Leftovers: The T.O. Show

• Your final T.O. update of the day: He says he wasn’t attempting suicide. Said the report of him taking 35 pills was “absurd” and everything was just a misunderstanding. Take what you want from that. [ESPN.com]

• A group of parents are upset because — wait for it! — the Philadelphia School District has declared October “Gay & Lesbian History Month.” “As a parent, I do understand why they would want to include everyone,” said Addie Williams, who’s on the Home and School council. “But… I personally would not want to announce that or include that in a public setting because I believe in a man and a woman - a mother-and-a-father household.” Translation: “I like everyone, except for those queers.” [Daily News]

• There’s nothing like a little bit of needless fighting to remind you how great the “good old days” were: “If I did not understand by ‘words’ what respect meant, then Mom, using Dad’s leather belt across my butt or the back of the legs, surely did! And sometimes it might even be the neighbor who taught a kid ‘respect.’ My old gym teacher? When he caught two kids fighting in the school yard? He ‘drug’ them down to the school gym and on went the boxing gloves. They slugged it out until one hollered, ‘I quit.’” Ahh, is there anything better than an adult writing a letter to the editor about his fantasies of beating up random kids because they looked at him the wrong way? [Chestnut Hill Local]

• Five of the state’s racetrack casinos have been approved by the state Gaming Control Board. Let the money wasting begin! [Inquirer]