Daily Blend: Monday, July 16, 2010

Rush Limbaugh

You really have to wonder how Rush Limbaugh manages to live with himself with all the horrible, mindless, heartless, downright monstrous things he says day in and day out. But then, monsters can’t really feel remorse, so …

• The supposed “Leader of the Free World” once again falls behind in basic civil rights.
  (via Pharyngula)

• American Psychological Association backs effort to strip Bush-era psychologists who aided the torture of detainees of their license.
  (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars)

• Several US city councils are headed straight towards a litany of lawsuits for refusing to end their practice of holding pre-meeting prayers. I say, destroy them and make an example of these religiots.

• Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio must be sweating irony: His jurisdiction is the only area in Arizona where crime rates aren’t going down, but up.
  (via The Agitator)

• Comet or planet? Neither and both.
  (via The Daily Grail)

• Why did our thermosphere collapse – then rebound?
  (via The Daily Grail)

• Obligatory Top 10 list of the day: The most gorgeous blasters and rayguns in sci-fi.
  (via The Daily Grail)

• Mosquitoes being genetically engineered to reverse their Malaria-related death toll.
  (via The Daily Grail)

• Rush Limbaugh ^[pictured] says something horrible and stupid: Out-of-control Toyotas edition.
  (via @mmfa)

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

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