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05.23.12 - 11:32 AM

Experimenting With Hate Crimes 101: Garry Trudeau is in fine form as Doonesbury takes on Mitt Romney's youthful "prank" of assaulting a gay teenager.

"Look, bullies are people too, my friend."

-Abby Zimet
05.23.12 - 10:39 AM

Meet Charles Worley, a so-called "pastor" in North Carolina who recently, eloquently railed against Obama's support of same-sex marriage - "I ain’t gonna vote for a baby killer and a homosexual lover!" - because "The bible's agin' it, God's agin' it, I'm agin' it." His proposed final solution: Put all the "lesbians and queers" inside a "great, big, large fence," and wait for them to die. We have been here before; attention must be paid. Info on a march, suggested response, and contacting the good reverend.

-Abby Zimet
05.22.12 - 9:37 PM

To get their searing point across, a new campaign by the UK-based Freedom From Torture, which gives medical care to torture survivors, features help-wanted "ads" in mainstream papers. Torturers, abusers, kidnappers wanted; excellent package/benefits.

“The government of a Middle Eastern state is recruiting a senior torturer to work in a well-equipped prison... Familiarity with medical and dental equipment and knowledge of human anatomy is required."

-Abby Zimet
05.22.12 - 4:05 PM

Here's one of several Chinese researchers at a nature reserve in Sichuan handling Tao Tao, a 21-month-old panda in captivity being trained, with as little human interference as possible, to live on its own. We have to wonder: Does Tao Tao  have a good laugh once they go home?

-Abby Zimet
05.22.12 - 2:32 PM

Powerful scene as about 45 veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan hurled their medals into the street at NATO protests. Video.

-Abby Zimet
05.22.12 - 2:16 PM

Way angry about an illegally parked car, NYPD Sgt. Lesly Charles calmly unleashed an obscene, rape-threatening rant against a 21-year-old suspect who filmed it with his cell phone. Most scary: Two other cops stood blithely by, suggesting this is business as usual for New York's finest.

-Abby Zimet
05.21.12 - 11:56 PM

Good news from Chicago, where the Heartland Institute is holding its annual but wildly diminished conference. After a disastrous billboard campaign comparing believers in climate change to madmen and psychopaths, Heartland is bleeding corporate sponsors, board members, staff and credibility, as well as facing billboard protests and memes.

Update: More from a surreal conference where speakers blasted "warmists,” urged the return of DDT, and said concern about the environment is "identical to communism." 

“Warm is good for people, and it’s particularly good for people as they get older. The people that warm spells kill are already moribund.”

-Abby Zimet

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