Daily Blend: Tuesday, October 02, 2010 – The Midterms

Jonah Goldberg

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• 5 Popular Safety Measures That Don't Make You Any Safer. Most are no surprise, but to be fair, things like bike helmets do work as intended in themselves and are only betrayed by people being reckless idiots. And the sunscreen one genuinely took me by surprise.
  (via The Agitator)

• Beauty in death: The dancing chromatophores of a dying squid.

• PZ Myers asks, in all merited seriousness, why anti-Left thug Jonah Goldberg [pictured] is still allowed to promulgate his assassination fetishism of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the Chicago Tribune (or anywhere else).

• New Haven, Connecticut Mayor John DeStefano admits that maybe sending an aggressive SWAT team to bust up a private Yale University party out of suspicion of underage drinking wasn’t such a great idea. T’is a start.
  (via The Agitator)

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Tags: safety • security • bicycle helmets • sunscreen lotion • airport security • squid • chromatophores • death • Jonah Goldberg • PZ Myers • Julian Assange • WikiLeaks • John DeStefano • SWAT • Yale University • underage drinking