(1) Maybe they have an open relationship. In fact, they do, according to the Daily News! It's just the existence of the photos that apparently irks the twosome, not what they represent.

(2) This whole brouhaha is a little bit ironic because if Anderson hadn't been out of the closet, a lot of the old-school print media wouldn't have covered this.

In fact, Gawker's Max Read just did a history of Anderson coverage and noted the early importance of my Village Voice writings, starting way back in 2003.

And in 2005, I wrote this column detailing the angry responses I got, while shooting down each one with plain old common sense.

But he'll talk about the tragedy of his dead brother.

Somehow that's more reportable than the way happier tale of Anderson's gayness and love relationship.

Next Monday, on his daytime talk show, the anchor-slash-chat-host will air an episode where he and his mother, the high-cheekboned Gloria Vanderbilt, reminisce about past horrors.

Anderson Cooper and I have so much in common.

Our moms are world-famous socialites, though mine is only the queen of lower Brooklyn.

Our bodies are in exactly the shape we want them, though in my case, that involves looking like a human beanbag chair.

And we both have connections to the bar Eastern Bloc, though I'm simply an occasional customer, not an intimate part of the family.

CNN's charismatic Anderson Cooper and his boyfriend, club owner Ben Maisani, turned up at the gayest party in town on Wednesday night.

I thought the phrase itself was appalling, and couldn't believe it was being used by people who would surely never have the nerve to publicly say things like "That's so black!" or "That's so Jew!"

But he's more like Phil Donahue -- gray-haired, compassionate, with a healthy sense of humor, and a supportive spouse.

In the same column, I broke my rule of never speaking to a reality show star by chatting up The Real Housewives Of New York City's Countess LuAnn de Lesseps.

And she told me to get a massage!

That's it! I'm going back to my no-reality-star rule!