Daily Blend: Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Former Judge Mark A. Ciavarella, Jr.

• I’m against the death penalty, but monsters like this [pictured], who happily condemn innocent kids to lives of unmerited punishment and misery, send me reaching for alternatives.

• Cop who groped woman gets paid leave; cop who turned him in gets fired.
  (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars)

• Four Layton, Utah Walmart employees harmlessly disarm a shoplifting gunman, get thanked with pink slips.
  (via @ebertchicago)

• Austrian woman charged and fined €480 for implying Mohammed was a pedophile. So older men marrying nine-year-old girls is fine, then, as long as it’s in a religious context?

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Supplemental tags: Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff • Free Speech/Censorship • Mohammed • Religion