Daily Blend: Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) [source: The Confluence]

• “[The unemployed] are generally people with poor work habits and poor personalities.” — Ben Stein, himself currently unemployed after caught participating in a credit scam. Don’t let him near mirrors.

• Are those Taliban-trained monkey soldiers for real? … Well, no, stupid.

• Sen. David Vitter ^[pictured] (R-Louisiana) first insults Rachel Maddow’s femininity, then offers a half-assed apology.

• Jay Bybee, one of the authors behind the torture memos that authorized the systematic abuse of Gitmo detainees, wants you to know that he’s really, really sorry … that he is facing criticism for his amoral and illegal actions.

• Better late than never: Mississippi’s Itawamba County School District – home of the Constance McMillen affair – finally agrees to change their backwards policy and bans anti-gay discrimination.

• Professional-grade douchebag Andrew Breitbart gets innocent US Dept. of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod fired with false claims of “reverse racism” gleaned from a dishonestly edited video.
  (via The Agitator)

• Your chance to redesign the BP logo! Here’s my favorite.
  (via The Agitator)

• Okay, I just can’t beat Akinator. Can you? (Note – I eventually won out with “Mischa Lecter”.)

• Gainesville, Florida bans “ladies’ nights” in bars because they apparently violate the city’s anti-discrimination ordinance. As a workaround, several bars begin “shaved leg night” and “high heel night” and oh, dear.
  (via Fark)

• So you’re an EMT who stood by and let a pregnant woman die during his coffee break? Karma’s a bitch.
  (via Fark)

• Media Matters on Glenn “context matters” Beck’s long history of quote-mining.

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Tags: Ben Stein • unemployed • jobless • Taliban • monkeys • David Vitter • Rachel Maddow • bigotry • Jay Bybee • torture memos • Itawamba County School District • Mississippi • Constance McMillen • Andrew Breitbart • Shirley Sherrod • racism • reverse racism • BP • BP Oil Spill • Akinator • Gainesville, Florida • discrimination • bars • ladies' night • karma • Media Matters • Glenn Beck • quote-mining