Daily Blend: Sunday, August 28, 2011

Patrick Michaels

• How the U.S. Government and a lawyer are rewriting college rules to destroy the concept of implicit consent^* and label innocent young men (and women) as predators for life.

• I suppose that those ^[pictured] who don’t care about climate change probably don’t care about human life losses it may cause, either.
  (via @USRealityCheck)

• <voice class="serious">I won’t be praying for it. But I will be hoping for it.</voice>

• How can Ed Brayton expect evolution denialists like Glenn Beck to answer his challenge when he uses such fancy sciencey terminology?

• Now really hoping for a new round of Darwin Awards with the names of all these jackass hurricane revelers.
  (via The Agitator)

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* The idea that consent is (or should be) only valid if made verbally explicit is both moronic and dangerous. Individuals who jump at each other in a fit of snogging and fucking are hardly going to pause and go, ‘I want to have sex with you, do you reciprocate?’ Someone who has sexual contact with another willing person who later turns rogue should not be held liable simply because both parties failed to verbalize their sentiments at the time of the act.

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