| 85 | A quiz "persecuted American Christians" need to take - How to Determine If Your Religious Liberty Is Being Threatened in Just 10 Quick Questions |
| 74 | The forces of stupidity outdo themselves and reveal that Canadian force to be reckoned with, Canadian Cynic is in reality Rob Day from talk.origins. The tactic backfires badly, as now the Cynic is able to call Creationists and IDiots "douchebags" in a much more public fashion than before. |
| 59 | "WARNING: This product contains deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The Surgeon General has determined that DNA is linked to a variety of diseases in both animals and humans. In some configurations, it is a risk factor for cancer and heart disease. Pregnant women are at very high risk of passing on DNA to their children." |
| 55 | The subject is Canadian blogger/idiot Patrick "Twatsy" Ross, but we can all spot people we know. Including at CP. Maybe especially at CP. |
| 54 | Cracked: 4 Dangerously Influential Dimwits, featuring Sylvia Browne and Jenny McCarthy. |
| 54 | "Dear 1%ers, many of our fellow citizens are starting to believe that capitalism itself is the problem. I disagree, and I’m sure you do too... [but] these idiotic trickle-down policies are destroying my customer base. The pitchforks are coming for us plutocrats." |
| 51 | Complaining to the Advertising Standards Authority about the British Homeopathic Association. UPDATE: A response has been received from Advertising Standards Authority. Seems they agree that the BHA leaflet "contains material that is likely to be problematic". |
| 51 | "Vaccines Work." A cartoon guide to vaccines and vaccine denialist arguments. |
| 50 | Pizza chain CEO who owns "a 40,000 square-foot mansion in a tony suburb of Louisville, Kentucky, that features several swimming pools, a private golf course and a 22-car garage among other amenities," threatens to make all of his employees part-timers in order to save the $5 to $8 million that (he says) Obamacare will cost him. He also claims that O-care will cost him between 11 and 14 cents per pizza. Forbes columnist does the math: It'll cost between 3.4 and 4.6 cents per pizza -- and, besides, the company gives away about 2 million pizzas in an annual promotion that costs between $24 and $32 million dollars. |
| 49 | Oh behalf of actual gamers everywhere, everyone's favourite former NFL player Chris Kluwe spectacularly rips Gamergaters several new ones. |
| 48 | Apparently this is controversial. |
| 48 | Muslims take the piss out of ISIS, using genuinely funny snark and satire. We at Rationalwiki salute you. |
| 48 | Jimmy Wales tries to patiently explain to a Gamergater why Gamergate has some public relations problems. "It is very difficult for me to buy into the notion that gamergate is 'really about ethics in journalism' when every single experience I have personally had with it involved pro-gg people insulting, threatening, doxxing, etc." They don't quite take the recommendations of the world-famous and highly influential charity founder they enquired with to heart. |
| 48 | "I teach human evolution at the University of Kentucky. There are some students I’ll never reach." |
| 47 | Cracked: A 90-Second Guide to Determine if Your Internet Cause Is BS |
| 46 | Shortest evolution debate ever? |
| 46 | In 2008, Focus on the Family predicted what 2012 under Obama would be like. Let's see how they did. (Some portions may be familiar.) |
| 45 | Twitter Joke Trial: a layman journalist’s view. Paul Chambers was prosecuted for joking on Twitter that he planned to "blow an airport sky high" if they didn't deal with their snow problem. This blog post is about the appeal and a layman's view from the court room. |
| 45 | "Legitimate" rape and the "gift" of pregnancy: An analogy as subtle as being hit with a slice of lemon, wrapped around a brick. |
| 45 | "I'm not a scientist" = "I'm losing the War on Science." |
| 45 | Mars One is sounding pretty scammy. |
| 44 | P. Z. Myers writes beautiful open letter to a nine-year old suggesting that "how do you know?" is a better question than "were you there?". The dribbling idiot who came up with the "were you there?" question complains. Mom weighs in without reading the letter. |
| 44 | Mayor of Boston to Chick-fil-A: Fuck off. |
| 44 | Go fuck yourself, ESPN! ESPN suspends MLB writer Keith Law ostensibly for defending evolution. |
| 43 | Creationist Questions translated. |
| 43 | The "Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology" petitioned Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, to "create and enforce new policies that allow for true scientific discourse about holistic approaches to healing." Jimmy Wales responds. |
| 43 | Daily Kos: Neil deGrasse Tyson makes important scientific discovery: Liberals can be just as anti-science about GMOs as Conservatives are about Global warming. |
| 43 | Idaho Representative Vito Barbieri is not an OB-GYN |
| 42 | If only American TV journalists had the balls to say something like this on the air. Oh, and there is video of it on the intertubes (quote at 2:30). |
| 42 | Court decides parent's refusal to vaccinate kids is not “free exercise of religion”. Win one for the constitution. (self promotion warning) |
| 40 | Skepticism *is* making a difference |
| 40 | The heir to Mencken's throne of snark: An American football player? |
| 40 | Can you tell the difference between conservative Christians and Muslim fundamentalists? |
| 40 | From The Onion's new website: "My Doctor Told Me I Should Vaccinate My Children, But Then Someone Much Louder Than My Doctor Told Me I Shouldn’t" |
| 40 | How Gamergate has destroyed the reputation of video games in academia. |
| 39 | Heard the one about the college professor who was humiliated by a student who proved God exists? Here's how it really happened. |
| 39 | Coultergeist, apply cool water to the burn. |
| 39 | Yet another Cracked article recommendation - this one is on conspiracy theories |
| 39 | Salon: Why rightwingers hate smart people in general, and Neil deGrasse Tyson in particular. |
| 39 | The left should receive more criticism for their anti-science views - Opinion piece from The Tech. |
| 38 | Please leave me alone, I just want to read my book. |
| 38 | Ophelia Benson and Richard Dawkins (really): Dear atheists, please desist from acting like dicks. "Disagreement is inevitable, but bullying and harassment are not." |
| 38 | Cracked: 5 Ways We Misunderstand Pedophilia (That Makes it Worse) |
| 38 | On vaccines, Bill Maher is being a common-or-garden-variety dangerous crank again. Time to start the Bill Maher Dead Children Ticker? |
| 37 | Weird Homeopathy - Neptunium. Homeopaths attempt a double blind/placebo controlled study and conclude...the effect of the active pills somehow leaked out of their bottles into the placebo pills. UPDATE: The homeopath who performed the proving of this remedy responds! |
| 37 | An attempt to write a non-physicist friendly blog post about physics: How Eddington demonstrated that Einstein was right |
| 37 | Cracked: The 8 Greatest Wars Ever Fought by Fox News. Prepare for Papa Bear "Pinhead" attack in 3...2...1... |
| 37 | "That awkward moment when the primitive tribe you have come to convert to Christianity, instead converts you to atheism." |
| 37 | "Many people who would not dream to claim they understand how antibiotics, microprocessors or immunisations work seem happy to wax lyrical on their views on climate change." |
| 37 | Cracked: "Feminism! And with that one word, I've already set the world speed record for turning a comment section into a septic tank." |
| 36 | What is wrong with Skeptics in the Pub? |
| 36 | The history of the internet is the latest thing to be shoved down the glibertarian memory hole. |
| 36 | Teabaggers say they'll overthrow Obama and to that, I say... |
| 36 | Research links climate change deniers to conspiracy theorists; deniers suspect a conspiracy. |
| 36 | Snopes sinks to a new low (again) by citing a completely disreputable goatsource. |
| 36 | Proving once again that insanity knows no bounds, Frothy claims that Obamacare is a plot to kill people who don't vote the right way. |
| 36 | Disney Channel adds a lesbian couple to their family sitcom "Good Luck Charlie". The usual traditional-family idiots react with maturity and... what do you mean the sitcom's five-year-old star has received death threats? |
| 36 | A twelve year old girl explains things to Andy's mom. |
| 36 | George Clooney: The problem with the Daily Mail. |
| 36 | Cracked: 5 Successful People Who Everyone Forgets Are Exposed Frauds |
| 36 | Cracked gives its diagnosis of why Christian movies bomb in mostly Christian America. Bonus coverage: A day earlier, they published this article on how to fix some recent box office bombs, including changing the Nick Cage version of Left Behind to a horror flick about the Christian god. |
| 36 | Zoe Quinn gives a rather thorough breakdown of just how much Gamergate set back journalistic ethics. |
| 36 | BuzzFeed in long-form quality journalism shock: How Men’s Rights Leader Paul Elam Turned Being A Deadbeat Dad Into A Moneymaking Movement. |
| 36 | For next time some foolish person asks you what feminism has ever done for men. (Way more than MRAs ever have.) |
| 35 | 91% of Americans would support a socialist distribution of wealthwhen they don't know that's what they're voting for |
| 35 | George Takei finds and shares the "alternate" Biblical version of what happened to the dinosaurs. |
| 35 | Ok, this is why The Onion should win a Pulitzer. |
| 35 | No one murdered because of this image. NSFW, The Onion |
| 35 | Growing Up Unvaccinated |
| 35 | Should papers be retracted if one of the authors is a total asshole? Literally. |
| 35 | Phil Sandifer: an analysis of the 2015 Hugos, the Sad Puppies, Vox Day's politics and his supporters, and how neofascism works in a culture war. |
| 34 | The great forgotten Republican. |
| 34 | Why Does Sandra Fluke Drive Conservatives Bananas? |
| 34 | Libertarian Police Department. (Imagine the COPS episode.) |
| 34 | Arthur Chu: "So, a question, to my fellow male nerds. What the fuck is wrong with us?" |
| 34 | Thought experiment: you are pro-homeopathy blather-monger Nancy Malik. You set up a website. You apply to the Health on the Net Foundation for approval under 'HONcode', their seal of approval for medical websites and are granted it. Then people start arguing about it and ask for the site to be reassessed. What do you do? If your answer is change the link to a screenshot of the HONcode badge when you were approved, congratulations, you too have the dishonesty necessary to be an alternative medicine shill. |
| 34 | It's called the American Dream 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it. |
| 34 | Not a Tea Party, a Confederate Party |
| 34 | Dylan Avery, director of Loose Change, is unemployed and getting out of the Truther Movement. |
| 34 | If you see anyone linking to an article about a feminist who aborted a baby because it was male, it's made-up BS. |
| 34 | Christian pediatrician refuses to treat baby girl because her parents are lesbians. |
| 34 | N.J. judge rules ‘conversion therapy’ claims are fraud. A professor at BYU considers the ruling (which he misrepresents) "totalitarian in the extreme" and "censorial". |
| 33 | What's in a name? Well, if you call your enemy "al-Qaeda" instead of "Muslims" quite a lot, as documents from Osama Bin Laden show that Obama's rebrand of the "war on terror" really did destroy al-Qaeda's image in the eyes of Muslims. |
| 33 | Always a sign of hope in the darkness... |
| 33 | In 1983, a Mormon woman was advised to have an abortion after an overdose of Heparin put her life in danger. The head of the LDS church in Massachusetts supported her doctor's advice. Then her bishop arrived, and he really didn't give a shit whether she lived or died so long as she didn't have an abortion. |
| 33 | The cult of "before" stories - I was a satanist, a drug dealer, a porn addict and a rapist before I came to God and became a liar. |
| 33 | You fascist gays should be put in ovens! (This is pre-Sochi Russia.) |
| 33 | Jon Stewart takes on Fox News's global warming deniers: "Your fucking opinion is not as valid as scientific fact." More Fox: Meet your friendly neighbourhood News Corp "liberal." |
| 33 | There is only one way Obama will get Republicans to accept global warming: He must become a denier himself. |
| 33 | Russian priest says soccer is homosexual because of the colored shoes. "Wearing pink or blue shoes, [the players] might as well wear women's panties or a bra." (The original article in Russian.) |
| 33 | You don’t protect my freedom, or, why hero worship of the military and police is bad for us and them. |
| 33 | Chris "RINO" Ladd: "Few things are as dangerous to a long term strategy as a short-term victory. Republicans (in the midterms) scored the kind of win that sets one up for spectacular, catastrophic failure and no one is talking about it." |
| 33 | Guys, I wanted to let you know about a personal decision I recently made. I’m an Anti-Braker. |
| 33 | We sceptics need to have a talk about Bill Maher and his rather unsettling views about such topics as the anti-vaccination movement. |
| 32 | All time. Greatest. Creationist. Answer: "because DNA wasn't invented then". |
| 32 | Quack Busting Resources. |
| 32 | Fox News is now the Republican establishment, and it may cost the party the 2012 Presidential election. |
| 32 | "The Conservative Fantasy History of Civil Rights". Or as the photo caption puts it, "Ronald Reagan, Strom Thurmond, and other civil rights heroes. Not pictured: black people." |
| 32 | The five stages of Fox News grief. |
| 32 | Answering the 10 questions for pro-choicers. |
| 32 | Media Ethics 101. |
| 32 | "Anonymous billionaires donated $120m to more than 100 anti-climate groups working to discredit climate change science" |
| 32 | On the offhand chance you forgot radical feminist TERF Cathy Brennan was a truly shitty human being, she successfully used her followers to leave fake Yelp reviews of a trans woman's business, driving her into homelessness. |
| 32 | Cracked gives us a horrifying, eye-opening inside look at the Quiverfull movement, as written by a former member. |
| 32 | Got someone who doesn't understand that correlation does not imply causation? Show them that, for instance, US spending on science, space, and technology correlates with the number of suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation. |
| 32 | The NRA now says that gun activists who open-carry into restaurants and other public places to make a political point are "downright weird," " just not neighborly," "(defy) common sense," and show "a lack of consideration and manners." Update: "Our job is not to criticize the lawful behavior of fellow gun owners." |
| 32 | Cracked looks at MRAs. (The author apologises to the reformed neo-Nazi for making him read so much Reddit.) |
| 32 | Pigs are flying: A bipartisan group of Senators found a legitimate problem in Obamacare and are trying to pass a bill to fix it. Whether Congress actually does anything is uncertain. |
| 32 | How Conspiracy Nuts Are Duping Well-Meaning Liberals |
| 32 | American discourse is now so dumbed-down that it's become the equivalent of the POTUS talking to an Internet Tough Guy. |
| 32 | When Cracked delivers, it delivers. 6 Ways a Creationist Textbook Sabotaged Science. |
| 32 | Fark bans misogyny in comments |
| 32 | In which Thanet South UKIP mistakes Westminster Cathedral for a mosque. Update: "The people's army are not all wholly trained," responded Farage. Washington Post story, BBC video on Facebook. |
| 32 | Actual words people say to a blonde woman studying engineering at MIT. |
| 32 | Cracked.com takes on Oprah Winfrey's woo promotion. You know it's bad when "giving a platform to Jenny McCarthy" is only #4 on the list. |
| 31 | Weird Homeopathy - A love potion called 'Tempesta'. Created by putting an empty bottle outside during a thunderstorm. |
| 31 | Texas is stupid, no, Texas is really stupid, no, it's the Texas Republicans who are really really stupid. |
| 31 | "Obama's a communist!" "So what is a communist then?" |
| 31 | The Discovery Institute wanted to use a lovely photo of the Burgess Shale on one of their books. They asked the geologist who took the photo for permission. His response, their response and the ensuing dialogue are very instructive. |
| 31 | Charles Socarides, the man who formed reparative therapy, has a son. He's gay. |
| 31 | Please show consideration for fellow passengers by not reading The Daily Mail here. |
| 31 | Numerous threats and verbal attacks from Christians bully a fifteen-year-old girl into dropping her attempt to start an Atheists' Club at her high school. Way to show Jesus's love, folks. |
| 31 | How science deniers use false equivalency to pretend there’s a debate |
| 31 | "What personality trait do you look for in a mate?" asks Jenny McCarthy. "Someone who's willing to vaccinate the kids," answers Twitter. |
| 31 | Atlas Shrugged III reviewed. "A light went on. This film. What it is. What the book is. It’s the libertarian Left Behind." |
| 31 | Rebecca Watson's hosting a comedic science panel quiz show, Quiz-O-Tron, on the 25th. Naturally, there's a Gamergate petition to shut it down, signed mostly by people who don't know who she is, what she's doing or why they're supposed to hate her. |
| 31 | Activists, take note: some of the people on your side are sick of your shit |
| 31 | Arnold Schwarzenegger has displayed more backbone than anyone else at the Republican Party about Indiana's "religious freedom" laws. One hopes more will follow his example. |
| 30 | Homeopathy and the UK government - pets are protected, humans aren't. In its infinite wisdom, the UK government has decided that animals should not be allowed to be treated by homeopathy. Of course, it's okay for humans to carry on with the same treatment. |
| 30 | NPR eviscerates David Barton. Update: Barton's book, "The Jefferson Lies", is being pulled by the publisher, who has “lost confidence in the book’s details”. |
| 30 | The Onion: God Distances Self From Christian Right |
| 30 | Joe Biden calls transgender issues the civil rights struggle of our time. |
| 30 | "Barack Obama's presidency has been an inspiration to many Americans—especially nutjobs." (A list of (almost) every Obama conspiracy theory ever.) |
| 30 | Lawrence Krauss on the teaching of creationism: "And if you think about it, teaching kids - or allowing the notion that the earth is 6,000 years old to be promulgated in schools is like teaching kids that the distance across the United States is 17 feet. That's how big an error it is." |
| 30 | Three professors of religious studies and history from Iowa have written an op-ed for the state's largest newspaper knocking down the appeal to biblical tradition that marriage has always been "one man, one woman." |
| 30 | Subliminal messaging for gun nuts. |
| 30 | Psychic Sally shows her true skills by receiving messages from somebody who's alive and well and in the audience... |
| 30 | Ken Ham's Ark appears to be floundering. |
| 30 | If you "like" everything on Facebook your feed will become brands, clickbait and right-wingnut politics. No humans. Your friends' feeds will also go to shit. |
| 30 | Facebook will now point out satire. Because people really are that stupid. |
| 30 | White people refuse to believe black people's experiences. |
| 30 | The Affordable Care Act: who was helped most. Guess what? It's pretty much the opposite of the Religious Right's predictions. |
| 30 | "Should children be exposed to sounds of sodomy?" asks a leafleting campaign by a Christian group opposing same-sex marriage in Ireland. Twitter responds with various #soundsofsodomy jokes & memes. |
| 30 | In 1962, the 7-year-old eldest daughter of author Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal died of measles. In 1988, Dahl wrote an open letter begging parents to get their children vaccinated. |
| 30 | During the Great Depression, American businesses had to find a way to quickly rehabilitate their image before FDR piled on too many regulations. And they succeeded by recasting capitalism as the handmaiden of Jesus. One lingering aftereffect -- the belief by many that America is a Christian nation. |
| 29 | Skippy gives us the rules of debating on the internet. |
| 29 | Dennis Markuze (David Mabus) gets featured on the news after Montreal police finally begin a formal investigation, after 18 years of death threats and internet spam made to PZ Myers and other atheists.Update: He has now officially been arrested. |
| 29 | Warren Buffett: "Stop coddling the super-rich!" Let's see how Fox handles this. Calling one of the top wealthiest people on the planet a socialist? |
| 29 | It's Patrick Stewart, you love Patrick Stewart. If not, why not? I mean, seriously, watch it. You love Patrick Stewart. |
| 29 | Anti-Vaccination 'logic' applied to children's car seats (Warning: Poe's Law in action!). |
| 29 | The net neutrality debate summed up by John Oliver. Update: The FCC website has crashed. |
| 29 | Sovereign citizen loses drivers license, walks everywhere with an assault rifle. |
| 29 | Cracked strikes again. "6 Tricks I Learned as a Faith Healer (for Scamming You)" |
| 29 | Let's not entertain the idea of "Democrats Are People Too" being chosen as a political ad. Update: The trainwreck continues: "At this point, it's hard not to wonder if the people being hired to do outreach to women on behalf of Republican candidates aren't all a bunch of Democratic moles." |
| 29 | How must Japan prevent its coming demographic crisis? It starts with one wretched word... |
| 29 | National Organization for Marriage sinking into debt. |
| 29 | The International Team of Comics Historians (I.T.C.H.) website weighs in on the anti-vaccination movement by posting images from a 1930 anti-anti-vaxxer tract titled Health in Pictures. |
| 29 | TL;DR version of right wingers' reaction to Obama's National Prayer Breakfast comments about the Crusades: "You say 'Crusades' like they were a bad thing." "The point is that whitewashing of one of the most bloody periods in world history is troubling on many levels." (Fun fact: Up to one percent of the entire world's population died as a result of 200 years of Crusades.) |
| 29 | The annotated "50 Faux News lies in 6 seconds" Vine, courtesy of The Daily Show and Politifact. |
| 29 | Catholic website Fix the Family gives their six reasons not to send your daughter to college. They later added two more -- numbers 6 and 8 -- which, to them, somehow adds up to seven. Hmm. Just to be safe, better add this:(Warning: Poe's Law in action!) |
| 28 | Tea Party group adopts its new slogan from ... 4Chan. |
| 28 | XKCD uses economics to disprove some woo |
| 28 | Homeopathy: Is There Nothing In It Worldwide? After the FDA warn of "inconsistent amounts of belladonna" in homeopathic remedies for children, can people still assume homeopathy is safe (as well as being useless)? |
| 28 | xkcd's magnum opus. |
| 28 | Cracked.com: "5 Ridiculous Lies That Fooled the Whole World." Number 1: Andrew Wakefield. |
| 28 | NYT: Obamacare is a Conservative's Dream. "The only thing wrong with the mandate? Mr. Obama also thought it was a good idea." |
| 28 | Yes, science takes sides. So stop asking scientists to not be partisan. |
| 28 | "Why didn't she just run away?" Ten years after being rescued from her kidnappers, Elizabeth Smart tells a Johns Hopkins University audience that rape victims raised in conservative households and communities often feel worthless, like a "chewed-up piece of gum. Nobody re-chews a piece of gum. You throw it away." |
| 28 | If the moon were only 1 pixel... a tediously accurate scale model of the solar system will bore you for minutes! |
| 28 | Hooray! Now cops have to serve even those with different religious beliefs! Wait...why would any sane person think they shouldn't? |
| 28 | If Ayn Rand had written Harry Potter |
| 28 | 10 Scientific Ideas That Scientists Wish You Would Stop Misusing. Yes, 'Quantum' is on the list. |
| 28 | Tea Party Founding Father Rick Santelli: Wrong about everything. |
| 28 | Thomas E. Ricks: Good god, I'm turning into a leftie! |
| 28 | Obama Outperforms Reagan on Jobs, Growth, and Investing. |
| 28 | "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." |
| 28 | National Review writer Kevin D. Williamson says women who have abortions should be hanged, and so should doctors, nurses and hospital staff. (Somebody's been reading The Handmaid's Tale.) |
| 28 | When Women Stopped Coding |
| 28 | When cranks turn on each other: watching Gamergate eat itself from the inside. |
| 28 | io9: Stop Using Quantum Mechanics as Evidence for Magic |
| 28 | A good example of how to complain politely to a shop about pseudoscientific merchandise. |
| 28 | Conservative blogger goes to the Chicago zoo and finds “anti-human prejudice” and Liberal propaganda in signs that say over-hunting and habitat destruction threaten species. |
| 28 | A week in the life of Anita Sarkeesian. |
| 28 | A professor of medicine and bioethics livetweets from her son's Abstinence-only sex education class. Update: And then comments on the resulting shitstorm. |
| 27 | George Takei: "Mr McCance. You are a douchebag." |
| 27 | Why libertarians are (by definition) selfish, immoral or stupid |
| 27 | Darryl Cunningham explains evolution in an excellent comic. Too bad that's about 5 orders of magnitude more text and information than an average creationist is able to absorb without going crosseyed and lolling their tongue. |
| 27 | The Onion: Voters Slowly Realizing Santorum Believes Every Deranged Word That Comes Out Of His Mouth |
| 27 | David Wong, Cracked: 5 Easy Ways to Spot a BS News Story on the Internet |
| 27 | The Onion summarizes the arguments for and against same-sex marriage. |
| 27 | What I would say to creationists if I were was more of a dick. |
| 27 | Hopefully, the future of Andy Schlafly's students: Homeschool Apostates |
| 27 | Are you a misunderstood genius who's ready to overthrow the scientific orthodoxy? Sean Carroll's helpful Alternative-Science Respectability Checklist (from 2007, but still relevant) can help you SHOW THEM ALL without needing a death-ray, a killer robot, or even an army of radioactive gorillas! |
| 27 | Leaving Islam was the hardest thing I've done. |
| 27 | Phil Plait: "About last night’s debate, my colleague Mark Stern at Slate argues that Nye lost the debate just by showing up, and I see that same sentiment from people on social media. But I disagree. We’ve been losing this debate in the public’s mind all along by not showing up." |
| 27 | Dear Abby does it again. (perhaps you remember this response to a similar question) |
| 27 | Facts may not be the best method to convince conservatives. |
| 27 | The surprisingly sharp point of the Tyson Cosmos series. (The third episode seemed more aimed at astrology.) |
| 27 | Man calls a suicide prevention hotline, SWAT Team shows up and kills him |
| 27 | "You're a lame-duck president now. What are you going to do?" "Let's save the Internet." |
| 27 | A useful reference work for the internet: An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments. |
| 27 | The main problem with anti-vaccination parents is their 'rugged individualist' egotism. |
| 27 | Cracked talks about what it's like to be a trans man. |
| 27 | During the midst of the Watergate scandal, Nixon's chief-of-staff, H.R. Haldeman, and attorney general, John Ehrlichman -- both Christian Scientists -- took time out from the coverup to insert language into a child-welfare bill giving parents religious exemptions for neglect and/or abuse based on religious reasons -- i.e., faith healing, "spare the rod, spoil the child", etc. (Note: The first half of this longish article is a history of the first century of child welfare advocacy in the US.) |
| 27 | It's not easy being Scientology in the Information Age. |
| 26 | Comedy site Cracked.com takes up arms versus anti-gay marriage nutters. |
| 26 | David Frum launches a broadside against the GOP (and ensures his permanent ineligibility for wingnut welfare). |
| 26 | "Even though the US economy is slumped in the doldrums, some of the country's shrewdest commentators make a serious case that Obama could be heading for a landslide victory in 2012. How to explain such a turnaround? In the United States, at least, there is one compellingly simple, two-word answer: Fox News." |
| 26 | So how is Kentucky funding the $43 million in tax cuts for the Ark Experience? By cutting $50 million from its education budget. |
| 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.'" |
| 26 | Pwnt. |
| 26 | "Crowds of ignoramuses want to excuse their grievous lack of intelligence by fostering the idea that they never learned anything because teachers are stupid." |
| 26 | Monbiot: "Romnesia" - the ability of the very rich to forget the context in which they made their money. |
| 26 | Conservative David Frum gets real on abortion. |
| 26 | Cracked yelling at politicians that don't understand what "poor" means |
| 26 | The Onion, on how the Supreme Court should handle the marriage equality cases. |
| 26 | From this day forward, Donald Trump will be given the title of Fuckface von Clownstick. |
| 26 | GM feed harmful to pigs? Nope. The real story: anti-GMO activists harmful to pigs. |
| 26 | Introducing Representative Mark Takano (D-CA). |
| 26 | You cannot be serious! Gohmert: ‘Scary’ that liberal elites would use vaccines for ‘culling the population’ of humans (You know what, let him keep saying that. When people start feeling the effects of anti-vaccination, he'll get exactly what he wants.) |
| 26 | And again: when you debate theists, do not trust them - bring your own camera. |
| 26 | Australia apologizes for Ken Ham. |
| 26 | A Guide to Arguing With a Snopes-Denier. |
| 26 | A Christian author argues that Creationists are a cult. |
| 26 | Denmark. It is a silly place. |
| 26 | When Stephen Colbert called the Teabaggers "a bug up the elephant's ass," he may have been too kind. |
| 26 | Politico decides to give its conservative readers a reality check on the Religious Right. |
| 26 | "Why the Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless." |
| 26 | The A-Z of what can give you cancer, according to the Daily Fail. |
| 26 | How libertarians would handle an Ebola outbreak. Guess. |
| 26 | The USA is finally on the verge of making peace with pornography. |
| 26 | With a plan to 'heal the oceans' by dumping homepathic 'medicine' down toilets, "Have Homeopaths Reached Peak Stupid?" Sadly, Betteridge's law is probably in effect. |
| 26 | Racists are still doing that racism thing and Cracked has the studies to prove it. |
| 26 | Cracked: 6 Ways to Keep Terrorists From Ruining the World |
| 26 | The perfect response to sexist questions |
| 25 | Wow. Homeopaths can carry antimatter around in a vial: Weird Homeopathy - Positronium |
| 25 | The National Secular Society: Christian complaints about a "crucifx ban" are not a different take on a contentious issue, simply a pack of lies |
| 25 | An interesting opinion on homeschooling and anti-scientific indoctrination in American public schools by someone who grew-up in the USSR. |
| 25 | Let's see a refutation of this. |
| 25 | The inevitable Heartland Institute parody billboards. |
| 25 | Tesla > Edison |
| 25 | Futurama does what it does best - explain the entirety of US politics in less than a minute. |
| 25 | What if creationists invaded history classes? |
| 25 | The Dalai Lama: "...the reality of the world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate. This is why I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether." |
| 25 | Meanwhile at PBS... Update: Official response. |
| 25 | The Canucks were the first to figure this out, and now the folks at Slate finally got it: Republicans got a moderate conservative into the Oval Office that Mitt could never be. |
| 25 | Daily Kos on the descent of the GOP: "The GOP has changed from a party that held a few extreme positions, into one that holds nothing but." |
| 25 | Wingnuts: Michelle Obama's satellite appearance at the Oscars was "obscene." So what about Laura Bush, FDR, and Almighty Reagan? |
| 25 | Whoop-de-fucking-doo. (For non-US viewers) |
| 25 | Stavvers: Has it been scientifically proven racists and homophobes are stupid? Er, no. |
| 25 | Have one and a half million adults in the UK “stumbled across” online child porn? No, the Internet Watch Foundation are still lying liars who lie. |
| 25 | German online voters selected an innovative nuclear reactor for the GreenTec Awards environmental prize. The organizing greens threw a hissy fit and arbitrarily disqualified it. |
| 25 | Play "Guess where Damascus is!" - 100,000 entries later, some interesting statistics. |
| 25 | Cracked: The 6 Most Humiliating Public Failures by Celebrity Psychics |
| 25 | The United States never was, is, or ever will be a Christian nation. |
| 25 | Make concessions? "Munich." Remove sanctions in exchange for temporary dismantling and international oversight? "Munich." Squeeze them till the pips squeak? "Munich." Bomb their enrichment facilities? "Munich." Nuke Tehran? "That's what we're talking about!" |
| 25 | More Pat: The War on Christmas is because atheists are miserable and can't stand the joy of Christmas. Pass the eggnog. |
| 25 | Creationists kill 8 year old's suggestion for a state fossil for South Carolina. |
| 25 | So Cliven Bundy, that guy with the cows, has a question about "the Negro": "Are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy?" (Come on, Republicans, defend him!) |
| 25 | Iranian women using Facebook to subvert their country's hijab laws |
| 25 | Just in case anyone really thinks the poor are secretly living the high life, or that all people are jerks. |
| 25 | Open-carry nuts. "Everything about this man is so beautifully, gloriously wrong, I half suspect Sacha Baron Cohen is hiding in there." |
| 25 | Greta Christina has a few choice words for those who see fit to defend the Amazing Atheist. |
| 25 | New York Times Science writer Nicholas Wade publishes a "racial realism" book, which is met with condemnation by the majority of scientists he cites |
| 25 | Paul Krugman uses statistics to prove that scientists tend to be liberals. |
| 25 | Somehow, Not The Onion: "White People Think Black People Are Magical" |
| 25 | Fifty years from now, when historians analyze this decade in American politics, what will they think when "believ(ing) the rational should overcome the superficial" was considered a personality flaw? |
| 25 | The International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology only accepts the very best papers (warning, older than I first thought) |
| 25 | Does John McCain Really Have To Remind You About Torture Again, You Assholes? |
| 25 | Cracked interviews a wilderness therapy camp escapee. |
| 24 | Weird Homeopathy - made from a shipwreck |
| 24 | This is a news website article about a scientific paper. |
| 24 | The Conservative Constitution of the United States. |
| 24 | The lies I told as a psychic - Confessions of a former phone psychic. |
| 24 | The Onion: New GOP strategy to make Obama's life miserable? Reelecting him. |
| 24 | Get this woman into government. |
| 24 | Rick Santorum thinks rape is a gift from God... seriously?Seriously!? |
| 24 | 11 Eye-Opening Highlights From a Creationist Science Textbook. |
| 24 | Sascha Baron Cohen as The Dictator gets it. Note: Link taken down by copyright claims. |
| 24 | Libertarians aren't the defenders of personal liberty they claim to be. |
| 24 | Thunderf00t's grudge against Freethought Blogs reaches new lows: when they removed him from the site, they also cut him off their private mailing list, but apparently then he used an exploit to regain access (i.e. hacked it) and has been forwarding private conversations to third parties.[1][2][3][4] Thunderf00t brags that he did in fact do this, but it's OK because they were saying mean things about him. |
| 24 | One of the actresses conned into performing in that movie, speaks out. |
| 24 | No, you're not entitled to your opinion. |
| 24 | Climate denial debunked in one graph. |
| 24 | William Lane Craig remains an unspeakably loathsome creature. |
| 24 | Elizabeth. Fucking. Warren. |
| 24 | "Sanctity of marriage" argument destroyed in a little over a minute. |
| 24 | Fox News last week: The Department of Justice must prosecute journalists who leak classified information! Fox News this week: "We will not allow a climate of press intimidation, unseen since the McCarthy era, to frighten any of us away from the truth." Oh. |
| 24 | Oh Fox. |
| 24 | Bradlee Dean's ministry suffers a mass walkout of staff. |
| 24 | I hope this isn't a repeat. AddictingInfo: Explaining Socialism to a Republican |
| 24 | Australian tabloid posts hidden message about its proprietor in a children's puzzle. |
| 24 | Alties have started a petition demanding Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales change Wikipedia's policies to counteract alleged "bias" in alternative medicine articles. Apparently they're tired of their own biased edits being reverted by the tyrannical skeptics patrolling the articles, and they want to be allowed to inject their bullshit. |
| 24 | "Cyber-trolling appears to be an Internet manifestation of everyday sadism." |
| 24 | Editors resign from Frontiers over retracted paper that upset climate science deniers. |
| 24 | The Conspiracy Theory Flowchart THEY don't want you to see! |
| 24 | (VIDEO) "Humans Need Not Apply," a fascinating, yet somewhat harrowing, mini-documentary on the current state of automation, and its consequences for the future of our labor workforce. |
| 24 | A recent review of court cases has shown that courts nearly always side with wind farms, finding insufficient evidence of Wind Turbine Syndrome. |
| 24 | Next on the List of Questions that Would Garner an "Are You Crazy?" Reaction a Decade Ago: Is the GOP losing Kansas? |
| 24 | And Ayn Rand is no longer a thing. |
| 24 | Science Denial for Beginners |
| 24 | Ayn Rand reviews children's movies. |
| 24 | David Dunning (of Dunning-Kruger): We are all confident idiots. Yes, you too. |
| 24 | Tax protesters appeal their conviction by saying the judge should not have let them use their pseudolaw theories in court, so therefore it's his fault. |
| 24 | Anti-vaxxerism as a reflection of American political culture. |
| 24 | Reformed anti-vax Mom on the journey back to sanity. |
| 24 | It actually is about ethics in mainstream journalism. Peter Oborne quits the Torygraph over HSBC whitewashing. |
| 24 | Oh no! The Sarkeesian Effect production team of Davis Aurini and Jordan Owen has broken up! And Roosh V plays Yoko Ono in the public story. We Hunted The Mammoth has the details. Who gets custody of the skull props is as yet unclear. Update: It gets worse, as Aurini compares Owen to Elliot Rodger (summary). |
| 23 | US Police, in a daring armed raid, bust and capture the kingpin of a violent international smuggling ring, giving him a sentence of up to 10 years for conspiracy and lying to a federal officer, or when you actually have your head screwed on a 65 year-old amateur flower collector worth no more than $20,000 a year, just because America just freaking loves to put people in prison. |
| 23 | PalMD vs. PZ Myers. FIGHT! |
| 23 | Twitter Joke Trial – What’s Happening Next? A pre-'appeal day' blog post. |
| 23 | Bill Nye was booed in Texas back in 2006 for claiming that the moon does not generate its own light. No one remembered this until the local newspaper pulled an Andy and burned the evidence. |
| 23 | The CDC has released a blog post detailing its plans to deal with a Zombie Apocalypse. |
| 23 | Electrons are spherical, it's official now. |
| 23 | You ask question about stone tablet, you no go to meatland! |
| 23 | Rush Limbaugh stands firm on his contraception and "slut" comments... until his sponsors start dropping him, so he immediately offers an apology. Michael Moore: "Who's the prostitute now, bitch?" Don Imus: "Insincere pig". |
| 23 | The Onion: Would the organization responsible for the developed world's laxest gun laws and highest gun crime rate ever rethink what they're spewing about? "Yeah, something like 1,000 dead kids." |
| 23 | Sean Carroll: Scientists, Your Gender Bias Is Showing. |
| 23 | Fuck you, Einstein! |
| 23 | The House is insanely close to having an all-black Democratic caucus and an all-white Republican caucus in the South. Zombie Lincoln arises... |
| 23 | An analogy to try to explain what it's like arguing with a pseudoscience advocate. |
| 23 | I present America's Worst State Legislatures. Leading the pack is, unsurprisingly, the lunatics in charge of Tennessee. |
| 23 | The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gorilla is a good guy with a gorilla. |
| 23 | Conspiracy theorists are flummoxed by an actual scandal. |
| 23 | Shedding some light on the "Hitler Loved Gun Control" Argument. |
| 23 | The best argument for universal health care in the USA: It's the colonoscopies, stupid! |
| 23 | Obama pulls a "Pants on Fire." |
| 23 | Jimmy Carter tells an audience at the Mobilizing Faith for Women conference that the world's religious leaders need to share the blame for their part in the continued mistreatment of women. |
| 23 | How one guy realised the sheer levels of misogyny within gaming: logging in under his wife's gamer tag. |
| 23 | Pretty Shaved Ape takes the Catholic Church out behind the woodshed for a little "chat". |
| 23 | This infographic (from a website called "Online Christian Colleges" no less) illustrates how megachurches could easily be labeled "corporate Christianity." |
| 23 | Popular Science decides to shut down its comments section, blaming unhealthy amounts of anti-intellectualism. Guess who's the first to complain. |
| 23 | An open letter to the people who really control the US government. |
| 23 | A Protestant pastor and blogger offers his findings as to why Dominionists favor the US government shutdown and impending default. Thanks to Revelation 1:5-6, they believe that YHWH has made them kings and priests and that it is their duty to bring all the moneys from the treasuries of the world and lay them at YHWH's feet. And one of the most outspoken leaders of this effort? Ted Cruz's father Rafael. |
| 23 | Don't be evil? Let me google that for you. |
| 23 | American exceptionalism is screwing with us again. |
| 23 | Color us shocked, shocked! A solid majority of IR experts (even those who advocate realpolitik) say that Republicans are full of shit on military policy. |
| 23 | Sean Hannity takes on Jon Stewart. Oops. |
| 23 | Wow. Even the freakin' National Review thinks the gun nuts have gone too far. |
| 23 | While the chickenhawks persist in their delusion, the military quietly prepares for global warming. |
| 23 | Government by moral panic. |
| 23 | "The Only Thing Unusual About Ray And Janay Rice Is That Anyone Noticed." NFL fans and MRAs are having a very poor year. |
| 23 | Shepard Smith goes off script again, calls out media on Ebola fearmongering. |
| 23 | The Good Student in North Korea |
| 23 | io9: 10 Scientific Ideas That Scientists Wish You Would Stop Misusing |
| 23 | RationalWiki hits the big time. The London Daily Telegraph posts an article about important internet laws including Poe's Law, Pommer's Law, DeMyer's Laws, Law of exclamation and Cohen's Law. (23 Oct 2009) |
| 23 | Mississippi and West Virginia (of all places) are the two states that deny religious exemptions for vaccinations. And -- surprise! -- neither state has had a case of measles in more than 20 years. (Unfortunately, the writer didn't completely knock down anti-vaxxer arguments by discussing autism rates in the two states.) |
| 23 | Evidence that everyday Islam and radical Islamism aren't quite identical: the jihadists who needed to buy Islam for Dummies. |
| 23 | Jimmy Kimmel: A message for the anti-vaccination movement. (With actual doctors!) Part 2: Hate mail and public activism! |
| 22 | Fair and balanced? Leaked memos show Fox News deliberately slanted their coverage of the health care debate. |
| 22 | Wanted: Your DNA for National Geographic's Genographic Project Trace the migration route of your ancestors over tens of thousands of years. |
| 22 | Brian Cox: "...this is not a political statement, but the Iraq conflict so far has cost significantly more than a manned mission to Mars." In fact, the entire Shuttle Program cost approximately the same as the UK bank bailout, and we found the money for that. |
| 22 | Get a bad review on your bullshit creationist book? Let the libel case begin... |
| 22 | Far from the tabloid myth of welfare scroungers living it large on state handouts, what we have is an ex-soldier and his disabled wife having to live off donated food and eventually finding it so tough that they took their own lives. |
| 22 | Ellen pwns the wingnuts. UPDATE: Bill O'Reilly has something to say on the matter. In Ellen's favour. |
| 22 | I've spent the past 2 days trying to convince my 16-year-old she is not a "slut". |
| 22 | Cracked: Six things rich people need to stop saying. |
| 22 | Time to come clean: I was one of American's top psychics — and, like all of them, a complete fraud. |
| 22 | FactCheck: "Uh, guys? Do we have anything to criticize Clinton about? Hello? Shit." |
| 22 | November 7, 2012. The Christian Reich: "Mittens lost because he wasn't bigoted conservative enough!" Trust us, you know that's the excuse the Tea Party Right is gonna make. |
| 22 | Onion's on a roll again. |
| 22 | Exactly why the Daily Mail is end-to-end vile shit. Alternate headline: Fuck You, Daily Mail. |
| 22 | The circle of death. |
| 22 | Ten reasons why men should not be ordained. |
| 22 | Dr Brooke Magnanti (or Belle de Jour, if you remember) lays into lame accusations of "trolling" and second-wave feminism. |
| 22 | Shocker: MRA guru Warren Farrell is an incest apologist. Update: that's not exactly news for some people... |
| 22 | So... Feminist Frequency starts a series on sexist topics in video games. The men decide they to respond with some videos of their own, but the guy in charge has run off with the money. |
| 22 | Beowulf, as interpreted by creationists. |
| 22 | Feminism isn't relevant, eh? |
| 22 | Controversial bishop speaks out on the Catholic Church's abuse crisis. |
| 22 | After thirteen years of being spotted in gay bars, ex-gay poster boy John Paulk (not to be confused with that Pope) comes out and apologises for spreading myths about changes in sexuality and announces his upcoming divorce. So, yes boys, he's single. |
| 22 | We have to start questioning if wingnuts' attention to Nancy Pelosi is simply because she's just a liberal boogeywoman. |
| 22 | A new one for the books: argumentum ad monsantium |
| 22 | A Turkish game show host pulls a V for Vendetta amidst the media blackout. |
| 22 | "Here's a picture of my dick!" "I'm telling your mum!" |
| 22 | Neil deGrasse Tyson has a possible explanation of why extraterrestrials have never contacted humanity: We're just too stupid to make contact worthwhile for them. |
| 22 | Seriously, GOP,really sick of calling you stupid. |
| 22 | Welcome to the Age of Denial. (Or the Age of American Wingnuttery.) |
| 22 | Click the Tea Party Insult Generator for more fun today! |
| 22 | Debunking the antivaccine bullshit about the flu vaccine. |
| 22 | It seems someone took the whole Obama/Thorning-Schmidt lulz way too far. |
| 22 | "Don't let lesbians sleep under your roof," says Pat Robertson. Or your children could catch teh gey. |
| 22 | So, about Mein Kampf becoming a bestseller on Amazon... |
| 22 | The criminal culpability of Andrew Wakefield for harming children worldwide. |
| 22 | Why some people are disappointed with Nate Silver's new FiveThirtyEight: "The problem with the new FiveThirtyEight is not one of data vs. theory. It is one of 'data' the buzzword vs. data the actual thing." |
| 22 | Dear parents: you are being lied to by the anti-vaccine movement. |
| 22 | “Britain is not a “Christian country”“ Letter in DailyTelegraph from sundry "names". |
| 22 | Future US Senator: “Government cannot force citizens to violate their religious beliefs under any circumstances.” |
| 22 | Cracked looks into Vladimir Putin's crazy Bond-villainy. |
| 22 | Right-wingers and their hatred of economics, grrr... |
| 22 | Slate discovers Roko's basilisk and the LessWrongians. "I worry less about Roko’s Basilisk than about people who believe themselves to have transcended conventional morality." |
| 22 | With Maureen Dowd's assured blessing, The New York Times publishes a five-part editorial to end the War on Drugs. |
| 22 | The bizarre tale of how post-Soviet Russia descended into (nearly) every wingnut's wet dream. |
| 22 | Chiropractic Abuse: An Insider’s Lament |
| 22 | Only a few more months of Stephen Colbert and the Papa Bear. *sniff* |
| 22 | What Doctors Don't Tell You seems to be lying to potential advertisers ... |
| 22 | "So Much For Post-Racial America." |
| 22 | "Is the Food Babe a fearmonger?" Is the Space Pope reptilian? |
| 22 | Matt Inman gives a hilarious mocking of creationist beliefs by praising Jibbers Crabst, the giant lobster that lives behind Saturn. The sign language interpreter also gets into the speech and pushes it to the next level. |
| 22 | Sweden's newest popular television show, Trolljägarna, hunts down internet trolls to interview in real life |
| 22 | "Hunger, filth, fear and death": remembering life before the NHS. |
| 22 | Have you heard? NASA has announced that on Jan. 04, 2015, a rare interplanetary alignment will render the world briefly partially weightless. Except... They didn't, and it won't. A lesson on Internet credulity and the dangers of sources mixing fact with entertaining fiction: How one of the oldest astrophysics hoaxes in the book went viral. |
| 22 | They're Gr-r-r-rossly Greedy! Harvard researcher shows again just how easy it is to get a paper into crap or fake medical journals with a nonsense paper entitled "Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs?" |
| 22 | You might want to hold off on donating to We Are Atheism after Hemant Mehta at The Friendly Atheist uncovered some discrepancies regarding how much money is being donated and how it is being used. |
| 22 | PCC is even more hardcore than we thought it was. |
| 22 | Book review of note: "Bad Faith" or how a couple, each with a PhD from a top-ranked university, lost a son because they chose prayer over medicine. |
| 21 | Bob Jones University on electricity: "Electricity is a mystery. How would you have to change the way you get ready for school if there was no electricity?" |
| 21 | The unscientific method of homeopathic proving. |
| 21 | Skippy (of '213 Things Skippy is No Longer Allowed To Do in the US Army' fame) on why he supports DADT repeal. |
| 21 | No, Betelgeuse will not explode and kill us all in 2012 |
| 21 | How Ayn Rand ruined my childhood. |
| 21 | Stephen Colbert exposes the truth about thermodynamics. |
| 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." |
| 21 | Someone in the annals of Yahoo! News actually gets it right. |
| 21 | A gay journalist infiltrates a NOM workshop and reports on the hilarity horror within. |
| 21 | Rebecca Watson weighs in on sexism, Elevatorgate. |
| 21 | George Takei pwns Scalia. |
| 21 | Cracked double whammy: The 6 Greatest Acts of Trolling in the History of Science and 29 Conspiracy Photos Crazy People Will Be Forwarding Next (This one was one of their Photoshop competitions, but they're still worryingly likely). |
| 21 | John Stumbles: Stephanie's Measles Mischief. A remarkably calm but very firm response to insanely dangerous anti-vaccine bozos. |
| 21 | If you won't let me save a dollar, I'll get my gun |
| 21 | From a urine accumulation to "Adam" himself: 7 things that are older than Ken Ham’s universe. |
| 21 | The greatest parody of 9/11 Truthers ever made. |
| 21 | The Onion explains how to pass gun control legislation. |
| 21 | The Family Research Council cries "persecution!" and clearly does not know what a minority is, and the Southern Poverty Law Center has to spell out exactly why we think fundies are assholes. |
| 21 | The Right's legislative war on women continues with another round of Shit Republican Men Say (about women's health issues). |
| 21 | In celebration of the Supreme Court striking down a chunk of the Voting Rights Act, try your hand at this fair and simple literacy test given to black voters in 1960s Louisiana. |
| 21 | XKCD raises a valid point on the absence of evidence. |
| 21 | In the wake of the Tiller tragedy, Canadian blogger Bene Diction gives us some Christian rhetoric we could use more of. |
| 21 | IRL trolling: Calling NSA to restore lost emails |
| 21 | 4 Reasons Right-Wing Christians Salivate for the End Times. |
| 21 | Boris Johnson defends Guardian over NSA revelations. |
| 21 | Oh yeah, let the anti-vaxxer have a important job in the VRBPAC. This won't possibly go wrong for anyone. |
| 21 | The Onion pretty much gets it right. |
| 21 | A Tea Party Facebook group posts an image from a game that others view as an attack on the TP. (Of course, everyone forgot about the Know-Nothings).(Warning: Poe's Law in action!) Update: They finally took down the picture and (because they got free publicity) declared victory. |
| 21 | "I'm a card-carrying member of the ACLU. Here's what happened when I watched 3 hours of Fox every day for a month." |
| 21 | Ken Ham: The making of an American religious huckster. |
| 21 | There's still sanity in Texas! |
| 21 | "The Fuelshark Won't Save You Gas Because It Runs On Bullshit" |
| 21 | Canadian doctor: Richard Burr, do not fuck with me. |
| 21 | When anti-intellectualism kills. |
| 21 | The "Slavic George W. Bush." And the chickenhawks be squawking. |
| 21 | Paleo is the Scientology of diets. (And that's a blog called "SixPackAbs" saying so.) |
| 21 | The greening of Islam. |
| 21 | "As Reason's editor defends its racist history, here's a copy of its holocaust denial 'special issue'." |
| 21 | Former Occupy activist turns to neoreactionary politics... that or trolling. |
| 21 | Organized homeschooling's obsession with false reports of child abuse. |
| 21 | "Is Earth Actually Flat?" Short answer: NO. Long answer: More interesting than you might expect. |
| 21 | Suzanne Moore at The Guardian: Add faithophobia to my crimes: I have no respect for religions that have little respect for me. |
| 21 | The 15 most offensive things written on ReturnofKings.com |
| 21 | The Encyclopedia of American Loons was a new one to me. It does exactly what it says on the tin, and cites RW in a manner that suggests a high degree of familiarity with RW... |
| 20 | Dear Anne Rice, cool story bruh: "I quit being a Christian. I’m out. In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of ...Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen." |
| 20 | Ten Scariest tributes to Ayn Rand. |
| 20 | Once a skeptic, always a skeptic |
| 20 | More stats from OKCupid, this time gay vs straight sex |
| 20 | Research about biological clocks in mice dramatically affects Mike Adams Sorry 'Health Ranger', scientists have not unintentionally demonstrated that astrology works. |
| 20 | Weird Homeopathy - The Relationship Between Homeopathic Colour And Astrology. Yes, they are related apparently. By chakras. |
| 20 | Ten reasons Fox News isn't covering the Egypt story. |
| 20 | Meeting a Neutrino Skeptic/Denialist. Or should that be "neutrino numpty"? |
| 20 | Time magazine's Joe Klein on the GOP presidential field so far: "This is my 10th presidential campaign, Lord help me. I have never before seen such a bunch of vile, desperate-to-please, shameless, embarrassing losers coagulated under a single party's banner. They are the most compelling argument I've seen against American exceptionalism." |
| 20 | Before people slime public school teachers as "glorified babysitters," perhaps they should remember that teaching isn't all they do at school. |
| 20 | Summer heat records are outpacing cold records 8 to 1. Cue the mantra of "It's not global warming...it's not global warming...it snowed a lot last winter..." Update: You fools, the heat-wave is a concoction of the liberal media! |
| 20 | Like with Sarah Palin, Matt Damon destroys Reason's logic.. |
| 20 | State Representative Sally Kern is famous for stating that homosexuality is more dangerous than terrorism. Now in her new book she's claiming to have been taken out of context, what she meant to say was homosexuality is more dangerous than terrorism. |
| 20 | Fox attempts to bait a Wall Street protester and fails. If there's one video from the Wall Street protests you need to see, it's this. |
| 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. |
| 20 | Note to self: Create Elizabeth Warren article. |
| 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. |
| 20 | Zing. |
| 20 | A quantum theory of Mitt Romney |
| 20 | 8 ways Christian fundamentalists create atheists |
| 20 | The Daily Mail, keeping it classy: The NHS, therefore racism. With bonus attempt to cover their tracks when busted. |
| 20 | A plausible mechanism for how homosexuality can cause hurricanes. |
| 20 | It should go without saying, but apparently it doesn't. Rape culture is not OK. |
| 20 | Forbes on the causes of nuclear phase-out in Germany after Fukushima: "Germany’s past experience with large tsunamis was just too horrific to ignore." |
| 20 | Cracked seriously discusses the NDAA. |
| 20 | Cracked.com: "5 B.S. Political Arguments You Hear Every Election Season." (#5: "A progressive income tax mean that you will make less money on a higher income because of tax brackets!" #3: "The death penalty costs less money than life in prison!" And #1: "Voter ID laws are the only thing that will prevent rampant voter fraud!") |
| 20 | The only hope for the pandas of politics: evolution. |
| 20 | FOX NEWS ALERT: President imitating Internet memes while America falls off fiscal cliff! |
| 20 | Anderson. Fucking. Cooper. |
| 20 | The Republican War on Arithmetic, summarized. |
| 20 | A Fox News contributor (who formerly declared Islam to be a “messed up” religion) tells the network that its War on Christmas coverage is just as silly as atheists fussing over it. |
| 20 | Creationist quote-mines scientists. Scientists give creationist his Marshall McLuhan moment. |
| 20 | Nobody can have seen this coming. |
| 20 | Civil War in the GOP. |
| 20 | Old, but explains a lot: "a generation of men and women who literally don't understand what sexual consent looks like." |
| 20 | Rich person gives lowly peasant waitress a tip: rich people are assholes. |
| 20 | Note to Alex Jones: when Glenn Beck calls you crazy, get help. Soon. |
| 20 | No, you're not a welfare queen - you're just "living on the government plantation!" |
| 20 | A righteous post by PalMD explaining why equating gun control to Nazism is really dumb |
| 20 | Remember that passive-aggressive ad against same-sex marriage by the Iona Institute in Ireland? Someone decided it was time to respond, and crank up the snark. |
| 20 | Jazz, fucking over fundamentalism one day at a time. |
| 20 | Cracked on "5 Staples of the Legal System That Statistics Say Don't Work" -- numbers 5, 3 and 2 discuss types of crime woo; 4 and 1 are just disheartening. |
| 20 | Bill Gates: "It would be nice if all governments were as rational as the Nordic governments - reaching compromise and providing services broadly." |
| 20 | How the Electoral College would look with proportional representation. (Can we just change the names?) |
| 20 | So much for CNN being a tool of the "liberal media." (In all irony, The Onion predicted this back in 2011.) |
| 20 | The Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense. |
| 20 | Opponents of same-sex marriage are obsessed with what goes on in the bedroom? Who would have guessed? |
| 20 | The process of science as seen through awkward stock photography. |
| 20 | Stick figure science: "This is NOT evolution." |
| 20 | The Pirate Party of Georgia draws a line in the sand. |
| 20 | Ten US states try to force evolution denialism upon their public school students. Failed in nine of those states. |
| 20 | ForwardProgressives: Obama says GWB wasn't all that bad. Read the comments, but for the sake of your sanity, read the article too. |
| 20 | "Some Mormons Search the Web and Find Doubt." |
| 20 | Come on, whites, get your act together! |
| 20 | Care to guess how much those morons at Fox News have ratcheted up their transphobia lately? |
| 20 | See! Universal health care hurts businesses - the television industry! |
| 20 | It's probably better that the world eventually gets rid of the "The South is full of illiterate rednecks" stereotype soon, but come on. |
| 20 | Seventeen years on: The teenager who saved a man with an SS tattoo (It brightened my day, anyway) |
| 20 | Slow-Witted Conspiracy Theorist Convinced US Government Behind NASA |
| 20 | If you can't stop the troll from feeding, plump him up like a pig. |
| 20 | CMI explains how without a divine creation there could be no economics. |
| 20 | The GOP post-Healthcare.gov: I have no idea what I'm doing. |
| 20 | A ten-year-old atheist successfully stands up for his right to not stand up while the Pledge of Allegiance is being recited. |
| 20 | American family values. (The study in question) |
| 20 | A blogger reviews, with mounting horror, homeopathic first aid kits. (August 13, 2013) |
| 20 | Sean Hannity's show "is like an IV drip for denial for the get off my lawn demographic." Update: The Ballad of Cliven Bundy. |
| 20 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the reaction to the comments of LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling: "More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism." |
| 20 | Everyone's favorite motor mouth of wrestling, Jim Cornette, compares religion to cosmetic surgery: all of it's elective but some people need it drastically, some for a touch up, and some are addicted and want to force it on you. |
| 20 | US military brass: Republicans Congress continues to threaten national security by ignoring climate change. |
| 20 | UKIP show their true colours - they're the same as the Standing At The Back Dressed Stupidly And Looking Stupid Party from Blackadder. |
| 20 | The Onion: Congress Reluctant To Cut Funding For Tank That Just Spins Around And Self-Destructs |
| 20 | After making a lot of noise, presuppositionalist Sye Ten Bruggencate finally gets his long-demanded debate with Matt Dillahunty of The Atheist Experience. One guess how well that goes for Bruggencate. |
| 20 | The lunacy of the Austrian school. ("The years 2011 and 2012 were to Austrians like sunrise is to a vampire. It was simply amazing to sit there and watch Austrians writhe and contort under the pure, burning light of extant reality.") |
| 20 | Show this to anyone dumbfounded on why Iran is itching to fight ISIS (and avoid the Flying Carpet Fallacy). |
| 20 | Horseshoe theory comes to the Levant: Neocons suggest cutting off aid to Israel because Obama is sticking his evil filthy hands everywhere. |
| 20 | Ferguson, the NRA and the hypocrisy of silence. |
| 20 | Sorry, Republicans: going full-libertarian will alienate all your other bases. |
| 20 | Blowback's a bitch, China. |
| 20 | Because "Bridgegate" didn't make the point clearly enough: Why Chris Christie (and Andrew Cuomo) will never be POTUS. |
| 20 | The Oatmeal has a thing or 2 to say to Senator Cruz about net neutrality. Won't anyone think of the crabs?? |
| 20 | More homeopathy fighting ebola - NOT!: some idiots flew to Liberia to 'cure' ebola patients with homeopathy. |
| 20 | Gamergate isn't over as long as its targets are still being harassed. |
| 20 | Scientists to increase interference with the Church. "Wasn’t Jesus himself the result of a three-parent family? Or did I get the wrong idea there?" |
| 20 | FoodBabe was, for two years, promoting products containing the "evil" ingredient BHT in the Kellogg's products she protested. |
| 20 | The Faith Healer Next Door, a story about exactly how a couple of misguided parents could let their child die while they watched. |
| 20 | Actually The Onion: Open-Minded Man Grimly Realizes How Much Life He's Wasted Listening To Bullshit. |
| 20 | The Pope started a degree of controversy by citing the description of the Armenian Genocide as the first genocide of the twentieth century. This description is dead wrong, but not for the reasons the Turks are arguing. |
| 19 | Where are all the sane Republicans? Boggling at the batshit gibbering lunacy of the people they find themselves sharing a party with. "I have this view that the Ninth Commandment must mean something." |
| 19 | Thanks to Dan Savage and da Google, Rick Santorum has a bit of an image problem. He'd like to run for president, but whenever someone Googles his name, two or the first three results are the Wikipedia page about the neologism "Santorum"; and a website dedicated to, um, further plumbing the depths of this new term. |
| 19 | A remarkably accurate mapping of European stereotypes. |
| 19 | "God put the Moon there", sez Bill O'Reilly. |
| 19 | Ten things conservatives don't want you to know about Ronald Reagan (and would probably get you banned from CP for adding to his page there.) |
| 19 | Bill O’Reilly’s Tidal Skepticism Launches “You Can’t Explain That” Meme |
| 19 | Indians who wish to volunteer as translators for the Missionaries of Charity are often turned away, for two reasons: (1) they speak the language, so they might try to actually treat the patients; (2) they are more prone to be nosy and ask stupid questions such as, "What are you doing with all your money?" |
| 19 | Stuck on a boat with a doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Includes a scientifically accurate reflexology chart. |
| 19 | Epic takedown of an anti-gay witness by sen. Al Franken. |
| 19 | "Moses: Wasn't Sarah Palin punishment for something? God: No, that just happened." |
| 19 | “…in the denial of global warming, we are witnessing the most vicious, and so far most successful, attack on science in history.” |
| 19 | Loads of dirt from a former GOP operative. |
| 19 | The Onion: Nation Finally Breaks Down And Begs Its Smart People To Just Fix Everything |
| 19 | True to form, Canada apologizes for failing to not elect Stephen Harper. |
| 19 | On comparing the healthcare systems of Los Angeles and London, one woman comes up with a "surprising" result. (And if you check the worst rated comments, you get to see the resident Daily Fail readers trying to figure out exactly how this could possibly have come about) |
| 19 | As you can't sock Rush Limbaugh in the jaw without winding up in jail, here's a list of his sponsors you can sock it to, instead. UPDATE: Advertisers begin to drop Limbaugh like a hot potato. |
| 19 | Sandra Fluke speaks, not about Rush Limbaugh but about the issue at hand. Bonus: wanna know how stupid people are? Read through the comments. |
| 19 | More Christian "love" for little Jessica Ahlquist. |
| 19 | Winter Climate Change is Coming! A Political Allegory of Thrones. |
| 19 | Forbes, never mess with The Oatmeal. |
| 19 | "The Myth That Entitlements Destroy a Nation's Growth, Busted in 1 Chart" |
| 19 | More than 40 percent of American children are now born to single mothers. Two law professors/authors propose a new causal factor many right-wingers might disagree with: Working class Christian parents who are happy that their unmarried pregnant daughters (a) didn't have an abortion, and (b) didn't marry the no-good louts who knocked them up. |
| 19 | The most pro-family values commercial you'll see this weekend. UPDATE: YouTube yanked (pun intended) the video file that most media sites are linking to. |
| 19 | Glenn Beck, noted for his opposition to all things green, is now spearheading The Citadel as "America's Most Conservative Green Community," in which "Marxists, socialists, liberals, and Establishment Republicans" are not welcome and toting a gun is mandatory. |
| 19 | I used to be a professional psychic. I was a fraud. Ask me anything. |
| 19 | Ronald Reagan's daughter: My Dad would have supported same-sex marriage. |
| 19 | Do you know what happens when people start to learn? |
| 19 | "The Right to Evade Regulation: How corporations hijacked the First Amendment" |
| 19 | Why we should resist any northward spread of PRISM. |
| 19 | Fred Clark of Patheos spells out the reality of how prominent homophobic and misogynistic churches and evangelists are. |
| 19 | 9 questions about Syria you were too embarrassed to ask. (Well, at least something is in fashion.) |
| 19 | And now you know why the vast majority of blacks vote Democrat. (Goodbye, fucker!) |
| 19 | How Ice-9 almost became reality but didn't because science works. |
| 19 | Reflecting on the death of Nelson Mandela, Ta-Nehisi Coates reminds us how utterly wrong the Republican Party was on apartheid. |
| 19 | Megyn Kelly just doesn't know when to stop digging. |
| 19 | Surprise, surprise: The Israel vote was never the Jewish vote. |
| 19 | Meet the Gulf War veteran, Republican-backed judge who is now Utah's Great Satan. |
| 19 | John Green takes on the ghastliest of American personality cults. (Verdict? Even when trying to be kind, not pretty.) |
| 19 | The biggest threat to traditional marriage is conservative Protestants. |
| 19 | Tired of being preached to by billboards? Introducing a billboard campaign that preaches back at the believers. |
| 19 | Bill Maher takes on conservatives' false MACHEEZMO! |
| 19 | Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik: a video on how to correctly leave a comment on a YouTube conspiracy theory video. (December 31, 2012) |
| 19 | One-year-old story, but very prescient for this week: RedState, Breitbart, Pajamas Media, Canada Free Press, Family Security Matters and Human Events all took bribes to write pro-Yanukovych propaganda. |
| 19 | Austin, TX police arrest jogger for jaywalking. Chief says be glad officers didn’t sexually assault her |
| 19 | "Don't mess with Texas": One of the most hilarious lies of modern times. |
| 19 | While God spends his time meddling with sport events, Satan is apparently busy ruining Kickstarter projects. |
| 19 | "Turning into?" The House Science Committee is and has been a national embarrassment. |
| 19 | Is the internet killing religion? |
| 19 | Is Water Causing Autism? |
| 19 | On believers' typical reactions to atheists' non-belief: "Believers are always telling atheists that we need religion for morality; that we have to believe because without religion, people would have no reason not to murder and steal and lie. And yet, all too often, they ask us to lie." |
| 19 | How not to design a plane crash memorial. |
| 19 | "Project Lebensraum," black-on-white cannibalism, threesomes with L. Ron Hubbard, and worse: Heinlein's descent into madness. |
| 19 | How to make a paranormal event sound believable. Step 1: fake skepticism before the event. ("Dear Penthouse: I never imagined it could happen to me, but...") |
| 19 | "Until recently, America's minorities had widely differing political allegiances... (b)ut over the last few decades, these diverse minorities, with the exception of Miami's Cubans, have converged on the Democratic Party and have given it a large political advantage in national and some state elections over Republican candidates." |
| 19 | Let's sing the praises of L. Ron Hubbard and auditing. And make CDs and videos of our sung praises. No, this is not a joke. (WARNING: contains the actual music.) |
| 19 | The Scopes Trial as drama. |
| 19 | Jeff Berwick's Galt's Gulch in Chile isn't going well... |
| 19 | The Tea Party: Dunning-Kruger effect at its finest. |
| 19 | The polygraph has been lying to us for 80 years. |
| 19 | You always wondered: Why cats love sitting in boxes. |
| 19 | This video will make you angry, or how content on the internet act like infectious diseases (particularly, things that make you angry). |
| 19 | James Randi: "I'm gay." |
| 18 | What do you do when people want to keep their taxes low no matter the results? Start reverting back to 19th century-style infrastructure. |
| 18 | Solve the budget crisis by yourself; feel bad about everything when you realize how easy it is to do this. |
| 18 | Twitter Joke Trial: After losing his appeal at crown court, should Paul Chambers continue his fight and appeal to the High Court? |
| 18 | "'Who I Wanted to Kill Was Every Democrat in the Senate + House': Where the Notion of Right-Wing Political Murder Comes From." (I.e., The Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church shootings of July, 2008.) |
| 18 | Well worth a read of the comments thread. Count the logical fallacies. The homeopath who 'discovered' the magical Venus light remedy finds a skeptical blog post about it. |
| 18 | The film of Atlas Shrugged is going to win in every way possible. Tim Cain notes that (a) it's being distributed by the same company that did Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (b) it's going to a very small number of odd, out-of-the-way cinemas (c) there's no critics' screening, always a mark of quality. |
| 18 | Teabaggers turn out en masse in embarrassingly small numbers to prove that they have no idea when Tax Day 2011 is and that they still can't make banners for shit. Or spell. |
| 18 | The guy who live-blogged the bin Laden raid... without realizing it. |
| 18 | Bad Science: Kids who spot bullshit, and the adults who get upset about it. |
| 18 | The general trend in the retreat of arctic sea ice has been greater than predicted by most climate models, and July is already a record-setting month. |
| 18 | If a married couple saved forty people from the Norwegian massacre, they'd be widely reported as heroes... unless they were a gay married couple, that is. |
| 18 | Krugman nails it. |
| 18 | The life of an 86-year-old, depicted via Rage Comics. |
| 18 | More Charlie Brooker trolling: Modern Warfare 3 is so popular because it's the most homoerotic tale ever created in any medium. Waiting for The Telegraph's response... |
| 18 | Twenty years after Darwin on Trial, Intelligent Design is dead. |
| 18 | The actual gay agenda vs. what conservatives think is the gay agenda. |
| 18 | Bill Nye (the science guy) is at the Second White House Science Fair - and not a single creationist in sight! |
| 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!) |
| 18 | Why don't Americans elect scientists? For lulz, see the comments, where one retard said "Solyndra." |
| 18 | The man that will take Carl Sagan's place in the Cosmos next year. Manly (and womanly) tears are shed. |
| 18 | Since RationalWiki tends to focus on the extreme and the batshit crazy, I thought it would be nice to balance things up a bit and relate a story of Catholics who are actually acting like Catholics while simultaneously putting the smack down on the unreasonable. |
| 18 | If 1,200 emails can convince the Arizona Secretary of State to investigate Obama's origins, does this mean enough signatures can get him to investigate anything? |
| 18 | The evil feminist hivemind has won Thunderf00t gets kicked out of FTB after writing for shit and creating a MRA circlejerk, and Greg Laden for, as part of said circlejerk, emailing threats to other bloggers. |
| 18 | The battle against ungodly mathematics is wider than you think. What do Christian fundamentalists have against set theory? |
| 18 | Well, well, well. #3 on the 10 Things You Didn't Know About Paul Ryan: "Paul's father died when he was only 16. Using the Social Security survivors benefits he received until his 18th birthday, he paid for his education at Miami University in Ohio." |
| 18 | Why Obama's first term is not a disappointment. |
| 18 | Thanks for making Iraq an enlightened, freedom-loving nation, Bush. |
| 18 | Obama's ticket to re-election. |
| 18 | PZ Myers calls out TheAmazingAtheist for being a callous asshole. (Again.) |
| 18 | Artificial stupidity implemented! Mathgen paper accepted by journal. |
| 18 | One for the Mittens article. |
| 18 | False "fair and balanced" reporting allows vaccine denialists to make it appear vaccines cause autism. Shitty science journalism at fault.(self promotion warning) |
| 18 | Run into a nutjob spouting off the lie that tax cuts for the 1% will promote job creation? Show them this Salon article about job-destroying wealthy CEOs who want the poor to suffer the debt reduced. |
| 18 | The Rev. Sir Dr. Stephen T. Mos Def Colbert, D.F.A., Heavyweight Champion of the World** donates the last of his SuperPAC money, over 3/4 of a million, to awesome stuff. |
| 18 | A Fox News columnist unsurprisingly suggests gun control isn't the issue in the mass killings the US regularly sees, and instead suggests the problem lies in the US mental health care system. But would the Right, if they're going to take this line, be prepared for the enormous increases in public health care spending that are implicit in his recommendations? |
| 18 | A well-known ultra-leftist endorses a gun control law. |
| 18 | This year's Oscars may be the worst ever. |
| 18 | A convenient map of post-election GOP infighting. |
| 18 | Video game blog Rock, Paper, Shotgun reveals one of their writers is *shudder* female. Commenters go nuts. RPS then unleashes the snarkasm. |
| 18 | The Pagan Sausage Machine Fallacy: on retconning religious histories. |
| 18 | "Sniffing that there’s no difference between New Pope and Nazi Pope is like sniffing that there’s no difference between Bush and Gore, because Al Gore isn’t Ralph Nader. |
| 18 | But who will tell me that my movie sucks? UPDATE: NOOOOOOOOOO |
| 18 | Jon Stewart on Sean Hannity's on-air admission that "my father hit me with a belt and I turned out okay": "Seriously? You're okay? Have you seen your show?" |
| 18 | Zoning regulations are for commies. |
| 18 | Let me tell you the tale of a Fox News wannabe begging the government for welfare... |
| 18 | Nate Silver summarizes argumentum ad verecundiam. |
| 18 | "Ignoring the cost of climate change is bad business." - wait, that's not the traditional right-wing mantra, right? |
| 18 | Sorry Blitz. |
| 18 | Immunization rates among children are falling, but not just from anti-vaccination movements. |
| 18 | Meanwhile in Turkey... Update: Even more badass. |
| 18 | More proof that the pro-life movement is doing the exact opposite of what it wants to achieve. |
| 18 | American right wing politicians on the issue of safety vs. right to privacy: Regarding background checks on guns, the right to privacy is more important than the anticipated safety that the checks will bring. On NSA snooping, the anticipated safety that the snooping will bring is more important than the right to privacy. |
| 18 | How the cell strain of an aborted fetus has saved the lives of millions. |
| 18 | Happy birthday, Curiosity! |
| 18 | No! The Syrians have already experienced enough! |
| 18 | Homeopaths are hallucinating if they think they are humanitarians. |
| 18 | 5 steps to save the GOP from destruction. (#1 is going to be a bit of a problem... along with #2... and #3... and possibly others.) |
| 18 | For popular rag journalists: the difference between scholars and cranks |
| 18 | Mike "Asshole" Huckabee. |
| 18 | "God Created Gravity: Why the U.S. Can't Keep Pace With Slovenia" — A marine biologist/neurophysiologist's critique of American exceptionalism. |
| 18 | Vaccines may prolong the life of your children |
| 18 | Bad Astronomy blog: "Nov 2012 through Dec 2013, 2258 peer-reviewed climate articles by 9136 authors, 1 author rejected man-made global warming". Curse that Evil Liberal Science Conspiracy for supressing Science! |
| 18 | The real Republican "response" to the SOTU: What lines did they refuse to applaud for? It's really quite telling. |
| 18 | A Republican: So much for any moral high-ground on Benghazi. |
| 18 | As a prelude to tonight's debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham, HuffPo has published this article (with infographics) regarding American's views on creationism, guided evolution and unguided evolution. (The circular infographic at the end has extra info if you run your mouse pointer over it.) |
| 18 | Wal-Mart finally owns up to being a welfare queen |
| 18 | The GOP just lost the fake wrestling vote. |
| 18 | A lesson for jingoists before the 70th anniversary of D-Day. |
| 18 | Further coverage of the manosphere's lower depths in the the wake of the UCSB massacre: A look at some of the forums where Elliot Rodger hung out and the people he crossed paths with. More disturbingly, a look at the PUAHate forum community in the aftermath of the shootings, many of whom apparently see Rodger as an everyman or a hero. |
| 18 | The audiophile woo motherlode: Wat Hifi? |
| 18 | The "solar roadways" hype gets dissected step by step. (By Mother Nature Network of all places.) |
| 18 | Vladimir has been feeding his trolls. |
| 18 | The interesting paradox of the incoming Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores holding: If the Four Horsemen want to avoid a political landmine, they may have to tacitly endorse single-payer health care in the process. |
| 18 | Sanal Edamaruku is still stuck in Finland |
| 18 | The Goat Brigade continues to troll Facebook conservatives. In this issue, their secret identity is almost exposed! |
| 18 | The WaPo op-ed section is having a very bad week. |
| 18 | A Muslim law student sits in on a Benghazi pep rally hosted by the Heritage Foundation. Fill in the blanks. |
| 18 | A story of TERFs stalking two trans women and their cis friend. "I write this post as that this isn’t some sort of intellectual parlour game." |
| 18 | It was bound to happen eventually. Dr. Steven Novella, et al., are currently being sued by Dr. Edward Tobinick and the so-called "Institute of Neurological Recovery" over a May 2013 article on Science-Based Medicine outlining his clinic's dubious practices. |
| 18 | The Pundit-Polling Statistics War begins anew! |
| 18 | A new study confirms everything we knew about anti-immigrant sentiment. |
| 18 | "The libertarian dogma of our time is turning our polities, economies, and cultures upside down—and blinding us to this by making us even more self-absorbed and incurious than we naturally are. The world we are making with our hands is as remote from our minds as the farthest black hole. Once we had a nostalgia for the future. Today we have an amnesia for the present." |
| 18 | Reason magazine actually does something useful, says that the Bill of Rights isn't just for white people. |
| 18 | Focus on the Family offers handy tips for parents about teaching their children about homosexuality. |
| 18 | Shh, don't show this to American conservatives. |
| 18 | Paul Krugman on being accused of rudeness, of arguing ad hominem, and of arguing from authority |
| 18 | Happen to be Hindu and born under a certain positioning of Mars in the sky? Being Manglik: a lesser known pseudoscientific stigma straining love lives in India. |
| 18 | Idaho Chief of Police: We need to protect trans rights. *mic drop* |
| 18 | The GOP’s Long Love Affair With Schmucks: Why Republicans fall in love with inexperienced, no-hope candidates every four years. |
| 18 | What hope does public science reporting have when professional scientists have a hard time with the basics of each others' fields |
| 18 | potholer54 takes on the anti-biotech crazies - and owns! |
| 18 | Why you trust the internet more than your doctor. |
| 18 | The problems with evolutionary psychology according to an actual biological anthropologist. |
| 18 | The decline and fall of Kent Hovind, as told by an ex-employee. Did you know that VenomFangX was brought to Christianity by watching Hovind videos? |
| 17 | Quackwatch is sued by quack medical lab Doctor Data for exposing them. I'm sure that'll work out just fine. |
| 17 | The ultimate holistic remedy: homeopathic water. |
| 17 | "Capitalism Uber Alles: How the American Working Class Got Brainwashed." |
| 17 | What the fuck has Obama done so far? |
| 17 | After Bill O'Reilly harangued them for putting "Not Racist, But #1 With Racists" on the tail of their Fox News helicopter, the makers of The Simpsons have corrected this outrage. |
| 17 | In addition to raising millions of dollars for breast cancer research, the charitable foundation known as Susan G. Komen for the Cure (which also introduced the pink ribbon as a symbol for breast cancer) has been spending approximately $1 million in donor funds per year to make sure other charities don't use the phrase "for a/the cure" in their names, or use the color pink in conjunction with their fundraising campaigns. |
| 17 | The Founding Fathers never intended for the Government to provide health care for the people...um... well, except for that time they totally did. |
| 17 | The McGurk effect A very cool audio illusion thingy. |
| 17 | The winger reaction to Osama's death is as remarkably consistent as it was for Egypt: How can we attack Obama with this? He didn't get OBL fast enough! He took too much credit! Ad infinitum ad nauseam... |
| 17 | Ah, the glorious advantages of privatization! Prior to 2006, the then-publicly owned Indiana Toll Road hadn't seen a rate hike in two decades. Since the toll road was privatized in 2006, the toll has doubled, with most of that increase going to line the pockets of foreign investors rather than to the maintenance of the highway. (And yet the majority of Hoosiers would still rather cut off their right arms than vote for a Democrat.) |
| 17 | There is a clash of civilsations, but not as usually understood |
| 17 | PolitiFact tests Warren Buffet's "Tax me!" editorial. Correct, as expected. |
| 17 | The beauty of technology. |
| 17 | All time greatest scientific abstract ever. |
| 17 | Perhaps this is a good time to remember that gay and atheist presidents didn't get us into the war in Iraq, the financial crisis, or turn your mortgage into toilet paper. It took some God-fearing vagina-penetrators to pull that off. |
| 17 | What if Tim Tebow was...Muslim? Update: Jimmy Fallon re-imagines David Bowie. |
| 17 | The Red Flags Of Quackery, expanded edition, in handy comic form. |
| 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." |
| 17 | Charlie Brooker on the two Daily Heils. |
| 17 | Bigots: An important segment of the 2012 swing vote. |
| 17 | "In Behe’s fantasy world, a malevolent intelligent agent is hard at work right now, designing (and manufacturing) pathogens to kill people." |
| 17 | TV "psychics" turn out to be stock photos. |
| 17 | Stephen Hawking is Ace McWicked. |
| 17 | Men aren't insatiable sexual predators who can't stop, cut that shit out. |
| 17 | Wondermark: How to lie. |
| 17 | Higgs Boson nominated for Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" - pretty much every sentence in the nomination has some factual inaccuracy. |
| 17 | This comic about the friendzone is just too damn quotable. |
| 17 | This NY Times Op-Ed nicely illustrates Betteridge's law of headlines. |
| 17 | Let the states decide if Republicans can marry |
| 17 | 11 Most Absurd Lies Conservatives Are Using to Brainwash America's School Kids |
| 17 | Neal's Yard promotes homeopathy for measles, because they are murderous pieces of shit. |
| 17 | NonStampCollector's last blog post details some of the ridiculous attacks he had endured due to his membership in Freethought Blogs (and his perceived support for Atheism+). Choice quote: "Some of these anti-FTBers make 911-Truthers look like Ph.D geniuses. Sorry, it’s just the fucking truth." Indeed. |
| 17 | UnNews: Was 9/11 an outside job? |
| 17 | The next five states to take on same-sex marriage, and some interesting survey results. No surprise that religion is far and away the most popular reason to oppose equality. |
| 17 | Will the conservative old codgers of the House of Lords block same-sex marriage in the UK? Unlikely, actually. (Clogorific bonus material in the comments) |
| 17 | "When a Doctor Wields a Bible: The Alarming Rise of Catholic Hospitals." For several years, Catholic hospital corporations have taken over many formerly secular hospitals across America. In addition to seeking a greater profit margin, they also are seeking to impose their sense of morality on women's healthcare. |
| 17 | How to troll NSA recruitment drives. |
| 17 | Oh Jenny. |
| 17 | Lamar, we can't wait for the historical assessment of you 50 years from now. |
| 17 | Video of oral sex at a rap concert is leaked online. Reaction to the girl: "She's a slut!" Reaction to the guy: "Ah, good on ya, brahhh!" |
| 17 | Anti-Muslim bigotry is pervasive. Standing up against it is neither cowardly, nor the same as being an apologist for fanaticism. |
| 17 | Just how liberal is the liberal media? Here's a list of the 15 things everyone would know if there were a liberal media. |
| 17 | The Beeb explores the flag that should be treated with the same disdain that Germany treats the swastika, but doesn't. |
| 17 | A new documentary film, Mission Congo, claims that Pat Robertson's 1994 post-Rwanda genocide aid project may have consisted of little more than people reading bible verses to the wounded, and not the "forefront" role that Pat claimed it had as he raised millions for it on The 700 Club. |
| 17 | Big Herbal is putting some nasty shit in their supplements. If Big Pharma did this, they'd be in jail. |
| 17 | Avoiding Hypocrisy 101: If you want to devote your career to being against subsidized insurance, don't complain when you lose yours. |
| 17 | The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory. |
| 17 | The great irony of baraminology is that the very idea of species comes from trying to explain the story of Noah's Ark. |
| 17 | Sisters, sisters, There were never such devoted sisters. The Cheney girls go public |
| 17 | So it seems Deepak Chopra's just been busted sockpuppeting Wikipedia for the past five years. Whoops. (Precis.) (More, from Jerry A. Coyne) |
| 17 | Dan Savage attempts to review Sarah Palin's book on Christmas. |
| 17 | It seems the independent vote is getting secured. |
| 17 | Parody site National Report posts an article about marijuana shops in Colorado accepting food stamps. A conservative webshite linked to the article on Twitter, which was read by Colorado state senator Vicki Marble (who you might remember from her racist fried chicken comments), who in turn writes legislation to prevent the imaginary problem. |
| 17 | How to set yourself up to be caught publishing a pseudojournal for global warming denialists. "On the other hand the reputation of Copernicus Publishing just took a boot to the nads. I'm already hearing rumors of editors of/authors for other Copernicus journals launching complaints over this." |
| 17 | In a historically-unprecedented idea, "The enemy of my enemy might not be my friend." |
| 17 | Surprise, surprise: The wealthy in America aren't paragons of virtue. |
| 17 | In many states in the U.S., if you seek an abortion your doctor is required by law to lie to you about the risks of the procedure. Here's a handy summary of which lies are required in which states. |
| 17 | How the truth is made at RT. |
| 17 | I'm havin' pains in my chest because I'm laughing at so stressed from Fox News. (Goddamn procrastinators.) |
| 17 | 20 bizarre comments from the days of apartheid. |
| 17 | Republican denial, deep in denial! |
| 17 | *Everyone stares at Alex Trebek* "What? I really don't have an opinion on the matter." |
| 17 | Not A Racist Nick Wade gets his book on genetic European superiority dismantled by Eric Michael Johnson in Scientific American. |
| 17 | "We have reached the moment that skeptics of the 2003 United States invasion warned about all along: the implosion of the country, and, possibly, the entire region." [5][6] |
| 17 | So let's get started. |
| 17 | Two years before a Democratic primary and we're already getting bullshit on whether Obama will pick Clinton or Warren. |
| 17 | How the Israel-Palestine peace process died. Again. (Commentary) |
| 17 | Jon Stewart explains that the only winning move in the Israel-Palestine debate may be not to play. |
| 17 | "Israel and Hamas are Both Just Winging It." Well this will end well. |
| 17 | Sex offender laws have gone too far. (Parts one and two of a series from Slate.) |
| 17 | Alex Gabriel: To the atheist tone police: stop telling me how to discuss my abuse. |
| 17 | Stung by Zoe Quinn's partial release of the IRC logs where they planned her harassment, the perpetrators of #GamerGate release 3,756 pages of full logs. They actually think this stuff makes them look anything not like pieces of shit. |
| 17 | In which Christopher "moot" Poole gets new mods in and kicks #gamergate off 4chan. NOT EVEN 4CHAN wants these people. |
| 17 | How Conservatives Justify Poll Taxes. |
| 17 | A Natural A/B Test of Harassment — not just in the world of big AAA games, but even in the world of casual Flash games. |
| 17 | If you claim God and the Bible are necessary for morality ... pedophilia might not be the most robust example. |
| 17 | (Maybe NSFW) It's not disordered eating, it's detox! SciBabe shows the concerning parallels between the FoodBabe's new book on healthy living and pro-ana advice. |
| 17 | While women's pay continues to lag behind men's, girls take the lead over boys in educational success. |
| 17 | Cracked delivers yet again: 8 Obvious Signs Statistics Are Lying To You. |
| 17 | Science fiction's valiant anti-SJW crusaders and Gamergate wannabes: the Sad Puppies. (Really.) |
| 17 | A rundown on some of the more infamous Christian terrorist groups |
| 17 | Facebook has a new group We can find 1,000,000 people who DO believe in Evolution before June. It's a response to we can find 1,000,000 people who don't believe in Evolution befor June. As of 23 Jan 10 at 11:34am CST, its 36,608 to 10,106. Update: 25 Jan 2010, 62,495 for, 14,730 against. Who know Facebook users could be rational? |
| 17 | A Democrat found a 72-page Republican National Committee document discarded at a hotel after a private strategy meeting. It seems that the GOP intends to make this year's campaign look like one long Teabagger convention. Oh, and they think their donors are a bunch of idiots. |
| 17 | VIDEO: A Republican senator recently refuted multiple Fox News claims that the recent health care legislation includes jail time for people who don't pay into the system. Bill O'Reilly has taken said senator to task, claiming that after extensive research, Faux Noise staffers couldn't find any evidence that anybody at the network made such a claim. Like, for instance, the time Glenn Beck said it to O'Reilly's face on The O'Reilly Factor. So, if Foxy researchers can't find this evidence at their own network, will this discredit them in the eyes of their viewers? (Of course, you know the answer to that one.) |
| 17 | It's finally happened; Dennis Prager drops the pseudo-intellectual guise and goes full wingnut, by declaring tolerance promoted by the "left" to be a slippery slope to fascism. Literally, fascism. |
| 16 | A message to those praying for Christopher Hitchens. Hat tip |
| 16 | Roger Ebert on Sarah Palin: She's just trolling now, right? |
| 16 | This is what I think: "Traditional Marriage Perverts the Tradition of Marriage" |
| 16 | The Huffington Post calls them "The Most Ridiculous Anti-Obama Bumper Stickers". It could also be called "A Typical Day at Conservapedia". |
| 16 | A teabagging group comes out in favor of... being cruel to puppies. |
| 16 | NephilimFree is caught with some "interesting" things in his list of favourite internet links, but according to dprjones, his lying and evasion of responsibility could be an indication of what is wrong with religion. |
| 16 | Weird Homeopathy - Venus Stella Errans. Made by pointing a telescope at Venus and the eyepiece at some water. UPDATE: The homeopath who performed the proving of this remedy responds! |
| 16 | A distressing timeline of various rhetoric and tragedies concerning "Second Amendment Solutions" since 2008. From District of Columbia v. Heller to Saturday's horror. (EDIT: This is a (sadly) ongoing project) |
| 16 | Johann Hari: My grandmother deserved a better ending than this |
| 16 | The skeptic community is diverse and that's a good thing |
| 16 | Tim Minchin's Storm is finally released. |
| 16 | Box Office Mojo takes to task the right-wing spin over the lackluster debut for Sarah Palin's hilariously titled new documentary The Undefeated. |
| 16 | Ha-Joon Chang economist at the University of Cambridge says things that conservatives don't like to hear, comments are already ripe with butt-hurt, enough said. |
| 16 | The sad truth behind London riot: '...The TV reporter from Britain's ITV had no response. So the young man pressed his advantage. "Two months ago we marched to Scotland Yard, more than 2,000 of us, all blacks, and it was peaceful and calm and you know what? Not a word in the press. Last night a bit of rioting and looting and look around you."' |
| 16 | The best Private Eye covers over 50 years. |
| 16 | Top ten dumbest objections to OWS. (The last one, unfortunately, is probably true.) |
| 16 | The soldier who asked if the Republican presidential candidates would ban gay service-members from the military shares his reactions to being booed. |
| 16 | William Shatner and Carrier Fisher have apparently being doing a bit of Star Trek vs Star Wars recently (of which Star Wars obviously the winner) and Roger Ebert calls in George Takei to broker a peace. Yes. This has actually happened. |
| 16 | The Onion: Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon. Invade! Invade! |
| 16 | Santorum using the same tactics as postmodern Marxist thinkers. Frothy: Oh, that's just elitist propaganda. |
| 16 | In fear of American Talibanism |
| 16 | Here's a story that needs to grow legs/wings: Mitt Romney's cousin, a former Mormon high priest, denounces the religion as a cult. Shorter headline: "Duh." |
| 16 | Chris Mooney, a journalist in the field of science and politics, advances the idea that Republican craziness springs from their denial of science. His archetypal Republican: our beloved Andrew Schlafly, to whom he devotes an entire chapter in his book. |
| 16 | Indeed. Global warming and warming caused by windmills are different. Duh. |
| 16 | Nina Strohminger (psychology grad student at University of Michigan) doesn't often rip a Colin McGinn book apart. But when she does... |
| 16 | Republicans, meet vaginas. |
| 16 | New survey shows that the percentage of Americans born after 1980 who believe in god is declining rather rapidly. |
| 16 | Explosm on the Bible |
| 16 | Stephen's still got it. |
| 16 | Any Republicans distressed over the supreme court's Obamacare decision? How about moving to Conservative Paradise! |
| 16 | Carl Zimmer pwns the Discovery Institute. |
| 16 | Slacktivist: The Maddow Show's Steven Benen counted up Mittens' lies for the past 30 weeks. Guess how many. |
| 16 | Factcheck: "This shit again?" |
| 16 | Joe Scarborough says it like we never will. |
| 16 | US Politicians are partisan because voters are partisan. Of course, the first comment on the article is some jackass who blames Obama. Addendum: and, right on cue, someone else who couldn't be bothered to finish the article scolds him and blames Bush. |
| 16 | Leveson Enquiry to the British media, RE: depiction and treatment of women: You're shit. Stop it. |
| 16 | Time to link to The Onion again. |
| 16 | A succinct summary of all the WND craziness we've come to know and love pity with a chuckle. Also features summaries of the nuttier titles in the WND bookstore, among them "TIME TRAVELERS OF THE BIBLE: HOW HEBREW PROPHETS SHATTERED THE BARRIERS OF TIME-SPACE." Yes, really. |
| 16 | Conservatives in Europe: Er... did you see that Romney guy over there? Tell us how to prevent that. Strategists: Well... |
| 16 | Blogger writes that colonics do no good. Colon cleaning company sues WordPress. |
| 16 | "Same-sex marriage laws might force a resurrected Jesus to marry a man" according to a US Xtian radio host; reports "Pink News" (Earlier she said "gays aren’t ‘people’") Lovely woman! |
| 16 | From the desk of George Takei: This made me cry. |
| 16 | Exposing Pseudoastronomy goes through over 500 psychic predictions from 23 pros and dozens of laypeople for 2012. They didn't do so well. Update: Followup. |
| 16 | The NRA of Counter-Earth. |
| 16 | Buy ALL the tissues. |
| 16 | Australians will understand and facepalm to hear: Andrew Bolt takes on Dr Karl about climate change. |
| 16 | The Question Evolution blog wants "Rationlwikians" (the only people actually reading their blog) to debate CMI's 15 questions. They expect us to say no and, for once, they're right! |
| 16 | That's one hell of a filibuster. |
| 16 | The New Yorker covers the wingnut paranoia about the injured Saudi in the Boston Marathon. All the usual characters here. |
| 16 | "George Soros is living every man's dream: Reading what people might say about him at his funeral." |
| 16 | What the George W. Bush museum should look like. |
| 16 | Sandra Day O'Connor: In hindsight, I fucked up. |
| 16 | "Best" thank you's to George W. Bush |
| 16 | In addition to abstaining from JAQing off, you should also stop FAPing. |
| 16 | Ken Ham commits autoparody. |
| 16 | Humans: only 70% similar to chimps? |
| 16 | Oh, my! George Takei takes the usual anti-gay / reparative therapy PSA and turns it on its head. |
| 16 | The White House's We The People petition to support an international treaty that would expand media accessibility to blind people is itself not accessible to blind people. |
| 16 | Richard Dawkins. GMO. Here combined into one story about the anti-science beliefs of Prince Charles |
| 16 | This is how one should respond to cease-and-desist trolls. |
| 16 | Oh, Canada! The American media is starting to notice your current political climate. "How America's friendly northern neighbor became a rogue, reckless petrostate." (Psst... the wingnuts have already hijacked the comments, stay far away) |
| 16 | Who says atheists have no morality? We "commit less crime, have longer marriages and are more highly educated than almost any other group in America." |
| 16 | Stephen Meyer's new book is "a masterwork of pseudoscience." |
| 16 | The one place Edward Snowden would be safe from prosecution. |
| 16 | All of this is true, Mr. Larsen, but please remember that the ratio of anti-science wingnuts to moonbats is 164 to... well, 1. |
| 16 | Apparently, we missed how poorly Bobby Jindal's school vouchers program is working in Louisiana; here, Bill Maher chimes in. Also missing: Proof that voucher money's being used responsibly. |
| 16 | There's a reason nobody takes you seriously anymore, Krauthammer. |
| 16 | This could have all been preventable if the government, not private companies, paid for the majority of health insurance. But no, we're still stuck in square one again, GOP. |
| 16 | Andrews & Arnold trolls David Cameron. |
| 16 | American conservatives just can't get enough of that Vladimir. Mr. Mataconis should have mentioned Andy Schlafly as well in his post. |
| 16 | Months ago this wouldn't be happening. What is wrong with you, Japan? |
| 16 | Why Texas banned Tesla Motors |
| 16 | Well, it turns out the people you disagree with are probably not stupid. It's merely a clash of irreconcilable worldviews as a result of your (likely) upbringing. |
| 16 | "(David) Barton is still, inexplicably, trusted by many conservative evangelicals. He has himself built his reputation on twisting and misrepresenting historical documents for ideological and propagandist purposes," says an official of the Southern Baptist Convention. He also calls Barton's debasement of history "satanic." |
| 16 | Meanwhile, on Egyptian TV: Somebody dared criticise the military, nobody understands what atheism is, and politics continues to infect sport. |
| 16 | And this was after a four-year Democratic administration. |
| 16 | The Republicans on handling their wingnuts: Forget about it, What could go wrong? Canadian conservatives on handling their wingnuts: Shut them up, now! |
| 16 | How gay adoption caused the Catholic Church to lose their shit completely — and become utilitarians. |
| 16 | Impurifying all of our precious bodily fluids for 50 years. |
| 16 | Comics journalism about privately-run immigration detention centres in Australia. |
| 16 | Rachel Maddow: North Carolina Republicans put a believer in abiotic oil in charge of natural resources. |
| 16 | Abandon ship! |
| 16 | If only acceptance for interracial marriage occurred this fast. |
| 16 | To tax cuts! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems. |
| 16 | Why is public distrust in science so high at at time when science has done so much? |
| 16 | What took you so long, GOP? Benghazi has officially entered into Truther levels. (And the jokes keep coming.) |
| 16 | Republicans, if you really care about free speech, make sure you reflect that in your Supreme Court justices. |
| 16 | Oh yes, UKIP is relevant, yes... |
| 16 | I am shocked, shocked, to hear that there was massive fraudulent Bitcoin trading at Mt. Gox. |
| 16 | On "the death of expertise" and why it matters. |
| 16 | Nearly 80 gays served in Dubya's White House. What they experienced. |
| 16 | "Instead of saving the GOP, reformers risk being consumed by the Republicans' ongoing identity crisis." It helps when the word 'reformer' actually means something. |
| 16 | A FOTL asks the British government if membership of society is compulsory, and, surprisingly, gets a comprehensive answer. "Indeed, many people seek solitude, and there are a number of hermits living in Britain today..." |
| 16 | Oh, look. SomethingAwful.com just found the Left Behind film trilogy -- the Kirk Cameron version, that is; not the upcoming it's-gotta-be-totally-awesome-'cause-Nicolas-Cage-is-in-it version -- and decided to dedicate three webpages to an analysis of the awfulness. |
| 16 | "Slavic George W. Bush" may have been an underexaggeration. (Especially to the oligarchs.) |
| 16 | Why Can’t the Banking Industry Solve Its Ethics Problems? |
| 16 | io9: This Classic Science-Denying Scandal Shows Why Too Much Testing Is Bad. "Bad", you say? This needs further study! |
| 16 | Three sexist newspapers that completely missed the point of Emma Watson's UN speech (Daily Telegraph, The Star, Daily Mail) |
| 16 | Why UN climate talks continue to fail |
| 16 | Chris Wallace: "We have always been at war with Eastasia." |
| 16 | Fracking + OPEC = this. |
| 16 | Nice. 30 GOP senators vote in favor of allowing companies to mandate binding arbitration instead of lawsuits if one of their employees makes allegations of gang rape. Halliburton should be allowed to do that, it seems. |
| 16 | “A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect.” - W. E. B. Du Bois |
| 16 | So that's why American conservatives have been red-baiting Pope Francis. |
| 16 | One of the great ironies of American politics likely to be realized this weekend: The Democratic Party will cease to be the party of the South. |
| 16 | It will go nowhere, but thanks to ye. |
| 16 | Another slam dunk for Kareem Abdul-Jabar. |
| 16 | Open Carrying cop-watchers: Well, what can possibly go wrong? |
| 16 | Comrades! The Glorious Leader has published the latest set of slogans for the DPRK! Let us turn ours into a country of mushrooms by making mushroom cultivation scientific, intensive and industrialised! |
| 16 | My Year Ripping Off The Web with the Daily Mail Online. |
| 16 | Giles Coren is getting sick of "Global Warming Jokes" - if a lowly food critic can understand the less than subtle difference between climate and weather (and grasp the basics of ocean current effects on equatorial-polar temperature distribution) then why can't all newspaper columnists? |
| 16 | Figure skater Johnny Weir "is putting his younger brother through college, and supports the family financially because his father's disability prohibits him from working." Although Weir won't confirm or deny it, people are sure he's gay in part because of his flamboyant skating wardrobe. For Stars on Ice, the latter point outweighs the former. Therefore, he is not family friendly and they won't hire him. You read that correctly -- they think he's TOO GAY to be a PROFESSIONAL FIGURE SKATER. |
| 15 | The Onion's latest take on teach the controversy goes like this: Armageddon or global warming? The Kansas State Supreme Court rules that a school district can teach both views of the end of the world side-by-side. |
| 15 | Ah, Scientology. When will you ever learn? (Yes PZ, you are being a dick, but we love you for it.) |
| 15 | Poor Shirley Sherrod, turns out that the Secretary of Agriculture and the President should have watched the whole video. |
| 15 | Ted Haggard has told the Wall Street Journal that he "over-repented" for his gay prostitute and meth scandal. Oh, and he says he's sure he isn't gay. It was all a misunderstanding over a massage that went awry. |
| 15 | Possibly the greatest quote mine ever; Obama stated that taxes will go up for everyone... or did he? |
| 15 | Journalist Matt Taibbi makes fun of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and their assertion that Obama won the election via mass hypnosis. |
| 15 | Plagiarism - no, it's PD 'cause it's on the web! Hat tip Advertisers disagree. Cue for much Facebook outrage and trolling. Furtherexamples come to light. |
| 15 | America's addiction to belief. Utne Reader has posted a copy of the article here. |
| 15 | William Rivers Pitt has some strong words to describe the self-proclaimed "Christians" who have been threatening to bathe the children of Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, in his blood after they murder him. |
| 15 | Following the success of the hologram power balance sports band...how about a sports band that produces "1100 negative ions a second to improve your sport performance"? Conversation with a Power Sports Band Retailer |
| 15 | Exploring The Sun with Helioviewer Cool ESA and NASA funded toy to play with solar and heliospheric image data. |
| 15 | An Indiana official, supposedly a deputy attorney general for the state of Indiana, tweeted 'Use live ammunition' against protesters. Then when called out by a Mother Jones staffer he stated "You're damned right I advocate deadly force." The Indiana Attorney General's office is investigating, but when asked to comment he stated "For 'context?' Or to silence me? All my comments on twitter & my blog are my own and no one else's. And I can defend them all." Update: He was fired after they found it was him pretty quickly. Can't exercise your second amendment rights on those who disagree with you. |
| 15 | Has all the talk of sieverts and ionizing radiation in the scaremongering media left you dazed and confused? Here is a little graphical perspective. |
| 15 | If UK universities get to charge £9000 per year, it means 70% of graduates will never pay off the loan and the government would end up spending more money to subsidise that loss. Government response: shit, we didn't think of that. |
| 15 | Meteorites, the LIFE Project and the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 |
| 15 | Catholics denounce Conservative Deceit. These heretics will be excommunicated by Andy Schlafly as soon as he hears about it. |
| 15 | A new 3D map of the universe is unveiled. |
| 15 | Richard Dawkins basically tells Rebecca Watson "You didn't get raped so stop whining". PZ Myers weighs in fairly sensibly. (oh dear fuck, someone is going to have a field day...) |
| 15 | New research exposes "Big Wind" and how its windmills will blow the Earth out of its orbit. |
| 15 | A blog called Unequally Yoked is running an "ideological Turing test": in the first round, atheists answer questions about their beliefs honestly, and Christians answer those same questions pretending to be atheists; the second round is the reverse. The readers then vote on which entries they thought were telling the truth and which were lying. Voting for the first round is over, but you can still vote for the second, and stick around for the results! |
| 15 | Global warming denialism ends now. |
| 15 | What drives creationism? The scientific principle of Oogity Boogity. |
| 15 | Shit's gonna go down. |
| 15 | Yes furriners, many 'Murricans believe this nonsense. |
| 15 | No, this is the best OWS sign. |
| 15 | Find your human number among 7 billion. |
| 15 | David Brin: It is your duty to risk your brain and argue with your crazy uncle about climate change. |
| 15 | What happens if Initiative 26 ends up as law, or why I'm glad my miscarriage wasn't in Mississippi. |
| 15 | "It is quite certain that a moderate Republican will be nominated to stand as his party's candidate for the presidency. His name is Barack Obama." |
| 15 | The 2012 Presidental Candidates explained as Dungeons and Dragons character sheets. (Not directly a sequel to the 2008 Presidential Campaign as as game of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, but in the same spirit. GAZEBO!!!!!) |
| 15 | Five founding fathers whose views on Christianity would make them unelectable today. |
| 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! |
| 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. |
| 15 | Psychic Sally gets trolled by a fictional spirit. |
| 15 | "Do the Republicans become the “party of God” (Hezbollah, in Arabic) or do they try once more to become the party of big business and low taxes?" |
| 15 | l'Oignon: Vatican Dispatches Elite Team Of Bishops To Sabotage Contraceptive Manufacturer |
| 15 | It seems Goldman Sachs is just as deluded as we thought they were. |
| 15 | Transgender rights bill up for debate next month in Canada. (Yeah, like that will pass.) |
| 15 | Good Guy Lucifer. |
| 15 | Andy Wakefield is a fraud and is no longer a physician, yet people still believe in his shit Not really a funny article, so serious that it hurts. Read the comments to really see the stupidity of it all. |
| 15 | Matthew Inman delivers the goods. |
| 15 | Pure, unadulterated hilarity: Obamacare will substantially help red states more than blue. |
| 15 | Bill Maher makes an interesting analysis of Republicans who were impressed by Caiden Cowger. Perhaps his analysis explains shit like this. |
| 15 | PZ details why mind uploading is idiot bloviating. The reaction is predictable. |
| 15 | Heed these words. |
| 15 | Why the Oatmeal brouhaha was so important. Update: Inman's Twitter page filled with upset fundies. |
| 15 | The problem with Mitt |
| 15 | John Willke, the doctor who Todd Akin learnt about "legitimate rape" from, exists. And is gibbering batfuck crazy. |
| 15 | Wonkette thrashes another columnist who says unemployment benefits keep people from looking for work. |
| 15 | Could the toppling of Bullshit Mountain be at hand? |
| 15 | This is probably the point where the United States' newspaper-of-record gives the gay guy with the argentum surname a hefty raise. |
| 15 | Welcome to Liberal America. Get over it. |
| 15 | A visual representation of who was accurate on the presidential election, and who wasn't. |
| 15 | Maybe the divinely inspired book calls it "demonic possession" because it sounds more poetic than "anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis." |
| 15 | Climate scientists are getting blunt, asking "is the Earth fucked?" And they're getting increasingly aggressive in trying to prevent it from getting any worse. |
| 15 | Well, the National Post just outdid themsleves: "As FDR showed the world in the ’30s, sometimes it takes a socialist to save capitalism from itself." |
| 15 | Secret revealed! The Thomas Friedman Op/Ed Generator. |
| 15 | "Of course we still think these theories are just nonsense." |
| 15 | Cue the hand-wringing. |
| 15 | BoingBoing calls attention to a photo copyright watermark by the Daily Mail that's even more Not even wronger than usual. |
| 15 | Switzerland, the last excuse by the NRA and their ilk to ignore gun control? Not really. |
| 15 | Observe: pick-up artists trying their finest social skills on ... a robot horse. |
| 15 | Basically, fuck the NRA |
| 15 | All the Republicans who voted against the Violence Against Women Act. You might recognize a few of them. |
| 15 | "Obama, Congress Must Reach Deal On Budget By March 1, And Then April 1, And Then April 20, And Then April 28, And Then May 1, And Then Twice A Week For Next Four Years." The header on the page says it's The Onion, but the way the news has looked lately you'd be forgiven for thinking it was actually CNN. |
| 15 | "Soviet killer dolphins on the loose in the Black Sea." We're boned. |
| 15 | Prepare to witness every neocon's brain explode. |
| 15 | Software developer fired for making childish/sexist jokes during a tech conference. Woman who called him out also fired. |
| 15 | Cracked: 5 Mind-Blowing Facts Nobody Told You About Guns |
| 15 | Surprisingly, it's not the easiest question to answer, so using a combination of a Twitter news feed and crowd-sourcing, Slate.com has logged every gun-related fatality in the US since Newtown on December 14th - as of now, all 3,500 of them, including the 60+ children, many of whom were shot and killed in accidents. |
| 15 | Google releases remarkable Landsat footage of human expansion in the past 25 years. (Some commentary by Hank Green) |
| 15 | Vaccine deniers are supported by Big Pharma to improve their profits. And here's some fucking proof of the conspiracy. It only makes sense. |
| 15 | Politicus USA takes a look at how quickly Congressman Tom Cole (R-OK) decided Obama was his best friend in the wake of the tornado. |
| 15 | "The senior Obama administration official quoted in The Times said the executive branch internally reviews surveillance programs to ensure that they 'comply with the Constitution and laws of the United States and appropriately protect privacy and civil liberties.' That’s no longer good enough." (Also, check out Sensenbrenner calling his own act un-American.) |
| 15 | Federal judge to the NSA: What State Secret? (Full decision) |
| 15 | Oh yes, blame the intern. |
| 15 | How economic equality in Canada and Denmark increases social mobility and meritocracy. |
| 15 | Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: you are not going to infringe the viewer's right to skip ads, especially hours after the TV show finishes broadcasting. |
| 15 | Richard Lenski has started blogging! |
| 15 | Science pushed tobacco. They forced DDT on the environment. They tried to trick everyone with Piltdown Man. Per usual, it's nothing but bullshit |
| 15 | INFOGRAPHIC: A map of the US showing state-by-state incarceration rates along with the states that have at least one privately owned-and-operated prison that has a guarantee that the prison will have at least 90 percent occupancy, or else the state will pay extra to the prison company to make up for the prison company's "loss." (I.e., the states pay extra when they have falling crime rates.) |
| 15 | No. You cannot boost your immune system. OK, there's one way. |
| 15 | The world is falling: Grover Norquist, yes, the same Norquist who wanted total public spending to go down to less than 10% of GDP, is calling the House Republicans barking mad. Update: And the Wall Street Journal. (Look at the similarities between the wingnuts and movement conservatives.) |
| 15 | American conservatives, Your lack of insight and compassion towards people in need makes you ugly. |
| 15 | Context means everything. |
| 15 | No Woman, No Drive! |
| 15 | The SCOTUS has suspended habeas corpus. (Or it could be that another sovereign citizen is finding out what the law really is.) |
| 15 | The Onion: Obama Not Ruling Out Military Action in Congress. "Troubled region" indeed. |
| 15 | From HuffPo: 11 things atheists couldn't -- and in many cases still can't -- do because they didn't believe in God. |
| 15 | The pollsters probably enjoyed this. |
| 15 | I warned you, but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew it all, didn't you? Oh, he's just a harmless little bunny, isn't he? Well, it's always the same. I always tell them-- Shut up! |
| 15 | This guy is compiling the best reactions to the Great Bitcoin Blowup. ("Dear Senator Carper, I lost $285K with Gox. I still don't want your protection.") Also, what the Bitcoin theft might look like if it happened in the real world. |
| 15 | You know what, Putin? We'll let you move further into Europe! Just a little bit... Update: Seriously, Russia, it'll all be fine. $70 billion in capital flight in three months is very easy to reverse. |
| 15 | "Goodbye, Fred Phelps. Nobody will miss you. We'll be too busy to care or remember, enjoying the better world you drove us to build." |
| 15 | "Good morning, students, today we will be talking about 20th and 21st century American political history. In the early 1900s, the name 'Warren Harding' was virtually synonymous with the word 'corruption.' By the 1970s, he was overtaken by 'Richard Nixon.' Well until the 2050s, it would be known as 'John Roberts.'" |
| 15 | The act of defiance that infuriated Kissin- a mass murderer. |
| 15 | Anti-human Theology: Learning to Hate Yourself. |
| 15 | "Mr. Moyer, I'm not particularly sure why you're asking for a psychological assessment." "I was forced to be a guest on Fox." |
| 15 | Richard C. Hoagland's latest claims about how the Chinese Chang'e 3 spacecraft photographed glittering glass towers miles high and across are debunked. |
| 15 | Ham Rove made Americans smarter, unlike the real one. |
| 15 | The stupidest thing you will have read today: "what would happen to 'the millions we have sent to hell' for using contraception if the teaching were suddenly changed?" |
| 15 | Note to Islamophobes: It is, to put it lightly, difficult to claim that Muslims are terrorists when the majority of people those terrorists kill are Muslims. |
| 15 | How 65-million-year old geographic formations affect contemporary US voting patterns. |
| 15 | August 9th marks the 40th anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation. And as one HuffPo blogger reminds us, it also marks the 30th anniversary of "the stupidest thing ever written about Watergate." Namely, a Washington Post op-ed by Ben Stein that "was a screed so cretinous that even its author seems to have recognized what an embarrassment it was" by having all links to it scrubbed from the internet. |
| 15 | Willing to reconsider your no-byline policy, Economist? (Update: no, but they withdrew the review.) |
| 15 | "Just how secure is Xi Jinping, really?" |
| 15 | A guide to the glossary of the oh-so-accountable kids behind Gamergate. |
| 15 | Harper's meets the Silicon Valley capitalists and transhumanists. It's unclear if the LessWrong crew realise how they appear to normal humans. |
| 15 | Consent is key NSFW but it ought to be |
| 15 | Protest outside John Edward show draws police to the scene. |
| 15 | Gay marriage in Alabama looms, so let's refresh the memories of everyone who's been misled by the devil himself as to what biblical marriage really is! |
| 15 | Daily Kos: "Can a vaccine be responsible for the profoundly stupid?" (Probably not.) |
| 15 | 1. Use lynching imagery to sell Photoshop addons, during Black History Month. 2. When people go "whoa wtf", assert your right to free speech, and threaten to sue them. 3. PROFIT!!! [citation needed] (The proprietor is also not the sharpest spoon in the drawer regarding copyright.) |
| 15 | Two trans children. |
| 15 | Every blog post, ever |
| 15 | And now another entry for the Life Is Unfair file. What do you get for being the unwed pregnant teenaged daughter of a certain half-term governor? Would you believe between $15,000 and $30,000 per speech?  |
| 14 | Hee! Splashing "holy water" on an atheist could lose you your job. Hat tip That old fake sneeze joke is still okay, though. |
| 14 | The attorney general of Virgina seeks to sue to author of the "hockey stick" graph of global temperature - a dangerous move that would criminalize science that you just don't like? |
| 14 | Christians at Chicago Pride 2010 say sorry for past homophobia. |
| 14 | Religious people tend to be more racist. |
| 14 | Here's a good idea, let's take two people who have poor attendance records, who say blood doesn't clot under a full moon, that unborn babies can punch their way out of the womb, that claimed £700 on expenses for astrology - and put them on the health select committee. (bonus lulz in the comments from "spanows") |
| 14 | Tea Party Jesus, which now also has its own RationalWiki page. |
| 14 | Question: How close is Glenn Beck to inspiring a body count? Answer: very. |
| 14 | Harry Reid's Teabagger opponent, Sharron Angle, has baffled and amused the mainstream media with this request: "Don't ask questions that you want me to answer. Ask me questions that I want to answer. Oh, and be my friend. |
| 14 | What happens if the Pentagon manages to nail Julian Assange? Wikileaks posts the key to this file, called "INSURANCE". In the meantime, US military are banned from looking at Wikileaks. The Taliban still can, of course. |
| 14 | You may never have heard of them, but their combined wealth almost challenges Bill Gates, and they're bankrolling the Tea Party |
| 14 | The Dick Wars continue with a taxonomy of skeptical dickery Hat tip. For fun, you can try to identify in which categories fall your fellow RationalWikians. |
| 14 | In 1998, Christine O'Donnell appeared on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. She claimed that she never lies because that's disrespectful to the person you're lying to. Then Eddie Izzard asked her a pointed follow-up question, and her response was...um...well...hmmm... |
| 14 | An uncharacteristically astute and well reasoned Ricky Gervais on "Why I'm An Atheist" |
| 14 | Nadine Dorries: Conservative MP, pro-homeopathy, supporter of blasphemy laws, lying scum. |
| 14 | Choices, choices... Should we build a stealth bomber, or should we build six hospitals? America's military budget, put into perspective |
| 14 | Johann Hari: Why is it wrong to protect gay children? |
| 14 | New head of the Budget Committee and Randroid Paul Ryan unveils his new budget: Screw everyone but the rich, build more bombs. |
| 14 | WBC taunts Anonymous. Anonymous show their teeth. |
| 14 | Republicans still acting cartoonishly evil when it comes to the environment. What's next on the agenda, "Screw the Earth" Day? |
| 14 | How dare my favourite quack take down their website before I could complain about it? The UK Advertising Standards Authority now has powers to regulate claims on websites. Some skeptics seem to be upset that the website they were about to complain about was taken down voluntarily. Is this "job done"? Why do some people seem to need the ASA to slap some wrists? |
| 14 | From the Obvious Department: James O'Keefe selectively edited the NPR tapes. Ironically, Glenn Beck's site The Blaze was the first to release unedited segments and analysis of the videos. |
| 14 | The James Randi Foundation announces the 5 bullshitting winners of the annual Pigasus Awards. |
| 14 | Richard Adams, Guardian blogger: "This Republican crop of candidates is a veritable "Who's that?" of American politics". |
| 14 | Over 900,000 killed by Chernobyl, birth defects all over Russia: the anti-nuclear movement does itself a great disservice by misleading the world with false claims about the effect of radiation. |
| 14 | Fear the steady drumbeat of The Homosexual Agenda!, as 'they' succeed in convincing a huge 3.5% of the US population to be teh gayzorz or bisexualzorz. |
| 14 | This is what happens when you fail to apply the KISS rule to cheating. |
| 14 | That News International apology translated. |
| 14 | A list of people (and their quotes) who are okay with murdering Julian Assange. |
| 14 | How marathon running is an affront to the Good Lord. |
| 14 | "if social conservatives take power we might have government policing our bedrooms." |
| 14 | Poe's Law and RationalWiki featured on the front page of Know Your Meme! |
| 14 | Internships are like slavery - Actually, the comparison with slave owners is, in many respects, unfair. Say what you will about them, but slave owners had to meet the full cost of bed and board. They did not tell the slaves that they had to pay for the privilege of working for them either. |
| 14 | The Hamster Wheel takes a look at Sacha Baron Cohen's latest character: Lord Christopher Monckton. Totally serious. |
| 14 | In Michigan, it is now perfectly fine to bully in the name of Jesus. Well, not anymore |
| 14 | Neil deGrasse Tyson whoops serious ass. |
| 14 | How climate change became a liberal conspiracy. |
| 14 | Too cheap to shoot a new group photo after one of their anchors quits, the Canadian version of Fox News pulls a "Stalin" and badly photoshops him out of the picture. |
| 14 | How to explain gay rights to an idiot. |
| 14 | The Onion: "I'm asking if anybody out there can come up with even one reason why I'd want to endure this unmitigated shit show for another minute, let alone through 2016. What's in it for me, exactly? Can anyone answer that? Anyone at all?" - Barack Obama |
| 14 | The History Channel in 18 seconds. |
| 14 | A natural disaster that cost the lives of thousands of people was ignored in favour of a nuclear 'disaster' that never was. |
| 14 | Bomb it. You know you want to. |
| 14 | Amen, Pastor. Amen! |
| 14 | Jesuits from Georgetown University send a letter to Paul Ryan: "In short, your budget appears to reflect the values of your favorite philosopher, Ayn Rand, rather than the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Her call to selfishness and her antagonism toward religion are antithetical to the Gospel values of compassion and love." |
| 14 | Just wait for the first Madame President... |
| 14 | How vaccine denialists creates more vaccine advocates. Comments really show how this happened. |
| 14 | Chuck Norris facts, updated.(self promotion warning) |
| 14 | Cracked: The 4 Most Meaningless Arguments Against Gun Control |
| 14 | As the GOP continued its Floridian comedy hour, Obama sneaked onto Reddit. |
| 14 | Canada's answer to Fox News, Sun TV, publishes and then disappears a ridiculously racist anti-Roma rant by Ezra Levant. Time to yank their broadcast license? Ya think? |
| 14 | The horrors of Guantanamo strike again. |
| 14 | Roger Ebert asks: did you choose your religion? And what if you aren't the person you thought you were? |
| 14 | "The Voter-Fraud Myth: The man who has stoked fear about impostors at the polls." |
| 14 | The Onion shines again: "Nation Unsure Which Candidate's Plan To Destroy The Environment Will Create More Jobs" |
| 14 | Hey, life works in mysterious ways. |
| 14 | Nothing in Movement Conservatism Makes Sense Except in the Light of Creationism. "The comparison isn’t just snark–that’s just a bonus." |
| 14 | *Drumroll* PolitiFact's Lie of the Year 2012 is...Oh noes! |
| 14 | The trouble with skeptics telling jokes: Exposing PseudoAstronomy accidentally Poes some 2012 nutters. |
| 14 | 2012: the year when it became okay to blame victims of sexual assault |
| 14 | Hear this, people. Obama might actually have some balls. |
| 14 | “It’s awful. I mean, what else am I supposed to do with my life?” |
| 14 | Mercury thiocyanate igniting - enjoy the nightmares you'll have this evening! |
| 14 | Say whatever you will about Obama's SOTU, but it fails in comparison to Mark Rubio's self-inflicted elimination of any chance at the 2016 presidency. |
| 14 | Time for some more original lies for Jesus. |
| 14 | Military-industrial complex Fuck Up #1. |
| 14 | The atheist's guide to the next Pope. |
| 14 | Yvain: Selecting the next pope for hilarity potential. Since all papabile look alike, includes pictures of people of similar-sounding names. |
| 14 | Big Placebo is relabeling homeopathic remedies as "supplements" to avoid the stigma of homeopathy. |
| 14 | Sky News reporter gets detained by Chinese police, hilarity ensues. |
| 14 | Racist preacher elected president of Brazil's Human Rights Commission (over a week old but I don't think we've noted it) |
| 14 | Church of England claims 4 out of 5 people in the UK believe in the power of prayer. Turns out they're not so clear on that 9th commandment. |
| 14 | This is not going to end well. |
| 14 | Social network fuckwits (*cough*Reddit*cough*), fuck off. |
| 14 | Say hello to Daniel Day-Lewis' fourth Academy Award! (Oh God, he's broken the self-deprecation meter.) |
| 14 | How this helps hipsters or the religious is unknown. |
| 14 | A 30 Second Guide to How the Gay Marriage Ruling Affects You. UPDATE: A similar list from HuffPo. |
| 14 | Yo, fuck Marat. |
| 14 | We all know how this is going to end. |
| 14 | Wine tasting is bullshit. |
| 14 | NPR Discovers the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory! And it may just be a positive feedback loop. |
| 14 | What's the proper response to replacing Charles Darwin with Jane Austen on a UK bank note that gets replaced once every decade? Ooh, I know, rape threats! |
| 14 | Meanwhile in Russia... Update: The Daily Mail says what everyone else is thinking. |
| 14 | An atheist activist is sexually assaulted at TAM. Conference organizers swing into action. The serial pervert responsible is banned from TAM for life. A year later, the activist speaks about her experience. |
| 14 | Looks like WIGO:Blogs isn't the only one in danger of becoming Yesterday on Cracked. Try not to laugh too hard, it'll give you cancer. Update: Cracked's apology. |
| 14 | It does kind of stagger the imagination, doesn't it? |
| 14 | So much for the Catholic Church's outreach to atheists. On the Friendly Atheist blog, Sara Lin Wilde gives her take on Pope Francis's first encyclical, which was a revision of an unpublished encyclical from Pope Ratzy. Since Frank didn't moderate any of Benny's bilge, it appears that we now know what he really thinks of unbelievers. |
| 14 | The Prince Rupert's Drop, a simple piece of glass with fascinatingly strange physically properties, brought to you by some actual Christian scientists. (Note the Bible passage at the end of the video). Very cool. |
| 14 | So much for trying to represent the anti-Murdoch, intellectual Tories, Telegraph. |
| 14 | Journal of Cosmology follow-up post: how long does it typically take between data collection and paper acceptance? Does 10 days sound about right?! |
| 14 | Want to know how Golden Dawn appeared almost out of nowhere in the Eurozone crisis? Ask the police. |
| 14 | Where America's poor and uninsured live. |
| 14 | Proliferation of shitty peer-reviewed journals. Good news for the pseudoskeptics. (self promotion warning) |
| 14 | Somebody's going to get a Nobel. The idiots at Viacom have blocked the video, but you can read the answer here. |
| 14 | In which the anti-vaxxers turn on each other. Popcorn! |
| 14 | Toys Are Us has a message for you: Shopping > Science |
| 14 | We still need scientists to appear on Question Time(self promotion warning) |
| 14 | In light of World AIDS Day, all glory to Saint Reagan. |
| 14 | Gay skinhead |
| 14 | Edward Snowden's Christmas message. (Transcript.) |
| 14 | A reminder that all fundie groups aren't the same. |
| 14 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Moron. (And look at all the fascists in Kiev!) Update: Seriously, in layman's terms, Putin is fucking himself. |
| 14 | This is how you do a shameless plug and get away with it. [Autoplay video] |
| 14 | "We have entered a strange, tumultuous new world in which Tom Friedman is insightful and wise." |
| 14 | We might be perverts but at least we're not Catholic strength perverts. |
| 14 | More medical advice from celebrities. (A review of Alicia Silverstone's "The Kind Mama".) |
| 14 | Regarding the popularity and dangerous influence of celebrity "quack moms" like Jenny McCarthy and, now, Alicia Silverstone: "It’s the unfortunate confluence of two related 21st-century trends: our obsession with celebrity moms and our focus on 'natural' parenting." |
| 14 | Where do new genes come from? Evolution in action. |
| 14 | "One has to ask: Does anyone in the offices of these (US) 'pro-Israel' organizations follow Israeli political debate?" |
| 14 | “Why do Muslim women accept and believe these things anyway?” |
| 14 | The G.O.P. Can’t Ignore Climate Change Shut up, Huntsman, you goddamn commie! |
| 14 | Jeb Bush, Republican intellectual. No, seriously. |
| 14 | Participating in deception: ‘Narrative can become fact’: how some murderous, delusional behavior resembles a role-playing game gone horribly wrong. |
| 14 | Since You-Know-Who is the latest to violate James Fallows' Law of Iraq Pundits, here's a surprising list of liberal hawks who should also take pause. |
| 14 | Real atrocities and easy fantasies—careful what you retweet. |
| 14 | Why near death experiences aren't proof of heaven |
| 14 | The only explanation for The Orange Overlord's "sue Obama" gambit that makes sense. Well, other than pettiness. |
| 14 | Cherry Picking or Context in Bible Verse Selection |
| 14 | Turns out you can do direct A/B comparisons on workplace gender discrimination: ask a transgender person. (Similar response comment on HN.) |
| 14 | Skeptical Science launches a cheeky quote/caricature series called 97 Hours of Consensus. |
| 14 | The “Emma You Are Next” site is an assault on the civil rights of women. (Looks like it's a hoax. But damn, anti-feminists have humiliated themselves yet again.) |
| 14 | The idea of "environmental classism" in America looks moronic now. |
| 14 | The Guru Effect: if something's hard to understand, it must be true. |
| 14 | Some scientist has no choice but to sell his Nobel medal. |
| 14 | Apropos of the current "Black Lives Matter" movement, here is a photo-essay about the history of lynching in the USA. |
| 14 | Real science vs. fake science: How can you tell them apart? (Complete with handy pocket-sized guide!) |
| 14 | Bitcoin has not had the best 2015 so far. Everything listed here has happened in less than two weeks. (As well as the price dropping from $320 to $190 in less than 24 hours.) |
| 14 | From Sluts Against Monsanto on Facebook: Science Denial Mad Libs! |
| 14 | A week ago, liberal NYMag writer Johnathan Chait wrote a piece decrying how "the language police are perverting liberalism." Slate responds by saying that while he may be misguided on a number of things, he's not entirely wrong. |
| 14 | "Why Some Believers Perpetuate A False Stereotype Of Skeptics" |
| 14 | Fundies take note: a Christian, and religious historian, explains the difference between real persecution and made up persecution. |
| 14 | "Imagine if the Tea Party was black. (I.e., "Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition.") Oh, yeah. Just imagine that. |
| 14 | Why is wind power a bad thing? Because it makes power too cheap. |
| 14 | Daily Show video: Lewis Black says that Glenn Beck has "Nazi Tourette's." |
| 13 | Welcome to booming school: first things first, it's not a boom, it's a fucking boom! |
| 13 | A Christian blog ponders Why Christians are Jerks Online. |
| 13 | If you dig Digg and you've suspected that since Obama's inauguration a lot of "diggs" have gone to rightist content while progressive content has gotten "buried," your suspicions have been confirmed. (Local interest too!) |
| 13 | Latest periodic table: vaccine rejectionism. |
| 13 | VIDEO: Are your holidays ruined by the spectre of socialism (public beaches, police protection, etc.)? Then take your vacation back from Big Government! Come to Somalia, the libertarian paradise that's been government free since 1991! |
| 13 | Charlie Brooker sums up the absurdity of the "Ground Zero Mosque" in two sentences: I once had a poo in a pub about two minutes' walk from Buckingham Palace. I was not subsequently arrested and charged with crapping directly onto the Queen's pillow. |
| 13 | "We defend it not because these ideas are particularly worthy of being protected, but because all ideas, even the most loathsome, are." |
| 13 | A new study from Iowa State University shows why parents should make their children stop bullying others: When they become adults, childhood bullies are more likely to have sociopathic personality traits, are at greater risk of being homeless, and are more likely to physically attack others. A copy of this story is posted here. |
| 13 | Via The Onion: Democrats: 'If We're Gonna Lose, Let's Go Down Running Away From Every Legislative Accomplishment We've Made' |
| 13 | The Tea Party: "One of the biggest exercises in false consciousness the world has ever seen." |
| 13 | Thom Hartmann: Roll back the Reagan tax cuts. Also, Americans are all such suckers that they don't realize what's good for them. |
| 13 | Over the last two decades a Swedish city has effectively reduced to zero its use of fossil fuels to heat its homes and businesses. |
| 13 | An artist has painted herself having sex with all the United States presidents, in order. She does not appear to have painted a blue dress on herself in any of them. |
| 13 | The Ivory Tower abstractions of the right. |
| 13 | You might be a teabagger if... |
| 13 | A time-lapse map of all 2053 nuke detonation between 1945 and 1998. (Can you guess which nation detonated 50.3 percent of all the nukes?) |
| 13 | Sam Harris on the Koran burning: "When will moderate Islam stand up to its Fundamentalist wing?". |
| 13 | So you think Rebecca Black's Friday is the worst song ever made? How about the Christian version, Sunday? |
| 13 | Walker: Texas Plagiarist |
| 13 | Johann Hari skewers Trumperism. |
| 13 | Do you think your own brand of alternative medicine won't stand up to new Advertising Standards Authority regulations? Just play the race card. |
| 13 | Weird Homeopathy - Saturn. Appears to get you seriously stoned. |
| 13 | The official retracted and totally denied position of the US Government is that Fox News "blathers" too much. |
| 13 | No True Libertarian... |
| 13 | The nonsensical "Obama misery index." |
| 13 | All 51 Miss USA contestants answer the question "Should evolution be taught in schools?" Make sure your head and desk are well-rested before watching. |
| 13 | GOP spews more crank-onomics: Romney signs a pledge encouraging the US to default unless a balanced budget amendment is passed while Bachmann and Pawlenty go goldbug. Former Republican Senator Alan Simpson calls it "absolute bullshit." |
| 13 | Microevolution and macroevolution explained for more visual learners. |
| 13 | Frequently bandied about statistics on income inequality receive a "mostly true" rating from PolitiFact. |
| 13 | Republican governors try to pray away the gay heat. |
| 13 | The Onion: US concedes, Soviets win the space race. |
| 13 | A HuffPo religion writer makes a list for other Christians of what he thinks are "4 good reasons not to read the bible literally." (Of course, being a Christian religion writer, he doesn't include the best reason -- i.e., it's all ancient mythology.) BTW, he wrote this article because he was shocked to find out that about 30 percent of all Americans take the bible literally. |
| 13 | An academic look at Tea Party members. |
| 13 | Contender for the oddest headline ever: Gordon Ramsay's Dwarf Porn Double Found Dead In A Badger Den (challenging the current champion: Freddie Star Ate My Hamster) |
| 13 | The Onion: Harry Reid and John Boehner take Congress hostage. Update: The media actually believed it. |
| 13 | Charlie Brooker makes "a fairly pedestrian winge" and a Ross Kemp lookalike at The Telegraph doesn't get the joke. Brooker then responds in kind - because David Cameron is totally a motherfucking lizard. Isn't it obvious?Do You Believe That? |
| 13 | Why evangelicals believe weird things. Facts and arguments are irrelevant — it's all about whether the speaker is one of us. |
| 13 | "Today you ordered police onto our campus to clear student protesters from the quad. These were protesters who participated in a rally speaking out against tuition increases and police brutality on UC campuses on Tuesday."... Related video. |
| 13 | An article in Nature commends the army of bloggers and forum users taking bullshit artists in the media to task: It may seem thankless at times, but the army of online commentators who point out the errors, the inconsistencies and the confounding factors, and from time to time just scream 'bullshit', have the power to hold the press to account. |
| 13 | More Parry parody ads are popping up. The new subject? Jesus. |
| 13 | Every climate denial argument debunked, in one 50 minute presentation. If there's one video to spread around the Internets, it's this. |
| 13 | Supposedly professional Politico reporter mistakes the Wisconsin state flag for the local labor union flag. Hail the future of journalism! |
| 13 | Damn you Jon Stewart! |
| 13 | The Onion: One in five Americans believe Obama is a cactus. |
| 13 | Newt Gingrich: "You can't put a gun rack in a Chevy Volt." Vlogger: Oh, really? |
| 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. |
| 13 | All dead Mormons are now gay. (Unless they died in the Holocaust.) |
| 13 | Kentuckians for Cretaceous Coastlines. |
| 13 | Exposing PseudoAstronomy slaps down the Moon landing hoax arguments from photography. |
| 13 | Anyone remember the Digg Patriots? You can now add Paulbots with them SMEARING THE GOOD NAME OF DR. PAUL! |
| 13 | Karma: It works, bitches. |
| 13 | All is not well in those big, happy families. |
| 13 | But Black Widow in The Avengers is just a shallow token female, whose sole reason for existing is to look cute in leather. No she isn't, idiot, stop dismissing all female characters off hand like that. |
| 13 | An anthology of Cosmo magazine's sex "tips", Featuring super-erotic hits like "spray each other with ice-cold water" and "as if you were pushing his penis back into his body". |
| 13 | Just what you always wanted: a web-based Deepak Chopra generator. (HT Unreasonable Faith.) |
| 13 | American students are being taught that the Loch Ness Monster proves creationism. And American taxpayers are paying for it.(self promotion warning) |
| 13 | Remember, every time you call it 'The God Particle' Higgs kills a kitten. |
| 13 | A Penn State fan makes a fatuous claim regarding the NCAA's sanctions against the university's football program. A HuffPo sportswriter's response: "[T]here seems [to be] little doubt that we need a version of Godwin's Law that pertains to references to the 9/11 terrorist attacks." |
| 13 | I have fucking had it with the stupidity and arrogance of the vaccine denialist dumbfucks. |
| 13 | There's no false dilemma anymore. Choose between the red or blue pill. (we'll let you decide which is which) |
| 13 | Confessions of a former Randroid. |
| 13 | Do you want to know how fucked up American GOP politics are? Talk to a Harperite apologist in Canuckistan: "Two years ago...Republicans needed Canada to be a model of failure. Now, they need Canada to be a model of success. It isn’t rational, but then we are talking about the Republican Party." |
| 13 | For fucksake, students. |
| 13 | We won the Cold War, so where are all the monuments? |
| 13 | Clearly, this wouldn't happen if there were more large breasts. The only thing that can stop a bad woman with large breasts is a good woman with large breasts. |
| 13 | Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly start a new anti-gun violence campaign: Americans for Responsible Solutions |
| 13 | A nice infographic has been going viral - too bad it's a little misleading |
| 13 | Jason Colavito explains why skeptics shouldn't ignore Ancient Aliens, pointing out the TV ratings of the show. |
| 13 | There Are No Contradictions! — A Game for 3 to 6 Players. |
| 13 | Why North Korea will fall faster than anyone would've expected. |
| 13 | Cracked: 5 Ways Statistics Are Used To Lie To You. |
| 13 | Ian McKellen pwns the Iron Homophobe. |
| 13 | No worries, everyone. |
| 13 | What is this? A Canadian Senator who's actually competent and useful? |
| 13 | Technology is not a barrier to sustainable energy, but we need to change our thinking. |
| 13 | "The danger for the Republicans is that pressing the Watergate analogy could simply transform (the Obama scandals) into a farce... If they project a hungry look of vengeance, they may be the victims, not the beneficiaries, of all these problems." |
| 13 | The Onion calls it quits, can't keep up with the other side of Poe's Law (Yes, it is a joke....) |
| 13 | "Sir! Sir! Our campaign is falling apart at the seams!" "Was it my 47% comment?" "No. Gmail." |
| 13 | Teflon? No. At least Reagan had charisma. |
| 13 | In 2011, marijuana accounted for 89 percent of all US drug seizure cases (cocaine was second at 7.4 percent), and 99.5 percent of seizures by weight. |
| 13 | British Columbia introduced the first revenue-neutral carbon tax in North America four years ago. Guess the results. |
| 13 | Guessing there were facepalms from this. |
| 13 | Fundie Christians believe in talking snakes and donkeys. Should we be surprised that a growing number of Muslims in the Middle East believe that Israel is using birds to spy on them? |
| 13 | Just writing a column isn't going to do much, guys. But we appreciate the effort. |
| 13 | The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet. |
| 13 | Inelastic demand, shelastic demand, commie. |
| 13 | Watch as every Republican's head now explodes. |
| 13 | Senator McCain, you can probably joke about a bunch of things in Congress, but slacking on the job probably isn't one. |
| 13 | Jon, we missed you. (Seriously, CNN is FUBAR.) |
| 13 | "Aren't you glad you didn't cite to this webpage in the Supreme Court Reporter at Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, 131 S.Ct. 2729, 2749 n.14 (2011). If you had, like Justice Alito did, the original content would have long since disappeared and someone else might have come along and purchased the domain in order to make a comment about the transience of linked information in the internet age." |
| 13 | Conservative correctness at its very worst: History textbooks in Texas rename the slave trade. |
| 13 | Why the Tea Party can't govern. |
| 13 | "It is the same condescending populism, the same aggressively dumb, harshly divisive message that has become the playbook for the right generally in this country, in all its contempt for learning, its disdain for facts, its disrespect of convention and debasing of standards." The GOP: Our hero! |
| 13 | Two weeks ago, in a case that many have compared to that of Trayvon Martin, Renisha McBride was shot in Detroit. Today, the police charged someone in her death. |
| 13 | Qatar's brutal treatment of migrant labour |
| 13 | So it turns out that organizing Libertarians is difficult. |
| 13 | Seems that the NSA's "collect it all" approach is costing everyone it touches. |
| 13 | Was Newton an astrologer? (Guess.) |
| 13 | It's scapegoating time! The winter storms in the UK have finally severed the main rail link to the biggest city on the south coast after years of everybody knowing it was almost inevitable a minor delay for an environmental impact assessment, if you believe the Daily Telegraph.(self promotion warning) |
| 13 | The Tea Party is five. We still wouldn't trust them with scissors. |
| 13 | Fox News Crazy Alert: propping up Lost Cause of the South. (And, in full irony, Civil War-era Democrats.) |
| 13 | Steven Wilson, The logic of Russian internet censorship. (Washington Post). |
| 13 | Pro-life Christians. |
| 13 | Thatcher: Oh Ronald, you have been a great friend of mine. *turns around and gags* |
| 13 | Vladimir Putin seems determined to become the next Milosevic. |
| 13 | Fox News may have just unsettled its $8 million hush money settlement. |
| 13 | Here's a bold prediction: The Suppository of Wisdom will not survive to 2017. |
| 13 | More Onion: Scientists Politely Remind World That Clean Energy Technology Ready To Go Whenever |
| 13 | The Financial Times has some 'splainin' to do. |
| 13 | My Conversation with “Eugene Goostman,” the Chatbot that’s All Over the News for Allegedly Passing the Turing Test |
| 13 | A Channel 5 documentary alleges that Hitler was a serial tax evader. No comment. |
| 13 | Dear Sam Brownback: Stay in politics for as long as you possibly can. |
| 13 | Your time is running out, Lockheed Martin. |
| 13 | End the Green Lantern Theory of the Presidency. |
| 13 | The Texas Tank delivers yet again with a new series teaching science at a middle school level. |
| 13 | The man who liked everything on Facebook has his counterpart: The woman who liked nothing. |
| 13 | Herbals, Dietary Supplements Linked To Liver Injury |
| 13 | Matt Walsh Doesn’t Get Historical Marriage Rate Trends |
| 13 | Rioting over a lack of indictment is unacceptable |
| 13 | There's one kind of bias that affects extremists less than other people. |
| 13 | Steven Novella: Nobody's Perfect: dealing with flawed characters and the inverse stopped clocks of the world (a.k.a. "Welcome to Being Human.") |
| 13 | You can lead a misogynist to evidence, but you can't make them accept it. (Full on Anita's Law in comments section) |
| 13 | Guardian supplies rather sarky review of Daily Express weather predictions. Well, it made me laugh |
| 13 | It seems that the right wing feels that covering the Haitian earthquake is trivial and/or un-American. On 13 January, the three top talk shows on librul MSNBC -- Hardball with Chris Matthews, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and The Rachel Maddow Show -- devoted just over two hours of airtime out of their three scheduled hours to coverage of Haiti. Meanwhile, "Fair and Balanced" Fox News devoted less than seven minutes of coverage on its three most popular talk shows starring Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly. That's seven minutes total out of three hours. But Beck was able to devote almost a full hour to interviewing Sarah Palin. |
| 13 | Misspelled political signs: Death to all juice! |
| 13 | An analysis of the uncut "Collateral Murder" video. |
| 13 | The 13th Congressional District of Ohio is represented by Betty Sutton, a Democrat. So the Ohio Republican Party sent a fundraising letter to 15,000 members saying "Let's take Betty Sutton out of the House and send her back to the kitchen." |
| 12 | The right-wing media kick up a fuss over porn in fertility clinics (because twenty quid a year on smut is so totally breaking the bank...). But wait! Evidence suggests that it actually helps stimulate sperm count, which is the entire point. |
| 12 | The Official US Irony Meter, located in an undisclosed mountain root somewhere in the Rockies, in a room lined with lead 8 feet thick, explodes. The USIM was built to withstand a load of 3,000,000 kilofers! |
| 12 | The wage disparity in America is now worse than it was during the era of the Rockefellers, the Vanderbilts and the Carnegies. The growing disparity is starting to make America resemble a banana republic. |
| 12 | What makes more sense; homeopathic "explanations" or Star Trek's over-the-top technobabble? Lets find out. |
| 12 | Conservapedia gets some more notoriety in the blogosphere: "Defending Einstein from the new barbarians," such as Andrew Schlafly. |
| 12 | Weird Homeopathy – Dynamized Water from Seas, Rivers and Oceans. Bet you didn't know that remedies made from water from different oceans and rivers around the world can treat problems that have vaguely analogous symptoms? |
| 12 | Clog: The ever-predictable Jenny McCarthy weighs in on the Andrew Wakefield scandal. Blog: "Orac" from ScienceBlogs tears her apart in a most spectacular way. |
| 12 | A parent of an autistic child writes a positive review of a book about the history of vaccine panics. (The book covers the hysteria involving autism/MMR link cited by Andrew Wakefield.) The reviewer is disappointed that there is still one fundamental moral quandary that most people -- including the book's writer -- fail to examine. "The implicit calculation made when a parent subsequently refuses vaccinations for their child is this: The risk of my child's death is better than the risk of a disability." (BTW, if you're interested in the book, you can find it at ISBN 1439158649.) |
| 12 | The recently released PlayStation 3 game "Little Big Planet 2" allows players to make their own levels and mini-games, such as ones with the theme of "Kill Obama." |
| 12 | American kids today really do face harder economic circumstances than their parents did. (Between 1970 and 2004 -- when adjusted for inflation -- the price of housing increased by about 50% and the cost to earn a bachelor's degree increased by about 30%, while the average weekly income decreased by about 11.2%.) |
| 12 | It's time to play Sheen, Beck or Qaddafi! |
| 12 | You're next, Michigan! |
| 12 | Nuclear reactor or nightclub? We report, you decide! |
| 12 | Joe "EPA regulations are anti-free market" Barton drops his latest "pearl of wisdom": Oil subsidies are all about the free market! |
| 12 | Roger Ebert ponders... well, everything. |
| 12 | From HuffPo: The pink toenails ad "showed real family values -- not the contrived kind put forth by social conservatives." |
| 12 | An account from one of the "disappeared" in Argentina during the 1970s. |
| 12 | With President Obama's birth certificate, Klansman Trump reminds blacks they will never be American |
| 12 | Skippy envisions the morning after Saturday's Rapture. |
| 12 | A victory for sanity: Psychology Today shitcans major evo psych asshat Satoshi Kanazawa. |
| 12 | New study confirms existing prejudice: (G)Libertarianism is about freedom from taxes and regulation. |
| 12 | Michael Egnor has started his own blog called "Egnorance." No shit. |
| 12 | Creationist school appears out of nowhere. "‘I was as surprised as anyone to find myself here,’ said newly created headmaster, Dr William Jennings Bryan." |
| 12 | A petition to save the funding for the James Webb Space Telescope. |
| 12 | Does local weather affect people's opinions of climate change? |
| 12 | A free thinker is Satan's slave! Wat. |
| 12 | Yes, ratings agencies suck at rating public debt as well as private. |
| 12 | Climategate-gate? Neil Wallis is implicated in helping to feed the denialist echo chamber. More: Joe Romm on Olbermann on re-opening Climategate |
| 12 | Good rundown of stupid House bills, including the emergency vote (!) to defund the dreaded NPR. |
| 12 | Uncyclopedia: Successful government trolls are successful. |
| 12 | Governor Rick Perry's "Texas miracle" includes crowded homeless shelters, low-wage jobs and worker deaths. |
| 12 | "Republicans fit the profile of a classic abuser." |
| 12 | Potholer54 shows us how dishonest TV producers fool you. |
| 12 | Religion losing significant ground in Canada, New Zealand, Finland, The Netherlands, and other various nations. |
| 12 | Weird Homeopathy - Oscillococcinum. Made from a bacteria that does not exist. |
| 12 | Religious people are just another form of geeknerd. |
| 12 | Potholer54 refutes a creationist misrepresentation of evolution (regarding humans "getting whiter"), but because it was a woman he was refuting, she was an "innocent girl" and he was a "pig" - not so, he says, for I am an equal opportunity scoffer! |
| 12 | Atheism is on the upswing in America. Somebody tell ShockofGod! |
| 12 | Alabama brings back slavery. |
| 12 | Here's what you missed last night: Evil Liberal #1 on Mitt Romney's new flip-flop, and Evil Liberal #2 on pepper spray, dwarf-throwing regulations and his new SuperPAC ad. (make sure you see the ending) |
| 12 | Denialism: Then and now. |
| 12 | "How Ignorance, Greed and Ideology Are Warping Science and Hurting Democracy" |
| 12 | Potholer54 delivers a quality debunking on Climategate 2.0 |
| 12 | As Cain drops out, pro-adultery voters switch to Gingrich. |
| 12 | Nearly 20 years later, Sully is still finding a way to dig himself deeper on The Bell Curve. Safe to call him a wingnut now? |
| 12 | Well, dur. |
| 12 | Like father like daughter: Elizabeth Santorum has gay friends too! |
| 12 | A happy[citation NOT needed] customer reviews Ray Comfort's wizard entertainment, Intelligent Design vs Evolution: The Board Game! |
| 12 | Help, help! I'm being repressed by science! |
| 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." |
| 12 | How SOPA could negatively affect science. |
| 12 | How the US' current "free market" health care is not any kind of freedom at all. |
| 12 | New atheist billboard campaign unveiled! |
| 12 | Even the creationists don't like Indiana Senate Bill 89. |
| 12 | The "Every Sperm is Sacred" Lady speaks out. |
| 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. |
| 12 | The newspapers seem to be quite disappointed that Richard Dawkins wasn't the militant, violent, arrogant prick they've all made him out to be - did they really expect him to punch the Archbishop of Canterbury in the face? |
| 12 | North American conservatism in three words: cognitive dissonance clusterfuck. |
| 12 | "The chief problem, therefore, with the Galileo gambit is the failure to understand the difference between a well-established scientific law and religious dogma." 'Nuff said. |
| 12 | Five bullshit myths spread by Titanic movies. But it isn't all as bad as trying to listen to this screeching Canadian menace |
| 12 | Someone get this into one of our articles, stat. (source) |
| 12 | An atheist tells us why she doesn't "just shut up". |
| 12 | The tyranny of Big SeatbeltIt's satire, in case it's not obvious enough. |
| 12 | In the military atheists aren't allowed to collect food for the homeless, but the Salvation Army can! |
| 12 | Thanks, Captain fucking Obvious. |
| 12 | Godwin is on our side for once. |
| 12 | Courtesy of John McCain, a full, 200 page list of Mitt's flip-flops and WTFery. |
| 12 | Facebook goes wild with Bananas cure cancer meme based on one small study on mice. Except they fucking misinterpret the study and get all the science completely wrong. And no, bananas do not cure cancer. |
| 12 | Mitt Romney's greatest hits contradictions, in one easy video. |
| 12 | Dumbasses in Missouri approved an amendment that allows students to ignore evolution. I guess nothing will will make sense in biology in the State of Missouri. |
| 12 | Ye cannot serve God and mammon. |
| 12 | This year's presidential election may be the last one where older right wing whites and fundies have a plurality among voters. If Mitt Romney wins, will he willingly forgo a second term just for the ability to blow up Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid while also cutting taxes on one-percenters like himself? |
| 12 | PROTIP: If you utterly rely on unpaid volunteers to run your website, don't sue them.(self promotion warning) |
| 12 | What sick cosmic joke is this? |
| 12 | "Be nobody or be a loud, mean somebody." |
| 12 | GMO opponents are the Global Warming Denialists of the Left.(self promotion warning) |
| 12 | Find this hard to believe? You may be a skeptinazi (1,990 results). |
| 12 | Homeopaths Without Borders goes to Haiti. Yes, there's a fucking organization that pushes fake cures aping Doctors Without Borders which uses real medicine to really help people. |
| 12 | Snopes: Goodbye to the Redskins Rule. |
| 12 | Meryl Dorey has been ordered to stop her fucking lying bullshit.(self promotion warning) |
| 12 | 2012 Wipe - about time, the wankers. |
| 12 | After the endless banality of CNN's Belief blog, a New Atheist got her chance in the spotlight. Click the link for the reaction. (Also, it seems we are too way harsh on Comment is Free.) |
| 12 | Andy Borowitz delivers an exceptionally powerful Poe. |
| 12 | "Godless," another documentary made by Christians claiming to be something they're not. |
| 12 | In order to prove men and women are not equal (original screenshot), Suzanne Venker uses a picture of ... two lesbians marrying. |
| 12 | Exactly why Jesus wasn't the king of Edessa (Or exposing pseudo scholarship) |
| 12 | The Bronze Dog has a nice, concise post about privacy, the surveillance society and Google Glass |
| 12 | The history of the solar system, Scientology-style. |
| 12 | Sam Harris, scientific racism, the new atheism and Islam. Update: Harris replies in conversation with Greenwald |
| 12 | Why Bitcoin is no longer a currency. |
| 12 | Conclusive Proof That There Is No God and Humans Are Essentially Evil The truly sad and disturbing story of Pony the Orangutan. |
| 12 | How blind salamanders make nonsense of creationists' claims. by Christopher Hitchens. (July 21, 2008) |
| 12 | Pseudo scholarship exposed (along with debunking resources) |
| 12 | Competition is fierce indeed. |
| 12 | Scientists to Lamar Smith: your previous op-ed is regurgitating political talking points, and none of the implied conclusions is accurate. |
| 12 | A ridiculous claim, substantiated by nothing more than facts. |
| 12 | Is this the laziest Congress ever? |
| 12 | VIDEO (documentary film trailer): Ever hear of the tough love programs where parents have their uncontrollable kids spirited away to a juvenile boot camp to receive discipline training? Now imagine what it would be like if the reparative therapy movement used the same tactics. That's the subject matter of the new documentary Kidnapped for Christ. |
| 12 | First trailer for Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey. |
| 12 | And there goes a political career. |
| 12 | The universe where Jenny McCarthy and Amy Farrah Fowler are evil twins dishing out woo. Except that Dr. Fowler has a Ph.D. from UCLA. Not good for the Bruins. |
| 12 | On atheism and white knight sexism |
| 12 | Let's make a chant for the jobs you're all going to lose. |
| 12 | The Tiller murder conspiracy theories begin. He raises a good question: Why isn't this case being treated as domestic terrorism? |
| 12 | "Here Are All The (self-confessed) Atheists In Congress": It's illustrative that Barney Frank admitted to being gay in 1987, then served another 25 years before announcing his retirement, and then admitted that he is an atheist. |
| 12 | Why are African-American names like "DeShawn" and "Shanice" ridiculed by white Americans while names like "Reince," "Rand," "Mitt," "Newt," "Tagg," "Bristol," "Trig," and "Saxby" are given a pass? |
| 12 | America: Where imploding the world economy is a mainstream political tool. |
| 12 | "Washington couldn’t have gone dark without a radicalized Republican Party. Or maybe it was destined to all along." Update: Unbelievble. McCain. Christie. Jindal. Haslan. Burr. Frum. King. Krauthammer. |
| 12 | Inside the head of one of the dumbest Supreme Court judges known to man. |
| 12 | The Koch brothers: "Shit." |
| 12 | Biologist/blogger Kelly Weinersmith shares her story of sexual harassment in the field. |
| 12 | 'Because' has become a preposition, because grammar. |
| 12 | America's angriest white men: Up close with racism, rage and Southern supremacy |
| 12 | In a wonderful display of "karma is a bitch," Bob "Chop off gays' heads" Mugabe's son comes out the closet. (Warning: Poe's Law in action!) |
| 12 | The first female presiding bishop of the ELCA cites St. Paul as a major inspiration and theological influence. Yes, that St. Paul. |
| 12 | The New Republic is getting very weird. |
| 12 | Just when you thought it was safe to go back in Louisiana, Edwin Edwards is running for office again. |
| 12 | Emily Willingham: Hyping your conspiracy theory in 5 easy steps |
| 12 | McConnelling. |
| 12 | LALALALA I can't hear you! Saint Reagan, deliver us thine tax cut so our balanced budget may be filled. |
| 12 | "I recently found out that a small girl I drive home from school is not vaccinated ... due to the usual non-medical claptrap. So what do I do? a) Refuse to drive the child? b) Alert the school? Or c) smack some sense into the child’s mother?" |
| 12 | University professors: they do have guts. |
| 12 | *Wakes up, puts bread into the toaster* Hmm...hmm... Oh. Oh my god. |
| 12 | "How God May Replace the US Constitution in Just Three Easy Steps." |
| 12 | |
| 12 | You Soviet-nostalgic, Marx-invoking, socialist freaks! ...Oh hello, Mr. Putin. |
| 12 | Just like Anti-Italianism and Anti-Catholicism, history repeats itself. |
| 12 | With "250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of separate but equal, 35 years of state-sanctioned redlining," and a continued only-in-America anti-intellectualism on what should be the blatant, blatant obvious, should we seriously consider reopening the debate on reparations? [7] |
| 12 | In the face of the facts and his own history regarding POW swaps, John McCain reaches a brand new low. |
| 12 | Surprise, surprise. Climate Change Deniers Using Same Methods as Tobacco Industry, Says Physicist |
| 12 | Which Iraq War are you? |
| 12 | The Great Russo-Ukrainian Fuckup, summarized. |
| 12 | Just imagine if Fox News went bankrupt out of nowhere. |
| 12 | Scamworld: how internet get-rick-quick schemes work to separate you from your money. |
| 12 | Chart Brut: The red-string-and-thumbtacks of the Internet generation |
| 12 | 9 ways Christian zealots cripple America. (No, it's not from Cracked. It's a Salon.com repost from Alternet.com.) |
| 12 | The 5 Most Insidious Conspiracy Theories of 2014. |
| 12 | 23 Ways Feminism Has Made the World a Better Place for Men. And we note again: nobody has ever seen Charles Manson and Paul Elam in the same place at the same time! |
| 12 | It should be obvious to everyone, but it's really improper for the US military to be using equipment with explicit references to Bible verses calling on people to spread the word of Jesus. (self promotion warning) |
| 12 | No one's really racist these days, not even the commissioner of a white's only basketball league. /endsarcasm (self promotion warning) |
| 12 | The Daily Kos, an obviously biased blog, asks self-identified Republicans some straightforward questions. The results show that only 42% believe Obama is a US-born citizen, 23% believes their state should secede from the US and 31% would like contraception outlawed. |
| 12 | Sarah Palin wants Rahm Emanuel fired for using the word "retard," but is OK with Rush Limbaugh calling liberals "retards" because that's "satire." So, Stephen Colbert one-ups Limbaugh's "satire" by calling Palin "a fucking retard." |
| 12 | "Drill, baby, drill"? Who said "drill, baby, drill"? We never said "drill, baby, drill"! You're just making that up to anger the voters! It's on videotape? What's videotape? We've never heard of videotape! |
| 12 | Nadine Dorries MP, formerly of I'm A Celebrity — Get Me Out Of Here, has taken time out of her busy schedule telling gay people that they can't get married and hiring her own daughters on expenses, to write a novel. |
| 11 | Somebody wants to make a biographical movie about Rush Limbaugh. (And not a flattering one.) |
| 11 | It's World Cup time again. Which means it's time for right wing bastards like Glenn Beck and G. Gordon Liddy to start ranting about how un-white-American the world's most popular game is. |
| 11 | When science challenges your worldview, you're more likely to just turn around and say well, you can't actually prove that with science anyway! |
| 11 | Republican Senator John Kyl of Arizona wants to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, even if they drive up the deficit, while voting to block the extension of unemployment benefits because they will drive up the deficit. |
| 11 | The Intelligent Gestation Institute challenges the Theory of Pregnancy. Not strictly speaking a blog, but quoted in full on Pharyngula. |
| 11 | Is the Birther Movement 2.0 in the works? And will the knuckleheads behind this new effort be called "Baptismers"? |
| 11 | Dating website OKCupid analysed half a million of their members' postings and ran some interesting analysis. Most if it is race-based, but the part you RW'ers want is at the bottom of the article, where they found that people who take their atheism seriously read and write better than any other religious group. |
| 11 | Cracked's trifecta about some crazy aspect of evolution: 1. (from September) "The 5 Strangest Things Evolution Left in Your Body"; 2. (from 2009) "6 Insane Dog Behaviors Explained by Evolution"; 3. (from 2008) "6 Formerly Kickass Creatures Ruined by Evolution" |
| 11 | Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who in 1976 voted with the 7-2 majority to restore the death penalty, explains why he now thinks the death penalty is unconstitutional -- it is shot through with racism, skewed toward conviction, infected with politics and tinged with hysteria. |
| 11 | IEEE Spectrum is sick of Ray Kurzweil's technobabble futurism. |
| 11 | The 2010 “Editing Wikipedia From Inside Parliament” Awards |
| 11 | Regarding America's vitriolic politics -- "Values do not admit compromise; politics, which is the prudent application of values in pursuit of the common good, requires compromise." |
| 11 | You are stardust and lightning. How cool is that? |
| 11 | Michele Bachmann and Erik Paulsen are two Minnesota Republicans elected to the House at the same time; Bachmann engages in theatrics while Paulsen is "a workhorse, not a show horse." In comparing these two, experienced voices have a message for Bachmann: Slow and steady wins the race. |
| 11 | Brian Trent of The Humanist on the U.S.'s "belief culture": "The belief culture thrives on the false principle that all opinions are equal, even those without a shred of factual data, documentation, or reasoned methodology." |
| 11 | PZ Myers points out that Eric Hovind is offering free DVDs! Ahh, out of stock. But wait, what's this? |
| 11 | Wouldn't it be nice if conservatives shut up about the value of marriage? |
| 11 | The Beast's 50 most loathsome Americans of 2010. |
| 11 | William Rivers Pitt will puke if he hears the phrase "liberal media" again. Why? Media outlets are owned by corporations, therefore, as everyone should know, they're the neoliberal media. (Makes a person wonder how Democratic candidates ever manage to get any editorial endorsements.) |
| 11 | If RationalWiki is looking for a theme song, here's a candidate. |
| 11 | Perhaps more relevant to UK RationalWikians...A guide to studying with the Open University |
| 11 | Somebody finally asked the question: What happens when a couple dozen children are homeschooled by a nitwit? |
| 11 | Roger Ebert on the new Atlas Shrugged film: "The most anticlimactic non-event since Geraldo Rivera broke into Al Capone’s vault. ★" |
| 11 | Five Myths about the Separation of church and state in America. |
| 11 | Now would be a good time for the U.S. to tell the Saudis where to shove their human rights abuses, etc. |
| 11 | The 10 key myths about Osama bin Laden |
| 11 | Universities electing their own MPs using AV, rotten boroughs with no actual constituents, and a system that wasn't really worked out until 1950. The voting system that Cameron is fighting for is a veritable novelty. |
| 11 | The reason we reason: not to get the right answer, but to convince that other chimp to give you the fruit. |
| 11 | Australia is planning to ban 1,000s of plants that contain natural DMT... including their national flower. |
| 11 | Johann Hari: Heaven: A fool's paradise |
| 11 | "So, how about some accountability for the false prophets, gross opportunists, and irresponsible rumor-mongers who threaten society with truth decay? Here’s a suggestion: Call them out publicly, post their names on some Wall of Shame, and then stop listening – it only encourages them." |
| 11 | Daniel Ellsberg (leaker of the Pentagon Papers) claims that if Richard Nixon were alive today, he would feel vindicated for all the dirty tricks he committed against Ellsberg because the Patriot Act and other laws passed since 9/11 have made those dirty tricks legal. |
| 11 | CIA official admits to attempts to illegally spy on Juan Cole. Surely they will be held accountable for this, right? |
| 11 | With Expelled going under the hammer, the TalkOrigins Archive Foundation plans to put in a bid. The foundation is raising money for this bid. But, caveat emptor: Jinx hi Jinx! warns that "if you’re donating money, be aware that you’re simply lining the pockets of these guys." |
| 11 | Roger Ebert finally reviews Expelled. Two evolved opposable thumbs down. |
| 11 | Dora? Spongebob? Lefties. |
| 11 | Those bond vigilantes will strike any day now...any day now... |
| 11 | Here's an interesting role-reversal: Big Pharma homeopathy shills are suing a skeptical blogger. |
| 11 | "The desire to disbelieve deepens as the scale of the threat grows" -- The numbers in one of the first global warming studies in 1975 (which aimed to predict climate change between then and 2010) "have proven almost dead-on correct." Yet, as the evidence continues to mount up, "resistance to the idea among many in the U.S. appears to have hardened." |
| 11 | Is atheist money just too controversial for the American Cancer Society? |
| 11 | The Onion: Obama finally punches a banker in the face. His approval rating skyrockets to 93%. |
| 11 | Economics has met its match: itself. Where the hell is the Globe and Mail hiring these people? |
| 11 | The best anti-bullying video in a while. But, as always, Jesusland won't listen. |
| 11 | Death to America!!!...Online. I just signed up for DSL. |
| 11 | 14 different religious groups are represented on Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph, except for the second largest group, which is excluded due to "limited space".. Meanwhile in Catholic Ireland a secular humanist gets a word in. |
| 11 | Shock-horror of the month: girls actually like porn, and some even idolise the male stars. But why are they so secretive about it compared to male fans? Well, (some aren't. |
| 11 | In a report that may interest sociology buffs, The Daily Show's Samantha Bee shows that by the time the NYPD cleared Zuccotti Park of Occupy Wall Street protesters, the eight-week encampment had segregated itself into one section for the elite bourgeois, and another for unwashed proles. |
| 11 | Picture paints a thousand words... Update: The meme's growing every hour. |
| 11 | Paul Krugman pwns yet again. |
| 11 | Peter Thieberger of Brookhaven National Laboratory delivers the comprehensive and conclusive smackdown of Andrea Rossi and the E-Cat "cold fusion" device. |
| 11 | Dirty librulz have (allegedly) legalized bestiality in the army! |
| 11 | Norway might have a 3% unemployment rate, universal health care, high-quality education for all and a happy populace, but they don't have precious butter reserves like we do! Muahahaha! |
| 11 | The 10 Most Ridiculous Right Wing Outrages of 2011 |
| 11 | The value of Curiosity Driven Research |
| 11 | Go back. We fucked up everything. |
| 11 | A visualization of the 2011 Japanese earthquakes. Just keep watching... |
| 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. |
| 11 | Five big lies about the phony 'war on religion' |
| 11 | America, Fuck Yeah! |
| 11 | The punanny state. Also, Stalin-rape. |
| 11 | Lewis Black, don't get a heart attack. Also, why is Nancy Grace still on TV? |
| 11 | With all the fuss over this "Kony 2012" thing, has anyone bothered to ask an actual Ugandan for their opinion?They do actually have internet over there, you know. And considering their financial status and inability to make sure they're not posing with guns...be skeptical, people. |
| 11 | Social democrats, grow some balls for a change. |
| 11 | Asshole gingers. |
| 11 | Those "ex-gay" adverts shouldn't be blocked because they're offensive, but because they're just factually incorrect. |
| 11 | Randall Munroe has something to say about Atlas Shrugged. |
| 11 | How to win-win the prisoner's dilemma. |
| 11 | Polls shows America still has its head up its ass about global warming |
| 11 | Maybe everything will go alright in Europe after all. |
| 11 | "Four good men with extensive government experience tried to stop the Harper government. Predictably, they failed – predictably, because this government listens to almost no one who actually knows about given policy fields." D'oh, Canada! |
| 11 | From LEO's fake issue: Answers in Koran, LLC, receive $75 million in tax breaks to build Koran Kountry - a "family-friendly attraction that celebrates the truth of the Koran, and the power of the global jihadist movement to liberate Muslims from the oppression of the infidels and Jews. We also have roller coasters." |
| 11 | Another B-actor lies about vaccines. He then invokes Nazis. Godwin has a stroke. |
| 11 | Bank robberies: Crime doesn't (statistically) pay. |
| 11 | An untestimony: from fundamentalism to skepticism |
| 11 | Mitt, we love you. |
| 11 | Oatmeal: Let's build a goddamn Tesla museum. |
| 11 | An explanation for the insanity at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions: everyone at them is drunk, all the time. |
| 11 | "I'm having pains in my chest 'cause I'm so stressed, over Fox News." |
| 11 | Rahm Emanuel doesn't like Nickelback |
| 11 | Maybe parroting the biggest asshole on your team won't work out for you after all. |
| 11 | Mr. 47% achieved. |
| 11 | Here, we discuss how the outcomes of clinical trials may be affected by the extinction of all mankind and recommend appropriate changes to their conduct. In addition, we use computer modelling to show the effect of the apocalypse on a sample clinical trial. |
| 11 | Fifty Shades of Takei. |
| 11 | E.J. Dionne: Republicans are rejecting their own ideals. |
| 11 | How Changes in the Workplace Have Reinforced Pay Inequality |
| 11 | Something is going down at the Burzynski clinic, with an FDA audit going another month and whispers that Burzynski's snake oil killed a patient. |
| 11 | Stavvers: Why I never signed the No More Page 3 Girls petition: the real problem with The Sun is pages 1,2 and 4-76. |
| 11 | Bill O'Reilly is writing a book about Jesus |
| 11 | Exposing Pseudoastronomy on Russian meteor conspiracy theories. |
| 11 | Notorious copyright trolls Prenda Law are about to get ripped several new ones by a very angry Federal judge. (Prenda who? Background on the case, h/t to Ken at Popehat) |
| 11 | The Best Amendment |
| 11 | Glenn Beck suffers a sudden outbreak of common sense, uses libertarian arguments to vocalize endorsement for same sex marriage. |
| 11 | Cracked: The 5 Most Insulting Defences of Nerd Racism |
| 11 | Tom “Female Penguins are Whores ” Martin, banned from A Voice for Men for excessive feminism? |
| 11 | "When Women Used Lysol as Birth Control." (This article about a rather common, yet toxic, birth control method from the Good Old Days was first published more than a year ago. But since it wasn't posted here at that time, we offer it now as Rick Perry yet again calls the Texas legislature back into session to take another swing at passing that anti-abortion bill.) |
| 11 | Lakoff, don't stoop down to their level. |
| 11 | If there's one thing the US should be exporting, it's probably not its labour relations. |
| 11 | xkcd compiles questions found in Google Autocomplete. ("Why are there slaves in the Bible?" Good question...) |
| 11 | How American homeschoolers enabled and funded German child abuse |
| 11 | Mrs. Robinson tells it like it is: "Right wingers, either declare civil war already, or GROW UP". The tragedy is the people she's talking to will never answer her honestly. |
| 11 | Headline or RationalWiki Mad-Libs contest winner: U.S. Official Blames Shutdown for Failure to Explain NSA Spying |
| 11 | Worst magazine sex advice ever. |
| 11 | Wanted to post this a few weeks back, but it was hidden behind a paywall. Ben MacIntyre speaks against anti-Roma hatred Absolutely superb |
| 11 | Alex Gabriel takes on Pat Condell about British Muslims' attitude towards gays. The comments are gonna be fun, especially if it attracts the attention of Condell. *opens popcorn* |
| 11 | I was wrong. (138-page book PDF) Andrew Sullivan admits to being wrong over Iraq War |
| 11 | Scott Aaronson on reasons to disbelieve JFK conspiracy theories (and conspiracy theories in general): "Now, though, I’d place the JFK conspiracy hypothesis firmly in Moon-landings-were-faked, Twin-Towers-collapsed-from-the-inside territory." |
| 11 | Salon: In the wake of Obama's State of the Union speech, the GOP is melting down in real-time. |
| 11 | Role reversal French film (sort of) touches on how women are treated in society |
| 11 | Popbitch looks at the revenue numbers the Daily Mail Online claims: and they don't add up. At all. |
| 11 | Did you invent Bitcoin? Take Slate's simple quiz! |
| 11 | "I will let you return to the show as part of the Michelle Malkin Memorial Unpaid Internment Program." |
| 11 | Who knew that "the Google" would be the gaffe that best summarizes Dubya's life? |
| 11 | So what does Al Franken do after getting his hands into SOPA/PIPA? Declaring war against 2014's Worst Company in America. |
| 11 | Canuckistan's most disgraceful tumultuous political years in recent memory seem to be finally nearing its end. (And the good news? The damage is relatively repairable.) |
| 11 | Big Brother is watching you toke up. |
| 11 | Australia the bizarre: after the Suppository of Wisdom failed to repeal the carbon levy, he's now increased gas taxes and taxes on the rich. |
| 11 | The Illuminati summer newsletter. |
| 11 | Seymour Hersh's reporting on Syrian gas attacks gets taken apart. |
| 11 | Strangely moving account of the "First International Conference on Men’s Issues" day one by the SPLC |
| 11 | "...when old-school atheists attempt to dismiss social justice issues as "mission drift," it seems like a betrayal of the very principle that was most attractive about standing up and identifying as an atheist in the first place..." I blame those annoying gender people, ruining skepticism for everyone. |
| 11 | "I chatted with the chatbot Eugene Goostman, and was not impressed." - When Ray Kurzweil says you're full of shit... |
| 11 | Could we get Justice Cromwell to speak a little more slowly when delivering the court's reasons? Harper seems to be having difficulty understanding him. |
| 11 | ISIS has learnt how to astroturf on twitter. |
| 11 | Will this be the cause of the third Intifada? |
| 11 | "I still hear about how I’m destroying gender relations, I still get told I’m unintelligent and ignorant, I still get threats of assault and rape. Let me repeat that: Men threaten to rape me, while telling me misogyny isn’t real. So why should I feel bad for hating the culture that allows this to go on?" |
| 11 | Every time ISIS murders a journalist in broad daylight, there's only one conclusion. |
| 11 | Even Albert Einstein once got fooled by a purported psychic. (HT PZ Myers.) |
| 11 | "37 percent of Americans think a free press is overrated." Ah. |
| 11 | Conservatives at a meeting for the ironically named group "Americans for Prosperity" cheered when they were informed that Chicago lost the 2016 Olympics. Why do they hate America? |
| 11 | King v. Burwell, or How I Learned to Stop Obamacare and Lose the South. (Make your choice, Roberts.) |
| 11 | In this video, Barbie performs sex acts that are now forbidden in UK porn. There's also an ePetition (which is coherently written and correctly spelt). |
| 11 | Hey, Creationists! Charles Darwin got something wrong about evolution! But it won't help your case. |
| 11 | Discovery channel promises to mend its ways, entire internet calls bullshit. [citation NOT needed] |
| 11 | An academic analysis of Bitcoin as distributed right-wing extremism. "Bitcoin is promoted as an alternative to currency, and even at times as an alternative to money, but neither Bitcoin’s development nor its promulgation emerge from thoughtful analyses of money or currency as they currently exist, let alone the thought and history that have figured in their development." |
| 11 | Faith vs. Facts |
| 11 | Special Clogosphere cross over: Eugenie C. Scott explains why Comfort is an idiot who does not understand evolution. Round two Scott's final word to Comfort - look, you are a PRATT. |
| 11 | Ray Comfort shows his usual intellectual standards: plagiarising parts of his "special" introduction to the Origin of Species (2009). |
| 11 | "...imagine being seated at a table with two bowls, one containing peanuts, the other the illegal drug MDMA. Which is safer to give to a stranger?" Sacked advisor to the UK Government, Professor David Nutt, responds in New Scientist. |
| 11 | Role-playing game panic sets in again in a Wisconsin prison, probably as a mask to just further squash the spirits of the incarcerated.(self promotion warning) |
| 11 | An anti-abortion TV ad is slated to run during Super Bowl XLIV. The ad claims that in 1987, Heisman Trophy winner Tim Trebow's mother was advised to abort him after she fell ill while visiting the Philippines. The only problem is that the Philippines outlawed all abortions in 1930. Could it be that this is just another case of Christians Focus on the Family tellin' lies for Jeebus?. Bonus points! The 1989 New York Giants tell women what to think about reproductive rights. |
| 11 | Facts from authoritative sources no longer carry weight with today's crop of opinionated screamers. Case in point: "I don't care what them PC historians at Arlington National Cemetery sez. Blacks didn't fight for the US military before 1947." (Looks like he doesn't trust them eleetist, PC dikshunaries and grammar books, either.) As if this one example isn't sad enough, read the comments that follow. |
| 11 | Jon Stewart does a long-form skewering of Glenn Beck. |
| 11 | The intellectual dishonesty of the "vaccines didn't save us" gambit |
| 11 | "If you voted for Obama ... seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your health care begin right now, not in four years." |
| 11 | The problem with facts, is that they change. |
| 11 | Ben Goldacre on evidence based voting |
| 11 | Everything becomes clear now. Facts make conservatives less likely to believe you. |
| 10 | Rachel Maddow shows us that the current oil spill problems are really deja vu all over again. Something very similar happened in 1979. |
| 10 | After a long break involving spats with libertarians and Muslims, Thunderf00t gets back to what he's good at; giving Conservapedia and NephilimFree a good spanking for being stupid. |
| 10 | Oh to be in the land of the free! Free to incite murder? |
| 10 | Hello. I'm a Mac. And I'm a PC. And when you buy one of us (or any other electronic gadget), you're helping to fuel the world's deadliest conflict since World War II. |
| 10 | "The deadly doctor gambit" |
| 10 | The GOP thinks that fielding a few non-white and/or non-male candidates shows that the diversity of their party finally rivals that of the Democrats. Yet how diverse are the Republicans if their candidates still lack religious diversity? (I.e., where are the non-Judeo-Christian Republican candidates?) |
| 10 | A Catholic priest from Connecticut has been accused of embezzling $1.3 million from his parish. He allegedly blew it on expensive hotels, a fabulous wardrobe, and gay prostitutes. (He paid for one to go to Harvard!) The ex-prostitute who outed Ted Haggard discusses the priests and pastors who hired him for gay sex. |
| 10 | The U.S. -- which once had the most college graduates aged 25 to 34 -- is now ranked twelfth out of 36 countries. Naturally, there is a corresponding decline in the number of Americans who think a college education is important. |
| 10 | Jerusalem was dismantled here/ in England's green and pleasant land. |
| 10 | The story of a gay minor league baseball umpire who was publicly outed during a game by an irate team manager. |
| 10 | Charlie Brooker on the fun of language and buzzwords. |
| 10 | American employers aren't meaner than their European counterparts; American employees lack backbone unions. |
| 10 | Haley Barbour of Mississippi thinks that southern Republicans embraced integration. Eugene Robinson "Not a word of this is true." |
| 10 | They are apparently handing out master's degrees in communication very, uh, liberally these days, as evidenced in this video: MY NAME IS PHIL DAVISON!!! AND I'M SEEKING OUR PARTY'S NOMINATION FOR THE POSITION OF STAR COUNTY TREASURER!!! And if he runs for president, we might get to witness spontaneous human combustion during one of his debates. |
| 10 | Is it Censorship or "I've got your back"? Google Instant automatically blanks out many (but not all) searches for NSFW content; e.g., "Playboy", "penis" and "vagina". |
| 10 | Another piece opposing "Don't Ask Don't Tell". Standard piece except for the wonderful sentence, "Oh, no, once you have openly gay soldiers, next thing you know, the Republican party will be running witches for the Senate!" |
| 10 | A recent survey shows that most Americans (a) vastly underestimate wealth disparity in the US, and (b) would rather live in a country where the distribution of wealth resembles that of (gasp!) SWEDEN!!!!! |
| 10 | Those who do not learn from history are often forced to repeat it. Case in point: America's misadventure in Afghanistan probably seems very familiar to the Russians. |
| 10 | Is Glenn Beck an anti-Semite? Or was it just an accident that his recent two-day rant aimed at George Soros was chock full of anti-Semitic paranoia and dog whistles? |
| 10 | Hey, Sarah! Who's been teachin' your daughter all them nasty, homey-phobic words that she's been usin' on the Facebook? |
| 10 | What? The GOP took back the House of Representatives? When did that happen? |
| 10 | Some cranks have been pushing "Vaccine Awareness Week" - so why not jump on that bandwagon and show them for the assholes they are. |
| 10 | In her new book, Sarah Palin engages in a bit of revisionist history regarding early feminism. They were all really justa buncha fundamentalist Christians just like the Founding Fathers were also, don't'cha know. Well, not exactly. |
| 10 | Bad Science: NMT are suing Dr Wilmshurst. So how trustworthy are this company? |
| 10 | Karl Marx Joel Olson: The history of all hitherto existing society Gabrielle Giffords's shooting is the history of class struggles. That Loughner was crazy doesn't matter; that he was white and middle class does. |
| 10 | Striffler: Of course Jared Loughner is crazy, but his political "confusion" is by no means unique among others his age. He argues that American culture and media do not encourage political literacy, leading to a generation who are not "citizens" but "consumers," with a tendency toward "muddled" political views. |
| 10 | Skeptical Humanities looks through a TV station's crank mail after they ran a chemtrails story. A cornucopia of green ink! |
| 10 | Glenn Beck, wanting to outdo himself talking to cupcakes, has recycled a decades old tin foil hatter story as "breaking news" (again) that Socialist chants are being taught to grade school children on his "news" site The Blaze. Morons are obviously shocked. |
| 10 | Can you guess what I think of the "supermoon"? Hint: the blog is called Bad Astronomy. |
| 10 | The next wave in the wingnut flood of crazy: Remember when Utah Sen. Mike Lee said child labor laws were unconstitutional? Some people took him seriously. A bill to repeal certain child labor laws and safety standards recently shot down in Missouri is followed up by bills in Ohio and Maine to loosen child labor restrictions. Please sir, can we have some more? |
| 10 | An interesting take on the motives of the Tea Party. Discusses how fiscal conservatism is cherished by some because it's about exclusion. |
| 10 | The science of why we don't believe in science. |
| 10 | Breaking news: 4/27/11 - Obama finally releases his long-form birth certificate. |
| 10 | Is bad decision making and risk taking a consequence of evolution? Bad decision making and the framing effect |
| 10 | Changes as Scienceblogs is bought out by National Geographic? PZ Myers and Ed Brayton wonder if they'd have to become "family friendly". |
| 10 | What role does global warming play in tornado activity? |
| 10 | Five bizarre GOP reactions to OBL's death. UPDATE: And from a quickly forming group of conspiracy theorists led by Andrew Breitbart comes reaction number 6. To paraphrase Mark Twain, "the story of OBL's death may be greatly exaggerated." |
| 10 | This GOP pre-debate rally brought to you by the John Birch Society and the Oath Keepers |
| 10 | Research in memory may lead to new treatments for PTSD, as well as ethical questions. |
| 10 | How the recent commodities crash is making hyperinflation scare-mongerers look even dumber. |
| 10 | Thirty five of the top evolutionary psychologists tell Satoshi Kanazawa to go fuck himself (well, in academic form at least). PZ Myers, however, is a bit more explicit. |
| 10 | Lyndon LaRouche jets climate deniers to Sweden to protest a conference in Stockholm. |
| 10 | Six politicians who've failed epically on Twitter. |
| 10 | It's not just Andy: Using facts on conservatives makes them cling to their beliefs even more firmly. |
| 10 | Educated idiocy: Chris Mooney notes that research on belief about climate change shows that more education makes Republicans less likely to believe it's happening while the reverse is true for Democrats. |
| 10 | Phil Plait explains away the "mysterious bubble in the sky" filmed by a Hawaiian observatory webcam and gets New Scientist coverage. Countdown to a fresh batch of conspiracy and UFO nutjob theories begins. |
| 10 | In honor of The Young Turks reaching nearly half a billion video views on YouTube, have a classic clip of Cenk Uygur going fucking ballistic. |
| 10 | What happened to the anti-war movement? |
| 10 | Quackery: It also evolves. |
| 10 | Paul Simms from the New Yorker reveals God's Creation Blog - with comments. |
| 10 | Murdoch hacked us too |
| 10 | July's heat records visualized. |
| 10 | Teens try to hack Koch brothers site, get the FBI on their asses! |
| 10 | Are anti-science conservatives out of step with mainstream America? We certainly hope so. |
| 10 | On the use (and mis-use) of Godwin's Law. |
| 10 | Has American-style conservatism become a religion? |
| 10 | Tearing pages from Bibles makes atheists ugly. PZ says what we're all thinking. |
| 10 | The Onion: Comatose GOP candidate drops out of the presidential race due to sex scandal. |
| 10 | The largest victims of the economic turmoil: pets. Go on and adopt a cat, you know you want to. |
| 10 | The Berkeley Earth temperature dataset shows a decline in global warming... if you ignore the error bars, don't do any statistical analysis, constrain your sample to only a few years, and include a data point that only includes temperatures from Antarctica. |
| 10 | Welcome to the Bigot-O-Tron 9000! |
| 10 | Apparently organized football can cause brain damage to almost an entire university campus. |
| 10 | The Daily Heil just had to make a story about St. Ronnie's sex life. Not only couldn't Raygun manage government, he also couldn't manage giving women orgasms, and - shocker! - blamed their vaginas. |
| 10 | Math teacher at a Christian school has been accused of masturbating during class. This is obviously the fault of insufficient prayer. |
| 10 | GET IN MAH BELLY, America! |
| 10 | Memo to cops using pepper spray on non-violent protesters: It is more chemical weapon than it is spice, and it may make non-violent people violent. |
| 10 | The Spectator runs a piece stating that sea-level rise is a scam - George Monbiot would like to tear them a new one for it. |
| 10 | But global warming stopped in 1995 1998 2005 2007 ... |
| 10 | Cue cries of "A scurrilous attempt to smear the good name of Dr. Paul!" Update: Old video of Paul mentioning newsletters surfaces. Update II: All they're saying is, give the KKK a chance. |
| 10 | Lemony Snicket's 13 Observations About Occupy Wall Street. |
| 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." |
| 10 | The 9 Voters Who Lost Iowa For Santorum |
| 10 | Cracked: 6 Small Math Errors That Caused Huge Disasters. And nuclear makeup. |
| 10 | The ultimate Star Wars nerdgasm. |
| 10 | New journal to be launched will combat publication bias by publishing negative results. |
| 10 | You heard it here first: Vaccines are part of the transhumanist agenda to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids. |
| 10 | "All the other kids with the pumped up kicks, you better run, better run, outrun my gun." |
| 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 | How we got Ayn Rand instead of FDR: How Tea Party 'Populism' Derailed a New New Deal |
| 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?" |
| 10 | Why people still use Facebook. |
| 10 | The "best" swag at CPAC. |
| 10 | The climate inquisition continues, including death threats. |
| 10 | If movie posters were a bit more descriptive. |
| 10 | A Picture of Rick Santorum... made of gay porn!Too low rsolution to be NSFW, though. |
| 10 | Putin's gonna steal your voter virginity. |
| 10 | Work it, George. |
| 10 | Rush Limbaugh finally finds a sponsor that he can relate to |
| 10 | Legalizing prostitution? Hey, it worked in the middle ages! |
| 10 | Ricky, please don't be so quick to concede the nomination to Romney! NOOOOO!!!!! |
| 10 | Religiosity versus societal dysfunction in the US. Religiosity is a symptom of failure. |
| 10 | Meryl Dorey drinks water to cure whooping cough. Calls it quantum medicine. |
| 10 | Over fifteen years and a ridiculous amount of blockbusters on, can Will Smith shake off the shackles of The Fresh Prince? He can not. (BONUS: He does his thing at 1:50. BEST CHAT SHOW EVER.) |
| 10 | Oklahoma courts set an interesting precedent. |
| 10 | Anti-vaxxers think that whooping cough is nothing. They'd be wrong. Again (self promotion warning) |
| 10 | Snark - it works, bitches. |
| 10 | The difference between doctors and lawyers. |
| 10 | But the nukes! Why does nobody think of the children nukes?! |
| 10 | Best Father's Day present ever (make sure you scroll down, that's why it's called Poe's Law.) |
| 10 | From Aaron Sorkin's new series The Newsroom. |
| 10 | What else would you expect from cdesign proponentsists, taking to the Evolution News blog whining about Wikipedia editors upholding real science: "They have nothing better to do with their time and will always erase your attempted correction and reinstate the bogus claim, with lightning speed over and over again." |
| 10 | HuffPo religion blogger tells fellow Christians to avoid perpetrating these ten cliches. But as one atheist commenter who likes the list puts it, "[t]ake away all those cliches . . . and what have you got left?" |
| 10 | Natalie Reed: Fuck anti-science. Even within the "progressive" and activist communities. |
| 10 | For fundies who insist that women should not wear pants because of Deuteronomy 22:5, The Atlantic explains why pants were invented in the first place -- horses. |
| 10 | Polly Toynbee: Who still thinks that outsourcing works? |
| 10 | A good assessment of the Tea Party movement and the Republican Party. |
| 10 | AronRa speaking out against hate directed at women |
| 10 | BuzzFeed documents some unreasonably angry Daily Mail commentors. |
| 10 | Why Christianity? |
| 10 | Cracked.com on wingnut assertions that Obama is the Antichrist -- Least efficient Antichrist ever. |
| 10 | A philosopher Sokals the theologians. |
| 10 | It's Golden Crocoduck time once again! Voting site is here. |
| 10 | Didn't someone say something about no detailed rigorous explanations for how complex biochemical systems could arise by a random mutation and natural selection? |
| 10 | Fuck the polls, the psychics are calling the election for President Obama. (self promotion warning) |
| 10 | In other election news, Maine elects the first open WoW gamer to state senate. From the comments: "Well I sure as hell wouldn't have voted for a horde player!!" |
| 10 | An astoundingly useful and sensible post on Above Top Secret, of all places: The Illustrated Field Guide to Internet Kooks. |
| 10 | RW linking to celebrity gossip blogs? Well I never! Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith deliver important lessons on preconceived notions of what is "female" and what it means to be in charge of your own body and life. |
| 10 | "I am Adam Lanza's mother, says a mother with a similar son. h/t to George Takei Update: And a different perspective. |
| 10 | So the Australian Vaccination Network site got hacked ... and has been serving up pharma spam. |
| 10 | VIDEO: On Thursday, Fox and Friends had a professional Santa Claus talk about the War on Christmas. A website called "DoucheChillz" did a simple web search of the guy and found some (ahem) other videos of him that would've pissed off Gretchen Carlson -- if he was a librul, that is. (Doesn't Fox do ANY research before they put this shit on the air?) |
| 10 | Edzard Ernst: How to become a charlatan. |
| 10 | Cosmos will be in good hands. |
| 10 | Science deniers invent a debate by presenting a false equivalency between real science and denialism(self promotion warning) |
| 10 | Do-it-yourself abortions are coming back. |
| 10 | Lowest of the low: Congress is less likeable than Nickelback. |
| 10 | Mark Lynas gives a powerful speech about GM crops and anti-GMO sentiment in the environmental movement. |
| 10 | The best description of herbalism was — guess what — hidden in a 13-year-old Pokemon game. |
| 10 | As a scientist your job is to bring new knowledge into the world. Hiding it behind a journal's paywall is immoral. |
| 10 | VP Joe Biden versus Onion Joe Biden: FIGHT! |
| 10 | Never start a debate on a perpetual motion forum. |
| 10 | When the point-of-entry cost of UK higher education increased, people wondered if it would actually cost the government more - two years on, new studies and evidence emerges that it almost certainly will, dipshits.Hat-tip |
| 10 | Well, yes. Yes, they are. |
| 10 | How to stop media leaks: Dig out the polygraph! (Hint to whistleblowers/leakers: Read our article, or watch QI season E, episode 7, for some tips on how to cheat it.) |
| 10 | Hiroshima and Nagasaki in colour. |
| 10 | So it turns out science makes you more moral. (in one study with a small and very WEIRD sample) |
| 10 | The Republicans have a Pope Francis problem. |
| 10 | It's the vaccines that saved lives dumbass. Vaccine deniers still ignore the evidence. |
| 10 | Rand Paul speaks at Howard University about the bewilderment the GOP feels at being abandoned by African-Americans. Jon Stewart takes the opportunity to explain it to him. (2 videos) |
| 10 | "My bike, it's messed up...I fuck your mother!" "Oh really? That's so good for her, she hadn't had much of a sex life. First I thought you were angry with me and now you come with this wonderful message." |
| 10 | Another intriguing factoid from the NSA fiasco: Germany is apparently more dangerous to warrant spying on than the Ruskies. |
| 10 | It's not a Godwin if you can actually make a link to the You-Know-Whos. "Legitimate rape" and other instances of rape apologetics by the GOP seem to have originated with a 1972 essay by an obstetrician who cited a concentration camp study where many (but not all) women who were told they were going to the gas chamber and then allowed to live missed their next ovulation cycle. That essay was recently republished in a book by Americans United for Life. |
| 10 | "This extraordinary creature is called the David Attenborough." The rest of Bird and Moon is also worth checking out. |
| 10 | Here's some ethical oil at work. |
| 10 | How things change... ArsTechnica reveals Edward Snowden's past as a goldbug gun nut who thought leakers should be "shot in the balls." Whoops. |
| 10 | NSFW video: A Brazilian(?) priest during Mass: Um... wow! I guess that's why they like wearing those cassocks. |
| 10 | The four sides of one seriously fucked-up Egypt: a military that wants to keep selling Windex, millions of increasingly liberal protesters that are being ignored, the remaining Mubarak apologists, and and a Muslim Brotherhood which proclaims itself to be "democratic" but thinks the Jews are everywhere. (The last of the four is now being shot at by the military.) |
| 10 | How Intellectual Property Reinforces Inequality. |
| 10 | Chad Hurley, co-founder for YouTube: TV for everybody! |
| 10 | Maybe the replacement of Jay Leno won't be bad after all: Hear Yahoo! Answers in musical form. |
| 10 | The Southern strategy failed to reverse the most of the social progress made in the Civil Rights era. But you can see why the GOP switched to economic rhetoric. |
| 10 | Duckface Vietnam, motherfucker! |
| 10 | Bruce Schneier: How to Remain Secure Against the NSA. |
| 10 | Well, at least they think it's happening, right? |
| 10 | It seems the UK's drive to austerity was largely full of crap. Related: A Redditor tries to explain to Americans why ending stimulus (ergo debt ceiling) would be a bad idea right now. (Response: Zimbabwe! Greece! Underfunded liabilities!) |
| 10 | We hope you had the time of your life. Related: If true (in the words of Hubert Farnsworth) this has to be one hell of a bowel movement. |
| 10 | A Canadian political scientist suggests that we might see uprisings in Jesusland again. (The hilarity that this is the same population that most self-identifies as "American" and as the "true" ancestors of the slave-keepers Founders — as a defense mechanism — is noted, but the Fourteenth exists for a reason.) Related: The Economist believes that this all might be racial after all. |
| 10 | '“The sky is falling,” said Chicken Little. “Heard it on Fox TV.”' |
| 10 | Why don't vaccine deniers worry about kids dying from gunshots, car accidents, and suicide? Instead, they lie about vaccines which may have caused 1-2 deaths over the past 20 years. |
| 10 | LG Smart TV caught collecting data on files stored on connected USB Drives |
| 10 | A world where anti-biotics no longer work......is here already! |
| 10 | Moonbeam in his office: "Yay!" |
| 10 | It's a strange day when Mother Jones and the Cato Institute agree with each other on economics. |
| 10 | Review of a recent book on the introduction of the idea of evolution into the Islamic world. How do you discuss Darwin in a language that does not have a word for "species?" |
| 10 | Nate Silver, who you will recall, is a witch, predicts the GOP may be able to take the Senate. (Then again, this mess.) |
| 10 | And here's how the climate change deniers will lose. |
| 10 | If the Kremlin is trying to create a Ukrainian Civil War, it's not working. Cue Napoleon. |
| 10 | "We allow ourselves only two major political parties. One of them is completely out of its fcking mind." |
| 10 | Jeffrey Stacey contends: Putin is losing the current round of the Ukraine crisis |
| 10 | A Brown University professor became skeptical of the use of weasel words and vague numbers in mainstream media reportage of satanic ritual abuse in daycare sex abuse cases. So he did a fifteen year study of these cases and found that in many cases the allegations of satanic rituals originated with various defense teams to make the public believe that prosecutors were conducting crusades based on moral panics and not on the actual evidence. |
| 10 | We have a problem with child refugees because the government of the United States is serious about you staying clean and sober. |
| 10 | Juan Williams: "...I work at Fox News." |
| 10 | Why Twitter won't do shit to fix its harassment problem |
| 10 | Somebody is using Lorem Ipsum to troll google translate. |
| 10 | Number #1 on Frank Luntz's Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary: Do not hire Frank Luntz. (The presser in question.) |
| 10 | In which many of the people ruining the reputation of skeptics are the people ruining the reputation of gamers. |
| 10 | When is "awareness" awareness day? |
| 10 | A truly beautiful and only slightly cruel writeup of a Bitcoin convention at Disney in Florida. |
| 10 | The Interview is out!! and it's offensively stupid garbage. WHAT ARE THE ODDS HUH |
| 10 | The state of satire in the Muslim world. |
| 10 | An overview of the controversy over American Sniper. Though it is less about the movie and more about the background and subject. |
| 10 | Here's an interesting analysis of Putin's Russia, specifically in the realm of foreign policy. |
| 10 | More rank hypocrisy from the Republican Party, as it attempts to filibuster the war spending bills, not out of any new attachment to peace or other such concerns, but as a method to delay health care reform.(self promotion warning) |
| 10 | John McCain apparently believe it honors American troops to dismiss them from service. Fuck him. (self promotion warning) |
| 10 | Introducing the New Apostolic Reformation who wish to exorcise the demons ruining America. And among its proponents? Sarah Palin. |
| 10 | After blathering on about socialized medicine and death panels, Sarah Palin now thinks it's "ironic" that her family used to cross into Canada for health care. There is, of course, another word for it. |
| 10 | Jon Stewart introduces Union Victory Appreciation Month. |
| 10 | (Not really a blog post. Just something unexpected.) Did the Kids in the Hall predict Glenn Beck 20 years ago? (As if the characterization wasn't eerily prescient on its own, there's the line "Crazy like a fanatic -- 'Fox,' I mean!") |
| 10 | Tom Tancredo has a new theory regarding President Obama's birth certificate. (Before you read this, take a deep breath and brace yourself for the paranoid stupidity that is about to assault your eyes and your brain.) Ready? Obama is intentionally hiding his birth certificate to make the Tea Baggers look crazy. |
| 10 | A few days after Family Research Council co-founder George Rekers was caught at Miami International with his "RentBoy," he tried to talk his "baggage carrier" into avoiding the media. During the conversation, Rekers offered up this little gem: "I've been through things like this in the past --" Hmmm. |
| 9 | What do you get if you visit a chiropractor? Another appointment. |
| 9 | If Great Cthulhu becomes president, we obviously would all go mad. Do we get to choose which particular pathological condition we are blessed with, or does the big C just roll a d100 and we get what we're given? |
| 9 | A contestant on The Biggest Loser details the horrifying abuse and pressures the show puts contestants through. |
| 9 | Glenn Beck has written a novel chock full of his "patented mix of paranoia, patriotism, conspiracy theories, and self-help philosophy." And if we want to better understand the hearts and minds of teabaggers, we should read it. |
| 9 | Why do Republicans from Texas seem to be more overtly batshit crazy than most other Republicans? |
| 9 | Back in the day when the clogosphere consisted of a few obsessed nuts with mimeograph machines, ditto masters, a few reams of paper, and too much time on their hands, the memes of the right-wing scream machine were remarkably similar then to the memes used today. Just substitute the name Obama for JFK. Even a cloth coat Republican like Eisenhower had to deal with these nuts. |
| 9 | TAPL will seemingly never learn. |
| 9 | Now is the time to stand up to Faux News |
| 9 | If you're a right winger running against Tom Tancredo, who could blame you for trying to out-batshit-crazy him? |
| 9 | Who'da thunk? FDA warns consumers that drinking industrial bleach does not in fact cure asthma, Crohn's or cancer. |
| 9 | Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, and other members of the right wing scream machine may think that the neighborhood around Ground Zero is hallowed ground. But the strippers and gamblers who frequent the area beg to differ. |
| 9 | Thrilling: all the crazy Christine you can barely handle on one page. |
| 9 | British conservatives are a lot saner than American conservatives. |
| 9 | "I Ate A Bowl of Soup, and Now I'm Muslim!" A Muslim reflects on some anti-halal paranoia. (In a completely unrelated development, pork has been off the menu at Church's Chicken for five years now.) |
| 9 | UK Libel law threatens science and honesty.Libel reform campaign's petition |
| 9 | Sorry prez Bush some cheerleaders have brains. |
| 9 | "Deep down, creationists realize they will never win factual arguments with science. This is why they have construed their own science-like universe." |
| 9 | Sarah Palin's Alaska vs. The Walking Dead: Fictional TV show about mindless undead gets better ratings than competing "reality show" about the mindless. |
| 9 | What WikiLeaks is for, and what the latest leak is about: how to apply hacker (as in cracker) information theory to solving the problem of authoritarianism. |
| 9 | In 1960 John F. Kennedy said his faith would be separate from his public role, guess who thinks that's a bad idea. |
| 9 | How extensive was Hitler's paranoia? In the months before invading the Soviet Union, the Nazis tried to ruin the reputation of a Finnish businessman and his dog because the man had taken several photographs of the dog parodying the Nazi salute. |
| 9 | William Rivers Pitt has a bone to pick with far-right figures, such as the mainstream media: One of their number once promoted the "overheated right-wing" idea of collective guilt, which goes to show that they are all collectively guilty of shooting Gabrielle Giffords. |
| 9 | So, why was your paper retracted? "It’s none of your damn business." Hat tip |
| 9 | Six stories overlooked by the Biased Liberal Corporate Media. |
| 9 | Prof. Henry A. Giroux has put forth a broad-based call to action against the evils of capitalism neoliberalism market fundamentalism. Yet to follow: the everyman's guide to that crucial component in his plan, the "formative culture." |
| 9 | William Rivers Pitt: Keith Olbermann was a victim of a right-wing cabal who dominate and control not only MSNBC, but the entire news media. |
| 9 | customer relations at its best. (read it all) |
| 9 | What "Original Intent" Would Look Like |
| 9 | James Fallows asks of Libya, "What happens then?" |
| 9 | Turnabout is fair play: NPR's On the Media re-edits an interview with James O'Keefe. |
| 9 | VIDEO: A Wisconsin capitol policeman basically tells a woman and her two kids that the First Amendment is only in effect on the first floor of the capitol, not in the rotunda. Oh, well. No doubt he was just following orders. |
| 9 | Infographic: The GOP war against the youth vote. |
| 9 | Website: "Pick a Year to Begin THE END" -- A rather thorough (yet probably still far from complete) list of apocalyptic predictions. (According to various predictions, the world will end sometime between 4990 BCE and 4,500,000 CE.) |
| 9 | Joe Scarborough on Donald Trump: "When your political rhetoric shocks a man who believes the rise of the Antichrist could be ushered in by President Barack Obama’s agenda, it might be time to refocus your communications strategy." |
| 9 | People for the American Way release a thorough profile on pseudohistorian David Barton, just in case you didn't know he was a crank already. |
| 9 | The Smoking Gun has examined the philanthropy of Donald Trump. Their findings: He may be America's stingiest billionaire. (He isn't even the largest contributor to the charitable foundation that bears his name!) |
| 9 | Superstitious China |
| 9 | "Wikipedia has a 'macaca' problem": Apparently a paper from an anthropologist studying the Congo is not an authoritative source for the statement that "macaca" was used as a racial slur there. Conservapedia is linked to as an example of craziness. |
| 9 | Get ready for new bin Laden conspiracy theories |
| 9 | Christopher Monckton is socking up. |
| 9 | What do the anti-vaxers actually want? Their aims are political and legal - we need science, but it's not enough. |
| 9 | Raising taxes and the debt ceiling is just like the Holocaust! Time for a corollary to Godwin's Law? |
| 9 | A new Duke University study finds further dangers of fracking. |
| 9 | Top 10 scientific zingers |
| 9 | Wegman-gate update: I didn't plagiarize nothin'! It was all my student's fault! |
| 9 | With notably rare exceptions, a president has never called for Israel to change its borders. |
| 9 | Dominique Strauss-Kahn really should have kept his dangler in his pants: not only has he fulfilled the iconography of power dynamics with parallels in Greek mythology, smut, and colonialism, but he went and groped a union maid. |
| 9 | Wegman continues shooting himself in the foot. |
| 9 | Goldman gets served but "dodges" the Gaddafi bullet. |
| 9 | Creeping Sharia: Not coming to a courthouse near you. |
| 9 | Daniel Loxton traces the history of the "don't be a dick" arguments in the "skeptical movement" - from the mid-19th century to Phil Plait's speech at TAM 8. |
| 9 | Shorter Hillary then: Hey Dubya, stop terrorism-baiting! Shorter Hillary now: You're either with us or against us. |
| 9 | Miss USA contestants answer the question: Should math be taught in schools? Okay, not really, but it's a hilarious spoof. |
| 9 | Deficit fetishes. |
| 9 | A Bloomberg gov't app lets you decide who to screw over if the debt ceiling isn't raised. |
| 9 | On the Historicity of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. |
| 9 | Worst Congress ever? |
| 9 | What does the debt deal mean? Felix Salmon attempts to provide some answers. More: A good summary by Stephen Squibb. |
| 9 | Christopher Monckton: Past his use-by date? Update: His "reputation for being mad as a snake clearly remains intact." |
| 9 | What can the police do in London? Well... nothing that we haven't already banned, aren't equipped for or would risk making things worse. |
| 9 | But, but, but...wind power kills birds! |
| 9 | Giorgio A. Tsoukalos becomes a full-fledged meme. Aliens. Update: More Giorgio mocking here. |
| 9 | Rick Perry made $990 in Bisexual Barebacking venture. |
| 9 | What happens when you get Cleverbot to talk to itself? |
| 9 | Want to solve our economic problems? Simple. We tax Ronald Reagan. |
| 9 | 19 states allow you to marry your first cousin, but only if you're not the same sex |
| 9 | I wouldn't hold my breath for headlines reading "New study blows GAPING hole in denialist arguments." |
| 9 | The best argument for raising taxes: Bill-O will go Galt. |
| 9 | A perfect analysis of the current insanity in the US. |
| 9 | The "denier-industrial complex" in one graphic. |
| 9 | Marge Phelps: "Look at us! Look at us! We're relevant! Please look at us!! "God created the iPhone so I could tweet about Steve Jobs being in Hell" |
| 9 | "Confession: I have a thing for the GOP." |
| 9 | Wait, didn't Heath Ledger play that gay cowboy role a couple of years ago? |
| 9 | Climate deniers are like magicians. They can make data just...disappear. |
| 9 | Ariane Sherine (of the ABC fame) looks "a little bit brown", so people just seem compelled to ask ...so where are you from? |
| 9 | What is the right action to take to stop the Stop Online Piracy Act? (We'd like Option #1, thank you very much...) |
| 9 | Ever wondered who takes all those photographs you see in newspapers? Ever wonder if the newspapers actually pay for them? Quite often, not. |
| 9 | Anti-Vaxxer kook Stephanie Messenger publishes an absolutely disgusting new book for children: "Melanie's Marvellous Measles". |
| 9 | A Brit tears SOPA a new one. Watch and spread. |
| 9 | Atlantic Monthly weighs in on PolitiFact's 2011 "Lie of the Year". (Includes several links to other pundits who are decrying the choice.) |
| 9 | The jokes write themselves. |
| 9 | A Redditor asks: what New Age garbage make you shudder with intolerance? 6786 comments in the first 12 hours. |
| 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? |
| 9 | Know Your Meme confirms Jesusland. |
| 9 | Sweden innovating again. But the sheep? Seriously? Give us our goat. |
| 9 | Bloomberg, don't start up a mini-Prohibition. |
| 9 | The Unexpurgated Atheist FAQ. Complete in every detail. |
| 9 | "WikiDate" - a privacy clusterfuck. |
| 9 | "Has he had the surgery yet?", "I look like such a tranny today", "CIS? What does that mean?", "I'll call you 'she' when you get the surgery". Shit CIS people say to trans people. |
| 9 | Paris Lees pens a beautiful and inspiring response to a transphobic Daily Fail hatchet job. |
| 9 | The beginning of your program. The earth is spinning in the wrong direction. |
| 9 | The new Friedman Unit: "The Romney"...the 3 1/2 hour window in which a grown man running for President can change his deeply-held conviction to its opposite. Also, never offer Barbara Boxer a job in stand up. |
| 9 | A day in the House of Lords. |
| 9 | Libertarians: only now, at the end, do you understand... |
| 9 | Gooood. I can feel your anger. Take your weapon. Strike down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the Dark Side will be complete! |
| 9 | A brief history of religious and conservative prudes and their own relationship with smut. |
| 9 | La Cipolla: "Do not expect us to save you from yourselves again. From what we've seen, you don't deserve it." |
| 9 | In a case regarding the Family Medical Leave Act, the U.S. Supreme Court bent over backwards just to fuck over women as much as possible. Again. |
| 9 | Sir, welcome to the internet, where saying stupid things will always come back to bite you in the ass. |
| 9 | Best chemistry lecture ever. |
| 9 | Conservative values summed up in 40 quotes. |
| 9 | There's Waldo! Sheriif Joe Arpaio can't get no respect that isn't beaten into folks first. |
| 9 | Mara Wilson (that girl wot played Matilda back in the day) has her first brush with the infamous Daily Mail. |
| 9 | The Stridency and Sensitivity of Carl Sagan (on why Dawkins is getting more flak than Sagan) |
| 9 | Good morning! |
| 9 | If you thought the "Who said it: Mitt Romney or Mr. Burns?" quiz was too easy, try this. |
| 9 | Darren Naish takes on ReptileEvolution.com |
| 9 | Bikers Against Child Abuse |
| 9 | Don't worry, MRAs: when these women get judged for their skill and not how "fat" they are, we can start talking. |
| 9 | Google changes its doodle midday to commemorate the Curiosity landing. |
| 9 | Suddenly, Mitt's VP choice makes a whole lot more sense. |
| 9 | The Official Guide to Legitimate Rape Update: Rape: The Idiot's Primer |
| 9 | Patton Oswalt: "I'm Voting for Obama Because I Love Money, But I'm Not Money's Bitch." |
| 9 | Ok, cut it with the Jim Cramer jokes for a sec. Update: Thankfully, there are always exceptions for the rich and famous. |
| 9 | A president and his moose. (No relation to you-know-who.) |
| 9 | Cue millions of Republicans' brains exploding. UK Tories: Obama's one of us. |
| 9 | Cracked: What would Mitt Romney have to do to win the election? |
| 9 | "After all, a fella needs some job security." |
| 9 | Morgan Freeman on a Snopes-debunked "don't point to gun control as the problem" screed allegedly in his name: You're all a bunch of idiots. |
| 9 | We're done with the Internets people. Shut everything down. |
| 9 | Hey Kerry, maybe if you had such wit back in 2004 maybe we wouldn't be in this shithole in the first place. |
| 9 | I woke up to 20 emails asking for my opinion on pubic lice. How did your Monday Morning coffee go? |
| 9 | If you've ever wondered why the Second Amendment was written the way it was... |
| 9 | Rummy demonstrates the stopped clock theory. |
| 9 | Bigoted poem spewer on Dan Savage's blog gets a taste of his own medicine. |
| 9 | Cracked: 3 Personal Disneylands Being Planned by Total Lunatics (featuring Becky and the Citadel) |
| 9 | Because let's face it, Monica Lewinsky is in desperate need of even more humiliation |
| 9 | An interesting look at those who still think Congress is doing an OK job. |
| 9 | No, Jesus wasn't the king of Edessa |
| 9 | Cecil Adams gives us the Straight Dope on Pedophilia |
| 9 | What is the opposite of progress? |
| 9 | Arkansas, meet Canadian ethical oil. |
| 9 | Capitalism and Slavery, redux. |
| 9 | Gore's Law: pretty much all that's left in the conservative denialist playbook. (Oh, and bask at the Coultergeist inadvertently admitting that she's helping to combat climate change.) |
| 9 | No, the DSM is not being thrown out. |
| 9 | "And at my age you’re glad of the company, so immigration doesn’t bother me. The more the merrier as long as they’re not French." |
| 9 | Oh, those whacky red states. Some of them are crafting "federal nullification laws" that they think will empower them to arrest federal agents trying to enforce federal laws within their borders. Sounds like some legislators have been reading the "Citizen's Rule Book" in their spare time. |
| 9 | Ed Brayton blogs about the problems with the US Legal Standing Doctrine. |
| 9 | Salon notes that, having solved all bigger problems, armed SWAT teams are being deployed to perform raidsalcohol license inspections. |
| 9 | More from that treasure trove of British declassified documents: Helmut Kohl was apparently a xenophobe... and then went "oops" when open immigration policy worked. |
| 9 | Heritage Foundation, get me a study co-relating a basketball team's winning percentage with the amount of taxes they pay, stat! |
| 9 | Nature asks scientists about Keystone XL: Eh... |
| 9 | Good job, Elon Musk/Norway. |
| 9 | Well, ABC is ready to grow some gigantic balls: What happened if the Brits trounced the American Revolution? (Let's make a series about it!) So, thirteen episodes of life in Canada? |
| 9 | Let's just hope Brand isn't seen wearing any (more) Hugo Boss clothing anytime soon. |
| 9 | The Journal of Cosmology strikes again. This time they have found alien life in the sky. Has alien life been found in a meteorite? Or the sky? Or [Insert Location Here]? |
| 9 | A University of Toronto (untenured) professor whines about female, gay and Chinese literature, saying that "Virginia Woolf is the only writer that interests me as a woman" and that he only teaches "F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chekhov, Tolstoy. Real guy-guys. Henry Miller. Philip Roth." (To each an irony meter.) Update: And he doubles down! |
| 9 | Check your irony meters: Immigrants are more likely to identify as "British" than Scots, Welsh, or Englishmen outside London. |
| 9 | Yes, women, it's your fault! |
| 9 | Wu Tang Clan explains the Big Bang. |
| 9 | The FDA has ordered Google-backed genetic test maker 23andMe to halt sales of its personalized DNA test kits |
| 9 | Rosenberg's free speech test. |
| 9 | The expected response to tonight's SOTU: Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan. |
| 9 | The Onion: "US advances to women's hockey... hey, get the fuck back here, sexist asshole!" |
| 9 | A fascinating article analyzes the way we talk about moral issues in movies, especially Oscar-nominated movies. And the way we talk online in general, honestly: "Never has it been so easy to get close to so many other people for the purpose of not really listening to the ones who disagree with us." |
| 9 | China: Intimidating superpower wannabe, or barely breathable and in serious economic trouble? |
| 9 | How do you know when American conservatism is (finally) losing the war on economics? When Marginal Revolution is reduced to this. |
| 9 | (Video) Exorcist beats demons, but not cell phone. |
| 9 | Stuart Robbins from the Exposing PseudoAstronomy podcast has released a video entitled, "The Cydonia Region of Mars Explored" that looks into the claim by Richard Hoagland and others that the Cydonia region of Mars (where the "Face" is) shows geometry that could only have been designed by an intelligence. |
| 9 | David Rose is at it again, supposedly pounding another nail in the coffin of climate change. (Debunking from Skeptical Science) |
| 9 | Brookings Institution: The Tea Party has a losing record for 2014. |
| 9 | The Republican Scandal Machine modus operandi 101. |
| 9 | Ann Coulter: less political commentator, more polemic performance artist and satirist. |
| 9 | IO9: The Fine Line Between Conspiracy Theory And Rational Skepticism. |
| 9 | On the different degrees of subtlety in a person's opinions and behavior: The Subtlety Illusion |
| 9 | "Capt. Kirk vs. the Internet" |
| 9 | Because the head-exploding nature of Republicans wanting to move to Canuckistan does not seem to be a joke. |
| 9 | Finally, a "What is going on...." post that warrants all-caps, bold and italics. CONSERVAPEDIA IS EDITING THE BIBLE TO MAKE IT MORE CONSERVATIVE!!! UPDATE: The editors -- now called the "Conservative Bible Project" -- have posted editing guidelines. The Huffington Post comments on the guidelines. |
| 9 | The Mind Body Soul Experience: "a celebration of good posture, human credulousness and the placebo effect" |
| 9 | How to be a pickup artist (with science) (contains satire) |
| 9 | An incredibly useful site: Realorsatire.com. |
| 9 | A seventeen-year-old writes a poem composed entirely of anagrams of Eric Garner's last words. Chilling. |
| 9 | So, what do U.S. cops get punished for? |
| 9 | Failed psychic predictions of 2014. |
| 9 | So much for respect for the dead. At least in the eyes of William Donahue. |
| 9 | What happens when a woman agrees with a compliment about her looks on social media? Damned if you do or don't - she can't win! |
| 9 | Why the macho sludge peddled by the American Sniper is really cowardice. |
| 9 | Annotated version of the Atheist Ireland post below. (Bonus: There's a link to RW's Gish Gallop article in the post) |
| 9 | Nearly 1 in 10 American adults have both undiagnosed impulsive anger issues and access to firearms |
| 9 | The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi talks about GMOs. |
| 9 | When does pseudoscience stop being funny? When a government spends $85 million on dowsing rods for detecting bombs. |
| 9 | Britain's new Internet law -- as bad as everyone's been saying, and worse. Much, much worse. The PDF of the act can be found here |
| 9 | The FDA seem to get a little confused over an apple. |
| 9 | Ben Goldacre on why climate change is so difficult for people to think about. |
| 9 | (Just a little fun) Tremble before the terror of: The Four Horsemen of the Atheist Apocalypse! |
| 9 | A list of the crimes and misdemeanors of the Bush administration. (25 July 2008) |
| 9 | Tabloids make shit up. Who knew? |
| 9 | A takedown of an obnoxious pro-"Don't Ask Don't Tell" editorial. (self promotion warning) |
| 9 | Death of the Dawkins forum. The world’s busiest atheist forum closes. UPDATE : Resurrection is expected in 30 days. |
| 9 | Mikhail Gorbachev: Post-communist economic "shock therapy" completely ruined Russia's economy. |
| 9 | Sean Hannity says that 100% of the donations to Freedom Concerts, his "charity" to fund scholarships for children of fallen soldiers, goes to the scholarship fund. Really? Would you believe 20%? How about 12% in 2008? Or 7% in 2007? How about as low as 3.68% in 2006? (And this was discovered by a right-wing blogger.) |
| 9 | Be afraid. Be very afraid. The Teabaggers now have military weaponry at their disposal. |
| 9 | Why do some Christians insist Hitler was an atheist? |
| 9 | Nevada GOP senate candidate Sue Lowden proposed last week that we pay doctors like our ancestors did. We should return to the barter system -- specifically, we should trade chickens or house painting for housecalls. There is now a website that tells you how many chickens to bring with you on your next hospital visit. (Example: one MRI = 462 chickens.) Think this kind of ridicule would discourage other Republicans from jumping on the barter bandwagon? Think again. |
| 9 | Thunderf00t is fucking furious. |
| 9 | Ever wonder if there's a legitimate argument against gay marriage? Well, no, but redoing the databases to accept it all is going to be a fucking nightmare. |
| 9 | On May 6th, Evan Harris, perhaps the UK's most scientifically literate MP, lost his parliament seat in Oxford West and Abingdon by 176 votes. Did the rising Christian Right in the UK have anything to do with that? |
| 9 | American History, Texas Teabagger Style. It's either a parody ("Patriotic Japanese Americans volunteer to place themselves in gated communities so that America will be safe from Imperial Japan." ya think?) or the writer cribbed their notes off of Conservapedia... |
| 9 | "HI GUYS, I lost my fone and nueed ur numbaz plz!!" |
| 8 | "From all evidence, [Rand] Paul lives in Libertarian La-La Land, where a purist philosophy leads people to believe in the purest nonsense. |
| 8 | Pat Robertson definitely has machismo. |
| 8 | Brian Cox: Why we need the explorers |
| 8 | Joe Barton isn't alone when it comes to feeling sorry for BP. In fact he may be in the GOP's mainstream |
| 8 | Sick systems, and how people get trapped in them. |
| 8 | PZ on strike |
| 8 | Transportation Security Administration (TSA): We promise that none of the full-body security scans we do at airports will ever be stored. Never. They are discarded immediately. Honest. You can trust us. Really. Okay, maybe we store a few, but not many. Honest... |
| 8 | Got half an hour? A Treatise on Morality that's well-spoken. |
| 8 | In 1840, Joseph Smith is believed to have delivered the "White Horse Prophesy" wherein he said that when the Constitution hangs "upon a single thread," the elders of the Mormon Church will step in -- on the proverbial white horse -- to save the country. In the earliest days of his Fox News show, Mormon convert Glenn Beck and lifelong Mormon Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) both claimed that the Constitution was now hanging by a thread. Coincidence, or code words intended to go over the heads of Beck's non-Mormon viewers? |
| 8 | A "Who's Who" of the Tea Party. "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. |
| 8 | Michele Bachmann called Glenn Beck "the nation's educator". At least she didn't pick Andy Schlafly's homeschooling programs... |
| 8 | Hitchens vs Hitchens: Can Civilization Survive Without God? |
| 8 | Every year since 1970, on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, American Catholics have contributed to the Catholic Campaign on Human Development. And every year, conservative Catholics have lambasted this anti-poverty charity because it supports groups that they say are leftist, socialist, pro-gay, pro-abortion, etc. More to the point, they say it violates their inverted version of the prosperity gospel -- that sin (i.e., the rejection of Catholic values) is the cause of poverty. |
| 8 | Sarah Palin, Mamma Grizzly or complete n00b |
| 8 | dprjones is wondering why Peter Popoff is currently allowed to be on UK television despite being a conman and currently banned by Ofcom. His emails to the MP in charge of broadcasting have fallen on deaf ears, but could this be because said MP may endorse homeopathy as well as Popoff's magic spring water? |
| 8 | Worst. Nutcracker. Ever. With Nazi rats. And sharks. And Albert Einstein. I am not making this up. |
| 8 | The first atheist in the Islamic Maldives is now speaking out after death threats; he's open to questions via YouTube. (Some background via dprjones) |
| 8 | Be careful what you let access your Twitter account. |
| 8 | HuffPo has added a new page for atheists - although atheism is not a religion fans will be disappointed to know that its still categorised under religion. |
| 8 | Eric Utne: The Great Beast foretold by the prophet Steiner, whose name is Ahriman, or Scientific Materialism, is come among us as a cell phone advertising campaign snake in the grass — EEK! Transistors! Get 'em off me! Get 'em off! |
| 8 | Thom Hartmann: "We the People" did not include corporations; quite the contrary, corporations were heavily restricted for the first 100 years after the U.S.'s creation to ensure they did not amass too much wealth. |
| 8 | The ever-intelligent Orac points out that autism cranks aren't antivaccine. They just think that vaccines are "the biggest and harmful medical mistake ever perpetuated." and that "Dr. Josef Mengele's ghost must have coined the "well baby" visit" because of them. |
| 8 | Are lesser websites competing with you? Is due process an inconvenience? Why not just ask the government to shut them down? |
| 8 | The 2011 Slantie Awards, for the most biased reporting from right wing "news" sites in 2010. |
| 8 | Clear thinking: it's not just for science. Skeptical Humanities fights bullshit over in the other building. |
| 8 | Why the unrest in Wisconsin? "Conservatives really want to change the basis of American life, to make America run according to the conservative moral worldview in all areas of life." |
| 8 | Cracked delivers again: 20 Tacky Religious Products Guaranteed to Anger God. |
| 8 | Robert Reich on The Real Republican Strategy |
| 8 | Would Superman pass the birther test and other legal questions faced by comic book characters. |
| 8 | "The Lord is my shepherd" - kind of a dumb metaphor, really. |
| 8 | Totalitarianism has come to the U.S., masquerading as corporatist neoliberalism. |
| 8 | A new study by the UK Govt examines how the global food business will have to change to feed a world of 9 billion people by 2050. |
| 8 | Come one, come all! Hear arguments in the biggest sex-discrimination case in history as six women sue Wal-Mart in the Supreme Court. |
| 8 | Chickenhawks become chicken...doves? |
| 8 | Paul Krugman on European austerity and confidence fairies. |
| 8 | We should stop running away from radiation. Nuclear physicist and author, Wade Allison, suggests we need a sea-change in peoples attitudes to radiation to put things into perspective. |
| 8 | The new wingnut anti-abortion angle seems to be some kind of deranged amalgam of Jerry Falwell and Louis Farrakhan. |
| 8 | Misinformation and Facts about Secularism and Religion |
| 8 | Christopher Hitchens makes a rousing defence of the King James Bible. |
| 8 | Glenn Beck's TV show has been canceled on Fox. |
| 8 | Mark Oppenheimer: PBS has gone downhill due to 1990s-era political threats from Newt Gingrich's Congress. |
| 8 | Warmist enviro-nuts are out-lobbying energy interests...oh wait, no they're not. |
| 8 | SkepticalScience has been running a good series dismantling the arguments of "lukewarmer" climatologist Richard Lindzen: The Lindzen Illusion, Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3. Update: Pt. 4 is out |
| 8 | The Inner Party was right: War is peace! Coming up: Why 2 + 2 = 5. |
| 8 | Anthony Watts continues to be the most useful global warming denier, yet again debunking his own claims. |
| 8 | The Wegman Report takes a further beating. |
| 8 | Political polarization? Not when it comes to trampling civil liberties. |
| 8 | The Abortionplex is on Yelp. Free nachos and mojitos during the procedure? It doesn't get better than that. |
| 8 | Canada's election explained. |
| 8 | It's a shit sandwich...literally. |
| 8 | Wait, who is it that's "subverting the peer review process" in the global warming "debate" again? |
| 8 | Ron Paul wants to know: Where's the gold in that thar fort? |
| 8 | The Conversation wraps up an excellent two-week series called "Clearing up the Climate Debate" |
| 8 | Bobo, of all people, decides to get "shrill." (Update: Krugman notices the shrillness. Update II: Comment gold.) |
| 8 | A Royal Navy medic objects to fighting in Afghanistan, but as he is an atheist he only has a "slight political reservation, not a moral conviction". |
| 8 | The Daily Telegraph is live-blogging the hackgate scandal; get popcorn. |
| 8 | Obamageddon: The Novel! |
| 8 | Butthurt billionaires' greatest hits. |
| 8 | Maureen Dowd compares and contrasts the cozy relationship between British PM Gordon Brown and the "pope of Fleet Street" with the now-strained relationship between Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny and the actual pope, whom Kenny has accused of attempting "to frustrate an inquiry (into another local church sex scandal) in a sovereign, democratic republic as little as three years ago, not three decades ago." (Video) |
| 8 | Get ready for a climate crank-gasm: The entire CRUTEM3 database excepting Poland has been released. (Obviously, Polish temps are the key to debunking global warming and are being suppressed.) |
| 8 | Obviously, UFO conspiracy kiddies will go nuts on this, but very interesting indeed. |
| 8 | VIDEO: Keith Olbermann's Special Comment (1 August 2011): "The Four Great Hypocrisies of the Debt Deal" |
| 8 | The abortion that Mitt Romney doesn't talk about anymore |
| 8 | Can godless heathens secularists be more ethical than pure and moral religious folk? |
| 8 | Female orgasms: I think you'll find it's a little more complicated than that. |
| 8 | The ACLU on civil liberties ten years after 9/11. |
| 8 | Nobel prizewinner and Royal Society president Paul Nurse: Stamp out anti-science in US politics |
| 8 | Dr. Ashens gets a letter from Peter Popoff about his SUPERNATURAL DEBT CANCELLATION! |
| 8 | European philosophers as anime girls. Includes Spinoza panty shot. |
| 8 | Years after King Arthur was baffled by the question, Wolfram Alpha gives us an answer.Eugh, I don't get it? |
| 8 | Wingnut welfare hits the UK. |
| 8 | You know something's wrong when pro-market groups start worrying about income inequality, calling it the "New Gilded Age." |
| 8 | Papa Bear's running out of "coherent" responses. |
| 8 | By now, it's probably conclusive that there isn't a left-wing bias in the American media. |
| 8 | PZ Myers rips Deepak Chopra a new one. |
| 8 | Engineers vs. intellectuals? |
| 8 | It's that season again...Climate denial season! |
| 8 | Massimo Pigliucci: If you take the Templeton dollar, don't even try to pretend you're not whoring out your reputation. |
| 8 | "Here's a helpful heuristic: When a conservative politician or pundit says "market" (or "private sector") in relation to energy, mentally substitute the phrase "status quo."" |
| 8 | PZ Myers et al prepare to visit the Creation Ministries of the Ozarks "museum." Or as he puts it, "you are skeptical anthropologists there to observe the peculiar and pathological folkways of a backwards, intellectually impoverished people." |
| 8 | A useful quack spotters guide |
| 8 | Superliminal neutrinos and the Vindication of All Kooks Doctrine. |
| 8 | Cracked: 5 Insane Celebrity Product Endorsements by Historic Figures. Featuring the obligatory Theodore Roosevelt fan-wank and one of the most hilarious Reagan fights (see comments) ever. Also look at this. |
| 8 | Radio host Jamila Bey discusses the rise of black Atheism in America |
| 8 | The Stewart/Colbert team say their final goodbyes to Herman Cain. Gotta catch 'em all! |
| 8 | Want to donate something unique this year? How about this particularly special creature? |
| 8 | Subtle (as a brick) gendering and racialising in job adverts. |
| 8 | Naomi Wolf backpedals on her civil war conspiracy theory. |
| 8 | Meme Time: What other unpopular opinions can Rick Perry endorse? |
| 8 | It's that time of year again. Merry War on Christmas! |
| 8 | Glenn Greenwald tears into Hitch. |
| 8 | CNN asks: How do you nonbelievers celebrate the pagan festival of Saturnalia? |
| 8 | Ricky Gervais in Twitter battles with fundamentalist Christians. Bonus Fun: Imagine it's our friend Ken. |
| 8 | Nature throws standards out the window for some quick quack cash. |
| 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. |
| 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." |
| 8 | Carl Zimmer [8] about research on the evolution of multicellular life. |
| 8 | "I'm sorry for how the Church treated you" |
| 8 | Comments speak for themselves. |
| 8 | The greatest movie trailer of all time? |
| 8 | Barack Obama is a total failure at all the things conservatives predicted he would do or not do. |
| 8 | President Harry Truman and Mitt Romney have both delivered speeches to an empty stadium. The difference is that Truman was a great president, and Romney is a crass asshole. |
| 8 | Right wing groups announce plan to do absolutely nothing pray for the repeal of Obamacare. Kill the poor for Jesus! |
| 8 | The Conservative Party's attacks on its critics seem oddly familiar... |
| 8 | MAD Magazine asks to guess Who said it: Mitt Romney or Mr. Burns. No Poe's Law here, because, well, the source is known. |
| 8 | The first Legoman in space, now the first space shuttle. |
| 8 | Sick of the lies and half-truths about alternative sexuality and gender? Here are some 100% true facts about queers. |
| 8 | How I learned to stop worrying and love Anonymous. |
| 8 | One of the top headlines in in the gaming world this week has been Mass Effect 3's gloriously crappy endings (see below), but something related to our mission? If you count yet another backlash by fundies, then yes. Come on Faux, you know you want to. |
| 8 | The $8 billion iPod: Hollywood accounting at its finest. |
| 8 | Captain Hindsight... |
| 8 | We need to get support behind THIS idea. |
| 8 | An open letter those who elected (the tea party-esque Toronto mayor) Rob Ford. |
| 8 | AVN survey reveals vast majority are idiots. |
| 8 | An alternate version of the "militant atheist" comic. |
| 8 | Maybe some day there will be sociological and psychological studies regarding internet users who manage to be so gullible that they will believe any myth, story or hoax they hear AND be complete skeptics regarding actual verified historical events. (Some of the actual Tweets.) |
| 8 | xkcd, dying? Never say that ever again. |
| 8 | Die Zwiebel: Obama has dicked Democrats around for four years. Now it's our turn. |
| 8 | Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson explain the Higgs boson. |
| 8 | Website: Would Jesus Discriminate? |
| 8 | Scalzi's take on white male privilege |
| 8 | PZ Myers posts a top-class example of how to respond to requests to debate creationists. |
| 8 | Climate deniers are branching out to new forms of denialism. |
| 8 | Socialism, socialism, socialism. Socialism? Socialism! Socialism... |
| 8 | Weekly Standard writer uses a meme ("Al Gore invented the internet.") while disparaging the concept of memes. |
| 8 | Only 85% of Americans believe in some form of creationism. What are evolution denialists doing wrong? (self promotion warning) |
| 8 | PRIVACY NOTICE: Warning - any person and/or institution and/or Agent and/or Agency of any governmental structu... dammit, reality! |
| 8 | The Onion: This just in at Mitt HQ: Plight of the unemployed continues around the country. HI-FIVE! |
| 8 | You're welcome to enjoy a dishwasher, just don't assume "all women love dishwashers because they're women, and must clean everything". |
| 8 | The Onion: God Admits Humans Not Most Impressive Creation |
| 8 | Cracked delivers again: The 11 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Religious Paintings. |
| 8 | Black folk don't do atheism? |
| 8 | NASA scientists working with the Curiosity rover are slowly adapting to Martian Time, but now the Flight Director's family are getting in on it, too. |
| 8 | Other things Todd Akin Believes To Be True About The Uterus. |
| 8 | Goddamn Estonia. |
| 8 | Pull your heads out of your ass anti-vaccine cults. Flu vaccinations are safe for pregnant women. They also don't cause the flu, so quit lying about that. And there are some dangerous new swine flu viruses that need to be watched. |
| 8 | Edzard Ernst, the bane of UK alternative medicine, has started a blog. |
| 8 | Giving men the right to vote was a horrible idea. |
| 8 | Ah, if conservatives only knew who Ian McKellen is. (And who the fuck are the Bieber/Twilight fans here?) |
| 8 | Easiest way to usurp Iranian theocracy: start a rave. Protip: just don't adopt Israel's signature "music." |
| 8 | IGN: Nearly 1/4 of registered voters are considering playing Halo 4 than casting their ballot. |
| 8 | Not drinking wine is as bad for you as being a light smoker. |
| 8 | Remember when gay men threatened to marry your girlfriends? *Ahem*. Ladies... |
| 8 | This is too good to be stashed away into Monthly RW: Lee Berger, the discoverer of Australopithecus sediba, and Darren Curnoe, best known for co-finding the the Red Deer Cave people, say hi. |
| 8 | Race, class and vaccines |
| 8 | The debt limit: The sound of someone hitting themselves...forever. |
| 8 | Nick Cohen on abuse and misogyny in the far left. |
| 8 | Tom Shales helps dissect the "hoopla and pageantry" that surround the SOTU. |
| 8 | A new ENCODE smackdown in Genome Biology and Evolution is rather snarky, though too much so for some. |
| 8 | Worth another look: To commemorate the election of Pope Francis I, Cracked.com has reposted this 5½ year old article it calls "The 5 Biggest Badass Popes" to its front page. |
| 8 | "History" Channel's Satan may look like a certain black guy. (Glenn Beck likes it, unsurprisingly.) |
| 8 | Immigrants and video games together, a Fox News nightmare come true. |
| 8 | RIP Doomsday Lady. :( |
| 8 | How to construct your own Susan Greenfield technological panic article. |
| 8 | Here's one for mothers of newborns. Maybe formula isn't as bad as the pseudoscience types say. The war against natural mothering starts in 3…2…1. |
| 8 | A one-question quiz to determine whether or not your Christian denomination should support same-sex marriage. |
| 8 | The Crazification Factor to be put on the test again in Virginia. |
| 8 | The Washington Post: Let's burn the bridge right after we've crossed it. |
| 8 | Please, Obama, don't let us have to write an article about Larry Summers. |
| 8 | Has L. Ron met his match? Say "Hebbo!" to Tarvuism where you too can learn to speak to an octopus! (it's gotta be Poe don't it?? Please tell me I've been Poe'd on......oh thank god for that!) |
| 8 | Even more dirt on the American MIC's current fiscal disaster. |
| 8 | Dr. Sanjay Gupta thinks weed is great. Except his scientific evidence blows. |
| 8 | Nature profiles eminent psychologist and skeptic Elizabeth Loftus. |
| 8 | One woman's journey from pro-life to pro-choice. |
| 8 | She's the Elizabeth II to the current SCOTUS. (At least Scalia isn't selling snake oil, right?) |
| 8 | Hey, why trash England? Can't you trash the rest of your country? (Or can you find anything to trash?) |
| 8 | Obama, even if you get confirmation that chemical attacks were ordered by Assad, please don't seriously think "common sense" is an effective argument. |
| 8 | First we had Spacebat. Now we have Spacefrog. |
| 8 | It's finally happened: The New Right becomes the New Left. Update: And oh, how about all the fun we're going to have! |
| 8 | A very short lesson in genetics for creationists |
| 8 | Economists on the debt ceiling: KILL IT WITH FIRE |
| 8 | Don't Call What Happened in Iran Last Week an Election: It was a crudely stage-managed insult to everyone involved. |
| 8 | Creationist Louis Agassiz: better in the concrete than the abstract. |
| 8 | Liberal media! Liberal media! Liberal media! Oh. |
| 8 | It turns out that the Crystal Skull vodka bottle is Zippy the Pinhead (or, perhaps. Smeagol). |
| 8 | When internet cranks turn deadly: check out this "where are they now" list of cranks at Bombs, Taxes, and Red Crayons blog. |
| 8 | Why Yellen's nomination as Fed Chair was vital. |
| 8 | We've reached the point where Bill Kristol — yes, Bill Kristol — is speaking more sense than the entire GOP hierarchy. |
| 8 | Say what we will about the Obama administration, but thinking outside the box doesn't seem to be a problem. |
| 8 | Oh come on, Cthulhu All-Spark is a GREAT name! You can call her "Sparky" for short! Or...or...Fhtagn, maybe. |
| 8 | 35 Top excuses why 29,999,000 people missed Operation American Spring. |
| 8 | The Attack of the Drones seems to be silently ending in Pakistan. |
| 8 | MRAs petition Canadian Arts Councils about a lesbian haunted house that was open last Halloween |
| 8 | CNN serves up some Watergate apologism. The Ludwig von Mises Institute takes this in a rather...interesting direction. |
| 8 | How politics makes us stupid. |
| 8 | Look at all the female Democratic votes, they're falling from the sky! |
| 8 | Who needs a psychic Octopus (or whatever it is this year) when you have the protozoic parasite Toxoplasma gondii? |
| 8 | "This time it's the Democrats who are united." (Just a matter of time now.) |
| 8 | “Should we call ISIS evil? — Evil is the most powerful word we have to prepare ourselves to kill other people comfortably.” |
| 8 | NY Times - the internet is One big circle jerk |
| 8 | Kirk Cameron makes a prat of himself. |
| 8 | Glenn Beck, "a snake-oil salesman's dim-witted assistant," debuts on British TV. |
| 8 | Now that the Keystone XL debate is suddenly relevant again. |
| 8 | Charlie Brooker responds both thoroughly and with characteristic venom to Jan Moir's now almost infamous gay-bashing "article", suggesting that in true Daily Mail fashion, we should all formally lodge disapproval. Update: Moir attempts to defend herself almost by claiming that she didn't read her own article. |
| 8 | All those leaders marching in France for freedom of speech .....?? ...perhaps not as much as you might think!! |
| 8 | The Plight of the Bitter Nerd, Arthur Chu's take on nerd opposition to feminism. |
| 8 | Conservative deceit: Yes, it does exist! |
| 8 | Steven Novella: "While I do not know what [NBC Host Brian Williams] remembered, it is wrong and naive to assume he is lying. Williams was likely betrayed by his memory." |
| 8 | In depth review of the Schlafly debating fiasco by the one who lived it. Warning: don't click on the links in the post, if you're participating in the boycott. (self promotion) (12 August 2008) |
| 8 | Cracked.com goes over some truly impossible examples of Poe's Law (though they unfortunately didn't link to our article on it). |
| 8 | #Thingsjesusneversaid |
| 8 | The people at large respond with largely sensible opinions regarding Gordon Brown's bad handwriting. |
| 8 | A fired associate editor of the New York Post -- aka, Fox News Print Edition -- alleges that the newsroom is run like a racist, sexist frat house. The D.C. bureau chief's stated objective is to "destroy Barack Obama." (Earlier this year, this editor protested the infamous cartoon of the chimpanzee -- Obama, metaphorically -- shot by cops.) |
| 8 | A climate change skeptic shows how the science was able to convince him! |
| 8 | Even the President of Russia is against glossing over the crimes of Stalin, but there are groups in Russia trying to anyway. (self promotion warning) |
| 8 | The Case of the Customized Christ. People will try to portray Jesus's political views as identical to their own. But the schismatic Catholic Ched Myers spends 500 pages arguing that he was a Red. |
| 8 | Oh, great. Now Glenn Beck is worried about Scott Brown, the newest senator from Massachusetts. After Brown said in an interview that his two daughters are "available," Beck now thinks that Brown could be a closet pervert. Bonus: "Libertarian" Beck wants Brown fitted with a chastity belt and put under surveillance. |
| 8 | The Amazing Randi on the ADE-651. |
| 8 | An abstinence-only program that actually works - by dropping the only bit. |
| 8 | No. |
| 8 | Looks like the Republican Party is done being so helpful. UPDATE: Republicans decide to start happy hour early |
| 8 | Is there still vulcanism on Mars? (see also entry above) |
| 8 | Hadron Collider II planned for Circle Line. Meanwhile, in other LHC news, Dimensional Portal Incursion At The LHC! |
| 8 | The Internet In 1969: How We Imagined The Future. Promo film predicting e-commerce, e-mail, but not an end to patriarchal households. (And, holy crap! Look at all those RCA plugs on the back of the computer near the end of the film.) Link to original YouTube page. |
| 8 | A surprisingly insightful article from Cracked: 5 creepy ways video games get you hooked |
| 8 | Is Hammersmith and Fulham the Ghost of Tory Yet to Come? |
| 8 | Ever wonder why there aren't many women in engineering? (Although some experiments on monkeys do seem to indicate this may not be entirely the case) |
| 8 | For wingnuts who endlessly wail about the slippery slope of socialism, they are seemingly uninterested in the history and implications around post-Soviet power ties. |
| 7 | "Anyone who contributes to Conservapedia is guilty of willfully eroding the collective intellect, to the detriment of all" skeptoid |
| 7 | "BP's Long History of Destroying the World." |
| 7 | Drilling for natural gas can be as hazardous as drilling for oil. For instance, if there are NG wells in your area, you'd be well advised to crush out that cigarette before turning on the water faucet. |
| 7 | Climategate and the "Wall Of Certainty" |
| 7 | Irony alert! Joe Lieberman says that utilities "Just want a breather" from air pollution regulations. |
| 7 | InfoGraphic: Why you should stop drinking bottled water. |
| 7 | Just released: The 2009 list of books that were the "most challenged" in America. |
| 7 | Prof. Najam Haider explains that Sharia is not an immutable law, but a flexible way of thinking that changes with circumstance. (Rather like how Christians interpret the proscription against women wearing men's clothing; not that that's ever stopped fundamentalists railing against women wearing pants.) |
| 7 | Slide show: Many Americans think that fossil fuels come from dinosaurs (and/or uranium), and that climate change is beneficial. |
| 7 | A 568-word explanation of the historical reasons for the First Amendment's separation of church and state; one that is so to-the-point that you might assume even Christine O'Donnell could understand it -- until you read some of the comments. (The first one was so nasty that it was deleted.) |
| 7 | Ms. Magazine claims that New Atheism is unappealing to women, cites Conservapedia. Jen McCreight takes them to task. |
| 7 | A philosophy professor says quite bluntly: Students are not products and teachers are not social engineers. |
| 7 | A little-known internet crisis may be looming: The current system of 4,294,967,296 IP addresses has grown too quickly and will soon hit its saturation point. |
| 7 | All the contradictions in the Bible, shown graphically |
| 7 | Time magazine on Marie Curie. Won two Nobel Prizes and founded the field of radiology? Pfft, that's not nearly so important an accomplishment as making girls and women believe in themselves. |
| 7 | We know that "the stupid, it hurts." But, where hurts? And how much? LessWrong investigates! |
| 7 | Why should a postman pay for your university education? And why does free education end at 18? |
| 7 | "Everyone knows that something is wrong. The politicians say, 'we need higher standards.' The schools say, 'we need more money and equipment.' Educators say one thing, and teachers say another. They are all wrong." |
| 7 | Ed Vaizey would like ISPs to specifically filter explicit content on the internet, except just one, tiny, minute, hardly-worth-mentioning point; it just wouldn't work. |
| 7 | VIDEO: Attempting to blow up asteroids that threaten Earth -- a la Armageddon and Deep Impact -- could be more dangerous than leaving them undisturbed. Attaching rockets to them and pushing them off trajectory would be safer. |
| 7 | NSFW due to mature language: Ben Goldacre gives a speech at Nerdstock about placebos, nocebos, and homeopathy. |
| 7 | Dubya and the Uranium: Top 10 State of the Union Moments. |
| 7 | "Are you smarter than Thomas Jefferson?" Actor/writer Wallace Shawn explains the character trait that sets actors apart from other people; why this trait has made him a socialist; and why all of this makes him more self-aware than -- although not necessarily smarter than -- Thomas Jefferson. HuffPo mirrors this essay -- with readers' comments -- here. |
| 7 | Pogrom in Cairo! U.S.-backed and U.S.-financed Egyptian military does not fire its U.S-backed and U.S.-financed guns at Mubarak's thugs, come to beat up Egyptian demonstrators; they just sit on their U.S.-backed and U.S.-financed tanks and watch. And lest you forget the most important thing, we'll say it again: They're U.S.-backed and U.S.-financed. |
| 7 | Glenn Greenwald: Some Tea Party members break ranks in the House and vote against extension of provisions in the PATRIOT Act. |
| 7 | Throw an Egg at a Climate Scientist! Buy a Hayek T-Shirt! Inside CPAC's Carnival of Right-Wing Wares. |
| 7 | Does cash get results in schools? - Spending, class, results, and comparing like with like. |
| 7 | Trade unions fought hard to end piecework. This blogger doesn't make the connection, but she did get a firsthand lesson on the exploitative nature of this practice. |
| 7 | The Republicans, unbeknownst to themselves, have got a new political program, involving evaporating public goods, ending public education, and outlawing unions. Also, their budget cuts amount to a coup. |
| 7 | Glenn Beck seems to have gone off the deep end in trying to link money supply and inflation to cupcakes. During the confusing analogy, which only goes further to prove the definition of "currency" eludes him completely, he spends some quality time talking to the cupcakes. |
| 7 | Robert Naiman: Sen. John Kerry, the anti-Vietnam-War Democrat, should know better than to act in ways suggesting that the U.N. charter is not the Constitution of the world. |
| 7 | Michael Pirsch: There's so much democracy down in Venezuela that the imperialist American pigs are getting nervous, which means that U.S. class warfare is in its final chapter (but don't get excited; class warfare's been that way for a century and a half). |
| 7 | Liveblogging from the protests in Lansing, Michigan. |
| 7 | Disaster areas: How to - and importantly, how not to - help. |
| 7 | The Guardian offers the public an alternative census - help make Brian Cox a new religion! |
| 7 | 10,000? 100,000? No, wait a MILLION! So how do you count the number of people at a protest or a march and do people alter the number for political gain? |
| 7 | Edge special on black swan events. |
| 7 | Glenn Greenwald on Terry Jones, free speech, and unending war. |
| 7 | The "abortion as black genocide" narrative hits the big time: Since Arizona passed its "anti-discrimination" abortion bill, the Family Research Council has jumped on the bandwagon. Alas, A Blog has a collection of videos tracing the roots of this campaign. |
| 7 | This Week In Fake Presidential Candidates |
| 7 | Commentary on how Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is planning to create "more Benton Harbors", cities taken over by the state government and ruled by a Gauleiter an Emergency Financial Manager who can effectively fire the sitting government. |
| 7 | The BBC asks: "Is Cuba's Party Congress just a rubber-stamp exercise?" One hopes the intention was ironic. |
| 7 | Mikey Weinstein: The Moonie-owned Washington Times has got no business criticizing "fringe ideas" in religion. |
| 7 | The neocon/liberal-interventionist alliance, or How I stopped worrying and learned to love the military–industrial complex. |
| 7 | Besides the facepalming stupidity of fart based smartphone applications, one of the few real lessons we learned from The Apprentice challenge to built an app was that people will try anything if it's free - though speaking of Lord Sugar and internet technology, anyone own any of the these? |
| 7 | The internet gets its own currency. I was into it before it was popular. |
| 7 | Less lead equals less crime? |
| 7 | Financial "reform" was shot full of loopholes. Hoocoodanode? |
| 7 | Whither Elizabeth Warren? |
| 7 | Andrew Breitbart's long history as a liar. |
| 7 | Wegman: The copypasta never stops. |
| 7 | Apparently, not only is the Syrian lesbian blogger who was recently "kidnapped" by her government actually a straight man, but now it comes out Paula Brooks, a supposedly deaf lesbian blogger is also a straight man. |
| 7 | As a result of Fukushima, natural gas may begin to replace nuclear in Europe. Joe Romm has recently detailed some of the ups and downs of natural gas and fracking. |
| 7 | An amazing brain injury recovery. |
| 7 | Robert Nozick's libertarianism. |
| 7 | Michele Bachmann uses just about every Republican budgetary PRATT in the book, Salon issues a good debunking. |
| 7 | A new Pew poll shows evangelicals don't like evolution...or yoga. |
| 7 | The Hampture is near! Countdown to hamsternaut deployment has started. |
| 7 | The latest facepalm-worthy homeopathy indication: Malaria |
| 7 | Britain's press and politicians enjoy a far too cosy relationship. |
| 7 | Author Andrew Morantz works for a summer at an Indian call center, and learns some interesting things about Australians. |
| 7 | Justice Stephen Breyer fails at neuroscience. |
| 7 | How UK libel laws may have influenced the press' use of underhand tactics, i.e., phone hacking. |
| 7 | It's the Disco 'Tute versus... the Institute for Creation Research? |
| 7 | Refuse to be terrorized. |
| 7 | Everything you wanted or didn't want to know about Michele Bachmann courtesy the New Yorker. |
| 7 | How to succeed in banking without really trying. |
| 7 | The Metropolitan police are starting to make good on their promise to publish photos of the London rioters. |
| 7 | The late, great Molly Ivins talks about Rick Perry. |
| 7 | Climate denier Joe Bastardi delivers a truly epic Gish Gallop. |
| 7 | Long live our Soviet motherland! |
| 7 | The tax the moochers poor meme spreads. |
| 7 | Advertising copywriters are unable to understand basic mathematical concepts. |
| 7 | Per PZ Myers: A bunch of "science-denying wackaloons." (except Jon Huntsman) |
| 7 | NASA animation shows what it would look like when a black hole eats a star. |
| 7 | "America is choking on the edifice of empire....If this is what global dominance looks like, who needs it?", per an opinion piece at Reuters. |
| 7 | This user likes to call it The Proxmire Effect. |
| 7 | A handy guide to Republicans and global warming and evolution. |
| 7 | Here's a neat idea: let's start a fund for cryptozoologists to go on a basic photography course. |
| 7 | We need renewables, but it's also time to take geoengineering solutions like carbon capture seriously. |
| 7 | "You know you’re seriously fucked when even Moody’s, the most whorishly corrupt ratings company in modern history...can’t find a way to avoid downgrading you." |
| 7 | Who wants a Mitt's the Shit hat? And the Typical Republican Voter. |
| 7 | The battle against Big Solar. |
| 7 | The "anti-science" false equivalence. |
| 7 | Penn Jillette asks why politicians have come over all religious recently. |
| 7 | "But three decades of these supply-side policies have produced the same economic problems they were supposed to fix...(resulting in) a fierce tug of war among global policy makers, pitting those who would impose stricter fiscal austerity on already ailing economies against those focused on keeping the spending tap on." |
| 7 | Jerry Bergman claims that atoms are irreducibly complex. Let's look at that and see why it's wrong.Note; long post. Skip to section 5 if you're already familiar with ID and IC. |
| 7 | The so-called "Communist Broadcasting Corporation" at its conservative worst. |
| 7 | HuffPo blogger Amanda Terkel thinks she knows the origin of the 9-9-9 plan that Herman Cain is touting. And if she's correct, Cain needs to get out of his mother's basement more often. Update: Politifact tests Cain's math. Just guess what they thought of it. |
| 7 | Not all deficits are economic. |
| 7 | Alan Colmes tells Ann Coulter that she is "a hate crime." To her face! On Fox! |
| 7 | "What I really need is a droid that understands the binary language of moisture vaporators." (okay, so this one is only really here for the Star Wars quote.) |
| 7 | The ultimate gauntlet that every major politician must face: APEC. |
| 7 | It's-a me! Your new Prime Minister! |
| 7 | The Onion: Renewable Energy Source Encoded in Charlie Sheen's Rants |
| 7 | Google posts its 2011 version of Year in Review. |
| 7 | Newt Gingrich's letter to Virginia regarding the existence of Santa Claus and claims he said otherwise. |
| 7 | It's now gone to the point that we can suggest that most, if not all, critiques of Michelle Obama's physique are not because "she's fat", but for other, more interesting reasons. |
| 7 | Stephen Harper's Tories borrow the wedge strategy in order to sneak the abortion question back onto the front burner in Canada. |
| 7 | “An Irishman, a Portuguese, a Greek and a German walk into a bar. Who picks up the tab?" |
| 7 | The secret formula for an Oscar-winning movie revealed! |
| 7 | Today in bad philosophy: Libertarianism has no real answer for how to raise children. |
| 7 | Just what can you do with a law degree, in picture form? (Answer: not much.) |
| 7 | Stephen Harper sets up Canada's version of MiniTru. |
| 7 | Introducing our new Paul the Octopus: Megyn Kelly Shelly! |
| 7 | A way to hide your doings from light and time! Now how to best improve it so the USA someone can weaponize it. |
| 7 | If you haven't heard this before, it's Saturn dropping the beat. |
| 7 | How the universe began. |
| 7 | Too...many...awesome...Stephen Colbert videos... |
| 7 | A plan to restore America to it's Christian RootsWarning, intensive levels of sarcasm detected. |
| 7 | According to Google, geek girls are really men. |
| 7 | The despicable behavior by some, including but not limited to psychic frauds, towards families of missing persons. |
| 7 | Charles Murray isn't racist -- he also hates (poor) white people! |
| 7 | This week in Harperland... |
| 7 | Brian Cox (*swoon*) on why quantum theory is so misunderstood, and why good science should be part popular culture. |
| 7 | This does seem to be biased to those with facial hair, though. |
| 7 | Germans and their beer... |
| 7 | Cool story, bro. Phyllis Schlafly gets a mention. |
| 7 | Michael Moore: "This race could go from dog-on-car to man-on-dog", remarks that the GOP would be doing better to speak out against meat instead of birth control. |
| 7 | Africa here we come... |
| 7 | Wallpaper of the Day. |
| 7 | All Hail Charlie Brooker. |
| 7 | A surprisingly good suggestion from Margaret Wente. |
| 7 | Snap. |
| 7 | The Religious Antagonist trolls a few atheists.Warning: Contains an image of Mike Lee half naked and sat on a toilet. |
| 7 | A re-enactment of North Korea's totally dangerous rocket launch. |
| 7 | Presidential nomination tip: never let an Antarctic-based aquatic bird attack you, presumably for denying global warming. |
| 7 | Producing very expensive urine does not cure cancer |
| 7 | As the first riding gets null and void, Sacha Baron Cohen General Aladeen praises our good ol' Canadian friend. |
| 7 | Try not to wince. |
| 7 | A nice deconstruction of conservative arguments about abortion and eugenics. |
| 7 | The dark side of TED. |
| 7 | A more enlightened, and thankfully briefer, version of 50 Shades of Grey. |
| 7 | The roasting of Jimmy Carr. |
| 7 | Wouldn't it be really convenient to wake up on Saturday and not have to worry about digging through your dresser, looking for your one pair of good green pants? Wouldn't it make life easier? |
| 7 | Beware of Pascal's Scams. |
| 7 | Jon, it's been a Dickens novel for a loooong time. |
| 7 | SPAAAAAAAAACE! |
| 7 | Meet the Mayor of Reykjavík. In comparison, here's the "Mayor" of Toronto. |
| 7 | Wool the real Romney please stand up? "New Zealand has trouble distinguishing Presidential candidate from a sustainable source of natural fibre." |
| 7 | Good ol' Faux. |
| 7 | Stop eating! Foods cause cancer.(self promotion warning) |
| 7 | This blog post causes cancer.No, not the Daily Mail |
| 7 | Gilles-Eric Seralini, the professor behind the widely debunked "GMO gives cancer to rats" study, appears to be an ambassador to an alt-med company controlled by a New Age-style faith healing cult that sells homeopathic and detox products. You can't make this stuff up. |
| 7 | The sanest conservative statesman in the gun control debate. (Unfortunately, it's John Howard.) |
| 7 | Zing! |
| 7 | Cecil Adams tells you the ins and outs of accessing the "Deep Web" |
| 7 | Roger Ebert: how I am a Roman Catholic |
| 7 | Exposing PseudoAstronomy interviews a former BBC producer from the Apollo era on some of Richard Hoagland's (mostly NASA-related) conspiracies. |
| 7 | The Corn God's schedule. |
| 7 | Is overt racism and sexism really a good advertising strategy? "Mountain Dew Releases Arguably the Most Racist Commercial in History." If you're curious, this video commentary by the Young Turks includes the full ad within the first 70 seconds. (The ad revolves around a trash-talking goat, so it must be RW material.) |
| 7 | The Atlantic Wire tempts Betteridge's Law on the Rob Ford crack scandal. |
| 7 | How Turner Barr got fired from a job he invented. |
| 7 | A twofer: John McCain's daughter claims that Republicans are clueless about sex, while fellow blogger Gail Sheehy claims that they are better than Democrats at hiding their adultery and that she knows why. |
| 7 | 5 Shockingly Progressive Ideas from 'Primitive' Cultures. (Monks have some explaining to do.) |
| 7 | Potential treatment/prevention for people who happen to validate Salem Hypothesis. |
| 7 | How to end both Jack Thompson-esque censorship and the basement-dwelling nature of the the gaming world? "We need to find something that resembles the academic environment, someplace where people seem to have endless amounts of free time, where everyone is long-winded, argumentative and encouragely cliquish, someplace obnoxiously elitist and frustratingly male-dominated." |
| 7 | And that is why I consider myself a scientismist. I know it is supposed to be a perjorative, but I am reclaiming it. |
| 7 | Those libtards are going to implant you with microchips! Thanks Obama! |
| 7 | We'll keep Boris Johnson, thanks. Bonus: Rob, just what were you doing in March? |
| 7 | As climate change denial fades away, enter...climate policy denial. Also: Why nations haven't insisted on more significant climate change countermeasures |
| 7 | Amanda Marcotte takes a few pages out of the "Pro-Life" movement's handbook--literally. Learn important debating techniques, like how to feign sympathy with those stupid fetus-carriers! |
| 7 | The third time we've linked to the Fraser Institute in less than 20 days. Wow, they're batshit prolific! |
| 7 | The Canadian Senate story, redux. |
| 7 | Skeptoid lists the ten worst anti-science sites on the internet. Guess who comes in at number 9. |
| 7 | Don't worry, there's a cure for it, isn't there? |
| 7 | Times were, conservatives were more understanding of human weakness. |
| 7 | Fareed Zakaria: Governing like FDR? Carter? If you really want to compare Barack Obama, start looking at Eisenhower. |
| 7 | What trolls did to the ‘Obama Lynching’ Facebook page will make your week. Think GOAT! |
| 7 | Why Keystone XL is nowhere near approval. |
| 7 | Joel McHale drops anvils on everyone at the 2014 White House Correspondents Dinner. (Not as good as Colbert's, but it's going to be remembered.) |
| 7 | Nicholas Wade just wrote an apologetic for scientific racism. (And guess which great luminaries are trying to put it into the spotlight.) |
| 7 | A few of the best #YesAllWomen tweets. |
| 7 | A basic rundown of ALL the major conspiracy theories with paranoid right-wing roots. |
| 7 | Cracked: 16 Famous Mysteries That Everyone Forgets Have Been Solved. Spoilsports. |
| 7 | Reason magazine and Ralph Nader see eye to eye. |
| 7 | Want to stop the Catholic Church getting Penn & Teller's Bullshit show cancelled? Start here. |
| 7 | BREAKING NEWS: Democratic congressman finally grows some balls and goes on the offensive against Republican efforts to derail health care reform. |
| 7 | AlterNet looks at the men's rights movement |
| 7 | Evangelist Frank Schaeffer, discussing End Times, Dubya, and assassinating Obama, skewers the ultra-right with memorable quotes. |
| 7 | "Web pages, including [Doubtful News], deemed “critical” of Universal Medicine removed from Google Search results" - let's "Streisand" 'em! |
| 7 | David Mitchell delivers some harsh truths about the nature of hypocrisy in politics. "Which would you choose, the washing machine or the vote?" |
| 7 | (Old, but good) "The Control Group is Out of Control": An essay on parapsychology and equally dubious experimental procedure in psychology. |
| 7 | New movie, Hexpelled! No Wizardry Allowed, investigates the persistent "pro-Newtonian bias" in academia. |
| 7 | Atheist Ireland publicly dissociates itself from PZ Myers. I'm sure he's really cut up about that. |
| 7 | The surprise is not that people see Faux News as more ideological than other networks but that 14% of those polled think it is mostly liberal. |
| 7 | NYT blogger Jack Hitt argues, in Orwellian fashion, that a public university's barring of a communist from speaking on campus, on account of his disagreeable political views, is "the triumph of free speech." But it is, of course, a violation of the First Amendment to deny a paroled prisoner travel across state lines to go give the speech. |
| 7 | In the soft periwinkle glow of the Alaskan morning, why not read the results of the "Write Like Sarah Palin" contest? |
| 7 | "As you may recall, planes didn't fall out of the sky, nuclear power stations didn't explode and digital watches didn't suddenly develop sentience and turn on their owners, blinking savagely as they tightened around unsuspecting wrists." - 10 years on from the Millennium Bug |
| 7 | "Scientology. A lot of people would say it is a bullying cult." And if you want some visual proof, watch Nicole Kidman's face when the word "Scientology" crosses Andrew Marr's lips in this outtake from his BBC show. |
| 7 | Good riddance to superfluous features of English, like that unutterably stupid past tense; let's all welcome Newspeak Internet English with open arms! Coming up: The translation of Shakespeare into this lovely new English. We kan haz MacDuff's sword on warlike shield nao plz? |
| 7 | Ben Goldacre covers a great example of the Texas sharpshooter fallacy. Churches and sites of ancient and medieval sites line up in geometric patterns... but so do old Woolworths stores. |
| 7 | On the back of one of the coldest winters (and one too many "so where's this global warming thing, eh?" jokes) Dr Richard Betts of the UK Met Office suggests that climate researchers need to take more responsibility in presenting their work to the public. |
| 7 | Hint, ladies: if you want anyone to buy the line that you have a sense of humor, stop printing columns about how all humor is political and dumb-blonde jokes are a massive conspiracy to keep women in line and flatter anyone who doesn't march to your tune. |
| 7 | Something you won't see in CP's broken news - Alaska's largest ever political rally is anti-Palin. 14 September 2008 |
| 7 | Exposing the utter nonsense that is presented to support Don't Ask Don't Tell. |
| 7 | How crazy is it getting when principals are spying on their students through school-provided webcams? (self promotion warning) |
| 7 | Yet more for the best of the Daily Fail - as it pretty much outright lies about child grooming happening on Facebook. |
| 7 | Run for your lives! Texas Republican says that Demos demons have invaded the U.S. Capitol! ONOZ!!!!! |
| 7 | Facebook leads to syphilis; O RLY? |
| 7 | How many companies want you dead? |
| 7 | Fortune Magazine rejected artwork for its May 2010 cover as being too "beautiful and Marxist." Not to mention a dead-on accurate depiction of the financial crisis. Here's a hi-res version. |
| 7 | Criminal Brief argues the iPhone raid against Gizmodo is a disguised prosecutorial attack upon freedom of the press. |
| 7 | The Maine Republican Party has has adopted a platform that seems to be a weird cross between Paulinism (The "reassertion" that "freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion") and Ron Paulinism ("Austrian economics"). |
| 7 | PZ gives us a nice little diatribe on Xtianity & women Fun! |
| 6 | The Rational Reply to Conservapedia on Starlight. (July 19, 2008) |
| 6 | Report from a climate denial... sorry, I mean, "sceptic" skeptic conference in Chicago. |
| 6 | Arctic ice is one of the best indicators that the climate is currently warming. Some studies show that sea ice area is recovering, but really it's volume that matters and that's not looking too good. |
| 6 | An engineer weighs in on the BP oil geyser: BP relied on a system that would "mostly work" in a place where the system should have been designed to "never fail." |
| 6 | What happens when BP spills... coffee |
| 6 | Ten things that terrify conservatives |
| 6 | Seven myths about the Tea Party |
| 6 | The NAACP said Tea Party has racists in it and should get rid of them. Palin responds how dare you call me a racist. E.J. Dionne pwns Palin. |
| 6 | Nothing outrageous, just a bit about Biblical inerrancy vs Biblical storytelling. |
| 6 | An unemployed couple, who "both suffer from unspecified physical and psychological disabilities," have applied Godwin's Law to the naming of their children. |
| 6 | Somebody out there likes us. (self promotion warning) (29 July 2008) |
| 6 | Sex and death lie at the poisoned heart of religion. |
| 6 | Media Channel, the news website that watches the media, is in trouble and could shut down. |
| 6 | Don't worry RationalWiki; if you're going to throw a cow over a logo change, you're not alone. |
| 6 | Barack Obama Sr. wasn't quite the radical anti-colonialist that Distort D'Newsa thinks he was. |
| 6 | Could you go 24 hours without communications technology, networking, and the media? |
| 6 | Analysis of the election: If there were no Tea Party, then the Republicans would likely have fielded more credible candidates who would have won both the Delaware and Nevada Senate races." |
| 6 | ¡Oh! ¡Sí! ¡Sĺ! A TV commercial by a Young Socialist group in Spain has both liberals and conservatives alike wishing that they had thought of it first crying "sexism." |
| 6 | Tim Lambert of Deltoid takes to task Brian Dunning of Skeptoid over the latter's DDT fuck-up. |
| 6 | "Sometime long ago, a writer by the side of Walden Pond decided that middle-class Americans may seem happy and successful on the outside, but deep down they are leading lives of quiet desperation. This message caught on (it’s flattering to writers and other dissidents) ... writers have become trapped in the confines of this orthodoxy." |
| 6 | Did NASA really find New Life?? - Do the claims published in Science justify NASA's press conference? |
| 6 | Wisdom, Caribou Barbie style: "If you want to have wild, organic, healthy food, you’re gonna go out there and hunt yourself." The concept of farming is obviously new to the lady; after all, not only does raising a crop take actual work, it takes too much time to be of soundbite value. |
| 6 | A brace of prominent left-wingers, finally making the effort of noticing that President Obama is not one of them, screech at the "left establishment" about the need to Do Something. |
| 6 | I wonder what Andy Schlafly would make of this |
| 6 | Using democracy to dismantle democracy: History repeating itself An alarming new Latin American trend. |
| 6 | In 2008, Sandra Lee "made" a "Kwanzaa cake" that, according to one critic, "will make your eyes burst into flames." (Videos) (Best line: La Lee can't taste sweet, salty, sour, bitter or umami because "she's had her tongue botoxed.") She also "made" a "Chanukah cake" -- video here -- which, well. . .are blue food dye, canned frosting and marshmallows kosher? Now, another foodie has come forth to claim authorship and to say mea culpa "fuck me" for giving Lee these "ideas". |
| 6 | Garrison Keillor, of A Prairie Home Companion fame, admits that he knows not of what he speaks: "I have more in common with black evangelicals from Barbados than with Catholics from my hometown." |
| 6 | Have yourself a counterculture Xmas. |
| 6 | Stanley Fish, forgetting his early American history, gets rather incensed at the notion that free speech should be protected too much, for example by protecting writers' anonymity. |
| 6 | The Independent lambasts scientists for not responding to criticism from the blogosphere. Careful, fellows; there's a creationist in that woodpile. |
| 6 | You say you aren't prepared for the 2012 apocalypse? December 21, 2012, will be here before you know it! Here's a checklist of ten items that every adherent of the Mayan calendar needs to collect. So put on your Blast Boxers, open a can of Tactical Bacon and sharpen your 87-tool Swiss Army Knife. Oh, and don't forget to strap on your Axe Sling (which is also recommended for fending off zombies). |
| 6 | Pay no attention to the Islamist behind the curtain! The current Middle Eastern protest movements are secular, and besides, the rise of Islamism is the U.S.'s fault. |
| 6 | What school "reform" means. |
| 6 | Matt Taibbi wants to know why Wall Street crooks aren't in jail. Where is this generation's Pecora Commission or S&L trials? |
| 6 | Cory Doctorow on WBC attempting to lure Anonymous into an attack. Some interesting comments that talk about how they make their money. |
| 6 | We need to stop all the demonization that's been happening in politics recently. We can't blame teachers, sick people, students, etc., for all our problems. To arms, comrades! Bash the bankers! |
| 6 | How to beat the Watson Jeopardy computer |
| 6 | William Rivers Pitt, being ever so slightly upset about the recent union snafu, recites that well-known poetic line, "Then they came for the trade unionists..." |
| 6 | Kevin Drum says manufactroversies are the wave of the future. |
| 6 | Bill Moyers and Michael Winship write to defend NPR against congressional budget-slashers and allegations of bias. |
| 6 | Johann Hari: How to turn Ed Miliband into a winner - how politicians should communicate effectively with people. |
| 6 | Literary theory or conspiracy theory? |
| 6 | The politics of voter fraud. |
| 6 | Apparently, "modern" Catholics don't believe in there was a revived cadaver... so, what was Thomas putting his hands in? |
| 6 | The GOP plan to "reform" health care? Gut it. That's the end result of a proposed federal spending cap and Paul Ryan's Path to "Prosperity." |
| 6 | Thom Hartmann on how companies law has changed since 1873: Back then, corporations had to divulge all their business plans and make all their documents available to the legislature. |
| 6 | Most new WP editors are editing in Good Faith... I wonder what the chart looks like for CP? |
| 6 | Krugman continues his work calling out the Very Serious People. |
| 6 | How the military trained "spy crows" to catch Osama. |
| 6 | Beware the creeping Sharia...actually, not really. |
| 6 | Village idiots in wonderland (as usual). |
| 6 | Slate ponders how to convince people who believe a man named Babu can cure AIDS with herbs to go with western medicine instead. |
| 6 | It's peer-reviewed! A new anti-vax study citing the likes of the Geier family and Russell Blaylock is making the rounds. |
| 6 | Medical professionals launch Science-ish, a fact-checker on medical journalism. |
| 6 | Thunderf00t + Bible + Westboro Baptist Church = Shouty-shouty Time! |
| 6 | Ratings agencies are totally impartial organizations with no ulterior political or financial motives.Do You Believe That? |
| 6 | Need some cheering up? Enjoy the delights of the Cartoon Colour Wheel, from the blue of the Smurfs to the green of the Ninja Turtles. |
| 6 | Slate: Antioxidants don't work, but no one wants to hear it. |
| 6 | People are fed up with Mabus, now there's a poll to make the Montreal Police take "Mabus" death threats seriously. |
| 6 | There really needs to be a "Thalidomide Gambit" or a "Vioxx Gambit." |
| 6 | From the Department of Failed Predictions: Buying stuff on the internet? That's crazy talk! |
| 6 | Damn you, you snobby French! Always getting things right these days... |
| 6 | If conservatives have nothing else to do, they try to smear Paul Krugman on the East Coast Earthquake. |
| 6 | Two words: PETA porn. |
| 6 | PalMD moves to a new location. |
| 6 | John Mashey dissects the denialist echo chamber. |
| 6 | Who wants a random taste of Canadian comedy? |
| 6 | Jon Stewart flays Huckabee on the gay marriage issue, by proving the emptiness of appeals to tradition, especially when tradition is equivocal. |
| 6 | Slate is currently running a series on everything you ever wanted to know about 9/11 conspiracy theories. (Latest entry here.) |
| 6 | Natural gas: A bridge to nowhere? |
| 6 | An herbicide marketed by DuPont started causing "unfortunate tree symptoms." DuPont denied everything until the trees on their own golf course started dying; then they were suddenly urging the EPA to ban the herbicide. |
| 6 | David Mitchell rants on climate change. Says what we're all thinking. |
| 6 | Contradictory beliefs (or, Crooked Timber goes Jeffrey Sachs.) |
| 6 | Some honesty on global warming. |
| 6 | "Why Is (American) TV Suddenly Overstuffed With Buxom Bunnies, Sexy Stewardesses, and Charlie's Angels?" |
| 6 | Edward Current reveals that his great 9/11 video was a massive hoax - and laughs at the Truthers who fell for it. |
| 6 | From Goldman Sachs ruling the world to a crashing Euro: How many of Alessio Rastani's bold, frank and controversial statements were actually right? |
| 6 | Anthony Watts desperately fails at attempting to "debunk" Al Gore and Bill Nye. (Snarkier take at Wotts.) |
| 6 | Robert Reich explains the US credit downgrade. |
| 6 | VIDEO: A young Midwesterner who went through reparative therapy talks about the experience. |
| 6 | Socialists and market fundamentalists are the same...at least in one way. |
| 6 | It wasn't long ago that top Republicans were appalled by the idea of giving super-rich investors a big tax break... |
| 6 | Kate Fox (of Watching The English fame) on the UK's alcohol fuelled binge problem. - "The effects of alcohol on behaviour are determined by cultural rules and norms, not by the chemical actions of ethanol." |
| 6 | Confused about whether or not to be a dick? |
| 6 | Steve Jobs and woo. |
| 6 | Robin Ince on political correctness, Ricky Gervais' bullishness and some horribly turbulent language. |
| 6 | One pair of hands at work does more than a thousand clasped around a piece of paper with writing on it. |
| 6 | An interview with You Are Not So Smart author and blogger David McRaney - covering the basics of the psychological and cognitive biases that plague our daily lives. |
| 6 | Why debating theologians and other woo-meisters is futile, part 94: when you do hand them their asses, they'll try to bury it. Update: Theologian relents, video is up (and well worth your time). Update 2: Q&A video up. |
| 6 | I don't want to live on this planet anymore. |
| 6 | If you thought Obama Girl was creepy... Also, you know a country is fucked when you have libertarian librarians. |
| 6 | The Circle of Life debt! France, we're so very sorry. |
| 6 | Is income inequality the new climate change? |
| 6 | Pesky skeptics, no ice cream for you! |
| 6 | Errol Morris' latest short documentary is The Umbrella Man, about the man with the umbrella at the JFK shooting, but really it's about the fallibility of conspiracy theorists. |
| 6 | "I can’t watch the news anymore. I’m afraid that, again, I will learn that the whole of Europe’s banking system is about to collapse because people with disabilities eat candy." |
| 6 | Everything you ever wanted to know about free will but were afraid to ask. |
| 6 | While it's good that Occupy Wall Street continues to shine the light on financial corruption, they also need to shine a light onto what their movement has exposed -- that America has become a police state that rivals any dictatorship. |
| 6 | Siri might not find nearby abortion clinics, but help you out with committing suicide? Eh, okay. |
| 6 | Don't believe in free will? That doesn't mean you're a mean old determinist. |
| 6 | Chick-fil-A - the fast-food restaurant of choice for the Schlafly's and their ilk. |
| 6 | PolitiFact Lie of the Year finalists are here and Paul Ryan is looking for good PR. |
| 6 | 20 Ridiculous Things You Didn't Know About the Deard Leader |
| 6 | Observations of the welfare state in the age of austerity: Sweden tops the OECD in percentage of workers in the public sector, while being the most fiscally responsible member of the EU. What the hell are they drinking up there? |
| 6 | New Hampshire is next in line for a Scopes Award. |
| 6 | Cracked ends the year with: The 9 Biggest Bastards of 2011. |
| 6 | Another product of the recovered memory craze: The "epidemic" of multiple personality disorder. |
| 6 | To anyone who is still completing their degrees. |
| 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 | Scumbag Gingrich. |
| 6 | 10 great reasons to be against equality in marriage. |
| 6 | Martin Robbins lays into the BBC over science. |
| 6 | The Pythons are back? |
| 6 | So, a Catholic, an Anglican and a humanist walk into a bar say what they would put on their cards, if they carried them. |
| 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 | Identical twins not so identical after all. |
| 6 | Coming soon, to a theater near you... |
| 6 | You learn something new everyday: Greek workers spend the most hours on the job in Europe. |
| 6 | Not only is tipping still demeaning and exploitative, but there's a real possibility that the servers don't get to keep the money you give them. |
| 6 | A slightly sinister Christian lobbying outfit seems to be behind almost all of the "persecuted Christian" stories hitting the press in the last year. |
| 6 | A Washington Post reporter blogger writes a satirical article (a l'Oignon) on Rush Limbaugh...which Rush fails to realize is satirical lambasts for poor journalism. |
| 6 | Country music may be politically conservative, but it's suburban conservatism, not rural conservatism. |
| 6 | Conservatives aren't any crazier now than they were 50 years ago. It's just that the liberal movement is weaker. |
| 6 | The Discovery Institute has a yellow streak. |
| 6 | Filling in some of the holes from the story of Jesus' childhood. For example, #5: "Joseph yanks Jesus’s ear as punishment for murder, and Jesus cold tells Joseph to his face, 'Don’t you know that I don’t really belong to you? Don’t make me upset.'" |
| 6 | What happens when you get caught sleeping in the act with the American MIC. |
| 6 | Reddit asks their fellow Muslims their experiences after 9/11. |
| 6 | Bottled water facts(Warning: Poe's Law in action!) |
| 6 | Create RationalWiki Gilbert and Sullivan troupe in 3, 2, 1... |
| 6 | It seems that some people are concerned that Mitt Romney didn't get the memo informing him that the Cold War ended 21 years ago. (As an aside, it seems that some people in Hollywood also didn't get the memo. And WTF! North Korea? Really?) |
| 6 | Want to pray before you have sex? The Catholics have a prayer for that. |
| 6 | EA = Wal-Mart 2.0 |
| 6 | Call off the funeral. The reports of the death of evolution are grossly exaggerated |
| 6 | Religion as Rorschach blot. |
| 6 | Homeopathy companies pay journalist to set up websites to attack Edzard Ernst. Proves Ernst's Law.(self promotion warning) |
| 6 | If a birther like Sheriff Joe won't accept President Obama's birth certificate as real, why should anyone expect him to accept as real an ID presented in accordance to Arizona's "Papiere, bitte" law? |
| 6 | G4S: How not to go about training security personnel. |
| 6 | NewsBiscuit: Olympic terror threat level reduced after al-Qaeda outsource terrorism to G4S. |
| 6 | Frankie Boyle pwns Chris Brown. |
| 6 | If you want to visualize how far off the US is now with the rest of the world, talk to the business executives. |
| 6 | Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage vs. Dan Savage |
| 6 | Goldbuggery debunked in 2 graphs. |
| 6 | An atheist neuroscientist talks about atheism, faith and "Spinoza's God". |
| 6 | Apple does know how many people will download this, right? |
| 6 | The creationism of Ann Coulter. |
| 6 | Ben Goldacre interviewed by b3ta about his book Bad Pharma. "It's like fighting with homeopaths in suits." |
| 6 | Ted Haggard and his ironically named wife Gayle will appear on the TV series Divorce Court to discuss how divorce is not the answer to marital problems. (Problems like -- oh, I don't know -- your husband is a meth-smoking patron of gay prostitutes.) As if this couldn't get any funnier, the episode is scheduled to air on April Fool's Day. |
| 6 | Absurdities in Genesis. |
| 6 | Troll Level: Pastor. On the flip side, another speaker references Conservapedia's homosexuality article |
| 6 | Ah, so that's where Conservapedians made their exodus. |
| 6 | After Apple banned a drone strike tracking app earlier this year, the developer has decided to do it all on Twitter. |
| 6 | Eternal Critic learns the futility of arguing with people on the internet and the lengths people will go in twisting logic so they can continue to use their favourite argument. |
| 6 | Would Christianity be better without priests? |
| 6 | Another wasteful study that shows acupuncture doesn't do anything. Let's be clear. Acupuncture is fucking junk medicine. |
| 6 | Atheism as a civil rights issue. |
| 6 | TEDTalk video: "What Doctors Don't Know About the Drugs They Prescribe." Some real world effects of publication bias, by Ben Goldacre. |
| 6 | The easiest way to determine China's views on North Korea: link them to Jon Stewart. (YT link) |
| 6 | With Ireland's constitutional convention soon to make its decision on clearing same-sex marriage for referendum, this piece shows concerns about always showing both sides of a politicised issue, putting minority rights to majority vote, but focusing on how it affects the mental health of LGBT people. |
| 6 | The saga of David Mayo. |
| 6 | According to this blogger's unnamed sources, almost every player in the NFL has a closet to go with their locker room. (Warning: Poe's Law in action!) |
| 6 | The Simon Singh Verdict: British Skeptics are Under Siege |
| 6 | I can't believe we fought a war to keep this fucking state. |
| 6 | Do not tempt the Darwin Awards, Nenshi. |
| 6 | Why worry about NSA spying when companies like Motorola keep track of all your login details through unsecured channels? |
| 6 | Jesse Ventura weighs in on waterboarding: "you give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders." |
| 6 | Jobs! Jobs! SCIENCE JOBS! Are you a trained scientist and looking for work in a hot HOT research environment? Join an exciting research team doing exciting, groundbreaking work in the fields of biology, geology and astronomy. Sign up for a job today! (Note: we really, REALLY need staff, and though our requirements are stiff, we are having difficulty recruiting people! So SIGN UP NOW FOR A JOB, SCIENTIST!!!!) |
| 6 | PZ Myers explains why you should never trust a "science" article with lists. |
| 6 | "And we'll be cool with videos with women prancing around naked, and it won't be sexist as long as the song's a number 1 hit... but when Miley does it we say 'OH MY GOD NO!'" (Seriously, this is why no one takes MRAs seriously.) |
| 6 | Sharon Hill explains that weird noise. |
| 6 | The cold summer of 2013 and growth of the arctic ice sheets disproves global warming forever! |
| 6 | You probably won't get this from Campbell. |
| 6 | Beavers don't kill people, people do! |
| 6 | The March of Dumbs. (Is it a gerbil, or a hamster? You Decide!) |
| 6 | Addressing some MRA bull. (See #10 for some studies worthy of debunking.) |
| 6 | The Jewish brain drain. To Berlin. No, really. |
| 6 | Even in Load of Crap's Australia, debt limits are a non-issue. |
| 6 | (Probably not a clog) An environmental appeal on behalf of the controversial and (to some) rather scary subject of wood heat. |
| 6 | Lego? SCIENCE! |
| 6 | A rational look at how the myth of historical Sunni and Shia conflict was manufactured |
| 6 | An opportunity for cynics to say "I knew it!" and for science wonks to explain how these surveys are stupid and useless: The Week figures out Which professions have the most, and the least, psychopaths. |
| 6 | Meanwhile on the ISS: "What is that coming from Wisconsin?" |
| 6 | A New Hampshire couple convicted of tax fraud are on trial for holing up in a compound ringed with explosives. Ed and Elaine Brown vowed to set of a revolution against the US government, or die trying. Their "standoff" was facilitated by internet crank blogs, and fellow "patriots" were recruited to come help build more bombs. Four people have all ready been convicted for aiding and abetting the Browns. Now it is their turn. Follow the trial at Bombs, Taxes, and Red Crayons blog. |
| 6 | Stuart Robbins on Alex Tsakiris, Rupert Sheldrake, Rome Viharo and Wikipedia. |
| 6 | Perhaps the best analysis of Bitcoin out there. |
| 6 | Women in cages! The ACLU reveals how much prisons love to lock women in solitary when they need psychiatric help or just want to report sexual abuse. |
| 6 | Meanwhile in Canada, another whale hasn't exploded yet. |
| 6 | Coupenomics. |
| 6 | Stephen Hawking to Investor's Business Daily - I like my Death Panel thank you very much |
| 6 | It is actually the apolitical nature of Obama's speech to school children that the wingnuts fear most. |
| 6 | Richard Dawkins, please STFU. |
| 6 | Dear lonely nerds: feminist bloggers cannot be your therapists. (And why we need to direct men who have a crippling fear of female rejection to therapists, not feminist literature.) |
| 6 | The Guardian speaks of how political correctness actually further disempowers the powerless. |
| 6 | They’ve banned Christmas! Sort of!- Liberal Conspiracy examines lazy "Winterval" stories. |
| 6 | Well, blow me down! One more thing to add to the list of "sexual perversions" that moralists think only humans do: Female Chinese short-nosed fruit bats (Cynopterus sphinx) perform fellatio on their mates in order to prolong sex. Oh, and walruses are, uh, like the man from Nantucket. |
| 6 | As an organization with such a good civil rights record, it sucks to see the same tired arguments used against diversity in the military. Here's a quick takedown. (self promotion warning) |
| 6 | McCain continues his winning campaign tactic - lying - by claiming that Obama wants to teach the nasty to kindergarteners. The truth is much more boring. 10 September 2008 |
| 6 | Just what English punctuation needs - the sarcasm point |
| 6 | Ahoy, me hearties! Arr! It might just be that our ancestors were sailin' the old briny 5 million years ago. Arr! |
| 6 | Distilling diet advice into simple "yes/no" or "eat this/don't eat this" answers? Can't be done. |
| 6 | <parody>"theory of childhood" rejected</parody> |
| 6 | Time magazine: Many people with college degrees are not in jobs that require them. Therefore, obviously we don't need so many people going to college. The Time writer should try to learn what "liberal education" means. |
| 6 | Interesting about inerrancy (of the Biblical kind) |
| 6 | Ronald Reagan's "big tent" model of the GOP is shrinking. Theodore Roosevelt is being tossed aside by the wingnuts for being a "socialist" (a mere 91 years after his death), while Liz Cheney is being upbraided by the moderates for shooting her mouth off like some Tailgunner Joe wannabe in high heels. (Who will win this tug-of-war for the hearts and minds of the GOP? Whoever has raise the most cash, of course!) |
| 6 | President Obama has gone into campaign mode to get health care reform passed. Faux News counters by running anti-reform attack ads. This combined with their usual snark has prompted Jon Stewart to call the Fox Propaganda Channel "the meanest sorority in the world." |
| 6 | Charlie Brooker writes on a bizarre combination of existentialism, philosophy, Tralfamadorians and putting LSD in the water to save the world. |
| 6 | So, what did Bush learn from Hurricane Katrina? Institute no-fly zones and press blackouts of the devastated area! That's certainly easier than making FEMA do its job. |
| 6 | Scott Adams makes his views on homeopathy abundantly clear. |
| 6 | Everybody believes (with justification) that you caused the worldwide banking crisis. In the US, the federal government has charged you with fraud. Britain and Germany want their pound of flesh, too. How do you repair your public image? Screw our public image! Full speed ahead with another $5 billion in bonuses! Whoo-hoo! Bonuses! |
| 6 | Bernie Goldberg thinks Jon Stewart is right. UPDATE: Mr. Stewart responds. |
| 6 | Stephen Hawking says that we should fear aliens. (Video included) The Telegraph has more here. |
| 6 | PalMD is asking for a little help with social media. |
| 6 | Saints be praised! A high-ranking Catholic cardinal admits that compulsory celibacy for priests "in a time of sexual revolution" is indeed a contributing factor to the ongoing child-sex scandal. |
| 6 | Crusader or prat? You decide: PZ Myers would like your assistance pushing up the rating of a Thunderf00t YouTube video, in response to a Mormon attempt to spam one of theirs up. |
| 6 | What you can and can't do in a polling booth (yes, you can do it drunk, providing you can wield a pencil!) |
| 6 | Flash Media presentation: "The Journey of Mankind -- The Peopling of the World |
| 6 | Snake oil: an ""evidence bubble" for popular health supplements. |
| 5 | Compare and contrast: This and this . |
| 5 | The Genuine and Legitimate Psychic Medium List! Accept no substitutes! |
| 5 | Ryanair are often full of hot air when it comes to their crazy no-frills money saving schemes, and for good reason - it's amazing publicity. |
| 5 | The end of Kodachrome, the once-iconic film of professional photographers, is lamented in this story. If you have any unused or undeveloped Kodachrome lying around, be advised: The only remaining processing center in the world that still develops Kodachrome will stop developing Kodachrome on December 30. |
| 5 | Religious freedom is not tolerance. |
| 5 | Seth Godin: This is broken |
| 5 | "The History Of What Things Cost In America: 1776 to Today." |
| 5 | "Junkets for Jesus": Regarding how the "Fellowship Foundation" -- aka, "The Family" -- sends bible-thumping members of Congress around the world to proselytize despotic rulers of mineral-rich third-world countries because the separation of church and state "doesn't extend overseas." |
| 5 | Race and ethnicity in the United States, in black and white red and blue. |
| 5 | A different take on The Social Network: Many techies believe it is "the biggest culmination yet of old media's disdain and misreading of new media." I.e., Hollywood is trying to prove that "the internet is not a revolution, but the creation of a few odd machine-men -- it's the revenge on the revenge of the nerds." |
| 5 | Davids Tennant and Cameron feature on a single dedicated to it, it was the most emotionally charged part of an England-Ireland rugby match, Harold Pinter and John Cage became famous for it; it's... |
| 5 | Penn Jillette - Subtle as ever. |
| 5 | Robert Sapolsky: Symbols, metaphors, analogies, parables, synecdoche, figures of speech: we understand them. He hasn't been around creationists or New Atheists much, we gather. |
| 5 | Two dispatches from the culture wars: John Boehner wants to lead his battalion against an exhibit of covertly gay art called "HIDE/SEEK." Meanwhile, Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma is going tête-à-tête with his hometown in the unrelenting War on Christmas. |
| 5 | Andy Kroll, although not deviating from the 150-year-old shtick about the rich being responsible for all of America's problems, forsakes the usual route of blaming Ronald Reagan for this and blames Jimmy Carter instead. Specifically, thanks to his policies, campaign money is now coming from the wrong sort of people, in consequence of which the U.S. is no longer a democracy. |
| 5 | What Wikileaks has taught us about the open internet |
| 5 | Another example of the irreparable harm that WikiLeaks does. WL has leaked a U.S. Embassy document about their ongoing study of Hugo Chavez's plan to ensnare Venezuela in a web of freedom-killing socialism. The embassy devoted lots of verbiage to one of Chavez's most sinister plots: AFFORDABLE PINKO TORTILLAS! |
| 5 | Welcome to Hamtramck, Michigan -- A city with a deepening fiscal crisis and no budget items left to cut. |
| 5 | Slideshow: "13 Products Most Likely To (Be) Made By Child Or Forced Labor." |
| 5 | Meet Howard "Buck" McKeon, the California Republican who is set to become chairman of the House Armed Services Committee in the 112th Congress. His military experience? He avoided military service by going on a Mormon mission, then spent 29 years to get a Bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University. His financial experience? He bankrupted his family's western wear company. His qualifications for being chairman? (1) He voted to send our troops to Iraq, naturally. And (2) he believes that the war in the Middle East is a holy war to protect America, which the Book of Mormon foretold is for us Americans, dammit! (Video included) |
| 5 | How some American politicians view the economic crisis: "We can no longer live in a society where the (unionized) public employees are the haves and taxpayers who foot the bills are the have-nots." |
| 5 | Facebook is valued at $50 billion, but is it really worth it? |
| 5 | Haitian rebuilding contracts have not gone to Haitian firms, but to U.S. firms, which appear to have scarpered with the money. Might U.S. firms have been chosen because the Haitian firms were all flattened in the earthquake? No, it's obviously because Bush cronies were discriminating against minority-owned companies. |
| 5 | PZ Myers reacts to and mocks the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy press release informing us that it is unconstitutional to criticize religion. (30 July 2008) |
| 5 | Utne Reader: "Liberals" were responsible for the rise of political correctness in U.S. universities. (It is rather telling, however, that at least one of the responsible "liberals" believed that the term also applied to Karl Marx.) |
| 5 | Quantitative easing explained by someone who knows what he's talking about |
| 5 | Psychoanalyst Peter Michaelson: The only reason conservatives dislike government is because they are psychosocially stunted and acting out teenage rebellion. Whatever happened to the good old days, when "progressives" encouraged teenage rebellion instead of aping Lyle Rossiter? |
| 5 | A whole hour of FedSpeak. Oh boy! |
| 5 | The 92nd Skeptics' Circle is up! (self-promotion warning) (31 July 2008) |
| 5 | The "true" self. |
| 5 | You too can have your own expert for hire. |
| 5 | Baron Robert Skidelsky on the embattled status of free speech in Britain. |
| 5 | How Fundamentalist Religion Is Destroying the World. |
| 5 | Five myths about the debt ceiling. |
| 5 | Marcus Bachmann: possibly straight man. |
| 5 | Jan "Why there was nothing 'natural' about Stephen Gately's death" Moir quote-mines Stewart Lee to death, and Lee hits back. |
| 5 | Steve Novella looks at "nudges" for public health. |
| 5 | More shrillness! First it was Bobo, now Kathleen Parker has joined in the shrillfest. |
| 5 | Boobs Don't Work That Way! |
| 5 | Who's to blame for the Wikileaks debacle? |
| 5 | "Behind two out of three economic doors, it seems, lies a goat...." |
| 5 | “...all successful conspiracy theories have been a lie that people wanted to hear.” |
| 5 | Some non-hysterical reading to sate your 9/11 needs. |
| 5 | James Carville shatters some irony meters. |
| 5 | God Hates Fax |
| 5 | But changing my mind is, like, hard 'n stuff. |
| 5 | A warning that must be sent throughout the Interwebs. |
| 5 | Fascinating Video: Richard Dawkins interviews Derren Brown, the famous British "mentalist". |
| 5 | Where the hell did Alan Grayson come from? And the conservative responses are: a) You are dirty hippies! and b) Bullshit from PJ O'Rourke about a half-assed regulatory bill that's nothing close to the banking rules of other developed countries. |
| 5 | "Theoclassical" economics indeed. |
| 5 | And if there weren't still monkeys ... then the humans could replace them. |
| 5 | Inverse theodicy: The evidential problem of good. Enough to give William Lane Craig problems. |
| 5 | Mocking "International Men's Day" just proves it's needed. |
| 5 | Climategate Deux (Electric Boogaloo) shoots through the denialist echo chamber. |
| 5 | Seven types of Republican idiots. |
| 5 | Atheist blogger "Raving Atheist" converts, possibly for a woman, possibly for a joke, possibly because it was his plan all along. PZ Myers reports, while Pharyngula readers go all DaVinci Code on Raving Atheist's ass, exposing one secret message hidden in the text, the message's subsequent deletion and replacement, and speculating on the meaning of the former. (24 December 2008) |
| 5 | Inside OWS. |
| 5 | You know how fundamentalist Christians, Jews, etc hate atheists? Well, they also hate the more moderate members of their own religion. Cartoonist Eli Valley illustrates the divide between fundamentalist (i.e. Orthodox) Jews and more liberal Jews when it comes to politics. |
| 5 | What to do when politicians engage in WTFery? We quote Barbara Walters. |
| 5 | And alas, we have a new litmus test/drinking game to determine crazification factor: Philip DeFranco asks commenters if the Iraq War was truly worth it. Take a shot each time a person says yes. |
| 5 | Some motivation for a motivational speaker. |
| 5 | Who needs Viagra when you've got Mad Honey? |
| 5 | Ian Plimer goes further 'round the bend. |
| 5 | Robert Foster and Rap News #Occupy2012. Featuring Terence McKenna, Noam Chomsky and the 2012 apocalypse. |
| 5 | Andrew Brown at the Guardian: a comparative historical assessment of Kim Jong Il's miracles. |
| 5 | The 2012 US Government Terrorist Identification Chart. Stop the Terrorist Battlecruiser! |
| 5 | Another way the War on (Some) Drugs fails: "Drug-sniffing" dogs fare no better than chance. |
| 5 | Traversing the tight line between the latest fertility technologies and eugenics. |
| 5 | Stephen Colbert retakes his Super PAC power after Jon Stewart tells him to fuck off. |
| 5 | Honestly, Peta's ads make me so angry I could stamp on a kitten. |
| 5 | How simple patents became the complex clusterfuck of intellectual property. |
| 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. |
| 5 | BBC is slowly turning into the next TV Tropes. |
| 5 | Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayres are better liked than Rush Limbaugh. |
| 5 | In the Second World War it was "Careless Talk Costs Lives" - in the 21st century, it's careless geo-tags and an unlocked Facebook profile. |
| 5 | Could Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream be any more awesome? To this the ice creams gurus say, "Yes, Pecan!" |
| 5 | The David Coppedge case isn't living up to the hype. |
| 5 | I think we have our candidate for supreme galactic overloard. |
| 5 | Andrew Sullivan and Mark Slouka agree: If you know not of what you speak, STFU. "English was good enough for Jesus Christ..." |
| 5 | Conservapedia announce exciting new linked data project, Conservadata. |
| 5 | Weinerworks does a point by point on homeopathy |
| 5 | LOLWUWT and Christopher Monckton can't stand the heat. |
| 5 | A webcomic offers something philosophers of ethics may need to consider. |
| 5 | Who needs Big Government? |
| 5 | Fuck you, I'm going to find a private school...what? Fifty grand a year?!! |
| 5 | Cracked.com video: "How Ayn Rand and L. Ron Hubbard Came Up With Their Big Ideas." Got a better explanation? |
| 5 | What does austerity mean for Canada? Sky-rocketing food prices to the point of potential starvation, if you happen to live in the North. And the usual deafening silence and obfuscation out of the Harper Party. |
| 5 | This is an exciting time. |
| 5 | The Donald Trump hoax, exposed. |
| 5 | As the GOP continues its Floridian comedy hour, Obama sneaked onto Reddit. What we learned: Presidents are taking memes seriously, and WaitingforGodot has better grammar than we previously thought. |
| 5 | Australian chicken farmers accidentally recombine viruses from two different vaccines causing a disaster. Australian anti-Vaccine Network goes batshit insane-again. Real science says everyone stay calm. |
| 5 | How to be a reverse-racist. |
| 5 | Why Mitt Romney will not be the Republican nominee. |
| 5 | Best diet advice ever. Eat like a chimpanzee. That means lots of figs. |
| 5 | What you talkin' 'bout, Willis? Meet Ryan's favourite band. |
| 5 | Why "they" still don't hate "us" |
| 5 | Bacteria mutation + Pokemon = _ |
| 5 | Surgeons find a tree growing in a man's lung. Seriously. |
| 5 | A Two-Faced British Tabloid are basically campaigning AGAINST the HPV vaccine in Britain, but FOR it in Ireland. |
| 5 | The intricacies of The Pirate Bay. (Of course the documentary is free!) |
| 5 | Whoops, there's two Bitcoin chains, because the maths wasn't so good after all. But they'll eventually merge! In the meantime, stop mining, and your transactions are juuuust fine. Probably. Not that anyone can fix it. A reminder that Bitcoin is not yet 1.0. |
| 5 | The latest synonym for financial chicanery: London Whale. |
| 5 | BuzzFeed documents some unreasonably angry Daily Mail commentors. |
| 5 | Video commentary from the film critic on CBS Sunday Morning: A certain trend in movie violence (men made impotent, women imperiled) illustrates one of the main fears that drives America's gun culture --"We're obsessed with being attacked." |
| 5 | It happened again. Spain this time, and at night. |
| 5 | "The print media are here for two very good reasons: food, and shelter." |
| 5 | Young people at a rally against same-sex marriage jot down why they support "traditional marriage" on a pad of paper. George Takei weighs in with his own witty responses. |
| 5 | A speculative essay of 'Murca ten years from now: "How America Became a Third World Country: The impact of sequester down the line." |
| 5 | Tea heil! The Hitler kettle is in hot water. UPDATE: Aw, they pulled it from their site! |
| 5 | How to stop the coming redneck uprising following the VRA decision: automatic voting? |
| 5 | Is the Westboro Baptist Church planning to "go Jonestown"? |
| 5 | NMAtv's take on the Wendy Davis filibuster. With dinosaurs. |
| 5 | How Copyright Makes Books and Music Disappear. |
| 5 | Thanks Christie, we're going to have to differentiate between "civil" and "Rand Paul dreamland" libertarianism again. |
| 5 | Remember when you were a top correspondent for a renowned magazine and deleted a comment calling for the assassination of a journalist? Twitter remembers. |
| 5 | On no! Add another entry to the list of things that cause autism. This time inducing labor causes autism. Whoops, probably not. |
| 5 | Why nations haven't insisted on more significant climate change countermeasures |
| 5 | James Carville: People are freaking out about Syria because of Iraq. He's almost right... the fact is, Americans don't trust Obama because Bush royally fucked them over, and it has left them hurting and cynical. Bush and Obama are war-mongers. |
| 5 | Syria in Five Minutes. (Fuck you, Putin.) |
| 5 | Meet the last (economic) RINO in the House GOP: Scott Rigel of Virginia, who seems to have reversed his whining about how the Senate "empirically" stalled the Path to Prosperity. |
| 5 | Seems that nice man, Dick Cheney is hoping for a terrorist attack to put that uppity mooslem Obama in his place... according to the CIA |
| 5 | A nice long conversation about science and society with Isaac Asimov from 1969. |
| 5 | Tyler Cowen: Paul Ryan takes a dump on fiscal conservatism again. |
| 5 | Another writer makes the case that America has strongman-envy. (The cycles of history.) |
| 5 | Inflatiomageddon! Buy gold! The Austrian school was right! Do You Believe That? |
| 5 | Post-banking crisis: The system worked. Kinda. |
| 5 | Musician Jello Biafra interviews Unarius UFO cultists. |
| 5 | Why isn't the Supreme Court ruling on Second Amendment cases? (Anthony Kennedy seems to be breaking from the conservative wing again.) |
| 5 | You can't hide from the past Beck |
| 5 | The Gestapo care shtick backfires as a right-winger shouts "Heil Hitler!" at a health care talk, not knowing that the fellow she is addressing is a Jew. |
| 5 | The disturbing rumors about Glenn Beck continue to fester. Beck's refusal to deny the allegations speaks volumes. |
| 5 | Meet Perimeter, also known as Dead Hand, the Soviet Union's (semi) automated nuclear retaliation system that would activate in the event of a surprise attack. Sleep well. |
| 5 | Do you still think #GamerGate was a spontaneous grassroots movement of any sort? Zoe Quinn has screenshots for you. |
| 5 | Let's try this again: Why Scotland didn't secede: economics. |
| 5 | As an allegory, is Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs a better film depiction of the financial meltdown than Michael Moore's more straightforward Capitalism: A Love Story? |
| 5 | Why academic writing stinks |
| 5 | The British Chiropractic Association, who are suing Simon Singh for daring to complain that they promoted treatments that had insufficient evidence, manage to defame him in a press release. A briefer summary here |
| 5 | PZ Myers explains why God is dead like Nietzsche claimed. |
| 5 | One word: Nosewitness |
| 5 | "The honourable Member for Braintree cited evidence from The Sun, so I want to refer to a recent edition of the British Medical Journal" - and other cases of politics doing science wrong. |
| 5 | Sarah Palin's -- not John McCain's -- speechwriter wrote her election night speeches. That's why McCain didn't allow her to deliver a concession speech that night. Now we can read both her victory and concession speeches and decide for ourselves if he made the right decision. |
| 5 | Many have theorized that extreme religious beliefs and practices are brought on by childhood trauma and/or mental illness. Meet a woman with OCD who can't stop praying because as a child she thought her late aunt's sins killed her. |
| 5 | If you believe that lie detection is accurate, you should know that most "tells" are inaccurate and that children have fewer "tells" than adults. |
| 5 | If you are tired of the major banks' lobbying power, tired of them turning Wall Street into the Las Vegas Strip, and tired of them hoarding bailout money meant for small business loans, then make a New Year's resolution to move your money to a community bank. (Or credit union.) |
| 5 | Goldman Sachs board member (and Harvard Business School professor) tells website -- on video no less! -- that bankers deserve their obscene bonuses because "shareholder value is made up in people and you need the people there to do the job and if you don't pay them for their performance you'll lose them and it's much like professional athletes and movie stars I think." So the St. Louis Rams should expect hefty bonuses for that wonderful 1-15 season they just completed. Ditto Ben Stein for Expelled |
| 5 | The US courts have finally put limits on the use of Tasers, hopefully reminding police that they are an alternative to lethal force, not for hurting people you think are sassing you.(self promotion warning) |
| 5 | Is the US becoming anti-intellectual? |
| 5 | Nigeria: a study in political corruption. (26 July 2008) |
| 5 | Thunderf00t has started a mini research project to test a hypothesis that communal religious activity goes up as society becomes more threatened. |
| 5 | Liberals, libertarians, and religionists agree Jesus rifles are nonsensical, unconstitutional, and violate foreign policy and common sense. |
| 5 | So, how exactly can a gay man vote Tory when Labour have the better policies on equal rights for gays? By realising it's not about who you sleep with that should determine who you vote for. |
| 5 | Self stalking and the end of anonymity. |
| 5 | From the 22 September 2008 issue of Newsweek: "Put Palin on the Supreme Court". (This seems to be very subtle satire like the recent New Yorker cover of Barack and Michelle Obama. Let's hope Newsweek is just trolling.) 16 September 2008 |
| 5 | Was God a volcano? |
| 5 | "Welcome to Glennbeckistan." |
| 5 | Incompatible couples used to stay together for the kids. Or were they just staying together for the health insurance? |
| 5 | SLIDE SHOW: "15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America" |
| 5 | With it being a very real possibility, a hung parliament explained |
| 5 | Marxist traitors, God's omniscience and heavy rain; a snapshot of Speaker's Corner |
| 5 | It's OK to deny Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to Terrorism suspects. Just send them to Guantanamo Bay! Lock 'em up and throw away the key! Who cares! But at least two GOP senators will be damned if suspected terrorists are denied their Second Amendment rights. |
| 5 | Andrew Breitbart shares with us just a little too much information. |
| 5 | The UK General Chiropractic Council finally admits that subluxations don't exist. |
| 5 | The problem with the idea of "the majority support this action" is that the majority aren't always affected by it. |
| 5 | How's this for a hate filled rant? Conservative bloggette Debbie Schlossel finds every excuse to rail against the newly crowned Miss America, the Muslim and apparently very Hezbollah supporting Rima Fakih of Michigan. She told us so. |
| 5 | Are you a sceptic or a denier? |