Reddit on April 15, 2010: Top Posts and Discussions

Thursday, Apr. 15th 2010

News on 4/15/10

All London flights grounded as volcanic ash from Iceland closes UK airports
r/worldnews · boolianlove · 613 pts
Iceland's disruptive volcano - The Big Picture
r/worldnews · [deleted] · 526 pts
Obama requests hospital visitation rights for homosexuals
r/news · bananabelle · 375 pts
Zionists groups have banned Justice Richard Goldstone from his own grandson's bar mitzvah as punishment for his role in the UN fact finding mission that found evidence of Israeli and Hamas war crimes.
r/worldnews · milligram · 218 pts
"We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped"-true British stiff upper lip
r/worldnews · [deleted] · 215 pts
From a Veteran to the Freedom Fighter Who Shot Me
r/worldnews · firelight · 147 pts
NYT polls self-identified Tea Partiers, finds record levels of solipcism: "I guess I want smaller government *and* my Social Security. I didn’t look at it from the perspective of losing things I need."
r/news · AngelaMotorman · 141 pts
Chomsky Warns of Risk of Fascism in America
r/worldnews · firesign · 114 pts

Politics on 4/15/10

Sports on 4/15/10

Pictures and Memes

Preview

Dear Mr. President...

r/pics · 2k pts

Preview

To the Redditors who sent the art supplies to my sister's Kindergarten class- These are for you!

r/pics · 1k pts

Preview

Reddit, one of my friends works at the local ice cream shop. this smashing young buck came by for some ice cream.

r/pics · 515 pts

Preview

JOCKEY (This is a pencil and ink drawing I made a few years ago and it's ACTUALLY handmade. I drew each line individually on a PAPER surface. It took me quite a long time to finish the whole portrait... I love my personality and imago, I is crazy and special!) ;P

r/pics · 396 pts

Preview

Behold, the birth of a frivolous lawsuit.

r/pics · 2k pts

Preview

PLANET PARIS (A view of Paris from the top of the Eiffel Tower. It actually is a montage of 12 photos I took when I was there, no fish eye, no wide angle... It took me some 2 days of work!)

r/pics · 777 pts

Preview

Probably a re-post, but I totally relate.

r/pics · 418 pts

Preview

But they still did that Dreamworks face, no one does that in real life.

r/pics · 354 pts

Reddit on April 15, 2010

Thursday, Apr. 15th 2010

News on 4/15/10

All London flights grounded as volcanic ash from Iceland closes UK airports

Iceland's disruptive volcano - The Big Picture

Obama requests hospital visitation rights for homosexuals

Zionists groups have banned Justice Richard Goldstone from his own grandson's bar mitzvah as punishment for his role in the UN fact finding mission that found evidence of Israeli and Hamas war crimes.

"We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped"-true British stiff upper lip

From a Veteran to the Freedom Fighter Who Shot Me

NYT polls self-identified Tea Partiers, finds record levels of solipcism: "I guess I want smaller government and my Social Security. I didn’t look at it from the perspective of losing things I need."

Chomsky Warns of Risk of Fascism in America

Politics on 4/15/10

J.K. Rowling on why she doesn't move to a tax haven: "I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become, was there to break the fall."

President Barack Obama signed a memorandum Thursday requiring hospitals to allow gays and lesbians to have nonfamily visitors and allowing their partners medical power of attorney

When asked why her family used state-subsidized health care when she criticized people who take handouts, Valerie Shirk said she did not want to stop having children, and that her husband’s income was not enough to cover the family with private insurance.

The Best Fake Teabagger Signs at the Boston Common Tea Party [Pics]

Imagine a police officer pulls you over and tells you he believes the cash you're carrying was used to in some illegal activity and--based only on that hunch--he is going to take it from you without charging you with a crime.

Sports on 4/15/10

Texas High School Gets $60 Million Football Stadium

As a Steelers fan I hate to say this, but Pittsburgh needs to get rid of Big Ben.

NCAA bans taunting in football - a taunting gesture on the way to scoring a touchdown would nullify the score and penalize the offending team

Ndamukong Suh on Sports Science, Hardest hit ever recorded

Montreal upsets Washington, Stops Ovechkin in his tracks

Pictures and Memes