Daily Blend: Tuesday, January 29, 2013

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Good: Federal judge stops DEA’s attempt to seize a rural Massachusetts motel after a few guests there committed crimes without the motel owner’s knowledge. ^[pictured]
(via Uzza)

PZ Myers handily dismantles the tired anti-abortionist claim that science proves that personhood begins at conception.

Meanwhile, the anti-abortion fetal “heartbeat bill” makes it to Arkansas.

Creeping Creationism in Missouri.

Ray Comfort: Surgeons can’t reconstruct chimp attack victim’s face, ergo, Evolution is dummy-dumb-dumb.

I’m 96% humanist! Take that, 2009 Humanist of the Year PZ Myers and your paltry 90%!

And finally, here’s a bunch of Christians I could have a drink with (if I drank):
(via Joe. My. God.)

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Daily Blend: Monday, January 14, 2013

Julie Burchill

Carnival of insanity: Wyoming Republicans push blatantly illegal bill to hypothetically imprison federal agents who try to enforce gun control laws.
(via Joe. My. God.)

Oldie but goody: Economist thoroughly debunks several myths about Canada’s socialized healthcare system. (No, doctors and Canadians don’t think the U.S. system is better.)

Professional asshat Julie Burchill ^[pictured] flames out spectacularly against “vociferous transexual lobby” – aka “bunch of dicks in chicks' clothing” – for criticizing her friend’s transphobic rhetoric. What is it with this pervasive hatred of MtF folk amongst some feminist ranks?
(via @ggreenwald; original Observer article since retracted)

Another debunking of the brazen lie about there supposedly being no global warming for 16 years.

Meanwhile, Vox Day still loves flogging the necrotic equine of confirmation bias and blatant bullshit.

But then, what else to expect from a guy who actually thinks the Canadian government is “preemptively ban[ning] sexbots” – because of feminists’ “pursuit for gender equality”?

Canadian parents are apparently quite fond of quackery.

And finally, church signs are so useful for revealing exactly which attitudes are encouraged:
(via Joe. My. God.)

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Church sign of the day: Poe’s Law in action

Your take: Unbelievably irony-blind or just trolling?

(via Joe. My. God.)

Church sign of the day: They can’t possibly be that oblivious

(via Joe. My. God.)

Catholic Church funds defense for repeat Aussie child molesters

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The ongoing clerical child abuse scandal in Australia worsens:

THE Catholic Church has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on legal fees to defend priests and brothers who have already been tried and convicted of serious sexual assaults against children in their care.

A Fairfax Media investigation has revealed that at least two Catholic orders have continued to fund the legal defences of some of their religious members as they went to trial for the second, third and even fourth time for the sexual abuse of children.

This includes the funding of multiple appeals, hiring top barristers who charge thousands of dollars a day, and hiring private investigators.

In some cases the result has been that criminal prosecutions and the victims of abuse are dragged through the courts for many years.

I really have nothing to add other than bafflement at the idea that anyone, anywhere, can still in good conscience support this putrid edifice to delusion and corruption with their money or membership. How many children must be raped, how many women must die, how many millions must suffer and how long must progress in general be held back before people decide to just quit the goddamned Catholic Church?

(via Joe. My. God.)

Daily Blend: Thursday, November 15, 2012

Nate Silver

Apologies for the third link dump in a row; blogging fodder’s running a little low.

Freedom from Religion Foundation sues the IRS for failing to respond to all those tax-exemption-flaunting churches. Eventual next step: Eliminating religious tax exemptions altogether.

Nate Silver [pictured]: Brilliant with statistical analysis, apparently not-so-brilliant with climate science.
(via @BadAstronomer)

Oh noes – Ed Brayton from Dispatches from the Culture Wars has a (hilariously incompetent) stalker! (Be sure to read the comments for further, equally entertaining, updates.)

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Daily Blend: Monday, October 22, 2012

Anne Germain

Amnesty International: Secret US Drone Program Still Getting Away With Killing Children.
(via @AntDeRosa; RT: @radleybalko)

Federal judge blocks Arizona bill that would defund all Planned Parenthood clinics in the state.

Yet another psychic, Britain’s Anne Germain ^[pictured], is exposed as a Peter Popoff-style con artist.

Meanwhile, guess what happened after this “facilitated communication” practitioner was proven wrong. (No, really. You’ll be surprised.)
(via Rob F)

Why isn’t the IRS doing anything about all the tax-exempt churches breaking the law by endorsing candidates?

PZ Myers writes brilliantly about the problems with dismissing responsibility for online trolling with excuses of “free speech!”.

And finally: Paul Ryan poses for fake photo op at soup kitchen against their wishes. Soup kitchen owner complains. Ryan supporters lash out … at soup kitchen.
(via Dispatches from the Culture Wars)

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Cheery church sign of the day

Someone needs some remedial lessons in dealing with the public:

Make your own jokes about that bottom line.

(via Joe. My. God.)