Daily Blend: Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Bradlee Dean

• As fear-mongering continues, US crime rates keep sinking across the board.
  (via The Agitator)

• You know the preacher [pictured] invited to give an opening prayer at a state legislature is a bigoted asshole when the Republican who invited him publicly apologizes for it right after.

• Debunking the idiotic “you don’t need privacy if you’ve got nothing to hide” canard.
  (via The Daily Grail)

• Better sign this anti-US-Internet-blacklist petition, just case Congress really is stupid and craven enough to pass it.

• 6 Civil War Myths Everyone Believes (That Are Total B.S.)

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