This is just silly ... Philadelphia Eagles receiver Terrell Owens tells Playboy, regarding rumors former teammate Jeff Garcia is gay: "Like my boy tells me: 'If it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat.'"

The Times then writes, in a straight news story, that Owens is "seem[ing] to compare gays to rodents"! Isn't that what you can an analogy? (or is it a metaphor?)