Daily Blend: Sunday, May 16, 2010

So you wake up to find your newly installed monitors are screwing up beyond comprehension, your Internet connection is hell-bent on driving you raving mad, you’ve forgotten half the things you wanted to do, and of course, your cat is meowing after you like she’s got a firecracker up her ass only without any real reason. What to do …?

• Reminding us that the victims of war aren’t always human.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Jeffrey D. Perry, who was responsible for two scandals involving illegal strip-searches of teenage girls as a police sergeant in the early ’90s, is now running for Congress (as a R-Mass.).
  (via @todayspolitcs)

• Lego scientists.
  (via Bad Astronomy)

• Did you know bats engage in fellatio – during intercourse? Did you also know that, apparently, if you use such a disturbing argument in a debate on “natural sexuality” in school, you could get sanctioned? So much for free speech and the use of scientific arguments in a discussion. Be sure to sign that petition. (You know I did.) Once again, whiners and pearl-clutchers: no-one has the right not to be offended. You can either respond, or leave.
  (via Pharyngula)

• Right-wing blogger Caleb Howe, who recently stirred a (rightful) storm of outrage after mocking Roger Ebert’s cancer, claims he’s mellowed and apologizes. So he’s a bit less despicable, but certainly not forgiven. I don’t care how drunk and angry you are: you don’t mock cancer victims. Ever. That crosses the line.
  (via @ebertchicago)

• Whenever people tell you you’re “just preaching to the converted”, show them this excellent video.
  (via Respectful Insolence)

• Man harrassed and arrested by New Jersey SWAT for filming them during a field exercise.
  (via The Agitator)

• How selling a diamond ring on Craigslist turned to tragedy. Hopefully, this will serve as a cautionary tale for others intending to sell their valuables online.
  (via The Agitator)

• Dogs, narrators and Murphy’s Law, all in one inexplicably brilliant vid.
  (via The Agitator)

• Random plog: Come Out, Virginia. The name is fake; the story, all too real. (Also, see this.)

• I’m amazed it even lasted this long.

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