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Marketing Campaign of the Day

May. 16, 2012


A new campaign called “Freedom to Serve, Freedom to Marry” — whose debut video will give you chills — takes aim at the Defense of Marriage Act and its impact on gay and lesbian military families. The video follows the devastating trajectory of a lesbian relationship when one of the women serves in Afghanistan.

Evan Wolfson, the founder of Freedom to Marry, one of the organizations behind the campaign, spells it out for us:

Many people assume that, with the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” gay men and lesbians serving our country are now being treated fairly and equally, but that’s not the case. We ended the ban on open military service for gay and lesbian Americans, but there is still federal ban on treating married service members as what they are: married.

[towleroad]

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    Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day

    May. 16, 2012

    - Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day


    The sheer cliffs at the mouth of Sydney Harbor have long been a popular Australian suicide spot. But they’re about to get a lot more deadly — the local man who is credited with talking at least 160 people out of killing themselves since 1964 died this week.

    Window-watcher Don Ritchie, known as the Angel of the Gap, could spot the troubled ones from his home across the street; he’d wander down to the cliff-edge and calmly ask, “Can I help you in some way?” More often then not, he could. He’d chat with them a bit, then invite them back to his place for a cup of tea.

    “My ambition has always been to just get them away from the edge, to buy them time, to give them the opportunity to reflect and give them the chance to realize that things might look better the next morning,” Ritchie once said. “You just can’t sit there and watch them. You’ve got to try and save them.”

    [advocatingprogress]

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    This Is Funny, You Should Watch It of the Day

    May. 16, 2012


    If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em — in a new, Seinfeldian comedy sketch released by Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, he pokes fun at his exasperation with Democratic Newark Mayor Cory Booker and his superhero exploits. But when Mitt Romney calls, there’s one situation for which Booker isn’t prepared…

    [playbook]

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    Letter Of Note of the Day

    May. 16, 2012

    - Letter Of Note of the Day


    Wedding season once again is upon us, and a June 1971 letter from future U.S. President Ronald Reagan to his soon-to-be-wed son, Michael, contains advice for the groom that stands the test of time.

    An excerpt:

    If you truly love a girl, you shouldn’t ever want her to feel, when she sees you greet a secretary or a girl you both know, that humiliation of wondering if she was someone who caused you to be late coming home, nor should you want any other woman to be able to meet your wife and know she was smiling behind her eyes as she looked at her, the woman you love, remembering this was the woman you rejected even momentarily for her favors.

    Mike, you know better than many what an unhappy home is and what it can do to others. Now you have a chance to make it come out the way it should. There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.

    Read the letter in full here.

    [lettersofnote]

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    Morning Fluff

    May. 16, 2012


    So, so, so close. Points for trying?

    [to]

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    Early Bird Special

    May. 16, 2012


    YouTube’s most famous redhead, CopperCab, is about to get another round of viral validation — his “GINGERS DO HAVE SOULS” has gotten an overhaul by the foursome at Auto Tune The News, to kick off their new series “Songify the Classics.”

    It’s the Internet at its finest.

    [vvv]

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    Lights Out

    May. 15, 2012


    If you’ve been on the edge of your seat waiting to see how SyFy would follow up its camp-horror instant classic Sharktopus, it’s your lucky day. Here’s the first trailer for Piranhaconda.

    Oh no! I fell into a nest of its low-budget CGI!

    Piranhaconda premieres June 16.

    [devour.]

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    Kids Reenact the Darndest Music Videos of the Day

    May. 15, 2012


    As a tribute to recently-departed Beastie Boy Adam “MCA” Yauch, filmmaker James Winters remade the music video for “Sabotage” with his two kids and their cousin playing the Beasties.

    I’m telling y’all it’s an homage.

    [vulture.]

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    Facebook Musical of the Day

    May. 15, 2012


    With Facebook’s IPO fast approaching (and estimates of its value continuing to grow), the folks at CDZA (of “History of Whistling” fame) couldn’t have picked a better time to unleash “Zuckerberg: The Musical” on the world.

    Looks like someone saw Sweeney Todd and took “My Friends” a bit too literally.

    [aggregate.]

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    This & That

    May. 15, 2012

    - This & That


    Know This:

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    Watch This:

    Look At This:

    Other:

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