Daily Blend: Friday, December 31, 2010 – Adieu, twenty-ten

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• You know there’s a problem with the local police when one man shooting a crossbow at a target in his back yard, illegal though it may be, brings in 20 cops to break into his home and restrain him and his family.
  (via The Agitator)

• PZ Myers expertly debunks the latest canard that science is somehow suffering because the scientific method is supposedly fundamentally flawed.

• The death penalty in Illinois, suspended for 10 years, may be on its last legs.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Eight smears and misconceptions about WikiLeaks spread by the media.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Winning line from Radley Balko at The Agitator: “Worry of being penetrated by gays causes conservatives to pull out.”
  (via The Agitator)

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