Daily Blend: Thursday, October 11, 2012

Sally Ride

Bedford, Virginia-based Romney campaigner Clifford Russell offers a solution for welfare reform: Execute “illegitimate” parents and put their kids up for adoption. Adamantly not a poe.
(via Wonkette)

Scientists explain why global warming actually leads to more Antarctic ice. Again, folks: A warmer Earth means bigger fluctuations in both hot and cold extremes.
(via Media Matters for America)

Family Research Institute tries to blame legendary female astronaut Sally Ride’s ^[pictured] death from pancreatic cancer on her being a lesbian.

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Edit (10/14/12 1:04 AM ET) – Corrected the FRI’s name (previously misidentified as Family Research Council).