Things that happened: 8.19.12 - 8.25.12

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, total dreamboat, is apparently awesome in his new movie Premium Rush. 

The Hunger Games officially outsold Harry Potter. This creates conflicting emotions within me seeing as I love Harry Potter AND Katniss Everdeen so I'm going to just be happy that people are reading.

This NYT article traces the crazy claim that women who are "legitimately" raped cannot get pregnant. Thanks, Representative Todd Akin, for your uninformed, ignorant, input. Now please go crawl under a rock.

Advice columnist Dan Savage invited the President of the National Organization for Marriage over for dinner and an impressively civil debate on gay marriage and religious freedom.