Daily Blend: Wednesday, December 01, 2010

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♪ On the 28^th day of Christmas,
My patience said to me:
“When’s that damn credit card getting here?” ♫

• The Pentagon’s long-awaited “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” report is finally out and reveals the shocking news: The vast majority of soldiers don’t have a problem with openly gay comrades serving alongside them. Can we haz repeel nao, plz?
  (via @BreakingNews)

• About time: Illinois passes civil unions bill, which is expected to be signed into law shortly. Certainly not as good as full-on legal marriage, but a definite good step.

• Meet Jester (“th3j35t3r”), the faux-“patriotic” “hacktivist” responsible for the recent WikiLeaks outages.

• Harry Potter and Twilight are evil books that lead children to Satan, says … a Roman Catholic exorcist.
  (via Right Wing Watch)

• Because the best way to raise happy, decent children is to stop them from having self-esteem.
  (via Right Wing Watch)

• 10 inconvenient truths about our evolution. Liberals are smarter, terrorists are Muslim (due to lack of sex), monogamy is un-human, and workplace sexual harassment is just normal harassment. I mostly agree.
  (via The Daily Grail)

• The Taiwanese animation group Next Media Animation [pictured] does WikiLeaks and Cablegate. These really are a guilty pleasure.

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