Daily Blend: Monday, October 11, 2010

Sladjana Vidovic

Sorry for the lack of posts yesterday. I had no links for the Daily Blend (it happens) and I was too busy wrapping up my latest chapter to focus on blogging.

• Terrible article (the content, not the writing) about four teens bullied to death at the same Ohio school [one teen pictured]. Why is bullying not a crime as it is with adults? If you persecute a child until he/she kills themself, you have their blood on your hands and you should fucking pay for it.
  (via Gene Burmington)

• The 200 corpses of Mount Everest. Includes pics best described as “chilling”.
  (via The Agitator)

• Responding in a typical mature fashion to dissident Liu Xiaobo receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, China cracks down on intellectuals, hides the news from Xiaobo for days, laureate’s wife goes missing.
  (via The Agitator)

• Those sneaky, overzealous mathematicians.
  (via The Agitator)

• This ethical mess further shows why surrogate pregnancies are usually bad ideas.
  (via The Agitator)

• You know the joke of fat cats using money as toilet paper? This lobbyist prefers to use it as wrapping paper. Seriously, actual money. Lots of it. Oddly sickening.

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Tags: LGBT teens • bullying • Sladjana Vidovic • Mentor High School • Eric Mohat • Meredith Rezak • Jennifer Eyring • Mount Everest • Liu Xiaobo • China • Nobel Peace Prize • mathematics • surrogate pregnancies • surrogate mothers • lobbyists