Daily Blend: Thursday, December 16, 2010

Rev. James Meeks

If I’m posting this late today, it’s only because I just got back from being accepted into an equitation center. I think my face is cramping from all that beaming. Too bad classes only begin a month from now …

• Julian Assange goes free. Now for Pvt. Manning, please.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Chicago mayoral candidate Rev. James Meeks [pictured] asserted – and is now backtracking – that only Blacks should receive minority contracts because women, Asians and Hispanics “are not people who have been discriminated against”.

• Brilliant animation of the state of healthcare in 200 countries over 200 years. The trends do look promising, overall.
  (via @donttrythis)

• The decade’s top ten newly discovered animal species.
  (via The Daily Grail)

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