Daily Blend: Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Laurie Higgins

Housekeeping: I added a new myth (A18: “Atheists/Evolutionists believe in social Darwinism”) and also cleaned up the hundreds of excess post labels that I never use anymore. (Some older posts may be oddly or even non-tagged as a result.)

Disgustingly predictable: Illinois Family Institute’s head bigot Laurie Higgins ^[pictured] manages to twist the heartbreaking Rolling Stone exposé on gay teen suicides into an attack on those poor, maligned homophobic conservatives.

Excellent: Animal rights extremist Camille Marino finally faces some sort of comeuppance.

CONT’D: Part 2 of Radley Balko’s series on the war over prescription painkillers. (Part 1)
(via The Agitator)

Media Matters debunks Right-wing lies about electric cars.

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