Friday, November 21, 2014

Friday Links (Velvet Morning Edition)!

It's Friday! The fourth Friday in November! The year is running out fast.

This week... I don't want to talk about this week. You don't want to read my whining or griping about this week.

Anyway, here is a collection of news and other things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared:

No Offense to Laura Ingalls Wilder.

A Dad Received Messages Of Support From Strangers After Accidentally Discovering His Son Was Gay. And then he explains how things went after...

Does Religion Cause More Harm than Good? Brits Say Yes. Here’s Why They May be Right. You can strike the word "may" from the headline...

Former "reparative therapy" leader John Smid marries same-sex partner.

Amazingly Detailed New Maps of Asteroid Vesta.

NOM CRATERS: Funding for Anti-LGBT National Organization For Marriage Drops by Over 50%. (And this is a big drop from last year's big drop which was a dig drop from the year before...)

New subatomic particles predicted by Canadians found at CERN.

Photos: Incredible Near-Complete Stegosaurus Skeleton.

Mongoose Lookouts Carefully Weigh Risks (and Sing While They Do It).

Totally Insane! Buffalo Suburbs May Have Set a Record for 24-Hour Snowfall in a Populated Area.

Woman opens professional cuddling shop – gets 10,000 customers in first week.

STUDY FINDS STRAIGHT PEOPLE - AND EVEN MANY GAYS - ARE STILL ALARMINGLY UNCOMFORTABLE WITH SAME-SEX PDA.

This is why the iPhone 6 didn’t get a sapphire screen.

US Supreme Court refuses to block SC gay marriages.

Wingers Go Gandhi. Sort of.

WATCH URSULA K. LE GUIN’S AMAZING NBA ACCEPTANCE SPEECH.

Alas, it wasn't all good news: Lemony Snicket Makes Series of Racist Jokes at National Book Awards.

13-Year-Old Comes Out To Best “Bro” On Instant Messenger, Melts The Internet’s Heart.

'Darwin's Dilemma' May Finally Have Been Resolved.

For the Public Good: The Shameful History of Forced Sterilization in the U.S.

Why 'Kidnapped For Christ' Is The Most Faithful Film Of The Year.

Transgender Women In Ohio Are At The Heart Of A National Crisis.

A Texas Dad Remembers His Daughter on the Transgender Day of Remembrance.

This bizarre drone decomposes upon impact.

New Kirk Cameron Movie, 'Saving Christmas,' Finishes In 15th Place During First Weekend Of Release. So don't believe those headlines at Breitbart or on Fox...

Are you participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)? Let's be writing buddies!

Playtime with Pup 681:



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Doctor Who Christmas Special Preview - BBC Children in Need 2014:



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[HOONIGAN] KEN BLOCK'S GYMKHANA SEVEN: WILD IN THE STREETS OF LOS ANGELES (the fact that I enjoyed watching is so much is probably a symptom of testosterone poisoning... just sayin'):



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WATCH: University of Nottingham hockey team strip off against homophobia:



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Motown legend Jimmy Ruffin, whose 1980 smash Hold On To My Love helped usher out an era of gay nightlife, has died at the age of 78: Jimmy Ruffin – Hold On To My Love (Studio, Top Of The Pops):



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Alison Goldfrapp & John Grant ARE the new Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood! "Some Velvet Morning" 18/11/14:



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