Daily Blend: August 17, 2011

• Sir, I’m arresting and threatening you with my taser to inform you that riding your bike at night without reflectors is dangerous.
  (via @radleybalko)

• Homeopathy giant ^[pictured] sues lone Italian blogger for exposing their quackery.
  (via @bengoldacre)

• No, Vox Day, the American Psychological Association’s decision to declassify pedophilia as a mental disorder (which I agree with^*) is not a “normalization” of “aberrant” behavior like homosexuality that announces the death of society (or something).

• NewsBusters finally gets one right, catches MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Breitbarting a Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) quote to sound racist.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• You might be a conservative if (you fit into any of these simplistic but undeniably accurate stereotypes) …
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Oh my, Dépardieu.

• Clothes retailer Abercrombie & Fitch offers large bribe to get Jersey Shore cast to stop wearing their brand.
  (via @radleybalko)

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

* I am increasingly of the opinion that pedophilia, as with all other —philias, is simply a (relatively) rare yet ingrained sexual orientation/preference and does not, in itself, constitute a psychological handicap. Details vary, of course.

Tags: George Christopher • Jerome Harrison • bicycles • Boiron • homeopathy • Samuel • Vox Day • American Psychological Association • homosexuality • NewsBusters • MSNBC • Ed Schultz • Rick Perry • Barack Obama • racism • conservatives • Gérard Dépardieu • Abercrombie & Fitch • Jersey Shore • Mike Sorrentino