Daily Blend: Wednesday, June 06, 2012

PZ Myers

Yet another federal judge rules the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. How many has that been by now?

PZ Myers ^[pictured] satisfyingly crushes Vox Day’s ghoulish attempt to “scientifically” defend the brutal oppression of women.

Meanwhile, Orac at Respectful Insolence thoroughly obliterates Vox’s recent “vaccines cause sudden infant deaths!” WorldNetDaily piece. (I had been wondering what to call that “motivated reasoning” phenomenon.)

Boring: New Jersey now allows fines of up to $1,000 for failure to buckle up. New: Law applies to pets.
(via The Agitator)

Attention-whoring liar to headline conference of attention-whoring liars to celebrate recently deceased attention-whoring liar.

60,000 brain-dead (or trolling) Californians actually voted for birther queen Orly Taitz before she lost her bid for Senate.
(via Joe. My. God.)

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