Daily Blend: Friday, June 04, 2010

California Senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina (R)

I’d swear my cat was possessed by a particularly stupid demon, if only she hadn’t been that way since birth. The ghost in the cell …?

• President Obama extends benefits for LGBT federal workers and their partners, “including access to medical treatment, relocation assistance, credit unions and fitness centers”. Good man.
  (via @washingtonpost)

• Media Matters on Glenn Beck’s long history of disgusting personal attacks against others. Includes mocking a rival radio host for his wife’s miscarriage, on the air. How does one do such a thing and still purport to being a decent human being?
  (via @mmfa)

• Bill O’Reilly reacts to a French, gay-themed McDonald’s commercial: “Does that make you hungry?” and “Do they have an al-Qaeda ad?” Dang those hunger-killing gheys and their propensity for blowing us up with BigMacs!
  (via @mmfa)

• Idiot America representative and California Senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina (R) [pictured] released an attack ad mocking her opponent (Sen. Barbara Boxer (D)) for asserting that climate change is a threat to the US.
  (via @mmaction)

• Ed Brayton of Dispatches From the Culture Wars on the current state of affairs for LGBT people, particularly the ‘T’s. An interesting read; I learned.

• The truth behind cinematic apocalypses. All in all, the films are good for Saturday nights and bad for any actual planning ahead.
  (via Bad Astronomy)

• Ohio Supreme Court rules that trained and experienced police officers’ guesstimates are ample enough evidence to issue speeding tickets. So much for the whole “written law” and “speed limit” stuff.
  (via The Agitator)

• Albuquerque, New Mexico cops put their department chopper to good use: busting parties with underage drinking. Thank God for Albuquerque police having fixed all the crime in the city!
  (via The Agitator)

• So anatomically incorrect.
  (via @VeritasKnight)

• Fired for being … too pretty?

• Beck actually goes into a rant and bites the hand that feeds him when he blames Saudi Prince Alwaleed, the largest shareholder of Fox News and a personal friend of Rupert Murdoch’s, for 9/11. Has he finally gone too far? (… Of course not.)
  (via @todayspolitics)

• The 16 geekiest workstations. I want one!

• I know very much look forward to April 14/15, 2012.

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