Screw the backlash to the backlash to the backlash! This must be said: Britney Spears's Blackout is an astounding music record. Go put it on now, and just try to argue that "Heaven on Earth" isn't so much a better faux-Joy Division song than anything in years—and these are the same years that every person with a Y…

Remember when Jessica Pressler named Philadelphia New York's Sixth Borough and we all laughed and then Philly started to run ads soliciting New Yorkers? Well, the intervening two years have, somehow, not made that trend story any more true. However. While we've noted here that the gays turn up their noses at the…