Daily Blend: Monday, January 02, 2012 [updated ×2]

The usual combination of both wrong and stupid [full size (500×227)]

So, y’all have a good last week or two?

• President Obama signs defense bill while promising not to follow provision allowing for unlawful indefinite detention of U.S. civilians on U.S. soil. Oh, well, I’m convinced. And so is Ed Brayton.
  (via The Agitator)

• Two doctors arrested and charged with murder for performing late-term abortions in Maryland.

• Civil unions officially begin in Hawaii and Delaware with the advent of the new year.

• Note to Penn’s friend Mallorie: Your subjective experience does not apply to womankind in general, and the fact that you haven’t encountered genderal bias doesn’t mean the skeptical community doesn’t still need to improve itself. | Update (01/03/12 12:39 AM ET) – Friendly Atheist’s Megan Wells has more. | Update 2 (01/03/11 9:40 AM ET) – Jen McCreight responds. Mallorie then defends herself – extremely badly and passive-aggressively – in the comments.

• Christian goober promotes Myth A17 into billboard form ^[pictured].

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Tags: Barack Obama • NDAA • National Defense Authorization Act • due process • indefinite detention • Steven Brigham • Nicola Riley • late-term abortion • Maryland • Hawaii • Delaware • civil unions • Penn Jillette • Mallorie Nasrallah • skeptics • skeptical community