Novelist Bret Easton Ellis has stirred the hornet’s nest with an editorial bashing organizations like GLAAD as “the gatekeepers of politically correct gayness.”

The Out rant, titled “In the Reign of the Gay Magical Elves,” was prompted in part by the…

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About 10 years ago, I interviewed Leonard Nimoy, who was impressed by the absence of questions about Spock. My response: “I wouldn’t know what to ask,” having concluded, after sitting through the Star Trek movie in middle school, that I would never allow myself to be so bored again. 

I did, however, ask him about “In Search Of.” 

The minute I read that Vikings punter Chris Kluwe, an outspoken advocate for gay rights, had been cut, I knew what was coming. 

“Was Chris Kluwe Cut From Minnesota Vikings Due To His Equality Work?” asked Queerty

And this, from the Minnesota Star-Tribune: ”It’s naive to think the move is based solely on his age (31), salary ($1.45 million) or how he performed last season (inconsistently).”

 Naive? Those seem like good reasons to me. Kluwe ranked 17th in the NFL in punting last year. That’s a slightly below average performance for slightly above average money. 

Like so many things in life, it came down to finances. To argue otherwise is naive, at least in this circumstance.

It’s beyond patronizing to suggest, as Sarah Palin did Friday, that the parents of Newtown’s massacred children are being exploited. They are adults. It’s their decision to lobby on behalf of reasonable gun control, and God knows they have a little more invested in the fight than paranoid, delusional gun nuts. 

On Planet NRA, only people who love guns are allowed to act on their emotions. Everybody else, not so much.

“Second Amendment rights are personal to me,” said Palin, who explained that her youngest son’s nickname is “Trigger,” her nephew’s middle name is “Remington,” her oldest son is a combat vet. “I could go on and on about the connections there.”

I bet she could.

However, if your first-grader died in a hail of bullets in the classroom, you, and the president who agrees with you about limits on gun ownership, are expected to shut up and grieve in silence.

You can’t be trusted to understand the gun debate.

You’re too emotional.

If only we had the emotional maturity of someone who named her kids after firearms. 

Ted Cruz, he of the smug mug and squinty, McCarthy-esque visage, is seriously considering a run for president in 2016. I fear the GOP nomination may be his to lose.  

“If you don’t think this is real, then you’re not paying attention,” says a Republican insider. “Cruz already has grassroots on his side, and in this climate, that’s all he may need.”

“There’s not a lot of hesitation there,” adds a Cruz donor who has known the Texan for decades. “He’s fearless.”

Sarah Palin has all but endorsed him, calling him a conservative who “chews barbed wire and spits out rust.” Gag. 

Cruz was born in Canada but considers himself a natural-born citizen because his mother was born in the U.S.

Funny, I don’t recall anyone on the right making that argument on behalf of Barack Obama.