Daily Blend: 05/06/13

Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski

I’m too bored/lazy/busy reading/excited about tomorrow/tired from “work” to blog much, so here’re some links.

US Air Force officer ^[pictured] in charge of responding to sexual assaults arrested for drunken sexual assault, underlines the US Military’s generally appalling handling of sex crimes.

“Good Riddance: Fox Cancels Long-Running, Drug War-Glorifying, Abuse-Excusing Reality Series COPS”
(via @AndrewKirell; RT: @radleybalko)

Those who slime together, stay together: Anti-Freethought Blogs/Atheism Plus hater encourages Westboro Baptist Church to picket upcoming Women in Secularism conference.
(via Pharyngula)

And finally, how much do you know about science and religion? (I scored in the 15^th and 13^th percentiles, respectively. Which is probably more of an implicit condemnation of the US educational system than anything else.)
(via Bad Astronomy)

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Daily Blend: Thursday, November 08, 2012

Bill O’Reilly

While President Obama has retained his job, it’s important to continue pressuring him to do much, much better on civil liberties and other Constitutional issues.

U.S. Bank sends militarized cops to evict Colorado woman who couldn’t pay her mortgage and Occupy activists protesting the move.
(via Uzza)

Claudia at Friendly Atheist provides some solid answers to some anti-abortionist questions for pro-choicers.

It’s so sad (and infuriating) how a man ^[pictured] who earned 99% of a perfect score on his SATs could wind up as the elite-hatin’ bullshit-daddy of Fox News. A living cautionary tale that playing to your audience costs your soul.

And finally, because she’s awesome, here’s Rachel Maddow’s fascinating breakdown of the election night results:
(via Joe. My. God.)

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Daily Blend: Saturday, October 27, 2012

Andrew Messina

Interactive map shows details on every single drone strike in Pakistan under the Obama administration. One wonders how many “militants” were actually military-aged male civilians.
(via @ggreenwald)

Horrible: Cherokee County, GA parents call police asking for negotiator to help their suicidal 16-year-old son ^[pictured]. Cops arrive with a tank and a sniper, who then shoots and kills the boy. Parents maintain he never acted aggressively and are planning to sue.
(via @radleybalko)

It’s getting hard to maintain any respect for the good done by the Cato Institute when they go and pull bullshit stunts like this.

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