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-No link here, but this is what crazy right-wing radio host, Michael Savage said about Autistic children: "...in 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out."

"What do you mean they scream and they're silent? They don’t have a father around to tell them, 'Don’t act like a moron. You’ll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don’t sit there crying and screaming, idiot.'"

The audio is all over the web.

As of now, no advertisers have withdrawn their support of his show. By the way, I listened to his show for about an hour a few months ago, because I had no choice. It was the only radio station in NYC that was airing one of the Democratic debates. During the debate he said that blacks and Latinos are lazy and stupid. Somehow, people pounce on Opie and Anthony, Stern and Don Imus, and let things like this slide.

-Here's an article about Nas bringing a petition of over 600,000 people for Fox News to stop being racist in their coverage of the presidential campaign. If you think they haven't been racist, explain the following: "an on-air graphic that referred to Michelle Obama as "Obama’s baby mama," Bill O’Reilly’s joke about not wanting to have a "lynching party" to deal with Mrs. Obama, and "America’s Pulse" host E.D. Hill’s reference to a fist pound between Obama and his wife as a "terrorist fist jab." This is just the tip of the iceberg.

- A Christopher Hitchens essay on a proof for evolution in the Planet Earth series.