Wake the Sun

* I haven't had a chance to watch this yet, but the TEDTalks website is featuring Edwidge Danticat: Stories of Haiti: In the midst of an earlier crisis, Haitian author Edwidge Danticat reminds us of the contributions of Haiti's vibrant culture and people. This reading offers a timely message for today -- as the nation struggles in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake (filmed Oct. 2004).

* On Newsweek - The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage: Why same-sex marriage is an American value by Theodore B. Olson (link via rm)

* Adam Lambert's Whataya Want From Me music video is up (via the entire internet)! *________________________* ETA: And bexless has a loving and hilarious review here.

( * More music under the cut )

* And some fine folks for Follow Friday: help_haiti, the fannish charity auction that you've seen a thousand times already. Go! Look! Donate! Also kaigou, for really excellent writing meta.

* Jay Smooth has a video up on Haiti: ...that we need to act not because Haiti is some nation of perennial victims that we need to have pity on; we need to act because Haiti is a nation of heroes and we need to repay them for what they've given us. That is what our responsibility is.

* Apparently there's a guest post up on FiveThrityEight that's a tentative defense of Pat Robertson's comments on Haiti (wtf?). Ta-Nehisi Coates takes it apart.

* And the NYTimes has a piece on why the Haitians had it coming, really (seriously, wtf?). jonquil responds here and here (same post, different comments).