Towleroad Guide to the Tube #969

NEVER DRINKING AGAIN: Been there.

TYPICAL REPUBLICAN VOTER: Bill Maher and Keith Olbermann try to get through to GOP voter in a bubble with irrefutable facts.

WILLIAM TAPLEY: The Third Eagle of the Apocalypse wonders if you'll be captured or raptured?

WHEN PENGUINS ATTACK: The antarctic version of Angry Birds.

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News: Lady Gaga, Google, Penguin, Palm Springs

Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz get married in secret ceremony.

Lady Gaga has ditched her green wig and is a blond once again.

Cars 2 rakes in $67 million to be number one at the box office.

Newt Gingrich responds to the news about marriage equality in New York: "I think the president should be, frankly, enforcing (DOMA), and I think we are drifting toward a terrible muddle which I think is going to be very, very difficult and painful to work our way out of."

Unlike her mother, Mariah Carey's infant daughter doesn't like her picture taken.

Anti-gay preacher at the inaugural Pride in Salisbury, NC pushes for police to charge 74-year-old woman who kissed him on the mouth.

Decrease in the sun's sunspots could lead to a mini ice age.

Dead bees used in ads in order to call attention to their plight.

Google defends itself from criticism it has faced from members of the LGBT community.

Efforts underway to save solitary penguin stranded in New Zealand and sent it back to Antarctica.

The American man behind the Gay Girl in Damascus hoax may have posed as a second Syrian lesbian.

Five people were wounded around the corner from San Francisco's gay Pride in a shooting unrelated to the event.

Gay man and good samaritan attacked by anti-gay men in Portland

Palm Springs has the highest concentration of gay couples in California: "With about 115 same-sex couples for every 1,000 households, Palm Springs ranks ahead of other notably gay-friendly cities like San Francisco and West Hollywood, according to an analysis of census data by the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law, based at the University of California, Los Angeles."

Watch: Ticklish Penguin

After a long serious day a ticklish baby penguin can ease some of the pain.

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Gay Penguin Children's Book 'And Tango Makes Three' is Once Again the Nation's Most Controversial Library Book

And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell is the most challenged book once again, according to the American Library Association:

"And Tango Makes Three" is an award-winning children’s book about the true story of two male Emperor Penguins hatching and parenting a baby chick at New York’s Central Park Zoo. The book has appeared on the ALA’s Top Ten List of Frequently Challenged Books for the past five years and returns to the number one slot after a brief stay at the number two position in 2009. There have been dozens of attempts to remove And Tango Makes Threefrom school and public library shelves. Those seeking to remove the book have described it as "unsuited for age group," and cited "religious viewpoint" and "homosexuality" as reasons for challenging the book.

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Watch: Ecological Tragedy Unfolding in South Atlantic as Thousands of Endangered Penguins Face Massive Oil Spill

This is unbearably sad but should be brought to everyone's attention. The NYT:

Responders to a shipwreck and oil spill off a remote South Atlantic archipelago are in a “race against time” to save thousands of endangered penguins that have been coated in crude, local officials said Thursday.

Hundreds of oiled-soaked rockhopper penguins have been recovered from Nightingale Island, part of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, where a large freighter ran aground last week, spilling roughly 1,600 tons of heavy fuel oil into the surrounding waters, Sean Burns, the islands’ administrator, said in a statement.

Ships with food and supplies are racing from Cape Town to feed and clean the birds. Some reports say that up to 20,000 of the birds may ultimately be affected by the oil. Seals and other marine mammals have been hit by the spill as well.

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Towleroad Guide to the Tube: #796

LSU PIZZA RAGE: "Just put the f*cking pizza in the f*cking oven!" 

CLELIA II: An Antarctic cruise slammed by giant waves after it loses an engine.

PRINCE: Crashes The View.

DILEMMAS: Of the penguin kind.

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