One step forward… And even the State Department is calling it a step back. North Korea has decided to stop stopping their nuclear weapons program. They’ll get back to disabling a facility used to produce weapons-grade plutonium, but only if the United States stops referring to them as a terrorist state and officially ends the Korean War of 1950-53. Washington won’t budge until they’re granted an inspection on the order of the U.N. inspections in Iraq. Someone say uncle.

It was a grim day for Dr. Dre. The rapper’s 20-year-old son of was found dead Saturday. Dr. Dre, known for helping to boost the careers of such rappers as Eminem and Snoop Dogg, has been working on a much-anticipated new album. No reports yet as to his son’s cause of death.

Bad, cable news! Bad! Daily Show host Jon Stewart slammed cable news networks MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, and others while at the University of Denver for being a “brutish, slow-witted beast” and for creating an ever-more-urgent atmosphere with the 24-hour news cycle. He expressed more confidence in the quality of newspaper coverage, but held that they’re losing their influence. Fox didn’t take too kindly to the remarks.

Big wigs in gay media are duking it out over Barack Obama. When Paul Colichman, producer of the film Gods and Monsters, withdrew his support of Obama because of Dem’s opposition to same-sex marriage, the move earned him a fair amount of backlash from other prominent figures in gay media. One noted that gay rights would be helped more under Obama than under John McCain.