Daily Blend: Friday, June 18, 2010

FFRF bus ad: “Sleep In On Sundays” Same effect can be achieved by going to church Sunday mornings, really …

Holy heckapalooza, 16 links? New personal best. You’d think people were sending me story suggestions rather than it just being my mindless browsing around the Nets. (Speaking of which, send me stories nao, will ya?)

• Wow, I didn’t know it was that simple.

• The Freedom From Religion Foundation has a new bus ad: “Sleep In On Sundays” [pictured]. Funny and harmless. So, of course, people are all kvetching about it. How mishegas.

• More John McCain spinelessness: now opposing a pro-immigration bill that he personally co-sponsored in the first place. Ed Brayton’s right: the man’s a political Jabba, only not as intimidating or reliable.
  (via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)

• Karl Rove, in the same interview: President Obama’s bad because he hasn’t met with academic experts. And, President Obama’s bad because he’s filled his administration with academic experts. Oh, pick a side, you soulless moral weathervane.
  (via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)

• Incoherent screed of the day: The biggest problem afflicting the US is … negrophilia (ie. a love for Black people). Brought to you by – where else? – the WorldNutDaily.
  (via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)

• Hard-hitting editorial at the New York Times criticizes the Obama administration for going out of their way to assure that innocent detainees who were tortured through Bush’s “extraordinary rendition” program never get to see their day in court and obtain some measure of justice. Cites the case of Maher Arar, a Canadian man captured by American authorities, shipped off to Syria and tortured for a year before they realized he was totally innocent. He got a roughly $10 million compensation and a measly apology from the Canadian government, which, while hardly enough, is still better than what the US government did, which was effectively to tell him to stop whining and fuck off.
  (via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)

• A look at the strange vitriolic attitude of the American Right’s towards the soccer World Cup. As expected: plenty of bluster and xenophobia and no shred of sense.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• 6 reasons why space travel will always suck, courtesy of Cracked.com. Buzz-killing bastards.
  (via The Daily Grail)

• 7 sex tips from Cosmo that will put you in the hospital. All written by idiots with either deranged fetishes or no idea how the male body works, apparently. Or psychopaths.

• On a (Cracked) roll: ruining my perception of 6 famous geniuses who were secretly perverts. #5 (Mozart) is just weird and icky, but #4 (James Joyce) – holy … fart.

• Yes, who better to head a health advice column in a newspaper than Ozzy Osbourne. Picture of health and wisdom, isn’t he?
  (via Respectful Insolence)

• FDA unanimously endorses ellaOne, a new, more effective “Plan B”/“morning after” contraceptive pill that’s effective five days after sex.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Bullies for hire. I admit it, I LOLed.
  (via Gene Burmington)

• The self-fulfilling prophecy continues: MSNBC’s Chris Matthews airs rather tame documentary on the “New Right” in the US. So naturally, teabaggers get all bitchy, decide to boycott one of MSNBC’s sponsors. … And they chose Dawn dishwashing liquid, for whatever reason. I guess they want oily pelicans to suffer.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Another proud fact: Starting just now, the US is the only industrialized country that doesn’t offer paid leave to new parents.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Could a new Internet security bill winging its way through Congress serve as a tool to police and censor the Internet? Considering what we’ve seen so far … no doubt.
  (via @wikileaks)

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