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Another victim of bullying takes his own life, a fourteen-year-old in Utah

This Taiwanese teenage has true gangnam style

Her performance at the American Music Awards reveals Pink's immense talent

"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" reminds me of John Hughes' movies about adolescence. I liked it

We are champions for love...and a more inclusive world

After much criticism, Boehner finally appoints a woman to chair a House committee. Change comes slowly for the party of old white men

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Andrew Sullivan on the state of denial in today's GOP

Until the GOP accepts its cultural and intellectual dead-end, it will not endure for long as a national party. They've lost three generations of voters - those who came of age under Clinton (and liked him), those who came of age under Bush-Cheney and are still nauseated by the memory, and those who have come of age in the Obama era. I propose two places to start: a commitment to developing conservative ideas for environmental protection and a volte-face on gays. That was one way the Tories climbed back to electability in Britain. But David Cameron didn't have a fundamentalist religious movement and a far right media-industrial complex to overcome. And it took the Tories three consecutive losses to get real.

--Andrew Sullivan 

We've achieved another landmark today: first gay couple to be married at West Point's cadet chapel

Another first: read about it here.  The LGBT are becoming, day by day, more full members of society...first in the blue states and then everywhere.