Daily Blend: Thursday, June 16, 2011

Ben Alley

• More technological cluelessness: Senators want to make it a crime to stream copyrighted content (such as embedding YouTube videos on a blog).
  (via The Agitator)

• “In sophomore year, Ben [Alley] [pictured] informed his parents that he is gay. They informed him he wouldn't be coming home after school the next day -- or ever again.”
  (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars)

• Excellent essay by John Cheese at Cracked.com: It really does get better, and not just for LGBT teens.

• Well, damn. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) resigns over the latest stupid-inane-pseudo-“scandal”.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Glenn Greenwald on US politics: Tyranny and war-mongering? Let it slide. Political “sex scandal”? OMG FIRE HIM NAAOOO

• Man fired after asking for a modified schedule to deal with his wife’s cancer.

• Samuel L. Jackson reads the “children’s book” Go the Fuck to Sleep.
  (via The Agitator)

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