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

Beware a bro who knows what he ‘deserves’: the friendzone is only purgatory if women’s decisions are less valid.

Wingnut Nurse Sues Family Planning Center For Not Giving Her Job Just Because She Says She Won’t Do Job.

James Garner, Witty, Handsome Leading Man, Dies at 86. While I am old enough to have seen and loved him as Brett Maverick, he’ll always be James Scott “Jimmy” Rockford to me… except when he’s being King Marchand.

Fort Worth Is Recruiting Gay Cops, and They Won’t Even Be Openly Harassed by Colleagues.

An important perspective… Even if I don’t agree with all of his points. The Shifting Landscape on LGBT Issues in the Evangelical Church.

Really bad and inaccurate headline. Most progressives I know do completely understand this. What we continue to not get is why folks like the author keep apologizing for the irrational bigotry of the fundamentalists, and why he and others keep referring to the fundamentalist evangelicals as merely traditional. What progressives fundamentally don’t get about traditional Christians.

Elephants’ Superior Sense Of Smell Beats Out Other Mammals In Surprising New Study.

Calling for a Debate Over Pluto’s Nature.

Moose drool can undermine grass defenses.

Why Has the Sun Gone So Quiet? – because it’s plotting something nefarious!!!

Bats can navigate using polarized light.

All You Need To Know About the 10% Brain Myth, in 60 Seconds.

NASA releases never-before-seen supernova photos from Chandra Observatory.

‘Weird Al’ Yankovic hits No. 1 with ‘Mandatory Fun’.

You guys, will you please pipe down so Sen. Rubio can dismantle your deserved freedoms?

John Boehner Finally Confirms Bush is Responsible for Immigration Crisis, Admits Obama is Trying to Fix It.

Michael Brown will save his waning movement by grouping homosexuality with incest.

Quickly And Quietly, Rep. Jared Polis Just Created A New LGBT Rights Bill.

Woman Says She Overheard IBM Execs Say They Won’t Hire Women Because They Get ‘Pregnant Again And Again’.

Tessa Hartmann: John Barrowman’s gay kiss at Commonwealth Games was ‘inappropriate for children’.

A New Face for the ‘Ex-Gay’ Movement.

Sci-Fi: why do so many gays love it?

Who Owns Science Fiction/Fantasy?

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert battle for title of World’s Biggest Star Wars Fan!:

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‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Explains the Internet to Fox business reporter:

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George Takei Tells How He Was Sent To An Internment Camp At Age 5. And Somehow It’s Not Horrifying!:

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Wicked Medley – Peter Hollens & Nick Pitera:

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MNEK – Wrote A Song About You:

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Futile & Fooled – Brett Gleason (Official Video):

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Pomplamoose covers Cher – Believe (In Life After Love):

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“Weird Al” Yankovic – Mission Statement:

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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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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.

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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