Daily Blend: Friday, February 18, 2011

Jose Padilla

• Glenn Greenwald on the sick and astoundingly two-faced farce that is the US justice system. [victim pictured]

• Texas State Board of Education’s ideological pandering heavily criticized by … conservative think thank Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Cool.

• Turns out military chaplains may not have as big a problem with the DADT repeal as has been claimed by religious-rightists.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• This piece on constructing the perfect anti-atheist whinefest^* is mostly spot-on (love the answer to that “sophisticated theology” canard), except for the part where they somehow leave out “Hitler”.
  (via Diaphanitas)

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* Blog appears to be stagnant, so here’s a screengrab of the entire article in case the original goes offline.