Daily Blend: Thursday, June 23, 2011

Mother Teresa

• Florida GOP pushing for “conscience clause” allowing Medicaid providers to forgo family planning services.

• Radley Balko: Myths Of The Criminal Justice System, Part 2/3. Includes higher standards, technicalities and false confessions. (Part 1 here.)

• The terrible legacy of Mother Teresa [pictured].
  (via @PersonalFailure)

• Arctic ice continues to shrink, and so does a climate change denialist claim about volcanic C0₂ emissions.

• Darryl Cunningham investigates Evolution. (Previously: Climate change denialism, Moon landing denialism, homeopathy and antivaccination.)
  (via @ebertchicago)

• The Illinois Family Institute’s perverted obsession with gay (male) sex is either hilarious or disturbing.

• Vox Day misses the point (shocker): The fact that a tiny fraction of atheists in UK prisons has grown “explosive[ly]” into a slightly less tiny fraction is irrelevant – it’s still a tiny fraction compared to non-prison demographics. (Among other glaring fallacies in his post.)

• US Airways stops Black man with saggy pants from flying, then allows White man in panties to board.
  (via @todayspolitics)

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