Daily Blend: Thursday, January 27, 2011

Ken Cuccinelli

• Perhaps the reason why US Border Patrol agents never speak ill of the War on Drugs is because they immediately get fired when they do.
  (via The Agitator)

• Phil Plait points out that while reprimanding Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli [pictured] for his anti-global warming witch hunt is a good thing, taking away his legal recourses – thus removing his ability to prosecute actual fraud – isn’t a very good idea.

• Bill O’Reilly: Someone said something stupid and mean about Nancy Reagan in a Huffington Post comment (that was later deleted), ergo, my Nazi comparison was okay.

• And the religious-Right’s efforts to stuff Creationist bullshit into science classrooms starts anew.

• G. Wayne Clough, the spineless head of the Smithsonian Institute who caved in to pearl-clutchers and censored a “blasphemous” art exhibit, needs to be replaced.

• 10 Creepy Plants That Shouldn't Exist. I don’t even know what to think of #2.

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Supplemental tags: Smithsonian Institute • Botany • Cracked.com