Daily Blend: Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Trayvon “little thug ghetto monkey” Martin

Administrative: Kontactr has apparently gone belly-up, so I’ve installed a new contact form system on my Contact Me page. Also, the ever-awesome Blogger team has finally given we bloggers the ability to customize our own 404 pages, so check mine out. (I am almost unreasonably excited about it.)

European Court of Human Rights declares that gays and lesbians have no inherent right to same-sex marriage. This could spell trouble.

New Hampshire (Republican) lawmakers try – and fail – to overturn the state’s 2-year-old gay marriage law and return to civil unions.
(via @BreakingNews)

Anonymous doctor shares some rightful outrage over mandated transvaginal ultrasounds to intimidate abortion-seeking women.
(via @BadAstronomer)

The Catholic Church castrated a number of young abused Dutch boys to “help” their “homosexual tendencies”. But it happened years ago, so who cares, right, Bill?
(via @jamesmoran)

Least controversial “Atheists” bus ad ever gets rejected … again. Our mere existence really is that offensive. And hopefully, lawsuit-inspiring.

“[L]ittle thug ghetto monkey”: Fox News commenters react to Trayvon Martin ^[pictured] case. Beware.
(via ThinkProgress)

Lawmakers follow the Jack Thompson school of (stupid and irrational) thought in trying to place vague warning labels on videogames touting a bullshit “link to aggressive behavior”.

48 minutes of Itchy & Scratchy.
(via @emeraldcitycon)

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