Daily Blend: Monday, October 17, 2011 – Another late edition

Walter Reaves

Hey, it’s not ten o’clock yet!

• Wow: Texas DA ^[pictured] opposes post-conviction DNA testing because an exoneration might “[override] what a jury decided”. Isn’t that rather the fucking point?
  (via The Agitator)

• Another seven days, another 13 holy crimes (including 6 child sexual abuse cases).

• More divine morality: New documentary exposes how the Spanish Catholic Church stole 300,000 babies and put them up for adoption for more “appropriate” parents, telling the birth mothers their child had died (and showing only a frozen infant’s corpse as “proof”). I … don’t know what to say.
  (via Pharyngula)

• Animal rights nuts successfully get California Nanny-Statists to ban foie gras. (See Anthony Bourdain debunk the supposed harm of forced duck/goose feeding. More here. Not glamorous, but leagues away from cruel.)
  (via The Agitator)

• Glenn Beck’s The Blaze proves its journalistic merits by revealing that Texas schools actually teach Spanish in Spanish classes.
  (via @SimonMaloy)

• If you want self-torpedoing battleships, self-destructing cannons and self-sinking nuclear subs, look no further than Soviet Russia. (And these people were a threat …?)

• xkcd now in bed with the Fire Nation.

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