Morning Meme: Colin Farrell Does Good, "The Babymakers" Tickles My Fancy, and is Sexy Steve Jones the New Brian Dunkleman?

Colin Farrell dropped in on a Dublin hospital on Christmas Day and delivered presents to over 100 children. No press were alerted and even Colin's representative wasn't notified it was happening. It only came to light after parents tweeted pictures.

The North Carolina Psychological Association has come out with a multipage letter opposing  the state's proposed constitutional amendment against gay marriage, refuting all the standard arguments used in campaigns of this type.

The New Yorker has a rave article out about great television (strangely it counts Parenthood as the best), but then in the same breath it can barely contain the love for web series and local favorite Husbands the Series.

If you hadn't heard, Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry failed to qualify for the primary ballot in Virginia because they didn't present 10,000 signatures. Newt's campaign has come out and claimed the disaster is like December 1941 (Pearl Harbor). John Aravois explains just how offensive that statement is.

It's good to be friends with Justin Beiber, who just bought his best friend a Mustang for Christmas.

Conservative anti-think tank Media Research Council says that the cultural losers of 2011 are Lady Gaga, The Book of Mormon, Glee, the Conan O'Brien gay wedding, and Barbara Walters. Funny, that sounds like a list of the most successful things in 2011.

The New York Times has a wonderful piece about how sad it is that Lowes and Kayak caved to the Florida Research Council, which is really a one-man hate group. Per the Times, "By appearing to bow to bigotry, the companies earned a self-inflicted black eye."

A man was arrested in the UK for selling drugs dressed inconspicuously as the Incredible Hulk.

Is Aquaman's image getting rehab?

There's something inherently unfair when there's a list of the 30 Most Important Cats of 2011, yet there's also a list of the 10 Most Important Dogs of 2011.

The unfortunate timing of a Soyuz rocket burning up in the sky over Europe this weekend made some wonder if Santa had burst into flames.

Purveyor of homophobic lyrics Tyler, The Creator was arrested over the weekend after he destroyed a sound board at the famed club Roxy.

People of Texas, I hope you're happy that your tax dollars are being consumed at a record pace providing security for Gov. Rick Perry as he continues to mount a failed bid for the Republican nomination.

PETA has named Janet Jackson their Grinch of the Year for launching a fur line with Blackglama.

Sadly, Just Out, the GLBT magazine of Portland, has ceased to exist after 28 years of publication.

Chicago's Cardinal Francis George has issued a clarification on his comparison of the gay rights movement to the KKK, but he didn't make it any better. "Obviously, it's absurd to say the gay and lesbian community are the Ku Klux Klan, but if you organize a parade that looks like parades that we've had in our past because it stops us from worshipping God, well then that's the comparison, but it's not with people and people - it's parade-parade." If your faith is so fragile that a parade (that willingly moved its entire runtime to accommodate one church) stops you from worshipping God, well, the parade isn't the problem.

Simon Cowell pocketed $42 million for The X Factor USA, but possibly the cruelest line from the article was "host Steve Jones could be going the way of Brian Dunkelman."