Daily Blend: Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Mary Bale dumping Lola the cat in trash bin

• Follow-up: Mary Bale, woman who dumped an innocent cat into a trash bin last August [pictured], has been fined £250 for a cruelty offense. At least it’s something.
  (via @BreakingNews)

• 11 Freedoms that Drunks, Slackers, Prostitutes and Pirates Pioneered and The Founding Fathers Opposed.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Six days: The time it took for New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino (R) to go from homosexuality is not “an equally valid or successful option” to “my opponent (Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (D)) doesn’t support gay rights enough”. Anyone else get whiplash?
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Today’s amazing scientific infographic: The Earth’s atmosphere, top to bottom.
  (via Bad Astronomy)

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Tags: Mary Bale • cats • animal cruelty • US Founding Fathers • Carl Paladino • homophobia • Earth • atmosphere