Daily Blend: Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Arther C. Clarke [source: Verbatim]

Music class finally starts again tonight after a three-month hiatus. God damn, that felt interminable.

• Peter Roff at US News: “Why Is the Media Ignoring Discovery Channel Gunman's Radical Views?” Perhaps because most people recognize the fact that one lone nut doing something bad does not reflect upon whatever movements or beliefs he may adhere to.

• “We learn from history that we do not learn from history.” WTF?, indeed.

• New evidence indicates that the Amazon, far from virgin wilderness untouched by the hand of man, was actually home to a massive forest-managing civilization numbering up to 20 million – far more than live there today.

• Arthur C. Clarke ^[pictured] accurately describes the 2000s … from 1964.
  (via @ebertchicago)

• “Goddamnit, why are all the good ones gay?” (Or married …)

• U.S. Military officials point out to bigoted assholes that holding a Quran book-burning on the anniversary of 9/11 is not going to help anyone.

• Who the hell would bomb an assisted living facility?
  (via @BreakingNews)

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