Daily Blend – Saturday, March 20, 2010

I got accepted by welfare and will now start receiving $800 CAD/month. I don’t suppose having both (mild) Asperger’s and (mild) Tourette’s, in addition to being the Most Charming Guy Evar^TM, could have helped, could it?

• I’d have no problem with tighter restrictions being enforced upon sex offenders – if it weren’t for the fact that so many of them are innocent victims of a broken system.
  (via @washingtonpost)

• I agree with his accusations of Dawkins at times being a bit too vituperative, though not quite as much as he makes it sound like. What intrigues me, though, is why he first claims Dawkins is too aggressive and gives atheism a bad name (which, whilst debatable, I’d tend to disagree with; he’s certainly more restrained than is PZ, and I don’t think that our favorite cephalophile^[1] is giving us a bad name, either), yet later, ends up stating that perhaps “sometimes the Dawkins approach is the only way to go”. Pick a side, Senator.
  (via @religionnews)

• Ed Brayton’s pummeling of Vox Day continues. Note how Vox also appears in the comments … and continues to utterly miss the point. You’d think he were shooting at a black cat in a darkened room with his eyes closed and a gun with a crooked barrel.

• Birther Queen and pseudo-lawyer Orly Taitz facing an investigation that might end in her disbarment. Could it be that the courts have finally had enough of her endless nonsense? Fingers crossed, everyone.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Remember Sean Hannity’s “Freedom Concerts” that were so hyped (by himself, on Fox News) and said to bring in money for veterans and the likes? Turns out they’re nothing but a big scam, with parent company Freedom Alliance keeping a whopping 96% of the profits to itself. So, the ignorant and airheaded wingnut now shows how he’s a fraud, too.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• On how the GOP is trying so hard to kill the healthcare reform bill over the non-issue of nonexistent federal abortion coverage – when the GOP itself already has abortion coverage. And their hypocrisy now transcends Saturn on its way out of the solar system.
  (via @todayspolitics)

As always, if you have any story suggestions, feel free to send them in.

^[1] In a platonic way, of course. Or so he claims.