Lest we forget that Mimi has the uncanny ability to make temporal lobes weep at the drop of a dog-whistle-pitch hat metaphor, here is the video that I actually recommend you watch, an 18 year retrospective of incredibleness.

If I Were a Free-Fallin’ Boy, DJ Earworm

If there was anything we learned in the 80s, it’s that all good songs fade out at the end. Glad HUNX and his PUNX took note.

Last week, the Department of Justice released a legal brief in response to a legal challenge to DOMA, the law that among other things, denies federal benefits to legally married couples.  This is a law that Obama wishes to fully repeal.

The DoJ almost always defends federal laws that are challenged – a reasonable person would expect a government to defend its own laws.

The brief has some real winners for legal arguments, such as saying that it makes total sense to deny rights and benefits to gays because it saves the government money (It’s the economy, faggot! Recession and all…), and that gay people are just like uncles and nieces having sex.  I wish I were kidding.  It literally says those things.

The New York Times has a pretty scathing editiorial addressing this brief, pointing out, “The brief also maintains that the Defense of Marriage Act represents a “cautious policy of federal neutrality” — an odd assertion since the law clearly discriminates against gay couples”.

The president of the gay rights organization Human Rights Campaign, Joe Solmonese, penned an open letter to the President telling him that he is being not good.

Both are very informative and persuasive documents!  So persuasive, indeed, that the adminsitration acknowledged that it has been being mean to the gays and that it is sorry if its actions or lack of actions have hurt our feelings and he’s gunna make it up to us right away.  In fact! They even set up a website to prove that they are very much sorry.  Check it out:

http://www.obamasplanforgayrights.com

You wanna know what else is pretty fabulous? I’ll be marching at the very front of the pride parade tomorrow with Mayor Menino cuz I got it like that.  Come and get a high five from me! I might be wearing a fanny pack. Parade info here.

It was even more tickly because our white/brown quaids did markedly better than the Asian quaids, who consistently did no better than chance.

AllLookSame has nothing on this site that loyal, nay, obsessive reader Ty sent my way in terms of making one feel over-privileged, racist, classist, mental handicapist, judgmental, bigoted, misogynistic, and delightful.

At PickThePerp.com, you are presented with 5 random mugshots and the name of a crime (did you know what “utter forged instrument” was?), and you have to match the mugshot to the crime.  I highly recommend you play. When was the last time you really sat down and thought about what kind of person actually gets arrested for flashing, or what a person who misses their court date looks like? Pre-reading book judging is fun, and Malcolm Gladwell is so right.

Here’s my score.  I did 50% better than chance.  I feel so conflicted about this because I’m pretty sure that’s a good score, but I’m also pretty sure that I’m the most racist guy ever.

If you play, post your score in the comments, you racist, classist, terrible quaids.

Deven Green has such an innovative delivery.  She is a delight. 

Bonus! She does indeed sound familiar! (audio NSFW)

Coming out used to be an exhausting process. You had to come out again and again and again to all your friends at different times. Nowadays, even with social networking, gays still have to come out, but one of the key differences between our pre-profile selves and our new online presentations is that now (finally!) the burden is also on our friends to discover and digest our identities. For the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, Facebook et al have finally leveled the identity field, and it’s kinda nice.

This article makes several things clear.  The first clear thing is that the author of this article clearly got the idea for the article from my blog. Second, it is clear that this article was written for a middle-aged audience, what with the adjective “new” being employed to describe facebook. Third, as a result of reading this article and also my best friend getting engaged (Hey Em! Congrats again!), it is clear that the etiquette of coming out and getting engaged are eerily similar – the order of people that you tell basically tells them how you rank them numerically as friends, if you find out via facebook you don’t really matter, and it allows for a lot more social laziness.  Cuz seriously, in both situations, after the first three times, it gets boring telling the same story over and over.  “Yeah, he did get down on one knee; yes, it is indeed a 1.8 karat diamond” = “Yeah, I’ve always been into dudes; yes, that is why I like Shakira so much.”

Watch her new video for Paparazzi and try to contain yourself.  Straight guys, it’s okay to click play if you say “no homo” when you do so.