Sunday, July 13, 2014

Sunday Funnies, part 3

In my continuing effort to get more people to read some of my favorite web comics, may I recommend...

(The recommendations and short reviews are at FontFolly.Net.)

Friday, July 11, 2014

Friday Links!

It's Friday!

Again!

I mean, wow, where did the week go?

Here's a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:

Why Classic Rock Isn’t What It Used To Be. Five-thirty-eight dot com looks at the statistics of radio play. (Thanks to MintRainbow1 for the link)

BBC staff ordered to stop airing "debates" featuring members of the anti-science fringe. (Thanks to Wildrider51 for the link)

Five Legitimate Scientific Controversies. None of them are probably what you're thinking they are.

Physicists spot potential source of 'Oh-My-God' particles. This has nothing to do with the Higgs Boson.

New Species Found in an Everyday, Store-Bought Mushroom Packet.

World's biggest-ever flying bird discovered: Twice as big as the royal albatross.

New Horizons Enters ‘Pluto-Space!’ To Celebrate, Here Are Pictures Of The Dwarf Planet.

Listen to the Oldest Song in the World: A Sumerian Hymn Written 3,400 Years Ago.

Should the LGBT Rights Movement Forgive and Forget?

Supernova Reveals Origins of Universe's Dust.

Guy Finds FBI Tracking Device On Car, Posts Pics Online... FBI Shows Up Demanding It Back.

Gay Marriage Ban Overturned in Colorado, But Utah Just Made Things Really Interesting.

Astronomers Discover Milky Way Galaxy's Most Distant Stars.

Claiborne Richardson Wants Pictures of a Kid's Cock. Richardson is an Assistant Attorney General in Manassas, Virginia, who is trying to prosecute a teen-age boy on the charge of "creating child porn" not because the teen-ager created porn, but because the teen-ager sent a picture of himself naked to his teen-age girlfriend. Claiborne has ordered police to take pictures of the kid naked, and then got a warrant from a judge ordering the kid to be taken to a hospital, pumped full of drugs to make him have an erection, and take pictures of him like that in order to prove that the pictures the kid sent his girlfriend are him. This is insane. If a kid taking a picture of himself naked with his cellphone is producing child porn, isn't all this picture taking by the police also producing child porn?

Adam Lambert channels the hell out of Freddy Mercury. Wow (and awesome to see Brian and Roger still rocking!):



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Freaks Like Me by Todrick Hall:



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Jessie Ware - Tough Love:



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My secret boyfriend, Mika, sings a wonderfully bouncy tune in French while rocking a Fist Full of Dollars/Lawrence of Arabia/James Bond/Maltese Falcon/is there a classic movie they didn't hit homage!:



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Friday, July 4, 2014

Friday Links - Happy Independence Day!

It's Friday! It is the first Friday in July, it is a big holiday, and by the time you read this, I will be two days into my vacation where I am attending both a tabletop gaming convention and a My Little Pony: Friendship is magic convention. My husband and I are such nerds!

Here's a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:

I wrote about our experience at this year's Pride Parade (and included a bunch of picture) Show Your Colors.

Avoiding “Sagan Syndrome.” Why Astronomers and Journalists should pay heed to Biologists about Extra Terrestrial Intelligence. This is awesome for the explanation of time scales alone!

GOP Candidate Charges Opponent Is Dead, Replaced By A Body Double. Also issues pledge that he, unlike dead, replaced opponent, is human. Wow. Big thanks to Deeptriviality for the link!

GOP Hopeful: My Public Masturbation Fetish and Felonies Were Bad Ideas.

The Normal Heart's Problematic White Men. Not quite what you think.

"Rarely have so few overlooked so many to claim so much based on so little." A review of a book by two guys patting themselves on the back for joining the marriage equality fight a couple of years ago.

Drain on My Parade: Did the Human Rights Campaign Sell Us Out on ENDA and Outsource LGBT Rights? Well, yes.

[GUEST POST] Catherine Lundoff on LGBT Science Fiction and Fantasy in the 1990s.

Extinct Humans Passed High-Altitude Gene to Tibetans.

5 states trying to make their kids scientifically illiterate.

SEATTLE DRAG QUEEN MAMA TITS CONFRONTS CHRISTIAN PROTESTERS AT PRIDE - VIDEO.

Not a Former Lesbian: Bisexual Women Discuss Their Long-term Relationships with Men.

Funnel-Shaped Animals Invented Reefs Prior to Cambrian Explosion.

Fantastically Wrong: The Legendary Scientist Who Swore Our Planet Is Hollow.

'Jesus' Went To The Chicago Gay Pride Parade With A Very Important Message.

Kentucky Baptist Church Agrees To Hold Its First Same-Sex Wedding.

N.H. Supreme Court sides with birth mother’s ex-partner in custody case.

John Oliver on Uganda's Anti-Gay Laws and the Role of American Hater Scott Lively:

Continuing the Daily Show's tradition on his new HBO series by covering a serious, important story that the big media ignores. It really is worth the full 17 minutes. It's funny, sad, horrifying, and an incredible interview at the end. (If embedding doesn't work, click here.)



♫ Ginsburg's Hobby Lobby Dissent | Song A Day #2007:

Friday, June 27, 2014

Friday Links, Pride 2014 Edition!

It's Friday! The last Friday in June! Tomorrow is the 45th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, generally accepted as the start of the modern gay rights movement. That means that tomorrow is the 44th Anniversary of the first ever Gay Pride March! Happy Pride!

In case you have managed to get to this blog without knowing this, I'm a gay man, married to a gay man, so this is basically our High Holy Days. Pardon us if we take to heart the words of Miss Coco Peru: "...live a life that's out, proud, and just a little bit ridiculous." So be warned, this week's links are even more rainbow-colored than usual.

Here's a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:

12 Kick-Ass Gay Women In Comics And Graphic Novels.

The Moment A Gay Couple Dared To Kiss In The Face Of Hate .

Dr. McMurtrie and the Gay Kiss. How a doctor studying sexuality in 1914 described and defined the relationships.

Op-ed: My First Grand Marshal Experience and the Meaning of LGBT Pride. Being Key West's grand marshal gave Rob Smith a new perspective on small-town America.

Photographs Document Hidden LGBT Relationships From The Early 20th Century.

Tenth Circuit Court Rips Apart Right-Wing's Bogus 'Religious Freedom' Argument Against Gay Marriage.

Transgender People: Strangers in Gay Land.

LOUISIANA: Judge Surprises By Deciding To Consider Full Marriage Equality As Well As Out-Of-State Recognition.

WATCH INDIANA'S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE: VIDEO. Note: the website has the video set to auto-play

Gay Pride in the 1950s: The Photo Booth as a Safe Space.

Kidnapped for Christ: New film exposes the horrors of gay conversion therapy.

Internalized Homophobia: The Next LGBT Fight After Same-Sex Marriage.

Gay marriage battle hinged on a great love story. Edie and Thea...

A Photographic Look at the Birth of Gay Pride.

Fabulous Photos From One of America's Longest-Running Gay Prom.

PHOTOS: Meet the First Trans Man Crowned 'Mr. Gay Philadelphia' .

The Mormon Church Just Excommunicated Another Feminist.

Last Month Was The Hottest May In Recorded History.

GOP House Candidate: Islam Not A Religion, Not Protected By Constitution.

Black Parents, Gay Sons, and Redefining Masculinity.

College student at LGBT rally: It's OK to be gay in Huntsville, not rest of state.

Making Comics More And More Gay – The Hernandez Brothers, Kate Leth, And Terry Moore Talk LGBT Characters At Heroes Con 2014.

FRC is an extremely deceitful org: Example #1,234,234,921.

Social Security agency shows why Supreme Court must act on gay marriage.

Almost No Night in the Northwest.

Why Believing In Astrology Is Not As Harmless As You Think.

Black hole made peek-a-boo galaxy go mysteriously dark.

6 Amazing Cephalopod Species You Didn't Know Existed.

Show Me Your Pride - By Miss Coco Peru:



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International Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer is awesome:



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Boyinaband -You look like a girl:



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Ferras - Speak In Tongues:



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Eli Lieb - Safe In My Hands:



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Saturday, June 21, 2014

Weekend Update (Seth Meyer not reading, alas)

I’m sorry that I’m not going to be as funny as the Saturday Night Live crew, but I had to share a few updates on some of the things I linked to just yesterday...

(The updates, some quite funny, and my comments are at FontFolly.Net

Friday, June 20, 2014

Friday Links (with action and adventure)!

Thank the great flying spaghetti monster, it's Friday! I don't know about you, but I have had a grueling week. Here's a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:

Captain America Isn’t Just Any Hero. "...given the era he was born in and his class and religious/ethnic background, there is no way in hell Steve Rogers didn’t grow up as a Democrat, and a New Deal Democrat at that, complete with a picture of FDR on the wall."

Glenn Beck: ‘Liberals, You Were Right,’ We Should Never Have Gone into Iraq. And this is not the Onion!

Spacetime Might Be a Superfluid, and That Could Help Explain Gravity.

Poll: No gay marriage ‘revolt’ coming.

Americans Think It Should Be Illegal To Fire Someone For Being Gay, Don't Realize It's Not Already.

Animation's gay revolution isn't as progressive as you think.

Rick Perry, This Is What Happens When People Are Forced to Live in the Closet.

Hillary Clinton Meets The Republican Squirrel, Responds In The Best Way Ever.

Jason Hanna And Joe Riggs, Texas Gay Fathers, Denied Legal Parenthood Of Twin Sons.

A Victory in the Long War Over Seattle Math Education.

At the Supreme Court, the NRA Finally Loses One.

Marriage Equality Opponent Admits ‘No Difference’ Between Same Sex And Heterosexual Families.

We’re losing all our Strong Female Characters to Trinity Syndrome. (Thanks to @JayelleAnderson for the link!)

Why Gay Pride Still Matters And Isn't Just About Parades And Parties.

How One Student Uncovered Multiple Constitutional Violations at His High School.

Scientists Discover Massive “Ocean” Near Earth’s Core.

Focus on the Family falls off the wagon, returns to its anti-gay addiction.

How to Win at Bridge Using Quantum Physics.

Gun violence and mental illness: Study addresses perception vs. reality.

Is There Life on Charon?.

How to build a quantum-entangled superclock.

And I wrote about guys who are Faking it (badly) and I disproved one relative's theory of why I'm gay (but more importantly recalled a beloved toy) in Action Boy!

In case you haven't already seen this tripping video shot in a single take, OK Go - The Writing's On the Wall -:



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NPR StoryCorps animates a story of a big brother (you made need a kleenex):



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David Letterman - Sam Smith: "Stay With Me":



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The Game of Thrones Title Sequence You Didn't Know You Needed (it's a parody, and I know nothing about the show, but found it quite funny):



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Friday, June 13, 2014

Friday Links!

Once more, Friday is upon us. Here's a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:

How One Trip to the Airport Made Me a Feminist.

Police Bring Wedding Cakes For Wisconsin Gay Couples.

The end of gay history.

No Skynet: Turing test 'success' isn't all it seems.

This map shows every school shooting since Sandy Hook.

Dispelling Myths, Misconceptions and Lies About Gender-Nonconforming Children.

Seattle's Central District Community Mourns Loss of Two Young Men, Both Reportedly Gay.

Top Anti-Gay Marriage Group And Allies Can’t Handle The Truth .

Earth’s Magnetic Flips May Have Triggered Mass Extinctions.

The Catholic Archbishop of Minnesota Claims He Didn't Know Whether Raping a Child was a Crime in 1984.

Tiny Moon Prometheus Rips-Up Saturn's Outer Ring.

Oklahoma Tea Party Candidate Supports Stoning Gay People to Death.

Cop Kisses Boyfriend To Piss Off Westboro Baptist Church At D.C. Pride.

Anti-Defamation League Condemns Tony Perkins For 'Using Holocaust Imagery' To Attack Gay Rights.

How My Eleven Year Old Son Taught Me That Having a Gay Character in ‘Train Your Dragon’ is Important.

An Astronomical Eloping: How Rare is a “Friday the 13th Honey Moon?"

The Planet With the Seemingly Never-Ending Year.

Two Activists in Mormon Church Threatened With Excommunication.

Southern Baptists Vote: Are Trans People Part of God's Design?

LGBT struggles go beyond marriage equality.

Van Hollen: Clerks issuing licenses to gay couples could be charged.

“That’s My Baby Til The Day I Die”: Andrea Kelly Speaks On Youngest Child Coming Out As Transgender Male.

Earth's Moon --"Made the Emergence of Complex Multi-Cellular Life Possible."

Making new species without sex: Plants can transfer their entire genetic material to a partner in an asexual manner.

Watch: Famous Designers Disown The World's Most Recognizable Typeface.

I wrote about the bigoted history of the Southern Baptist Convention and my person history thereof: Leopard spots and sheep's clothing.

And I wrote about, among other things, my first celebrity crush: Speaking of childhood memories….

"See U Next Tuesday" - MARGARET CHO & ADAM BARTA :



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Neil Patrick Harris stole the show at the tonies::



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Ryan Adamés - As Long As You Love Me:



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DANIEL ROBINSON - "Not Your Boy" :



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