Lil' Kim has been silenced by the man! The petite rapper has been served with an injunction as part of a breach of contract suit that does not allow her to record any new music for the time being. A hearing has been set for November 5. • Cyndi Lauper has this to say about her decades-long LGBT activism: "It's always wrong to discriminate. I grew up in the civil rights movement. It was wrong then, and it is wrong now." • Betty White brought her brand of insanity to the Craig Ferguson Show earlier this week. "Sarah Palin is one crazy bitch," says the Golden Girl. [NYT, CNN, Firedoglake]

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