Oprah Visits Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, and Their Twins: VIDEO

In an episode of Oprah's Next Chapter which aired yesterday, and may be repeating on her OWN network, Winfrey visits Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka at their home and meets their kids and sees their nursery.

Oprah asks the couple about the challenges they've faced parenting, if one is more "maternal" than the other, and how they plan to tell the kids about what Harris calls the "weirdly scientific" way in which they were conceived and born.

She also asks Harris and Burtka about their past relationships with women, and about when they realized they were gay.

WATCH, AFTER THE JUMP...

NEWS: Danger In The Castro, Lies About Apple, Abortions And Poultry, And The Improbability of Warp Speed

 Gay men being drugged and robbed in the Castro:

It seems there have been too many instances lately in which older gay men are being targeted by (straight) criminals who are coming into gay bars, flirting with men, and then robbing them after they take them home.

 Rosie leaves OWN.

 Upper house of Swiss parliament narrowly votes to allow gay adoption. 

 Producers of This American Life, the world's greatest radio program, are "horrified" that lies about Apple appeared in their show:

A highly popular episode of This American Life in which monologuist Mike Daisey tells of the abuses at factories that make Apple products in China contained "significant fabrications," the show said today.

... The 39-minute piece aired in January and TAL says after 888,000 downloads, it became its most popular podcast. The story is compelling: It tells of the awful working conditions of Chinese workers making shiny Apple products like iPhones and iPads at factories owned by a company called FoxConn, which also manufactures products for other electronics giants.

The piece essentially made Daisey Apple's chief critic and it also inspired a Change.org petition that collected more than 250,000 signatures demanding that Apple better the working conditions at the factories.

 Georgia rep: Stop killing babies, and you'll get chickens.

 New York Times: How Bain Capital supplies the Chinese police state with surveillance technology, and how Mitt Romney stands to profit:

In December, a Bain-run fund ... purchased the video surveillance division of a Chinese company that claims to be the largest supplier to the government’s Safe Cities program, a highly advanced monitoring system that allows the authorities to watch over university campuses, hospitals, mosques and movie theaters from centralized command posts.

The Bain-owned company, Uniview Technologies, produces what it calls “infrared antiriot” cameras and software that enable police officials in different jurisdictions to share images in real time through the Internet. Previous projects have included an emergency command center in Tibet that “provides a solid foundation for the maintenance of social stability and the protection of people’s peaceful life,” according to Uniview’s Web site.

Such surveillance systems are often used to combat crime and the manufacturer has no control over whether they are used for other purposes. But human rights advocates say in China they are also used to intimidate and monitor political and religious dissidents. “There are video cameras all over our monastery, and their only purpose is to make us feel fear,” said Loksag, a Tibetan Buddhist monk in Gansu Province. He said the cameras helped the authorities identify and detain nearly 200 monks who participated in a protest at his monastery in 2008.

 Joe Nocera on corporate morality.

 Accused Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk is dead; his life was bookended by horrors. 

 Seinfeld actor Daniel von Bargen shoots himself in the head; survives.

 Barack Obama can't take sole credit for rescuing Detroit. 

 Those neutrinos almost certainly did not travel faster than light. Bummer.

 Watch the evolution of the moon, AFTER THE JUMP ...

Bobbi Kristina Talks to Oprah About Whitney's Death: VIDEO

Oprah interviewed Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina for the first time since the singer's death.

Bobbi Kristina told Oprah she has experienced a "visitation" by Whitney's spirit: "Her spirit is strong, it’s a strong spirit. I feel her pass through me all the time."

She also talked about her last days with her mother.

Watch (with two portions of the Pat Houston interview in which she talks about the night Whitney died), AFTER THE JUMP...

Lady Gaga Launches 'Born This Way' Foundation at Harvard: VIDEO

Lady Gaga and her mother Cynthia Germanotta launched their Born This Way Foundation at Harvard yesterday in front of an audience of students and guests, along with a panel that included Oprah Winfrey, Deepak Chopra, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and NPH partner and actor David Burtka.

The Boston Globe reports:

“The goal of the Born This Way Foundation is to challenge meanness and cruelty by inspiring young people to create a support system in their respective communities,’’ she said. “This is about changing . . . the school environment, and not putting the power in the hands of the teachers or the government.’’

While Gaga said the organization was not “an antibullying charity,’’ much of the talk yesterday revolved around bullying, both in person and on the Web.

Winfrey said she is lending her support because the foundation’s mission is in line with her personal values.

“What is exciting to me,’’ Winfrey said, “is that thought leaders have gathered together as one force to ask why does bullying and violence and hatred against young people continue in our society and what we can do about it.’’

Watch a few clips of the launch program plus Gaga's arrival on campus, AFTER THE JUMP...

Oprah's Genius Post-Oscar Jimmy Kimmel Appearance: VIDEO

On the last portion of Jimmy Kimmel's post-Oscar show, Kimmel pitched shows to Oprah for her OWN network, including a show in which she takes her favorite things back, dueling interviews, a book club fight club, Dr. Vajayjay, and an 'After Dark' show.

Maybe it's time for Oprah to do a comedy!

Check it out, AFTER THE JUMP...

NEWS: Police Vs. The Occupiers, Darth Vader Vs. The Bureaucrats, Herman Cain Vs. Women, Sadie Crabtree Vs. Irrationality (VIDEO)

"A Children's Teasury of American Cops Brutally Attacking Citizens"

Lieberman and Coons introduce bill to provide benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees:

The bill would make the same-sex partners of federal employees eligible for federal health benefits, long-term care, Family and Medical Leave and federal retirement benefits. Gay federal employees and their partners would be subject to the same standards that apply to married federal workers, including anti-nepotism rules and financial disclosure requirements, according to Lieberman and Collins’s offices.

Hermain Cain says all those women are liars.

Aaron Hicklin, Andrew Holleran, Larry Kramer and more reminisce about the Pavilion:

Dating from before Stonewall, the site was a place where stigma and inhibitions were left at the coat check. Even with gay marriage legal in New York, its dance floor is still held with mythic regard, a “gay utopia,” in the words of Andrew Kirtzman, the former television newsman who recently bought the club with two business partners, and has vowed to rebuild it.

Apparently, Michele Bachmann's campaign is gaffe-free.

 Every time God closes a door, He ... oh, you know.

He was abused, and then he was silent. Now, Penn State has inspired him to speak out:

... Because this is not about a problem at some other institution; it’s a reflection of a universal human tendency to look out for oneself, and to preserve hierarchical institutions about which one cares and upon which one is dependent. It’s also a reflection of the nearly boundless capacity to ignore inconvenient facts and to make excuses for those within our own circle. Think about the Catholic Church. Predators flourished in parishes for years, not simply (and probably not even primarily) because higher-ups worried about financial exposure. They flourished because many otherwise good people could not bring themselves to believe or to act upon information that their priest was a rapist.

 Darth Vader vs. the Ukrainian bureaucrats.

 Rent Gaga's apartment on the Lower East Side. (It's less than $2,000!)

 Rent Oprah's apartment in Chicago. (It's not less than $2,000!)

ACORN scourge James O'Keefe's career isn't going well:

O’Keefe has had a series of falling outs with close associates involved in his stings — and some of them have grumbled that he lacks the undercover journalism chops and leadership ability to turn Project Veritas into a force.

“What people around him learn about O’Keefe is that he doesn’t plan or research anything he does,” said a former associate who devised and implemented the NPR sting, which led to the resignation of the taxpayer-supported radio network’s president.

Egyptian student strips for freedom!

AFTER THE JUMP: At The Amaz!ng Meeting in Las Vegas, Sadie Crabtree explains how to make crazy people rational.