “I don’t know what to say,” she said, when a reporter asked for comment. “Wow, that’s really unfortunate. I remember when he did this before. It’s not good for anybody, especially our country. I didn’t know that …

From Craigslist Houston: “I am an attractive, in shape hung (9 inches) black male from Atlanta here on business. I am looking for a masculine white male to service me, then get pounded in my hotel room today or tomorrow (saturday). Send your pics, stats and background info. I want to wear my Obama mask while I pound you.”I don’t …

Ralph Nader will appear on Meet The Press tomorrow (Sunday) morning to announce whether he plans to run for president.

– The Actors Fund will give a benefit performance of Seth’s Broadway 101 at the New World Stages on April 14th. The show was written by Seth Rudetsky, who recently hosted Broadway Backwards and features Laura Benanti, Jonathan Groff, Andrea McArdle, Norm Lewis, Pamela Myers and a full orchestra. “Rudetsky shows what is brilliant about Broadway, how the whole thing …

Hillary just cannot catch a break. A Dallas police officer died Friday when his motorcycle struck a pillar on the Houston Street viaduct as he was escorting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to a rally in Oak Cliff. The motorcade was heading south on the viaduct when the officer apparently lost control of his bike about 9:20 a.m. “He just lost …

Dr. Jeff sends us some great shots of the snow in Central Park. I’d love to go sledding, but at my enfeebled age, I’d probably break a hip. These photos embiggen beautifully.

Kent Blackwelder, a former Big Brother contestant, is suing Specialty Publications for $4M because his 12 year-old daughter opened a mailing from them which contained gay porn, including a sample DVD from Titan Media, Farm Fresh. From the suit: “Mary Doe [Blackwelder’s daughter], being a curious child and thinking the free DVD offer was for a Disney movie, opened the …

Questions are being asked why thousands were allowed to enter an Obama rally on Wednesday without being screened for firearms. DALLAS — Security details at Barack Obama’s rally Wednesday stopped screening people for weapons at the front gates more than an hour before the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Reunion Arena. The order to put down the metal …

Here’s a teaser snippet of Cyndi Lauder’s new single, Set Your Heart, as used in a Japanese car commercial. The track was co-written and co-produced by Cyndi and Blowoff DJ Rich Morel, who promised me he’d play it tomorrow night at the Highline.

The B-52’s are streaming Funplex, the first single from their album of the same name, over on their MySpace page. The single is now available on iTunes, the album drops on March 25th. This is the first new album for the B’s in sixteen years. Did I ever mention that I got evicted from my first apartment in 1979 thanks …

Hillary Clinton drew boos at last night’s Democratic debate when she again dissed Barack Obama for plagiarism, saying he represented “change you can Xerox.” Obama turned the boos into applause when he countered, “What we shouldn’t be spending time doing is tearing each other down. We should be spending time lifting the country up.” After making a thinly veiled reference …

Gotham is being socked with its first decent snow storm of the winter. Other than a couple of dustings, today’s 5-7 inches has been all we’ve gotten. In fact, January set a record for being the first time in something like 75 years that no snow had fallen during the month. If you’re flying today, it sucks to be you. …

Via MTV News: A series of candlelight vigils have been held throughout the U.S. in the wake of the student’s death (an estimated 1,000 people marched in Oxnard the weekend following the murder), in an effort to raise awareness of what many feel was a largely underreported case. MTV News attended one such vigil on Friday night, just outside of …

Scandal has erupted around yet another gay porn star. John Katopodis, 61, former member of the city council of Birmingham, Alabama and “close friend” of Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford (D), is being investigated by federal prosecutors for allegedly misusing over $1M in funds from a charity Langford created to provide computers to needy children. Katopodis is suspected of using the …

(Via – Slog.)