Daily Blend: Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Andrew Shirvell [source]

• See ya: Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell [pictured] finally sacked for his ridiculous anti-gay crusade against a U-M student president.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Aaaand the War on Christmas is ON, baby!

• Which is shocking: That the Pentagon wants permission to attack computer networks around the world “to protect American interests”, or that Obama administration lawyers are actually objecting?
  (via The Daily Grail)

• Climate scientists plan wide-scale media counterattack against ankle-biting denialists. Good. We need more belligerence on the side of reason.

• Federal judge temporarily blocks Oklahoma’s idiotic and pointless new ban on Sharia law in courts, citing a violation of the Establishment Clause.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Michelle Malkin accuses Democrats of “incivility and hate”. In a screed foreshadowingly titled “Take Your Olive Branch and Shove It, Democrats”. Just wipe those shards of exploded irony meter out of your eyeballs, now.
  (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars)

• Are actual, 3D holographs just around the bend? Arizona scientists say they’re nearly there.
  (via The Daily Grail)

• Scientists now able to turn ordinary skin cells into new blood, providing new ray of hope for sufferers of leukemia, anemia, and so on.
  (via The Daily Grail)

• Groundbreaking research finds primitive human ancestors behaved more, well, primitively.
  (via The Daily Grail)

• 35,500-year-old axe discovered in Australia, once again forcing anthropologists to reconsider how humanity came about.
  (via The Daily Grail)

• Old farts against wind power.
  (via The Daily Grail)

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