Daily Blend: Thursday, January 20, 2011

• Hospital visitation rights for same-sex partners now entering into federally mandated effect [pictured]. About damn time. Here’s hoping travesties like these never happen again.

• Guess who spent nearly $200 million to pay for replacements for perfectly good assets unfairly kicked out under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”?

• Tea Party unpopularity at an all-time high.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• The Buffalo Beast has a list of the 50 most loathsome Americans of 2010. How the hell is Rush Limbaugh not featured? Seriously?
  (via Pharyngula)

• Fair! Balanced! Derp!

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