Weekend Meme: Happy Birthday Jim Henson, Lady Gaga's Paws Up Forever, and Jimmy Kimmel Welcomes DADT Repeal

Get out a tissue, and head over to watch the video for Paws Up Forever Project, inspired by Lady Gaga's Make a Law for Jamey campaign. These kids are something else. I don't know what I was doing at their age, but it wasn't this.

Speaking of Lady Gaga, she's set to premiere another short film at Paris Fashion Week with the Mugler Women's Wear Collection Show.

In France, if you want to know if your son is gay, there's an app for that. Well, if you've got Android, there's an app for that. Just answer a series of questions about stereotypes, and it will tell you if you need to pack your son off to reparative therapy.

Ugly Betty's Ana Ortiz has given birth to a healthy baby boy. Sadly, she didn't name him Justin, which would have been perfect.

Archbishop Timothy Dolan says that gay marriage is going to "precipitate a national conflict between church and state of enormous proportions." Which could be true, but only if the church continues to insist on trying to oppress the state, which isn't its role. We just want to put a ring on it, not tear down your gold altars to make them.

As I write this, Moneyball is on pace to win the box office with $21 million, edging out The Lion King 3D with about $20 million. There seems to be some conflicting information about how Taylor Lautner's Abduction is playing, with some estimates saying $18 million, proving Lautner's a star. Others are saying it's a $10 million bomb.

Anti-gay former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is now head of HP, meaning I will trash my printer when the ink runs out and buy another brand before I'll put a dime into her pocket for a new cartridge.

The NFL has quietly added sexual orientation to its non-discrimination policy in their collective bargaining agreement. Maybe this isn't precisely paving the way for a player to come out, but it certainly eases the path just a bit.

Ilene Chaiken, creator of The L Word, has sold a pilot to NBC under Dick Wolf's banner about a lesbian doctor couple who work at an inner city hospital in Philadelphia.

It's not just kids that kill themselves. 40-year-old Bryan Egnew, a classic practicing Mormom, came out to his wife and children as gay. His wife immediately packed up the kids and took them out of state, the church excommunicated him, and then he took his own life.

Kim Kardashian has been voted the Most Annoying Celebrity, edging out Charlie Sheen and Paris Hilton.

Maryland delegate Tiffany Alston, who withdrew her support for marriage equality earlier this year has been indicted for misappropriating campaign funds to pay for her own heterosexual wedding.

As we mentioned in Twitterwatch, even out stars like Neil Patrick Harris seem oblivious to Chik-Fil-A's anti-gay history. So it comes as disappointing, but not surprising that Modern Family star Sarah Hyland showed up to the opening of the new Hollywood location. I'm guessing Jesse Tyler Ferguson's invitation was lost in the mail.

The language on the North Carolina ballot initiative to write discrimination into the state's constitution is only one sentence long. But the relevant bill has two sentences, leading some to say that something fishy is afoot.

It turns out that Mei Lan, a giant panda born in Atlanta, is not the female she was identified as after birth. Shipped to China to do a turn in the breeding program to save the animals, it turns out Mei Lan is all male. Evidently pandas aren't that well hung, and once they start getting fur, it's hard to tell.

Just how much bubble wrap would you have to wrap yourself in to survive a drop from a six story window?

It turns out the U.S. Patent Office will issue a patent on how to build a snowman. So before you build one this winter, you may owe a licensing fee.

Britney Spears is in hot water for carrying a (fake) gun in public while filming her new music video in the UK. Guns aren't as common over in the UK, and brandishing one for art, in a neighborhood rocked by recent riots isn't a good idea.

Joe Manganiello is set to guest star on Two and a Half Men as the new boyfriend of Bridgette, Ashton's ex-wife on the show. Do you think Manganiello and Ashton will strip down and compare abs as they compete for Bridgette.

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