Today would have been Harvey Milk’s 81st birthday and in a fitting gesture, the nonprofit Trevor Project, which provides suicide prevention counseling services to LGBT youth, opened the Harvey Milk Call Center at 575 Castro Street, which was the home of Milk’s camera shop and campaign headquarters in the ’70s, and where he occasionally received calls from gay youth seeking hope and validation.  The San Francisco call center will handle overnight calls to the Trevor Project’s suicide prevention hotline.

And in another fitting present for Milk, the WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS San Francisco Giants announced that the team will be filming a video for the “It Gets Better” campaign to prevent gay suicides and to stop bullying of LGBT youth.  They are the first professional sports team to do so.

[Bay Area Reporter: Trevor Project Opens SF Call Center]

The only man more boring than Tim Pawlenty will not seek the highest office in the land:

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has decided not to run for president. He alerted followers of the news in an email sent out early — really early — Sunday morning, probably while he was drunk, or at least, feeling restless after Saturday Night Live. Daniels, an establishment Republican favorite, had built up a reputation as a “sane” Republican by not actively demonizing Muslims and talking about “the deficit” all the time, but he stripped Indiana funds for Planned Parenthood and continued to identify himself as a Republican in 2011, so how sane can he really be? Even so, someone should check on David Brooks and make sure he’s doing okay.

Mitch Daniels Won’t Be Running for President [Gawker]

Title: “Where’s the Birth Certificate?: The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President”

Author: Jerome Corsi

Rank: 20

Blurb: “The question is jarring, surreal, and intensely controversial: Is Barack Obama a natural-born citizen of the United States and therefore constitutionally eligible to be president? Repeated national polls suggest tens of millions of Americans don’t think he is, despite his release of an online image of his purported birth document.”

Review: “What do you want to bet, Donald Trump was working with the Democrats, to neutralize the Corsi book, before it came out so no one would read it, thinking the birther issue had no substance, thus no need for the book!!!!”

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Footnote: Conspiracy theories never die. They evolve.

Where’s the Birth Certificate? [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

Bill in Exile:

While we wait for Heaven’s Hoover to vacuum the faithful from our mortal coil — 6 p.m. local time, we’re promised — please enjoy this Naughty Trick you can perform with a child’s toy. Hey, if you’re gonna spend eternity in Hades, might as well make it worth your while.

[via Nerdist]

Harold Camping, who has brought much joy to our world with his end-of-world prediction, is now issuing an EMERGENCY CLARIFICATION:

The fun begins at 6 p.m. Saturday — wherever Saturday begins first.

So, according to these calculations, the Rapture will actually begin like a rolling brown out across the globe at 11 p.m. PST on Friday, May 20th. “Everyone will be weeping and wailing because they’ll know in a few hours it’ll come to their city,” said Camping.

The “6 p.m.” kickoff has been noted already, but in trying to track it down last night, we couldn’t source it to Camping himself — just an NPR story about a follower. Now we can confirm that Armageddon will target Earth like a rotisserie.

And what special plans does Brother Camping have for Mankind’s Blessed Destruction? Same as the rest of us: He’ll be watching CNN.

The Rapture Is Not Saturday — It’s Tonight [Atlantic]

On Tuesday, after news of The Sperminator broke, Hollywood moguls behind his new projects were defiant:

“It doesn’t affect this movie,” Cry Macho producer Albert Ruddy says of the unfolding Schwarzenegger scandal. “We’re shooting Aug. 24; we’re in serious preproduction now. It hasn’t affected our sales. It’s going to be interesting if we get even a bump on the foreign side. This is not gonna be a black eye for a guy with an astounding career.”

Even his new, suddenly fabulously creepy cartoon still had a greenlight:

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