Daily Blend: Friday, July 23, 2010

Dan Wheeler [source: KING5.com]

• “Religious Folks Lose Minds Over Atheist Leader” More than usual, anyway.

• What do you get when Sarah Palin screws up simple English and then tries to compare herself to Shakespeare? You get #shakespalin on Twitter, is what.
  (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars)

• Dan Wheeler ^[pictured] had his identity stolen by a sex offender years ago, now likely to remain in sex offender registry for the rest of his life.

• Phoenix, Arizona man awarded $855,000 in damages for abuse at the hands of Maricopa County detention officers after being accused (and later acquitted) of raping and murdering his 11-month-old son in 2003. I’m guessing that his name and the fact that he was under Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jurisdiction had nothing to do with how the case developed, right …?
  (via The Agitator)

• Here’s an idea, child protection officers: How about making sure that parents are actually incapable of taking care of their kid(s) before taking their children away from them into “protective” custody?
  (via The Agitator)

• Oh là là.
  (via Diaphanitas)

• Oh là là, redux. Street View: The amateur voyeur’s legal resource.

• ♪Do I gotta get water from the moon♪
  (via The Daily Grail)

• Fresh from taking on homeopathy and antivaxxers, cartoonist Darryl Cunningham now debunks Moon hoax conspiracies.
  (via Bad Astronomy)

• You have been declared guilty. I hereby sentence you to read a book. (Gotta love those “liberal-minded” solutions. Odd how they often seem to work better, too.)
  (via @ebertchicago)

• Kansas newspaper retracts endorsement of Republican House candidate Tracey Mann when they realize he’s a Birther. Good on them.
  (via @todayspolitics)

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