It’s Friday, here’s a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:

The Duck Dynasty star’s warped vision of civil-rights history feeds his warped view of today’s gay-rights struggle.

What You Believe About Homosexuality Doesn’t Matter.

The Great 2013 Sunday Show Race.

The Rise of the New Left.

Everything You Urgently Need To Know About Donald Duck’s Car (the article and illustrations are awesome!)

South Carolina Democrats back bill calling for mandatory daily prayers in public schools.

IN 2013, FAILING THE BECHDEL TEST WAS BAD FOR YOUR MOVIE’S BOTTOM LINE.

Comment: How God Hates Fags and its friends like Linda Harvey further gay rights.

How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood (Metadata is king!)

And a sneak peek at the next Spider-man movie:

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It’s Friday, here’s a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:

New Mexico Supreme Court affirms same-sex marriage rights. The money quote:

We conclude that the purpose of New Mexico marriage laws is to bring stability and order to the legal relationship of committed couples by defining their rights and responsibilities as to one another, their children if they choose to raise children together, and their property. Prohibiting same-gender marriages is not substantially related to the governmental interests advanced by the parties opposing same-gender marriage or to the purposes we have identified. Therefore, barring individuals from marrying and depriving them of the rights, protections, and responsibilities of civil marriage solely because of their sexual orientation violates the Equal Protection Clause under Article II, Section 18 of the New Mexico Constitution. We hold that the State of New Mexico is constitutionally required to allow same-gender couples to marry and must extend to them the rights, protections, and responsibilities that derive from civil marriage under New Mexico law.

The 40 Most Insane Things That Happened This Year In Florida.

CNN ALLOWS HATE GROUP LEADER TONY PERKINS TO LINK POLYGAMY AND GAY MARRIAGE.

‘Yes, Opposing Gay Marriage Makes You a Homophobe’.

Cats Became Pets Much Earlier Than Thought, According to Neolithic Fossils.

Politifact weighs in on: Religious activist group says ENDA would discriminate against Christians.

Why Halley’s Comet May Be Linked to Famine 1,500 Years Ago.

The Gay Men’s Chorus of L.A. performed a fun dancing version of the 12 Rockin’ Days of Christmas this last weekend (thanks to Ann Fontaine for the link):

And Pentatonix have released another video of one of the fab songs on their a capella Christmas album:

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It’s Friday, here’s a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:

Hubble telescope captures spouting water vapour plumes on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.

Celebrities and their Christmas trees: From the gaudy to the plain tacky.

Adorably wacky email goes after gays, pro-woman ‘vaginas,’ Madonna.

Beck Fires Back at TIME’s ‘Progressive Fascism,’ Names Ted Cruz His ‘Man of the Year’.

Yellowstone supervolcano ‘even more colossal’.

I was working on a blog post about this, but this Buzzfeed article hits most of my points much more succinctly: How to Argue with Bigot Apologists About the Colorado Bakery Case.

LOOK: If You’re Going To Spread Hate, At Least Use Your Spellchecker!

Trailer for Sherlock season three:

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This cover of “Last Christmas” by xx is completely different than the original, and rather amazing:

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Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans’ personal debt.

Hermaphroditic Australian sea slug injects sex drug into partner’s head during mating.

Better late than never, I suppose: Retraction for our 1863 editorial calling Gettysburg Address ‘silly remarks’: Editorial.

Car Mechanic Dreams Up a Tool to Ease Births: With Jorge Odón’s device, a plastic bag inflated around a baby’s head is used to pull it out of the birth canal.

More about the bigoted columnist I wrote about yesterday: WaPo’s Racist Misogynist Columnist Richard Cohen Still Not Fired Despite Racism, Misogyny.

Reporters Covering Sarah Palin Kept In Guarded Room.

Real world transformer, or pre-cursor to T-1000 Terminator… or BOTH?
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Mental Floss brings you 24 scientific discoveries made by accident:
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Former Take That members Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow perform with Barry Manilow for his classic, Could It Be Magic”
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