Not a Friday linkdump.

It’s Friday.

Wow. How is it after midnight?

Anyhow, I have too many links and it’s been days since I’ve posted anything because I had a Wednesday deadline and my insomnia has apparently stripped me of the ability to perceive time on anything like a regular scale.

- A household of brilliant and kind folks I know in the Portland are raising money via an LJ auction for a radiation procedure for Buddy, one of their cats. Please help if you can.

- I can’t quit listening to this song. (Warning: video requires a seizure warning, 3-D glasses, or both.)

- I was reading something relevant or interesting over at CNN tonight when I stumbled upon “What to do when body parts fall off” Look, I’m not going to dispute that this is super useful knowledge, but it’s well outside of the usual range of things one expects to find. Also, the stock photo they used makes me want to listen to New Model Army.

- Calvin College, a Christian school, cancels New Pornographers show because “the irony of the band’s name was impossible to explain.”

- Mmm. Corn sugar. Dear food industry: screw you.

- Please enjoy this startlingly accurate debunking of that “why dating a writer is awesome” list. As someone who considers himself to be the least boyfriendable person in a fifty mile radius at the moment, this is particularly hysterical.

- The new GLSEN report on LGBTQ students is out. Short version: being an LGBTQ student sucks less than it did when I was in high school. Unfortunately, these students still cope with an unacceptable degree of discrimination and harassment in a system which does not explicitly prohibit it.

- Look, stalking is wrong. Period. But something about Michael Buble being stalked by a velociraptor just keeps brightening my day.

- Does anyone else find this movement to update the top of Maslow’s Pyramid to “parenting” more than a little creepy and misguided?

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Church and State, something, something, Godwin's Law...

According to Republican congressional candidate Glen Urquhart of Delaware, Thomas Jefferson (and anyone who believes in separation of Church and State) is a Nazi. According to Urquhart, separation of Church and State was Hitler's idea.

Either Glen Urquhart doesn't understand linear time or the Nazis were Time Lords. Discuss.