Daily Blend: Sunday, July 22, 2012

Savannah Dietrich

I’ll be helping to paint the apartment (under duress!) for the next few days, so blogging may be light to nonexistent until the place looks like the ruddy rainbow my mother apparently wants it to be. (The fact that I’m also beginning work on a brand-new Minecraft castle whilst being simultaneously hooked on Burn Notice – all the curses to Zon! – has nothing to do with it. Like, at all. Nope.)

Anti-vaccination propagandists help create the worst whooping cough epidemic in 70 years.
(via @mims (@ebertchicago)

17-year-old ^[pictured] publicly outs the boys who sexually assaulted and humiliated her, now faces jail time.
(via @radleybalko)

“You still eat with your hands?” Oprah Winfrey visits India. India wishes she wouldn’t.
(via @ebertchicago)

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Tags: whooping cough • pertussis • antivaccination • antivaccine • antivax • antivaxxers • Washington, USA • Savannah Dietrich • sexual assault • rape • Oprah Winfrey • India • slums • Bollywood • Rajyasree Sen • Oprah's Next Chapter: India