Daily Blend: Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Pamela Geller

• Islamophobic blogger Pam Geller [pictured] tries to defend her being praised by Anders Breivik by justifying his youth camp slaughter of kids who were “more MIddle ^[sic] Eastern or mixed than pure Norwegian”.
  (via @ggreenwald)

• Today in regulation madness: Elderly Jackson, MN man fined and sentenced to jail for improperly shingling his roof.
  (via @aipfan)

• Maybe I’m just ignorant, but “The Spirited Atheist” at WashPost seems to make some good points against American Atheists’ lawsuit over the “Ground Zero Cross”.
  (via Project Reason)

• Intelligence cap? Scientists: Physically impossible for human brain to become any more powerful without better supply of energy and oxygen. (Daily Mail caveat.)
  (via The Daily Grail)

• British academic takes pride in backlash from calling Prince Charles out on his sympathy for homeopathy.
  (via The Agitator)

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Tags: Pamela Geller • Anders Breivik • Norway • racism • Jackson, MN • Andrew Espey • Susan Jacoby • Ground Zero Cross • American Atheists • David Silverman • 9-11 • brain • Simon Laughlin • Edzard Ernst • Prince Charles • Duchy Herbals