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This is significantly more awesome than anything has any right to be.

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House Passes 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal Amendment 234-194

House Passes 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal Amendment 234-194: "

The House of Representatives voted 234-194 to approve an amendment repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". The amendment will be attached to the 2011 Department of Defense Authorization Bill.

Said Aaron Belkin Director of the Palm Center:

"It was never going to be easy to dismantle the gay ban, but the White House and Congressional leadership have launched a process that will do just that. For seventeen years, taxpayer money has gone to fire Arabic linguists, doctors and mission critical specialists in every field and every service because they are gay, lesbian or bisexual. Today, the House of Representatives and the Senate Armed Services Committee have said that prejudice cannot be more important than national security. Keeping good troops is good policy.”

Said Executive Director fo the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Rea Carey:

"Today’s vote marks a critical step toward closing a shameful chapter in our nation’s history, and toward creating a path that could end in men and women being able to serve openly, honestly, and to great benefit of our country. Seventy-eight percent of Americans say they want ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repealed, and for good reason: It is discriminatory, outdated and costly. The vast majority of people know that it is wrong to discriminate against patriotic men and women willing to risk their lives by serving in the military. Thousands of qualified service members have already been drummed out of the military for nothing other than bias and prejudice, and thousands more live in fear of losing their military careers.

“While this is an important step toward ending an unjust law, we continue to call for clear assurances of protection, a specific timeline for repeal implementation, and an immediate halt to the discharges. The lives and livelihoods of dedicated service members hang in the balance.”

Epic!

The Simonsound Solid Steel Transmission from Solid Steel on Vimeo.

Male Bonding: Year's Not Long

Milk and Sugar

Human relations.

Maths

Yes, please.

Yes, please.

The National - "Bloodbuzz Ohio" (official video) from The National on Vimeo.

For Thy Meat (after Marlowe)

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Live, come on me, and as for love,
We’ve only clinic tests to prove
Our innocence. Then, young and free,
We’ll romp through concrete Arcady.
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What hearts have felt, and tongues have caught,
And vice-versa, imports not.
Past lusts burnt sweetly, will incense
Paved gardens of inconsequence.
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Come, cling with me, and roll, and spoon,
Through gentrifying ethnic ruin.
Whites pearlier than moon shall rise
To dazzle hateful foreign eyes.
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We’ll trouble places, in the dark
No ruraler than public park.
For pollened air, and well-scaped land
Are all the nature we can stand.
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Our nymphs,with wigs and busts ersatz,
Will susurrate their surly thoughts
That bearded shepherd swains, asleep,
Are amply wooly without sheep.
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Come build with me. We’ll nest together.
Gingham, plaid, tattoos, and leather
To outift us urbanely, and
Apparel us, American.
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Come, lay with me, and we shall prove,
That Whitman’s praised adhesive love
Is not so binding in its power
When one takes care to quickly shower.

Heartless — a stupendous, surreal, steampunk-ish, live-action quasi-musical based on the tragic — and tragically little-known — backstory of L. Frank Baum’s Tin Woodsman.

Heartless: The Story of the Tinman from Brandon McCormick on Vimeo.

Sean Chapin - This Is Not A Hate Crime

Animation-Short: Andreas Hykades „Love & Theft“

Yes, please.

A Bear Film

a bear film from kris anka on Vimeo.

His Holy Visage

For FSM so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Meatball, that whosoever believeth in it should not perish, but have everlasting noodles.

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