Thursday, September 13, 2012

Daily Link Dump - September 13, 2012

A tenured professor values free speech so much she thinks the filmmakers of that Muhammad movie should be in jail. And just for shits and giggles, protests spread to Yemen and Tunisia.

Blame the killers, not a YouTube video.

Ken at Popehat has a much more juvenile, yet wonderfully appropriate response in the same vein.

The world's first color moving pictures have been found.

Ron Paul's former campaign chief is working for the establishment now.

Escaping a totalitarian shit hole in style.

The House voted to extend the FISA Amendment Acts, allowing the U.S. to more easily spy on its citizens. The Yeas were overwhelmingly GOP, and every representative from Louisiana, the state in which I reside, voted for it. Don't expect an Obama veto, either.

Judas Priest is loaded, getting hotter by the hour over seeing the GAP use one of their album covers on a shirt.

Mike Riggs wrote what may end up as my favorite sentence of the year here:
I suspect all of the above authors truly mean it when they say they have gay friends whose lives suddenly seemed less bad the moment Obama stopped whipping gay America with a giant wire hanger, pulled it close, and said, "Stop crying, baby. I've evolved," because symbolic actions sometimes lead to actual actions.
The Hollywood Reporter finds that Romney would be sympathetic to the film industry in slightly different ways than Obama.

And just because:

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