Teen Skepchick’s Reality Checks 5.11

A male tree! Flying hamsters! Gay marriage! Fasten your seatbelts; it’s the Reality Checks!

Kate Swift, the writer and editor who rooted out sexism in the English language, has died. (via The New York Times)

Hamsters pwned by centrifugal force. (via BoingBoing)

Lonely male tree seeks mate. (via NPR)

Navy chaplains can perform marriages for same-sex couples in Navy chapels. (via Wisconsin Gazette)*

* Oh look…now they can’t. Le sigh…(via The Advocate)

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