MORE naked Daniel Radcliffe. The footage, taken from the front row of the show, is remarkably clear. NSFW, obviously.

Interview: Securing gay rights in Jamaica vital to AIDS struggle

Scientists turn tequila into diamonds: "The key to the surprising discovery is tequila's ratio of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon, which lies within the 'diamond growth region.' The resulting diamond films could have inexpensive commercial applications as electrical insulators."

Is "Dollhouse" doomed before it even starts?

Glenn Close, the amazing star of the amazing "Damages," receives the THR Leadership Award, honoring women in entertainment

MoD "pleased" compensation claims from dismissed gays are settled

Video of Drew Barrymore at the LA Prop 8 protest

Keith Olbermann may not vote, but he does care about us gays. Tonight he takes on Prop 8 in his "Special Comments." And he just renewed with MSNBC through 2011

Document Found Older Than Dead Sea Scrolls. With all the talk of Prop 8 and religion, this little bit of info seemed especially appropriate.

Interview with a bed-headed Robert Pattinson of "Twilight"

From today's show (11/10/08 - clip via Good As You.)

Hearing the women of The View talk about Prop 8 is a demonstration of how intractable this issue can be. Whoopi and Joy deserve a hat tip for being clear-headed about all of this and for keeping the spread of mis-information to a minimum.

I will say this - Hearing one African-American woman talk to another African-American woman about the issue of gay marriage shows that race is really just a component of this problem. This "issue" of race is cloaking a more important explanation for this apparent bigotry -- the level and kind of faith of the people who voted for Prop 8. No reasonable person of color can argue for separate-but-equal without first hanging his or her reasoning skills on a religious hatrack.

But this does not mean that it's time to start attacking the Mormons. I will be attending the NYC protest at the Mormon temple in Manhattan, but I can't help but think that these marches are targeting Mormons because they themselves are easy targets.

Dale Carpenter agrees:

Nevertheless, I am uncomfortable with pickets directed at specific places of worship like the Mormon church in Los Angeles. It's too easy for such protests to degenerate into the kinds of ugly religious intolerance this country has long endured. Mormons, in particular, have historically suffered rank prejudice and even violence. Epithets and taunts directed at individuals are especially abhorrent.

Via Pink News, the only openly gay bishop in the Anglican communion, Gene Robinson, has spoken of his joy at the election of Barack Obama as the next President of the United States:

In an interview with PinkNews.co.uk he said that the new President-elect, the first African-American to reach the highest office in the United States, was a symbol of healing.

"I am just so excited as most of America is," he said . . . "I think he is the genuine article - he is who he seems to be."

. . . Bishop Robinson may be at the top of the Episcopalian Church, as American Anglicans are known, but he grew up as a poor child in the racist southern states of America.

"I remember a world of separate drinking fountains and segregated movie theatres," he told PinkNews.co.uk. "Barack's election is healing not just for the African-American community but for the white community as well.

Anglican leaders have sought a compromise with traditionalists over the acceptance of gay priests and the blessings of same-sex relationships, while Bishop Robinson has been a clear and consistent voice for gay people.

Bishop Robinson has been nominated for Hero of the Year at the Stonewall Awards being held in London.

Via Daily Kos:

An exciting, recent fossil find suggest Texas was a hotbed of primate evolution 45 million years ago. Unfortunately, as the Texas Freedom Network has been blogging for months, recent history suggests Texas is leading the rest of the nation backwards in our understanding of science in general and evolution specifically.

The Young Earth Creationists just aren't having it, though. Their, uh, version of a scientific theory is being put in the ring with Science. Dentist, op-ed contributor, Young Earth Creationist, and head of the Texas Board of Education Dan McLeroy has written an especially optimistic piece for The Waco Tribune. Mr. McLeroy writes:

All we must do to maintain science’s credibility and to decide if there are weaknesses in the evolutionary hypothesis is 'to use evidence to construct testable explanations' and see where the evidence leads. Let the best scientific explanation win.

Someone is totally gonna get hurt.