STEVE BANNON<\/strong>. It\u2019s the \u201cend of everything\u201d if Trump supports gun control<\/a>: \u2018When asked whether Trump\u2019s base would react worse to this than they would if he supported an immigration amnesty bill, Bannon replied: \u201cas hard as it is to believe actually worse.\u201d\u2018<\/p>\n SHOOTER STEPHEN PADDOCK<\/strong>. No connection to ISIS<\/a>.<\/p>\n PAPYRUS<\/strong>. The creator of Ryan Gosling\u2019s least favorite font responds to the SNL skit<\/a>.<\/p>\n NO WAY TO PREVENT THIS<\/strong>. Onion<\/em> post goes viral. \u201cIn the hours following a violent rampage in Las Vegas in which a lone attacker killed more than 50 individuals and seriously injured 400 others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded\u00a0Monday\u00a0that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018No Way To Prevent This,\u2019 Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens t.co\/LMg4mj6LFn<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/FZuB4iWFOi<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 The Onion (@TheOnion) October 2, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n JASON ALDEAN<\/strong>. \u201cThis world is becoming the kind of place i am afraid to raise my children in. At the end of the day we arent Democrats or Republicans, Whites or Blacks, Men or Women. We are all humans and we are all Americans and its time to start acting like it and stand together as ONE!\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n CASTING<\/strong>. Jared Leto to star in Hugh Hefner biopic<\/a>: \u201cThe project is in early development with Ratner\u2019s RatPac Entertainment. The director-producer has been set on helming the movie since 2007, when it was initially set up at Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment. Robert Downey Jr. had once been attached to play Hef.\u201d<\/p>\n WARREN BUFFETT<\/strong>. On investing and the Trump tax plan<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cRight now we\u2019re sitting and watching because within three months, actually less than that, we\u2019ll know the answer on it,\u201d he added. \u201cI would feel kind of silly if I realized $1 billion worth of gains and paid $350 million in tax on it if I just waited a few months and would have paid $250 million.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Warren Buffett: Think GOP will pass \u2018tax cut\u2019 act this year<\/a> from CNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n I KNEW YOU WERE GAY<\/strong>. Homophobes\u2019 new response to people coming out of the closet<\/a>: \u2018This is a tactic to insult and demean gay<\/a> people when they come out by saying they already knew they were gay<\/a>. The underlying message is that these gay<\/a> people fit stereotypes so badly that they didn\u2019t actually have to \u201ccome out.\u201d It\u2019s the latest incarnation of the nonsensical argument that \u201cI didn\u2019t come out as straight, so keep your mouth shut, gay<\/a> dude.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n LOGICAL FAMILY<\/strong>. Tales of the City<\/em> author Armistead Maupin talks about his new memoir<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cHow could I have guessed then that the thing I feared most in myself would one day be the source of my greatest joy, the inspiration for my life\u2019s work?\u201d<\/p>\n SEPTEMBER<\/strong>. What happens when your roommate plays it for you every day of the month.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n EGG TRICK OF THE DAY<\/strong>. We\u2019d like him to make us an omelette.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n ELLEN DEGENERES<\/strong>. Spreading hope in the wake of the Las Vegas massacre.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The post Coldplay, Warren Buffett, Jason Aldean, Steve Bannon, Papyrus, Tom Petty, Armistead Maupin, Ellen: HOT LINKS<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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FACEBOOK, GOOGLE<\/strong>. Companies may have to reveal deepest secrets in Russia probe<\/a>: \u201cAs the probes unfold into social media\u2019s role in spreading misinformation, U.S. lawmakers are beginning to show an interest in the mechanics of everything from how Facebook weights news items to how Google ranks search results. The questions, which echo European regulators\u2019 interventionist approach to technology, are a stark change for Silicon Valley companies accustomed to deference from U.S. officials on how they run their operations. Ads seen by 10 million people<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n