Daily Blend: Wednesday, December 11, 2011 – Playing catch-up

Purse with embroidered revolver

• Shorter police article: “Why bother with vet care or humane euthanasia for unwanted or injured animals when you can just shoot ’em instead?”
  (via @radleybalko)

• Media: 1/5 of teens engage in “sexting”! Researchers: Bullshit.

• New on TSA’s Forbidden Items list: Purses with embroidered gun pictures ^[pictured].
  (via @AmandaMarcotte)

• North Carolina dog-lovers defeat proposed breed-specific legislation. Again: No bad breeds, only bad owners.
  (via @PersonalFailure)

• Large shopping center chain officially bans in-mall pet stores nationwide.
  (via @PersonalFailure)

• Kudos: Google valiantly thumbing their nose at U.S. government’s warrantless search policy regarding emails.
  (via @csoghoian)

• PZ Myers destroys David Barton’s idiocy about abortion and homosexuality being “aberration[s]” of nature and “against evolutionary law”.

• MythBusters goes loose cannon: Cannonball misses target, flies into nearby suburb, blasts through house and crashes into minivan. Only injuries are PR team’s sudden headache.
  (via @thinkgeek)

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