Daily Blend: Friday, April 16, 2010

Dishonest Bill-O lies, skeevy DOJ strives, egalitarian Obama pacifies, sensible courts criminalize and unjust censorship arise. Yup, the world seems to be in balance this morning.

• Another “controversial” atheist billboard (“Don’t believe in God? You are not alone.”) vandalized, this time in St. Augustine, Florida. Theories of accidental damage such as from debris are refuted by a lack of impact damage; this was deliberate.
  (via @RichardDawkins)

• I’m almost glad I never had Windows 3.1.
  (via @VeritasKnight)

• More Faux News lies: Bill-O says that no-one on Faux ever claimed that you’d go to jail for not providing healthcare insurance. When 3/4 of them did. Regularly. Including on his own show. Moran.
  (via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)

• Google and others are helping Yahoo! fend off DOJ demands that they turn in users’ private emails without a warrant. Google and Yahoo: good job. DOJ: fuck off and try doing something legally for a change.
  (via The Agitator)

• At very long last, Obama orders hospitals to grant same-sex couples with basic visitation and power-of-attorney rights. Here’s hoping this move makes tragedies such as this story a thing of the past.
  (via @washingtonpost)

• Courts rule that the National Day of Prayer is “unconstitutional”. Looks like they finally looked into this “Separation of Church and State” thing. Has there ever been a more blatant, common and generally accepted violation in recent memory? Jeez.

• Another one in the “you sure it’s not a surrealist painting?” files: the erupting Iceland volcano.
  (via @ebertchicago)

• Pulitzer-prize winning political caricaturist Mark Flore banned from iPhone app store for “ridiculing public figures”. One cannot count the number of ways in which this fails.
  (via @GreatDismal / RT by @ebertchicago)

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