Daily Blend: Sunday, September 12, 2010

Praying mantis chez Bad Astronomer [source: Bad Astronomy]

Okay, so the world didn’t end yesterday after a week-long promise of chaos. Hope in humanity restored? Maybe a tiny parcel.

• Bad Astronomer vs. Praying Mantis [pictured].

• The Onion on 9/11 through the years.

• Atheists and chaplains in the U.S. Military.

• Tweeter Todays Politics (@todayspolitics) posted this as an example of why he doesn’t talk to his aunt. Calling her retarded is an insult to people with special needs. This is outright Fox News-induced neurological trauma.

• Interesting: Is it Inception or Edith Piaf?

• John Hawkins at Right Wing News: The CIA should kill WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for endangering the troops. As if A) WikiLeaks hadn’t already removed any compromising information they could find from the leaked documents (which they have), and B) it weren’t the Pentagon’s own damned fault for refusing to cooperate with WikiLeaks when they repeatedly asked the Pentagon for their help in identifying any compromising information.
  (via @wikileaks)

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Tags: Bad Astronomer • Phil Plait • praying mantises • bugs • insects • The Onion • 9-11 • funny • atheists • chaplains • US Military • Philip Chute • Terry Moran • Fox News • conservatives • Inception • Edith Piaf • John Hawkins • Julian Assange • WikiLeaks • CIA