The Houston Chronicle's "TexasSparkle: A blog about politics and issues with Kathleen McKinley" is a passionate blog penned by a devoted wife, loving mom and proud American who's been carrying on an affair for years...with Jesus! In Tuesday's installment, "Are Adults Also To Blame For Gay Teen Suicides? Yes.," McKinely has finally reached her limit reading about gay teen suicides in celebrity weeklies in orthodontist waiting rooms. Enough is enough! When will this madness end? Someone needs to call out the adults whose reckless behavior is leading to these senseless deaths, and Kathleen's the one to do it!

Groupon goes public tomorrow, and the financially frightful coupon startup should be a stock market hit: With about 10 times more prospective buyer than shares, the stock priced today at $20, up from an expected $16 - $18. So it looks like the tech bubble, inflated heretofore by private investment deals, is going public. How exciting.

Facebook does not forgive, and Facebook does not forget, at least not when it comes to Paul Ceglia, the upstate New York entrepreneur who tried to win control of the social network in court. Having run off to Ireland in the wake of evidence he may have fabricated evidence, Ceglia has been told to return. You can run, but you cannot hide, from the great social network in the sky.

Today we were saddened by the news that Hollywood's days are numbered. Ryan Seacrest, a renowned lover of vaginas the world over, is in talks to produce a film. The entertainment industry is simply not built for such a horror show and Hollywood will burn straight to the ground. But what will Hollywood's last flick be about? And who will star in it? One commenter has seen a spec script.

According to a study conducted by Cisco Systems, it's officially impossible to have a conversation with an 18-year-old human without them pulling out their Internet machine and logging on mid-sentence.

Accused "Riverside Rapist" and alleged con man Hugues Akassy is on trial for sexual assaulting, stalking, and harassing five women in upper Manhattan. The trial raises many questions: Did he do it? How did he evade arrest for so long? And where did he get that smashing ascot?

Safe House already looks like it would give me a headache and I don't even know anything about it yet. Well, hardly anything about it yet. Still, I don't think I want to, right? Right.

For the past week, American's finest news institutions—those self-identified defenders of journalistic propriety against the teeming online hordes—have been tripping over themselves to publish vague, contextless, detail-free, anonymous accusations about the sex life of presidential candidate. Hey, that's our job!

Occupy Wall Street protested Goldman Sachs for being an evil bank today and a bunch of people got arrested. Zzzzzz. Sorry, but banks just aren't going to cut it after yesterday's exciting siege of an Oakland Whole Foods. The stakes have been raised: You gotta protest something with sexy elite cachet. Do the Apple Store!

Katie Roiphe—writer, daughter of Anne, white female, upper class, Brooklynite, pooh-poohs date rape, hates Gawker, hates your sex life, you know the one—had a very dramatic experience today. Very dramatic. It was... I don't even... just let me gather my nerves for a moment.

Mitt Romney, when pressed by a New Hampshire editorial board about his *somewhat* contradictory opinions on top political issues over the last decade, had this to say: "I've been as consistent as human beings can be." Hmm. Really? He must be joking. Really? Oh, Mittens.

They started with orange and pepper-flavored vodkas, and then they moved on to absurd flavors like cupcake. Now it's gone to its logical extreme. There is a new brand of peanut butter-flavored vodka called NutLiquor. Say it out loud. Yeah. Exactly.

Silicon Valley warps the mind. In the real world, your health, family, and friends are most important. In the Valley, they're what you trade for speed, buzz, and valuation, as illustrated in a heartbreaking scene from the Facebook-Google war.

In your throwback Thursday media column: protests loom at the Village Voice, layoffs at the LAT, Fox Business Network continues right on track, powerful people in the media, and a new Women's Health editor.

About 20 to 30 activists with the group OurDC have boldly taken things straight to the dark heart of American politics: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's office, which they have Occupied.

The hacktivist collective Anonymous is in possession of 25,000 emails stolen from the Mexican government, which they'll use soon to out scores of Mexican drug cartel collaborators, says a spokesman. This is insane, if it's true. (A big if.)

A new study conducted by the completely impartial TVGuide.com concludes that Americans are watching more television than they ever have. But people aren't watching all of their television when the networks want them to.

Just as Massachusetts Senate candidate and liberal deity Elizabeth Warren was getting into a meeting with volunteers in Brockton last night, a decidedly unfriendly heckler rose up and started hurling accusations — and what experts are calling a "gender-based epithet"!

It's already been reported that one Herman Cain's sexual harassment accusers got $35,000 in her settlement. Now Politico reports that the other got $45,000. So we're zeroing in on what the so-called "cost of doing business" is.

The New York Times Style Section—where "Cool" lives!—has a 1,000 word story today about an unremarkable church in Brooklyn. What's that about? Oh—it's a "hipster" church. Allow the NYT to prove it!