Cracked: “8 Gratuitously Violent Horror Movie Scenes (from the Bible)”
Juan Cole: “Top 10 Myths about the Arab Spring of 2011”
Zompist: “10 policies supported by every Republican presidential candidate in 2012” (via AZspot)
David Badash: “Top 10 ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ Repeal Lies That Never Came True”
Think Progress: “Rick Santorum’s Top 10 Most Outrageous Campaign Statements”
Consumerist: “Top 10 Primetime TV Shows with Product Placement Activity”
(Note: No. 6, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, gets a free pass from me. I’ve got no problem with product placement when the corporations involved are donating stuff to the families helped by the show.)
Caleb Wilde: “11 Worst and Best Things to Say at a Funeral”
(That’s from Wilde’s “Confessions of a Funeral Director” blog. Wilde is a thoughtful practitioner of a job most of us like to not think about.)
Ben Emerson on Numbers 15:15
“15 Helpful Tips for Avoiding the Homosexual Plague”
“75 percent of registered voters … cast their ballots”
(That was in Jamaica, not here in exceptional America, where we haven’t cracked 65 percent since World War II.)