Daily Blend: Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Joan Farr Heffington (R-KS)

Ha! It may look like piss-poor filmmaker and actor Tommy Wiseau had forced the Nostalgia Critic and ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com to pull their reviews of Wiseau’s so-bad-you-gotta-see-it-to-believe-it cult film The Room, but I still have the working video right here! Censorship FAIL, douchebag.

• Anther one for the US Theocratic Party: Joan Farr Heffington (R) ^[pictured] is running for governor of Kansas with a platform that includes requiring that there be a “Biblical and Constitutional reason” for any new laws and “allow[ing] teaching of Christianity vs. evolution in schools”. Well, can’t say she’s sneaky about it.
  (via Pharyngula)

• What’s the point in having a big, fancy medical machine if you don’t get to play around with it?
  (via Pharyngula)

• PZ Myers tries to play smug, beats Phil Plait 2-3 with his Bacon number, realizes he’s linked to Ben Stein. FAIL (and irony Win).

• But Global Warming is a hoax and the Earth is actually cooling! Oh, wait …
  (via The Daily Grail)

• Introducing the Washington Post’s latest undercover investigation into Top Secret America, how how far this country has descended into anti-terrorist hysteria since 9/11.

• Hmm …
  (via @todayspolitics)

• The UN officially accredits the US-based International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission for “consultation status”.

• Maryland Air National Guard staff sergeant Anthony Graber is the one who had a cop pull a gun on him at a mere traffic top and then had his parents’ home ransacked and his property seized. Of course, means he’s also the one who’s facing up to 16 years in jail for videotaping original cop illegally pulling a gun on him in the first place.
  (via @todayspolitics)

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