Daily Blend: Thursday, September 20, 2012

Ken Ham

Happy one-year-anniversary, totally and predictably non-apocalyptic repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell!

Today in schadenfreude: Biblical Creationists ^[pictured] are stompin’ mad that modern science says dinosaurs were actually quite feathery.
(via @rdfrs)

Proud Christian man wants everyone to know that he got married “the right way” and that the rest of you are just floozies and losers.

And finally, here’s an awesome map of the awesome latest xkcd strip, ‘Click and Drag’.
(via Rob F)

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Tags: Don't Ask, Don't Tell • U.S. Military • Creationists • Ken Ham • Answers in Genesis • Steven Crowder • Christians • Christianity • xkcd

Daily Blend: Monday, May 07, 2012

Anne Lenhart

Handicapped woman arrested over false fraud suspicions is latest victim in the war on prescription painkillers.
(via @radleybalko)

State Farm, drink giant Diageo and other sponsors start bleeding from the Heartland Institute after its ghoulish global-warming-denying billboard “experiment”.
(via @BadAstronomer & @BadAstronomer)

Your brain on Fox News: No, dinosaurs didn’t fart themselves into extinction.

Man dies some time after being victim of “unwanted cranial ammunition acquisition”.
(via The Agitator)

xkcd does college majors.

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Tags: painkillers • prescription painkillers • Anne Lenhart • CVS Pharmacy • pharmacies • Diageo • Heartland Institute • billboards • State Farm • sponsors • Global Warming • global warming denialism • PZ Myers • farts • flatulence • Fox News • sauropods • greenhouse gases • greenhouse effect • William Pace • Guinness World Records • xkcd • college • university • majors

Daily Blend: Friday, February 04, 2011

Pictured: Science! [full size (480×480)]

Commence Operation: Day 4!

• Astrology [pictured] is a science! Sez who? The high court of India, that’s who. Because it’s 4,000 years old and people pray to it (or something). Can’t argue with that reasoning.
  (via Blag Hag)

• Rep. Steve Montenegro (R-Arizona) wants to prohibit abortions based on the fetus’s gender or race.

• ¡Viva zero tolerance!: Seven-year-old Philadelphian charged with bringing a Nerf-type gun to school, while a 14-year-old Virginian gets charged with assault for blowing little plastic pellets onto his classmates.
  (via The Agitator)

• Interesting: Study appears to show that some dinosaurs may have lived up to 700,000 years past their previous expiration date.
  (via The Daily Grail)

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