Daily Blend: Friday, August 06, 2010

Christopher Hitchens Chemo is the mother of all bitches [source: Vanity Fair]

♪Il ouvrit la fenêtre
Et quand il vit apparaître Manhattan
La vue était si belle
Qu’il voulut s’envoler
Dans la nuit étoilée
Comme un oiseau qui plane♫

• Today’s misleading headline: “Judge Praises Former Cult Mom Who Starved Son to Death”
  (via @religionnews)

• Finally, a reasonable drug ruling: Oregon Court of Appeals judge rules that a mother who smoked a small amount of marijuana at a party doesn’t present a “reasonable likelihood of harm to her two children”, nor does she deserve to have them taken away.
  (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars)

• He is wilting away with cancer, yet he is as irreverent, caustic and incredibly sharp-witted as ever. He is, of course, Christopher Hitchens ^[pictured].
  (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars)

• I cringe at how many failed attempts went into this stunt.

• Premature Mexican baby pulls a Jesus inside its coffin.
  (via @BreakingNews)

• Pope Ratzi losing popularity amongst Catholics.
  (via @rdfrs)

• 23 Classic Opening Movie Scenes.

• One reason why priests should be allowed to marry and have kids. (Also, it’s amazing how remarkably clueless so many of the commenters seem to be.)
  (via Friendly Atheist)

• Multnomah County, Oregon official apologizes after a 7-year-old girl’s lemonade stand was shut down because she didn’t have a food-safety permit. Well, glad to see they did the right thing before anything ridiculous happened.
  (via @BreakingNews)

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