Daily Blend: Sunday, June 20, 2010

Fox Nation headline and photo: “Obama Gives Back Major Strip of AZ to Mexico” Oh no he didn’t! … Oh, wait, he actually didn’t

On today’s table: Watching Splice, which looks interesting, and reading a brand new book. Oh, I love slow weekends.

• Censorship in the media: Not just for big-league newspapers.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Spartanburg, South Carolina Mayor Junie White marked yesterday, June 19, as LGBT Pride Day. Councilwoman Linda Dogan responds by launching into one of the most astonishingly revolting anti-gay rants you’ll have ever heard; not so much for being explicit (it’s not), but for its breathtaking amounts of stupidity, arrogance and hypocrisy.

• The Texas GOP has released its 2010 platform, proudly taking after Uganda’s approach towards homosexuality.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Bad to worse: Faux News and Fox Nation website both falsely claim that President Obama has given a huge slot of land over to Mexico [pictured]. Daily Kos, via Media Matters, explains how this is a complete, utter and spectacularly blatant lie. Not just a distortion, a smear or mindless propaganda, but downright making shit up.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• How’s this for patheticness: Radio station apparently censored a line of lyrics of a song, “Breakeven” by The Script, that talked about not believing in God.

• Sweet-ness. Check out this huge (as in, mega-super-giganta-colossal-massive large) Radial Tree of Life diagram. A biologist’s insta-orgasm. You actually have to zoom to 200% before you can even make out the names. Freaky awesome.
  (via Pharyngula)

• They must be tired of trying actual solutions, because Louisiana senators are now calling upon … divine intervention. Yeah, come on, God, get off your fat useless ass and do something. For the first time in, oh, 13.75 billion years.

• Gay Walmart employee in Las Vegas, Nevada, forced to reveal his sexual orientation to his co-workers, stripped of his duties and made to wear an identifying yellow vest. Do I smell the ACLU crashing through the walls?
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Glenn “insane wonder” Beck claims that the “anarchists, Marxists, communists, revolutionaries, Maoists” in the government want to eliminate 10% (~ 35 million) of the population to gain control – because they want to and they can. A) Someone get him a dictionary and realize how those terms he keeps flinging around don’t mean what he thinks they do (hint: they’re complete opposites of each other), and B) someone fire him already. Accusing the President of wanting to commit genocide? This jackass needs to get off the air, pronto.
  (via @todayspolitics)

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