Apologies all around

The lovely Portia De Rossi has officially apologized for marrying Ellen Degeneres:

Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg refuses to apologize for ruining his own site. On the upside, we now know which Golden Girl every single one of our friends is.

New York blogger “CFCFON” may have to apologize to the rest of his entire country for this “sadly true” bit of hilarity:

In a perfect world, Katy Perry would get an apology from the monkey who pissed on her (and liked it?).

And the Williams Institute at the University of California in Los Angeles should apologize for its new study exploding “the myth of gay and lesbian affluence.” Great, just when I’d managed to convince everyone that my Prada sunglasses were real and not purchased from a stand in front of the mall!

A former editor of the late, lamented fab magazine, Scott has been writing for Xtra since 2007 on a variety of topics in news pieces, interviews, blogs, reviews and humour pieces. He lives on the Danforth with his boyfriend of 12 years, a manic Jack Russell Terrier, a well-stocked mini-bar and a shelf of toy Daleks.

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