Wing-suited skydiver Gary Connery jumps 2,400ft without parachute
A Keanu-style “Whoa” is the only appropriate response.
we were just pretending
View Larger Marvel Comics makes history with a gay X-Men marriage.
Marvel Comics’ Astonishing X-Men is set to experience a new sound effect on top of its booms, whams, and sknits: the bong of wedding bells. Specifically, it’s the wedding bells of Marvel’s first gay marriage between longtime X-Man Northstar and his civilian boyfriend, Kyle. After pairing up the couple in 2009, Marvel is officially tying their knot in June’s Astonishing X-Men #51.
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UPDATED: Dan Harmon out as showrunner of Community →
Uh…what?
BREAKING: 101.7 WFNX is being sold to ClearChannel pending FCC approval →
Ugh this is so depressing. What a huge, huge blow to Boston’s music and media scenes.
Joss Whedon picks his top 10 'Buffy' episodes! • Hypable →
Pretty spot-on, unsurprisingly. “Doppelgangland” is probably my favorite of the non–high concept episodes. “Say, did you all just take a buncha drugs?”
Massachusetts is the best state in the union. - Slate Magazine →
Massachusetts is officially not my state anymore as of yesterday, but it’ll always feel like home.
North Carolina passes Amendment 1 banning same-sex unions →
Tami Fitzgerald, chairwoman of Votes for Marriage NC, the main group behind the amendment, said: “We are not anti-gay, we are pro-marriage. The whole point is you don’t rewrite the nature of God’s design for marriage based on the demands of a group of adults.”
Did nobody ever explain to Tami fucking Fitzgerald how a free society works? BRB, gotta go punch a wall until these involuntary growling sounds subside.
Harvard and M.I.T. Team Up to Offer Free Online Courses - NYTimes.com →
Maybe they’ll finally stop fighting over the name of the bridge now?
The Student Loan Mafia Is Coming for Your Mom →
See, thanks to some nifty lobbying, you can’t discharge your student loan debt through bankruptcy, even though that more or less ruins the entire point of bankruptcy for the younger generation of Americans.
In unsurprising news, we’re all still totally fucked.
