Daily Blend: Tuesday, January 25, 2011

William Kilgore, arrested for recording cops

For the sake of convenience and not drowning my readers in music (however wonderful and brilliant it may be^*), I will spread the remaining song updates out in twelve-hour increments to give other content a chance. So you know.

• Tarpon Springs, Florida cops arrest college student [pictured] for recording their activities, then confiscate friend’s phone for recording said arrest.
  (via The Agitator)

• Illinois State Senate votes (32-25) to abolish death penalty.
  (via The Agitator)

• Hawaii Senate becomes the first state legislature to openly ban daily prayers.

• Noted anti-abortionist crank Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) claims abortion is “unacceptable bigotry” and wants to form a new protected class for “immaturity” – literally, for fetuses.
  (via Right Wing Watch)

• Good write-up about how fetishization of religion in America from an Australian point-of-view. Bottom line: We need more like Ricky Gervais.
  (via Pharyngula)

• Columbia, SC woman hangs and burns a “devil dog” to death for chewing on her Bible.

• Thomas Edison in 1911, speaking about 2011. Not as creepily accurate as Arthur C. Clarke’s predictions, but then, Clarke did have a 60-year head-start.
  (via The Daily Grail)

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Supplemental tags: Miriam Smith • dogs • Thomas Edison • cool