After much debate, we are having a liveblog of Days of Our Lives today, with a confrontation between Nick and Will.
It only began yesterday, a grand experiment to raise $2 million via Kickstarter for a Veronica Mars movie, but the project has already reached that goal, with 29 days remaining, and an average contribution of $63.
Of course the big news yesterday was the choice of Pope Francis. As Archbishop in Buenos Aries, he opposed the country implementing gay marriage, is anti-contraception, and generally just as bad as the last pope, with perhaps an exception for caring for the poor. As for gays, and equality, he said "Let's not be naive, we're not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God. We are not talking about a mere bill, but rather a machination of the Father of Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God."
Of course, at the time, Argentinean President Cristina Fernandezlet the Archbishop have it with both barrels. "I heard someone talk about 'God's War'! As if we were still in the time of the Crusades! I can just imagine 
Roland going to conquer the Holy Sepulcher! The truth is I don't believe this is good...It's not good because it establishes, as a society, a place which I don't think any of us wants to have. We are all willing to debate, discuss, dissent, but do it within a rational frame, without stigmatizing others because they think differently, and, fundamentally, also without violating the constitution."
President Obama says that he can't imagine a ban on marriage equality that's constitutional. I think Justice Scalia has a more vivid imagination.
In a personal tragedy, Google has announced that it's shutting down Google Reader July 1. This is life changing news for me, because I use Google Reader to build the Meme, and don't really have a backup plan at the moment. It integrates with my iPad/iPhone app, Instapaper, and everything I use to manage the huge information flows that create the Meme. Nearly every journalist in the country is having the same freak out that I'm currently experiencing, because we all use it.
Last month we told you about Donnie Collins, whose Emery University fraternity had raised money to pay for his top surgery as a transgender man. He had been denied the treatment by the university medical plan, but after the university itself appealed the decision, the medical plan will be covering the surgery.
Republican Congressman Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma doesn't believe the Supreme Court gets to decide what laws are constitutional. "Just because the Supreme Court rules on something doesn’t necessarily mean that that’s constitutional. What that means is that that’s what they decided on that particular day given the makeup of the Court on that particular day. And the left in this country has done an extraordinary job of stacking the courts in their favor. So what we have to do as a body of Congress is say, “look, just because the courts” – and I hear this all the time from Republicans – they say that the court is the arbitrator and after the arbitration is done, that’s the rules we have to live under and we can go forth and make legislation given those rules. That’s not the case. A perfect example if Obamacare. Obamacare is not constitutional, the individual mandate." Doesn't Congress have a remedial civics class for these people?
The New York Posthas been denied a press pass to the NYC GLAAD Awards for their continued poor and offensive coverage of transgender issues.
The CIA once tried to turn cats into spies. Who says they didn't succeed?
As everyone freaks out about the leading questions in the Boy Scouts survey (including me), Jonathan Capehart brings up a valid point– as a community we felt the same about the DADT survey, and that came back overwhelmingly in our favor.
In New Zealand, the marriage equality bill has passed the second, and most difficult reading. Third readings almost always succeed, and Kiwis could have equality this year.
The latest version of Tennessee's "Don't Say Gay" bill removes the requirement to notify parents when a child asks questions of a teacher about being gay, but instead refers them to a mental health professional. Nothing like implying a questioning youth might be crazy.
Tina Feywill bring her charm (and hopefully some Taylor Swift jokes) to Inside the Actors Studio on March 19th.
I'm unsure if Jake Shears is afraid of this emu, of just trying to hide a boner
I'm very jealous of Ernie for getting to cuddle with Russell Tovey so frequently
How evil is this cat?
We had ridiculous snow like this yesterday, but I didn't have Cameron Monaghan to play in it with me like Noah Silver
Colton Haynes displays questionable taste in music
The obviously NSFW trailer for Kick Ass 2 debuted yesterday, and if you can get past the violence and the kids with filthy mouths, you'll be able to stop and admire a couple of things, like Jim Carrey's transformation, and Aaron Johnson's incredible body, which is on display multiple times. Honestly, since Aaron appears at the beginning of the trailer, you might not even notice the violence and swearing.
After Ever After is a stunning parody story of what happens to classic Disney characters after the story ends, and it's generally not pretty, which is why it helps to have the song performed by a young man in multiples who is exceedingly pretty.
I can't really say that I recognize The Lone Ranger I used to watch on television from this international trailer (voiceover not in English), but I remain stunned by Helena Bonham Carter having a cannon in her leg. Machine guns are so last year.
You may remember Robert Jeffress as the man Tim Tebow canceled on last month after he was revealed to be rabidly anti-gay, anti-Islam, and anti-woman. Here he waxes on about God sitting on his throne sketching out how sex is supposed to work, and we keep messing up his design with our filthy gay sex. If God sketched out human sex, does that make him the first pornographer?
Since Justin Timberlake is on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon all week, they'll have to trot out all the classic Jimmy skits, including the Ragtime Girls, who bring the quartet harmonies to "SexyBack."
Olivia Wilde recently tweeted that Justin Bieber should put his shirt on when he was wandering cold London wearing nothing but his abs. She then got a ton of hate tweets, which she evidently found hilarious enough to read outloud for Jay Leno.
