Daily Blend: Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Bob Marshall (R-VA)

My mother just argued that modern medicine is unreliable because Medieval doctors thought diseases were spread through the eyeball. Or something. (Pity me).

• Melbourne, FL police: That 66-year-old man with dementia we beat up attacked us! Dash-cam: No, he didn’t.
  (via The Agitator)

• Marine biologist faces $500K fine and 20 years in prison for watching whales eat.
  (via The Agitator)

• Christian-Rightists: It’s totally unfair that the Southern Poverty Law Center calls us “hate groups” for lying about those immoral, diseased, perverted, child-molesting, diaper-wearing, anti-human faggots!

• Stupid and dishonest: SOPA sponsor Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) and MPAA dismiss Wikipedia & co. protests as a “publicity stunt” to “further their corporate interests”.

• Virginia Senate candidate Bob Marshall’s (R) ^[pictured] 10 greatest (outrageous) hits.

• How to Write a Clichéd, Unpersuasive Argument Against Drug Legalization.
  (via @radleybalko)

• Andrew Sullivan defends President Obama’s accomplishments and long-term goals, though his numerous abuses and betrayals – the hardest-hitters in my book – barely get a passing mention.
  (via @VeritasKnight)

• Post-racial!
  (via @VeritasKnight)

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