Daily Blend: Thursday, December 30, 2010

Mohammad cartoon by Kurt Westergaard [source]

• The “blobs of cells are people, too” crazies are back, this time attempting to ban abortion, birth control and embryonic stem cell research in Colorado.

• Timeline of the reactions and events since the 2005 publication of the Mohammed cartoons [pictured]. Over 150 people dead because of religious zeal and insanity.
  (via @religionnews)

• Julian Assange warns his hostages.
  (via @ggreenwald)

• New study indicates that conservatism may be in the brain. More fear, less optimism? Sounds accurate to me.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• PolitiFact publishes some of their best 2010 reader comments. I was hoping for some more crazy.

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