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February 2012
Recent entries
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Lewis Black, don't get a heart attack. Also, why is Nancy Grace still on TV? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Coming soon, to a theater near you... |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Identical twins not so identical after all. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | TED: Wave of the future or Silicon Valley shills? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | A natural disaster that cost the lives of thousands of people was ignored in favour of a nuclear 'disaster' that never was. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 2 | This is BBC News taken out of context. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | All dead Mormons are now gay. (Unless they died in the Holocaust.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Barack Obama is a total failure at all the things conservatives predicted he would do or not do. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Given the number of comments by Christians, politicians and the Daily Fail clogging up the media at the moment, Martin Robbins suggests that Christians should embrace secularism - because (from the comments) secularism doesn't consist of Richard Dawkins breaking into people's homes and stealing their Bibles at gunpoint, you know. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | Good Guy Bill. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | The punanny state. Also, Stalin-rape. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Newt Gingrich: "You can't put a gun rack in a Chevy Volt." Vlogger: Oh, really? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | The Onion: One in five Americans believe Obama is a cactus. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Brian Cox (*swoon*) on why quantum theory is so misunderstood, and why good science should be part popular culture. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | "The Right-Wing Id Unzipped" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | Look how far they've gone...into the ground. And if the worst scenario happens in November, we'll only have one terrible actor to blame. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Damn you Jon Stewart! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Some parts of a Catholic sex education programme have been tracked to an unusual source - Beasts of Gor Cue the "One promotes a world where women are secondary and subservient to men in all ways and have no control over there own thoughts and destiny, the other is Chronicles of Gor" jokes. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | A list of UK politicians that stand to benefit from passing a new health reform bill. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | George Takei: 70 years ago today, the President signed a decree that sent me and my family to a prison camp. Hear my story, and learn how you can help fulfil our pledge: Never Forget. Never Again. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | How simple patents became the complex clusterfuck of intellectual property. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Karen Santorum, wife of Rick Santorum, wrote a book teaching children good manners. And its foreword is by Joe Paterno, the guy who knew about, but did nothing to stop, a child rapist. Great pick, Santorum! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | The godly John Cleese responds to YouTube comments. "I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are...this explains not just Hollywood, but almost the entirety of Fox News." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Honestly, Peta's ads make me so angry I could stamp on a kitten. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | This week in Harperland... |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Supposedly professional Politico reporter mistakes the Wisconsin state flag for the local labor union flag. Hail the future of journalism! |
Earlier entries
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Every climate denial argument debunked, in one 50 minute presentation. If there's one video to spread around the Internets, it's this. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | If movie posters were a bit more descriptive. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | I suppose they'll come back for us. Basic civil rights for trans people sidelined again for the sake of same-sex marriage in Maryland. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Charles Murray isn't racist -- he also hates (poor) white people! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | The climate inquisition continues, including death threats. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Why don't Americans elect scientists? For lulz, see the comments, where one retard said "Solyndra." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Ah, the good old days...when there were none of those pesky institutional review boards or ethics committees and scientists could deliberately infect subjects with STDs. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | The greatest movie trailer of all time? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | America, Fuck Yeah! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -12 | Shut up and take my money! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -9 | The YouTube guide to parenting. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | I'm a Jehovah's Witness and I run a business. Can I deny insurance coverage for blood transfusions?(Warning: Poe's Law in action!) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | The "best" swag at CPAC. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | The "Every Sperm is Sacred" Lady speaks out. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | The Onion: Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon. Invade! Invade! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -10 | Dilbert drops the f-bomb in a comic. Kinda. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Ellen pwns the wingnuts. UPDATE: Bill O'Reilly has something to say on the matter. In Ellen's favour. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | "WikiDate" - a privacy clusterfuck. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Five big lies about the phony 'war on religion' |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | What liberal bias? The CBC's latest literature panel includes a fascist crank who defends Augusto Pinochet's regime and considers Nelson Mandela to be a terrorist. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | The despicable behavior by some, including but not limited to psychic frauds, towards families of missing persons. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Bill Nye (the science guy) is at the Second White House Science Fair - and not a single creationist in sight! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Why people still use Facebook. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Charlie Brooker on the two Daily Heils. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | Neo-phrenology and neurobabble. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Even the creationists don't like Indiana Senate Bill 89. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Comments speak for themselves. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | Protip: Never give this kind of power to the Internet. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | A visualization of the 2011 Japanese earthquakes. Just keep watching... |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 1 | Paul Krugman: Despite recent offshoring of U.S. manufacturing to China, 85% of U.S. consumer spending still makes its way to U.S. firms. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | The actual gay agenda vs. what conservatives think is the gay agenda. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | The Onion: "Look, one-third of the human race has to die for civilization to be sustainable, so how do we want to do this?" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | A Hitchslap from beyond the grave: Christopher Hitchens on why William Lane Craig's brand of pernicious nonsense is not merely foolish, but dangerous. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | So, a Catholic, an Anglican and a humanist |
January 2012
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | How we got Ayn Rand instead of FDR: How Tea Party 'Populism' Derailed a New New Deal |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | How 'Europe' became a dirty word in the US election. Europe's response: "Wait, we're socialist?" and "Hmm...Republicans don't want to pay higher taxes to match government spending, how familiar." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Stephen Colbert retakes his Super PAC power after Jon Stewart tells him to fuck off. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | Fox News is now the Republican establishment, and it may cost the party the 2012 Presidential election. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | The Transadvocate on the transgender bathroom issue: prohibiting trans women from using women's restrooms rests on the same logic as prohibiting black women from doing so, or even cis women themselves. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | "All the other kids with the pumped up kicks, you better run, better run, outrun my gun." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 1 | Increasing political polarization? Impending civil war? Think again. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | Dan Savage has been sufficiently annoyed. "To 'rick' is to remove something with your tongue ... which makes 'rick santorum' the most disgusting two-word sentence in the English language after 'vote Republican.'" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | New atheist billboard campaign unveiled! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 0 | New word: Nagnostic |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | You heard it here first: Vaccines are part of the transhumanist agenda to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | According to Google, geek girls are really men. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | The Unexpurgated Atheist FAQ. Complete in every detail. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | The Pythons are back? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | "I'm sorry for how the Church treated you" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Martin Robbins lays into the BBC over science. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Rick Santorum thinks rape is a gift from God... seriously?Seriously!? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | New journal to be launched will combat publication bias by publishing negative results. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Note to self: Create Elizabeth Warren article. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | The ultimate Star Wars nerdgasm. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Go back. We fucked up everything. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 34 | The great forgotten Republican. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | Hacker cracks a senator's Twitter account, but still manages to trip over Skitt's Law. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | Neuroanthropology takes out the trash on "sexy" evo psych "findings." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | They call it a loophole in medical journals, we call it "narrative review." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | 10 great reasons to be against equality in marriage. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | A plan to restore America to it's Christian RootsWarning, intensive levels of sarcasm detected. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Scumbag Gingrich. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | So how is Kentucky funding the $43 million in tax cuts for the Ark Experience? By cutting $50 million from its education budget. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | The value of Curiosity Driven Research |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | How the US' current "free market" health care is not any kind of freedom at all. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Too...many...awesome...Stephen Colbert videos... |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | It's not a blatant violation of the separation of church and state. It's called "school choice!" You know, for totally secular "charter schools." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | To anyone who is still completing their degrees. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Carl Zimmer [1] about research on the evolution of multicellular life. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | How the universe began. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | How SOPA could negatively affect science. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | The Red Flags Of Quackery, expanded edition, in handy comic form. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Bloomberg, don't start up a mini-Prohibition. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | What if Tim Tebow was...Muslim? Update: Jimmy Fallon re-imagines David Bowie. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Sweden innovating again. But the sheep? Seriously? Give us our goat. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | "There are certainly people with whom dialogue is not possible, or desirable [...] There are also people who merely disagree. We are losing the ability to tell which is which." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | True to form, Canada apologizes for failing to not elect Stephen Harper. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | In the face of an undeniable, egregious violation of civil rights, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas finds a way to be a bullheaded asshole. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | The History Channel in 18 seconds. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 2 | To those reading up on the Sara Ackerman story, it gets even funnier: she's defending Chris Brown and declaring war on Obama "minions." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Five founding fathers whose views on Christianity would make them unelectable today. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Know Your Meme confirms Jesusland. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Help, help! I'm being repressed by science! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | "Huh, did I ever tell you about the time I bested Richard Branson at that zeppelin auction?" aka. How is Mitt Romney kicking all of your asses? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | A happy[citation NOT needed] customer reviews Ray Comfort's wizard entertainment, Intelligent Design vs Evolution: The Board Game! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | What if nobody told you that your daughter had been mistakenly deported? - "...it’s concerning to think of how many people this has happened to that have never been heard from." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Cracked: 6 Small Math Errors That Caused Huge Disasters. And nuclear makeup. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | If you haven't heard this before, it's Saturn dropping the beat. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | The Neuroskeptic debunks the recent news stories about increased costs of antidepressant drugs on UK taxpayers. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Traversing the tight line between the latest fertility technologies and eugenics. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -1 | An Optimistic History of the Next 40 Years (assuming we won't nuke ourselves first) It does get a little wacky by |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Another product of the recovered memory craze: The "epidemic" of multiple personality disorder. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | A Redditor asks: what New Age garbage make you shudder with intolerance? 6786 comments in the first 12 hours. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | The jokes write themselves. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | The 9 Voters Who Lost Iowa For Santorum |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | The Iowa caucuses showed us both kind of Republican candidate: the elitist rich guy and the elitist rich guy who pretends to care about the working class. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | A way to hide your doings from light and time! Now how to best improve it so |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Another way the War on (Some) Drugs fails: "Drug-sniffing" dogs fare no better than chance. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 2 | Naive determinism strikes again. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Introducing our new Paul the Octopus: Megyn |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Like father like daughter: Elizabeth Santorum has gay friends too! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | The 2012 US Government Terrorist Identification Chart. Stop the Terrorist Battlecruiser! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 2 | Pedobear appears at Penn State's last game of the year. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | Crazy Finns. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Stephen Harper sets up Canada's version of MiniTru. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | If you have a free hour, here's Charlie Brooker's 2011 Wipe. On the UK riots: "Over the following weeks the media went into a full blown hand-wringing exercise trying to work out why the giddy heck [it] had happened...assholes on horrible US shitcasts blamed immigrants." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 2 | Sally Jenkins asks why is it that Tim Tebow's beliefs are anybody's business? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Cracked ends the year with: The 9 Biggest Bastards of 2011. |
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