Daily Blend: Saturday, June 19, 2010

Penn Jillette

You're not the only one
Staring at the sun
Afraid of what you'd find
You step back inside

• So Penn Jillette [pictured] would go on Adolf Hitler’s talk show. Just not for the reasons you might think.
  (via Friendly Atheist)

• How to determine whether or not convicted rapists are guilty: by checking the back of their ears. Hey, it’s apparently traditional in Vietnam.
  (via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)

• Psychotherapist claims that children really do “see dead people”. Amongst other, totally non-sordid stuff.
  (via The Daily Grail)

• Ultimate proof that Rush Limbaugh is a fundamentally disgusting excuse for a human being: deriding and mocking hungry children and families, saying their parents just “let” them starve, that their pantries are filled with junk food and that they should go dumpster diving. Rush Limbaugh, you deserve to be shot like the fucking pig you are. And I’m not even sure if I’m kidding.

• It begins: White House confirms that it will sue the state of Arizona for its horrible anti-immigration law.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Inside the mind of the anonymous Internet commenter. Or, why so many commenters are total brainless douches.
  (via @ebertchicago)

• How the invisible hand of the free market works. Love the logo on his chest.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Gawker has a concise yet highly informative summary of a new blockbuster piece by Salon’s Glenn Greenwald on the case of the arrest of Bradley Manning, a military analyst who allegedly provided WikiLeaks with its now-infamous “Collateral Murder” video, and the strange circumstances that led up to Manning being apprehended. All in all: low-level hacker Adrian Lamo, to whom Manning “confessed” over IM before Lamo turned around and gave him up, is an unethical little piece of crap.
  (via @wikileaks)

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