Daily Blend: Monday, September 19, 2011

Frank Skinner

• Belated but good: Dept. of Justice ramps up policing the police to curb corruption and civil rights violations.
  (via @radleybalko)

• Media Matters shows right-wing plutocratic assholes what “class warfare” really looks like.

• Unbelievably inane pro-religion twaddle on the BBC website. Only posting it because it was sent to me, which gives it priority, I guess. (Or, see PZ Myers’ excoriation, here.)

• Catholic comedian ^[pictured] denounces atheists as threat equal to climate change denialists. He certainly sounds like a joke.
  (via RichardDawkins.net)

• Jackie Robinson? Gutenberg? Copernicus? Six famous historical “firsts” you probably don’t know are bullshit.

• Taking gym, textbooks and ‘F’s out of schools. I can live with that.

• This isn’t the word you’re looking for.
  (via The Agitator)

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