Daily Blend: Monday, September 12, 2011

Jennifer McKinsey

All I have to say about 9/11 anymore can be surmised perfectly through this graphic. What has happened is a national disgrace and absolutely nothing more. Anyone pretending otherwise is either hypocritical or simply delusional.

• Irony blindness: Kansas high school teacher ^[pictured] forced by parents to apologize after stepping on U.S. flag during lesson on free speech.

• President Obama: “Americans […] refuse to live in fear”. Glenn Greenwald, erm, disagrees.

• Canadian doctors in Toronto, ON reject proposed quackery-friendly guidelines. More of this, please (particularly in the U.S.).

• Paul Krugman vents about post-9/11 climate of politicized fear. Right-wingers wax outrage. Being called out on moral grounds by Donald Rumsfeld is particularly rich.
  (via @ggreenwald)

• Ray Comfort’s latest argument against abortion: Yahoo! Answers users. #facepalm (Note: I also left a perfectly civil comment refuting some of the claims from the quoted “Best Answer”, which has since been deleted by an administrator, even though it had accumulated 11 thumbs-up. How very telling.)

• You will never think of balloon animals the same way. Ever. Again.
  (via Ian Meredith)

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