It’s Friday again! And it’s May. In Seattle we celebrated May Day with protest marches. A lot of protest marches. (You won’t believe this, but this is one of the official Seattle Police Department comments on their twitter account during the protests: “Officers were able to separate the superheroes and their black-clad adversaries. No arrests made.”)

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

America Is Losing Its Religion… and We’re All Better Off Because of It. It’s a statistical fact!

Beware of Those Who Do Things ‘For the Children’. Why don’t they oppose convicted murderers, drug addicts, and even those those convicted of child abuse getting married and having children?

Top Ten Characters Who Need Their Own Novel. If you love books and don’t follow The Librarian Who Doesn’t Say Shhhh, you are really missing out!

The Eye of Sauron Appears Over Sweden. Sunlight and ice crystals in the atmosphere do freaky things!

Watch the video for Brett Gleason’s Imposter.

Local GOP Party Chair Compares Obama To Zebra-Donkey Hybrid Who Is All ‘A**’.

Church Sues For First Amendment Right To Perform Gay Marriages In NC. When the news came out earlier that they passed this law criminalizing ministers performing ceremonies, I was wondering how anyone could have thought this would pass Constitutional muster. I’m just surprised it took this long for someone to fill the lawsuit.

American Family Association LEADER SAYS MISSISSIPPI BUSINESSES DISPLAYING GAY-FRIENDLY ‘DON’T DISCRIMINATE’ STICKERS ARE BULLYING CHRISTIANS. They keep stretching that definition further and further…

Nobody Gets To Tell My Sons What It Means To Be A Man.

We Are Comics. A project in response to the “no girls” folks in the comics world.

Op-ed: My Two Dads.

93 Percent Of Straight Men In This Study Said They’ve Cuddled With Another Guy.

IOWA LEGISLATURE APPROVES UPDATE TO ‘BADLY OUTDATED AND DRACONIAN’ HIV CRIMINALIZATION LAW.

Biden gets out in front of Obama on LGBT discrimination.

Dark Matter Might Be Hiding In Microscopic Black Holes, Astrophysicists Say.

This Town Needs a Better Class of Racist. It’s easy for polite American society to condemn Cliven Bundy and banish Donald Sterling while turning away from the elegant, monstrous racism that remains.

Nearby galaxy is a ‘fossil’ from the early universe.

“But why does he have girl’s hair?”.

Over the course of 12 years, Richard Linklater made a film about a boy growing up. Here’s the trailer:

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Imposter – Brett Gleason (Official Video):

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Matt Goss – I Do :

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