Who just saved Russia from objective fact-based media coverage? This guy (shown here astride a bearshark). Credit: Image via Taringa.net

Georgia tows the line, Putin reels in Russian media, and Porno Pete lets it all hang out, as your AggreGAYtor ponders a Tic-Tac.

The Good

RIP Nelson Mandela, our fiercest ally yet.

Georgia stops being such a tool to its National Guard servicemembers, leaving only Mississippi (and Oklahoma).

HRC sees record-level adoption of LGBTQ-friendly policies among major employers.

Lady Gaga joins the call for a boycott of the Sochi Olympics.

The Bad

As turns out, transgender murder victims are a certain class of person, despite what the defense thinks.

Russian President Vladimir Putin demonstrates the height of post-Soviet liberty by co-opting the fourth estate.

The Fugly

I don’t want anybody with a dick in the girls’ restroom.”

A transgender British footballer has been banned from playing in her league until two years after bottom surgery.

Porno Pete” LaBarbera was recently in Jamaica, spreading his usual santorum-laced speech.

It Came from the Tubes

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