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85A quiz "persecuted American Christians" need to take - How to Determine If Your Religious Liberty Is Being Threatened in Just 10 Quick Questions
74The 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."
55The subject is Canadian blogger/idiot Patrick "Twatsy" Ross, but we can all spot people we know. Including at CP. Maybe especially at CP.
54Cracked: 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."
51Complaining 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.
50Pizza 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.
49Oh behalf of actual gamers everywhere, everyone's favourite former NFL player Chris Kluwe spectacularly rips Gamergaters several new ones.
48Apparently this is controversial.
48Muslims take the piss out of ISIS, using genuinely funny snark and satire. We at Rationalwiki salute you.
48Jimmy 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."
47Cracked: A 90-Second Guide to Determine if Your Internet Cause Is BS
46Shortest evolution debate ever?
46In 2008, Focus on the Family predicted what 2012 under Obama would be like. Let's see how they did. (Some portions may be familiar.)
45Twitter 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."
45Mars 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.
44Mayor of Boston to Chick-fil-A: Fuck off.
44Go fuck yourself, ESPN! ESPN suspends MLB writer Keith Law ostensibly for defending evolution.
43Creationist Questions translated.
43The "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.
43Daily Kos: Neil deGrasse Tyson makes important scientific discovery: Liberals can be just as anti-science about GMOs as Conservatives are about Global warming.
43Idaho Representative Vito Barbieri is not an OB-GYN
42If 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).
42Court decides parent's refusal to vaccinate kids is not “free exercise of religion”. Win one for the constitution. (self promotion warning)
40Skepticism *is* making a difference
40The heir to Mencken's throne of snark: An American football player?
40Can you tell the difference between conservative Christians and Muslim fundamentalists?
40From 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"
40How Gamergate has destroyed the reputation of video games in academia.
39Heard the one about the college professor who was humiliated by a student who proved God exists? Here's how it really happened.
39Coultergeist, apply cool water to the burn.
39Yet another Cracked article recommendation - this one is on conspiracy theories
39Salon: Why rightwingers hate smart people in general, and Neil deGrasse Tyson in particular.
39The left should receive more criticism for their anti-science views - Opinion piece from The Tech.
38Please leave me alone, I just want to read my book.
38Ophelia 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)
38On vaccines, Bill Maher is being a common-or-garden-variety dangerous crank again. Time to start the Bill Maher Dead Children Ticker?
37Weird 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!
37An attempt to write a non-physicist friendly blog post about physics: How Eddington demonstrated that Einstein was right
37Cracked: 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."
37Cracked: "Feminism! And with that one word, I've already set the world speed record for turning a comment section into a septic tank."
36What is wrong with Skeptics in the Pub?
36The history of the internet is the latest thing to be shoved down the glibertarian memory hole.
36Teabaggers say they'll overthrow Obama and to that, I say...
36Research links climate change deniers to conspiracy theorists; deniers suspect a conspiracy.
36Snopes sinks to a new low (again) by citing a completely disreputable goatsource.
36Proving once again that insanity knows no bounds, Frothy claims that Obamacare is a plot to kill people who don't vote the right way.
36Disney 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?
36A twelve year old girl explains things to Andy's mom.
36George Clooney: The problem with the Daily Mail.
36Cracked: 5 Successful People Who Everyone Forgets Are Exposed Frauds
36Cracked 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.
36Zoe Quinn gives a rather thorough breakdown of just how much Gamergate set back journalistic ethics.
36BuzzFeed in long-form quality journalism shock: How Men’s Rights Leader Paul Elam Turned Being A Deadbeat Dad Into A Moneymaking Movement.
36For next time some foolish person asks you what feminism has ever done for men. (Way more than MRAs ever have.)
3591% of Americans would support a socialist distribution of wealthwhen they don't know that's what they're voting for
35George Takei finds and shares the "alternate" Biblical version of what happened to the dinosaurs.
35Ok, this is why The Onion should win a Pulitzer.
35No one murdered because of this image. NSFW, The Onion
35Growing Up Unvaccinated
35Should papers be retracted if one of the authors is a total asshole? Literally.
35Phil 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.
34The great forgotten Republican.
34Why Does Sandra Fluke Drive Conservatives Bananas?
34Libertarian Police Department. (Imagine the COPS episode.)
34Arthur Chu: "So, a question, to my fellow male nerds. What the fuck is wrong with us?"
34Thought 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.
34It's called the American Dream 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it.
34Not a Tea Party, a Confederate Party
34Dylan Avery, director of Loose Change, is unemployed and getting out of the Truther Movement.
34If you see anyone linking to an article about a feminist who aborted a baby because it was male, it's made-up BS.
34Christian pediatrician refuses to treat baby girl because her parents are lesbians.
34N.J. judge rules ‘conversion therapy’ claims are fraud. A professor at BYU considers the ruling (which he misrepresents) "totalitarian in the extreme" and "censorial".
33What'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.
33Always a sign of hope in the darkness...
33In 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.
33The 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.
33You fascist gays should be put in ovens! (This is pre-Sochi Russia.)
33Jon 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."
33There is only one way Obama will get Republicans to accept global warming: He must become a denier himself.
33Russian 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.)
33You don’t protect my freedom, or, why hero worship of the military and police is bad for us and them.
33Chris "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."
33Guys, I wanted to let you know about a personal decision I recently made. I’m an Anti-Braker.
33We sceptics need to have a talk about Bill Maher and his rather unsettling views about such topics as the anti-vaccination movement.
32All time. Greatest. Creationist. Answer: "because DNA wasn't invented then".
32Quack Busting Resources.
32Fox 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."
32The five stages of Fox News grief.
32Answering the 10 questions for pro-choicers.
32Media Ethics 101.
32"Anonymous billionaires donated $120m to more than 100 anti-climate groups working to discredit climate change science"
32On 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.
32Cracked gives us a horrifying, eye-opening inside look at the Quiverfull movement, as written by a former member.
32Got 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.
32The 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."
32Cracked looks at MRAs. (The author apologises to the reformed neo-Nazi for making him read so much Reddit.)
32Pigs 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.
32How Conspiracy Nuts Are Duping Well-Meaning Liberals
32American discourse is now so dumbed-down that it's become the equivalent of the POTUS talking to an Internet Tough Guy.
32When Cracked delivers, it delivers. 6 Ways a Creationist Textbook Sabotaged Science.
32Fark bans misogyny in comments
32In 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.
32Actual words people say to a blonde woman studying engineering at MIT.
32Cracked.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.
31Weird Homeopathy - A love potion called 'Tempesta'. Created by putting an empty bottle outside during a thunderstorm.
31Texas 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?"
31The 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.
31Charles Socarides, the man who formed reparative therapy, has a son. He's gay.
31Please show consideration for fellow passengers by not reading The Daily Mail here.
31Numerous 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.
31How 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.
31Atlas Shrugged III reviewed. "A light went on. This film. What it is. What the book is. It’s the libertarian Left Behind."
31Rebecca 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.
31Activists, 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.
30Homeopathy 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.
30NPR 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”.
30The Onion: God Distances Self From Christian Right
30Joe 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.)
30Lawrence 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."
30Three 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."
30Subliminal messaging for gun nuts.
30Psychic Sally shows her true skills by receiving messages from somebody who's alive and well and in the audience...
30Ken Ham's Ark appears to be floundering.
30If 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.
30Facebook will now point out satire. Because people really are that stupid.
30White 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.
30In 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.
30During 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.
29Skippy gives us the rules of debating on the internet.
29Dennis 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.
29Warren 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?
29It's Patrick Stewart, you love Patrick Stewart. If not, why not? I mean, seriously, watch it. You love Patrick Stewart.
29Anti-Vaccination 'logic' applied to children's car seats (Warning: Poe's Law in action!).
29The net neutrality debate summed up by John Oliver. Update: The FCC website has crashed.
29Sovereign citizen loses drivers license, walks everywhere with an assault rifle.
29Cracked strikes again. "6 Tricks I Learned as a Faith Healer (for Scamming You)"
29Let'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."
29How must Japan prevent its coming demographic crisis? It starts with one wretched word...
29 National Organization for Marriage sinking into debt.
29The 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.
29TL;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.)
29The annotated "50 Faux News lies in 6 seconds" Vine, courtesy of The Daily Show and Politifact.
29Catholic 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!)
28Tea Party group adopts its new slogan from ... 4Chan.
28XKCD uses economics to disprove some woo
28Homeopathy: 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)?
28xkcd's magnum opus.
28Cracked.com: "5 Ridiculous Lies That Fooled the Whole World." Number 1: Andrew Wakefield.
28NYT: Obamacare is a Conservative's Dream. "The only thing wrong with the mandate? Mr. Obama also thought it was a good idea."
28Yes, 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."
28If the moon were only 1 pixel... a tediously accurate scale model of the solar system will bore you for minutes!
28Hooray! Now cops have to serve even those with different religious beliefs! Wait...why would any sane person think they shouldn't?
28If Ayn Rand had written Harry Potter
2810 Scientific Ideas That Scientists Wish You Would Stop Misusing. Yes, 'Quantum' is on the list.
28Tea Party Founding Father Rick Santelli: Wrong about everything.
28Thomas E. Ricks: Good god, I'm turning into a leftie!
28Obama 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."
28National 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.)
28When Women Stopped Coding
28When cranks turn on each other: watching Gamergate eat itself from the inside.
28io9: Stop Using Quantum Mechanics as Evidence for Magic
28A good example of how to complain politely to a shop about pseudoscientific merchandise.
28Conservative 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.
28A week in the life of Anita Sarkeesian.
28A professor of medicine and bioethics livetweets from her son's Abstinence-only sex education class. Update: And then comments on the resulting shitstorm.
27George Takei: "Mr McCance. You are a douchebag."
27Why libertarians are (by definition) selfish, immoral or stupid
27Darryl 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.
27The Onion: Voters Slowly Realizing Santorum Believes Every Deranged Word That Comes Out Of His Mouth
27David Wong, Cracked: 5 Easy Ways to Spot a BS News Story on the Internet
27The Onion summarizes the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
27What I would say to creationists if I were was more of a dick.
27Hopefully, the future of Andy Schlafly's students: Homeschool Apostates
27Are 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!
27Leaving Islam was the hardest thing I've done.
27Phil 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."
27Dear Abby does it again. (perhaps you remember this response to a similar question)
27Facts may not be the best method to convince conservatives.
27The surprisingly sharp point of the Tyson Cosmos series. (The third episode seemed more aimed at astrology.)
27Man 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."
27A useful reference work for the internet: An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments.
27The main problem with anti-vaccination parents is their 'rugged individualist' egotism.
27Cracked talks about what it's like to be a trans man.
27During 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.)
27It's not easy being Scientology in the Information Age.
26Comedy site Cracked.com takes up arms versus anti-gay marriage nutters.
26David 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."
26So how is Kentucky funding the $43 million in tax cuts for the Ark Experience? By cutting $50 million from its education budget.
26Dan 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.'"
26Pwnt.
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."
26Monbiot: "Romnesia" - the ability of the very rich to forget the context in which they made their money.
26Conservative David Frum gets real on abortion.
26Cracked yelling at politicians that don't understand what "poor" means
26The Onion, on how the Supreme Court should handle the marriage equality cases.
26From this day forward, Donald Trump will be given the title of Fuckface von Clownstick.
26GM feed harmful to pigs? Nope. The real story: anti-GMO activists harmful to pigs.
26Introducing Representative Mark Takano (D-CA).
26You 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.)
26And again: when you debate theists, do not trust them - bring your own camera.
26Australia apologizes for Ken Ham.
26A Guide to Arguing With a Snopes-Denier.
26A Christian author argues that Creationists are a cult.
26Denmark. It is a silly place.
26When Stephen Colbert called the Teabaggers "a bug up the elephant's ass," he may have been too kind.
26Politico decides to give its conservative readers a reality check on the Religious Right.
26"Why the Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless."
26The A-Z of what can give you cancer, according to the Daily Fail.
26How libertarians would handle an Ebola outbreak. Guess.
26The USA is finally on the verge of making peace with pornography.
26With 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.
26Racists are still doing that racism thing and Cracked has the studies to prove it.
26Cracked: 6 Ways to Keep Terrorists From Ruining the World
26The perfect response to sexist questions
25Wow. 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
25An interesting opinion on homeschooling and anti-scientific indoctrination in American public schools by someone who grew-up in the USSR.
25Let's see a refutation of this.
25The inevitable Heartland Institute parody billboards.
25Tesla > Edison
25Futurama does what it does best - explain the entirety of US politics in less than a minute.
25What if creationists invaded history classes?
25The 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."
25Meanwhile at PBS... Update: Official response.
25The 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.
25Daily 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."
25Wingnuts: Michelle Obama's satellite appearance at the Oscars was "obscene." So what about Laura Bush, FDR, and Almighty Reagan?
25Whoop-de-fucking-doo. (For non-US viewers)
25Stavvers: Has it been scientifically proven racists and homophobes are stupid? Er, no.
25Have 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.
25German online voters selected an innovative nuclear reactor for the GreenTec Awards environmental prize. The organizing greens threw a hissy fit and arbitrarily disqualified it.
25Play "Guess where Damascus is!" - 100,000 entries later, some interesting statistics.
25Cracked: The 6 Most Humiliating Public Failures by Celebrity Psychics
25The United States never was, is, or ever will be a Christian nation.
25Make 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!"
25More Pat: The War on Christmas is because atheists are miserable and can't stand the joy of Christmas. Pass the eggnog.
25Creationists kill 8 year old's suggestion for a state fossil for South Carolina.
25So 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!)
25Iranian women using Facebook to subvert their country's hijab laws
25Just in case anyone really thinks the poor are secretly living the high life, or that all people are jerks.
25Open-carry nuts. "Everything about this man is so beautifully, gloriously wrong, I half suspect Sacha Baron Cohen is hiding in there."
25Greta Christina has a few choice words for those who see fit to defend the Amazing Atheist.
25New York Times Science writer Nicholas Wade publishes a "racial realism" book, which is met with condemnation by the majority of scientists he cites
25Paul Krugman uses statistics to prove that scientists tend to be liberals.
25Somehow, Not The Onion: "White People Think Black People Are Magical"
25Fifty 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?
25The International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology only accepts the very best papers (warning, older than I first thought)
25Does John McCain Really Have To Remind You About Torture Again, You Assholes?
25Cracked interviews a wilderness therapy camp escapee.
24Weird Homeopathy - made from a shipwreck
24This is a news website article about a scientific paper.
24The Conservative Constitution of the United States.
24The lies I told as a psychic - Confessions of a former phone psychic.
24The Onion: New GOP strategy to make Obama's life miserable? Reelecting him.
24Get this woman into government.
24Rick Santorum thinks rape is a gift from God... seriously?Seriously!?
2411 Eye-Opening Highlights From a Creationist Science Textbook.
24Sascha Baron Cohen as The Dictator gets it. Note: Link taken down by copyright claims.
24Libertarians aren't the defenders of personal liberty they claim to be.
24Thunderf00t'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.
24One of the actresses conned into performing in that movie, speaks out.
24No, you're not entitled to your opinion.
24Climate denial debunked in one graph.
24William Lane Craig remains an unspeakably loathsome creature.
24Elizabeth. Fucking. Warren.
24"Sanctity of marriage" argument destroyed in a little over a minute.
24Fox 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.
24Oh Fox.
24Bradlee Dean's ministry suffers a mass walkout of staff.
24I hope this isn't a repeat. AddictingInfo: Explaining Socialism to a Republican
24Australian tabloid posts hidden message about its proprietor in a children's puzzle.
24Alties 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."
24Editors resign from Frontiers over retracted paper that upset climate science deniers.
24The 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.
24A recent review of court cases has shown that courts nearly always side with wind farms, finding insufficient evidence of Wind Turbine Syndrome.
24Next on the List of Questions that Would Garner an "Are You Crazy?" Reaction a Decade Ago: Is the GOP losing Kansas?
24And Ayn Rand is no longer a thing.
24Science Denial for Beginners
24Ayn Rand reviews children's movies.
24David Dunning (of Dunning-Kruger): We are all confident idiots. Yes, you too.
24Tax 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.
24Anti-vaxxerism as a reflection of American political culture.
24Reformed anti-vax Mom on the journey back to sanity.
24It actually is about ethics in mainstream journalism. Peter Oborne quits the Torygraph over HSBC whitewashing.
24Oh 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).
23US 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.
23PalMD vs. PZ Myers. FIGHT!
23Twitter Joke Trial – What’s Happening Next? A pre-'appeal day' blog post.
23Bill 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.
23The CDC has released a blog post detailing its plans to deal with a Zombie Apocalypse.
23Electrons are spherical, it's official now.
23You ask question about stone tablet, you no go to meatland!
23Rush 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".
23The 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."
23Sean Carroll: Scientists, Your Gender Bias Is Showing.
23Fuck you, Einstein!
23The House is insanely close to having an all-black Democratic caucus and an all-white Republican caucus in the South. Zombie Lincoln arises...
23An analogy to try to explain what it's like arguing with a pseudoscience advocate.
23I present America's Worst State Legislatures. Leading the pack is, unsurprisingly, the lunatics in charge of Tennessee.
23The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gorilla is a good guy with a gorilla.
23Conspiracy theorists are flummoxed by an actual scandal.
23Shedding some light on the "Hitler Loved Gun Control" Argument.
23The best argument for universal health care in the USA: It's the colonoscopies, stupid!
23Obama pulls a "Pants on Fire."
23Jimmy 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.
23How one guy realised the sheer levels of misogyny within gaming: logging in under his wife's gamer tag.
23Pretty Shaved Ape takes the Catholic Church out behind the woodshed for a little "chat".
23This infographic (from a website called "Online Christian Colleges" no less) illustrates how megachurches could easily be labeled "corporate Christianity."
23Popular Science decides to shut down its comments section, blaming unhealthy amounts of anti-intellectualism. Guess who's the first to complain.
23An open letter to the people who really control the US government.
23A 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.
23Don't be evil? Let me google that for you.
23American exceptionalism is screwing with us again.
23Color us shocked, shocked! A solid majority of IR experts (even those who advocate realpolitik) say that Republicans are full of shit on military policy.
23Sean Hannity takes on Jon Stewart. Oops.
23Wow. Even the freakin' National Review thinks the gun nuts have gone too far.
23While the chickenhawks persist in their delusion, the military quietly prepares for global warming.
23Government 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.
23Shepard Smith goes off script again, calls out media on Ebola fearmongering.
23The Good Student in North Korea
23io9: 10 Scientific Ideas That Scientists Wish You Would Stop Misusing
23RationalWiki 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)
23Mississippi 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.)
23Evidence that everyday Islam and radical Islamism aren't quite identical: the jihadists who needed to buy Islam for Dummies.
23Jimmy Kimmel: A message for the anti-vaccination movement. (With actual doctors!) Part 2: Hate mail and public activism!
22Fair and balanced? Leaked memos show Fox News deliberately slanted their coverage of the health care debate.
22Wanted: Your DNA for National Geographic's Genographic Project Trace the migration route of your ancestors over tens of thousands of years.
22Brian 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.
22Get a bad review on your bullshit creationist book? Let the libel case begin...
22Far 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.
22Ellen pwns the wingnuts. UPDATE: Bill O'Reilly has something to say on the matter. In Ellen's favour.
22I've spent the past 2 days trying to convince my 16-year-old she is not a "slut".
22Cracked: Six things rich people need to stop saying.
22Time to come clean: I was one of American's top psychics — and, like all of them, a complete fraud.
22FactCheck: "Uh, guys? Do we have anything to criticize Clinton about? Hello? Shit."
22November 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.
22Onion's on a roll again.
22Exactly why the Daily Mail is end-to-end vile shit. Alternate headline: Fuck You, Daily Mail.
22The circle of death.
22Ten reasons why men should not be ordained.
22Dr Brooke Magnanti (or Belle de Jour, if you remember) lays into lame accusations of "trolling" and second-wave feminism.
22Shocker: MRA guru Warren Farrell is an incest apologist. Update: that's not exactly news for some people...
22So... 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.
22Beowulf, as interpreted by creationists.
22Feminism isn't relevant, eh?
22Controversial bishop speaks out on the Catholic Church's abuse crisis.
22After 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.
22We have to start questioning if wingnuts' attention to Nancy Pelosi is simply because she's just a liberal boogeywoman.
22A new one for the books: argumentum ad monsantium
22A 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!"
22Neil deGrasse Tyson has a possible explanation of why extraterrestrials have never contacted humanity: We're just too stupid to make contact worthwhile for them.
22Seriously, GOP,really sick of calling you stupid.
22Welcome to the Age of Denial. (Or the Age of American Wingnuttery.)
22Click the Tea Party Insult Generator for more fun today!
22Debunking the antivaccine bullshit about the flu vaccine.
22It 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.
22So, about Mein Kampf becoming a bestseller on Amazon...
22The criminal culpability of Andrew Wakefield for harming children worldwide.
22Why 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."
22Dear parents: you are being lied to by the anti-vaccine movement.
22“Britain is not a “Christian country”“ Letter in DailyTelegraph from sundry "names".
22Future US Senator: “Government cannot force citizens to violate their religious beliefs under any circumstances.”
22Cracked looks into Vladimir Putin's crazy Bond-villainy.
22Right-wingers and their hatred of economics, grrr...
22Slate 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."
22With Maureen Dowd's assured blessing, The New York Times publishes a five-part editorial to end the War on Drugs.
22The bizarre tale of how post-Soviet Russia descended into (nearly) every wingnut's wet dream.
22Chiropractic Abuse: An Insider’s Lament
22Only a few more months of Stephen Colbert and the Papa Bear. *sniff*
22What 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?
22Matt 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.
22Sweden'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.
22Have 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.
22They'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?"
22You 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.
22PCC is even more hardcore than we thought it was.
22Book 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.
21Bob 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?"
21The unscientific method of homeopathic proving.
21Skippy (of '213 Things Skippy is No Longer Allowed To Do in the US Army' fame) on why he supports DADT repeal.
21No, Betelgeuse will not explode and kill us all in 2012
21How Ayn Rand ruined my childhood.
21Stephen Colbert exposes the truth about thermodynamics.
21The 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."
21Someone in the annals of Yahoo! News actually gets it right.
21A gay journalist infiltrates a NOM workshop and reports on the hilarity horror within.
21Rebecca Watson weighs in on sexism, Elevatorgate.
21George Takei pwns Scalia.
21Cracked 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).
21John Stumbles: Stephanie's Measles Mischief. A remarkably calm but very firm response to insanely dangerous anti-vaccine bozos.
21If you won't let me save a dollar, I'll get my gun
21From a urine accumulation to "Adam" himself: 7 things that are older than Ken Ham’s universe.
21The greatest parody of 9/11 Truthers ever made.
21The Onion explains how to pass gun control legislation.
21The 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.
21The Right's legislative war on women continues with another round of Shit Republican Men Say (about women's health issues).
21In 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.
21XKCD raises a valid point on the absence of evidence.
21In the wake of the Tiller tragedy, Canadian blogger Bene Diction gives us some Christian rhetoric we could use more of.
21IRL trolling: Calling NSA to restore lost emails
214 Reasons Right-Wing Christians Salivate for the End Times.
21Boris Johnson defends Guardian over NSA revelations.
21Oh yeah, let the anti-vaxxer have a important job in the VRBPAC. This won't possibly go wrong for anyone.
21The Onion pretty much gets it right.
21A 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."
21Ken Ham: The making of an American religious huckster.
21There's still sanity in Texas!
21"The Fuelshark Won't Save You Gas Because It Runs On Bullshit"
21Canadian doctor: Richard Burr, do not fuck with me.
21When anti-intellectualism kills.
21The "Slavic George W. Bush." And the chickenhawks be squawking.
21Paleo is the Scientology of diets. (And that's a blog called "SixPackAbs" saying so.)
21The greening of Islam.
21"As Reason's editor defends its racist history, here's a copy of its holocaust denial 'special issue'."
21Former Occupy activist turns to neoreactionary politics... that or trolling.
21Organized 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.
21Suzanne Moore at The Guardian: Add faithophobia to my crimes: I have no respect for religions that have little respect for me.
21The 15 most offensive things written on ReturnofKings.com
21The 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...
20Dear 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."
20Ten Scariest tributes to Ayn Rand.
20Once a skeptic, always a skeptic
20More stats from OKCupid, this time gay vs straight sex
20Research about biological clocks in mice dramatically affects Mike Adams Sorry 'Health Ranger', scientists have not unintentionally demonstrated that astrology works.
20Weird Homeopathy - The Relationship Between Homeopathic Colour And Astrology. Yes, they are related apparently. By chakras.
20Ten reasons Fox News isn't covering the Egypt story.
20Meeting a Neutrino Skeptic/Denialist. Or should that be "neutrino numpty"?
20Time 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."
20Before people slime public school teachers as "glorified babysitters," perhaps they should remember that teaching isn't all they do at school.
20Summer 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!
20Like with Sarah Palin, Matt Damon destroys Reason's logic..
20State 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.
20Fox 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.
20In the face of an undeniable, egregious violation of civil rights, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas finds a way to be a bullheaded asshole.
20Note to self: Create Elizabeth Warren article.
20I suppose they'll come back for us. Basic civil rights for trans people sidelined again for the sake of same-sex marriage in Maryland.
20Zing.
20A quantum theory of Mitt Romney
208 ways Christian fundamentalists create atheists
20The Daily Mail, keeping it classy: The NHS, therefore racism. With bonus attempt to cover their tracks when busted.
20A plausible mechanism for how homosexuality can cause hurricanes.
20It 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."
20Cracked seriously discusses the NDAA.
20Cracked.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!")
20The only hope for the pandas of politics: evolution.
20FOX NEWS ALERT: President imitating Internet memes while America falls off fiscal cliff!
20Anderson. Fucking. Cooper.
20The 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.
20Creationist quote-mines scientists. Scientists give creationist his Marshall McLuhan moment.
20Nobody can have seen this coming.
20Civil War in the GOP.
20Old, but explains a lot: "a generation of men and women who literally don't understand what sexual consent looks like."
20Rich person gives lowly peasant waitress a tip: rich people are assholes.
20Note to Alex Jones: when Glenn Beck calls you crazy, get help. Soon.
20No, you're not a welfare queen - you're just "living on the government plantation!"
20A righteous post by PalMD explaining why equating gun control to Nazism is really dumb
20Remember 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.
20Jazz, fucking over fundamentalism one day at a time.
20Cracked 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.
20Bill Gates: "It would be nice if all governments were as rational as the Nordic governments - reaching compromise and providing services broadly."
20How the Electoral College would look with proportional representation. (Can we just change the names?)
20So much for CNN being a tool of the "liberal media." (In all irony, The Onion predicted this back in 2011.)
20The Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense.
20Opponents of same-sex marriage are obsessed with what goes on in the bedroom? Who would have guessed?
20The process of science as seen through awkward stock photography.
20Stick figure science: "This is NOT evolution."
20The Pirate Party of Georgia draws a line in the sand.
20Ten US states try to force evolution denialism upon their public school students. Failed in nine of those states.
20ForwardProgressives: 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."
20Come on, whites, get your act together!
20Care to guess how much those morons at Fox News have ratcheted up their transphobia lately?
20See! Universal health care hurts businesses - the television industry!
20It's probably better that the world eventually gets rid of the "The South is full of illiterate rednecks" stereotype soon, but come on.
20Seventeen years on: The teenager who saved a man with an SS tattoo (It brightened my day, anyway)
20Slow-Witted Conspiracy Theorist Convinced US Government Behind NASA
20If you can't stop the troll from feeding, plump him up like a pig.
20CMI explains how without a divine creation there could be no economics.
20The GOP post-Healthcare.gov: I have no idea what I'm doing.
20A ten-year-old atheist successfully stands up for his right to not stand up while the Pledge of Allegiance is being recited.
20American family values. (The study in question)
20A blogger reviews, with mounting horror, homeopathic first aid kits. (August 13, 2013)
20Sean Hannity's show "is like an IV drip for denial for the get off my lawn demographic." Update: The Ballad of Cliven Bundy.
20Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the reaction to the comments of LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling: "More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism."
20Everyone'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.
20US military brass: Republicans Congress continues to threaten national security by ignoring climate change.
20UKIP show their true colours - they're the same as the Standing At The Back Dressed Stupidly And Looking Stupid Party from Blackadder.
20The Onion: Congress Reluctant To Cut Funding For Tank That Just Spins Around And Self-Destructs
20After 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.
20The 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.")
20Show this to anyone dumbfounded on why Iran is itching to fight ISIS (and avoid the Flying Carpet Fallacy).
20Horseshoe theory comes to the Levant: Neocons suggest cutting off aid to Israel because Obama is sticking his evil filthy hands everywhere.
20Ferguson, the NRA and the hypocrisy of silence.
20Sorry, Republicans: going full-libertarian will alienate all your other bases.
20Blowback's a bitch, China.
20Because "Bridgegate" didn't make the point clearly enough: Why Chris Christie (and Andrew Cuomo) will never be POTUS.
20The Oatmeal has a thing or 2 to say to Senator Cruz about net neutrality. Won't anyone think of the crabs??
20More homeopathy fighting ebola - NOT!: some idiots flew to Liberia to 'cure' ebola patients with homeopathy.
20Gamergate isn't over as long as its targets are still being harassed.
20Scientists 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?"
20FoodBabe was, for two years, promoting products containing the "evil" ingredient BHT in the Kellogg's products she protested.
20The Faith Healer Next Door, a story about exactly how a couple of misguided parents could let their child die while they watched.
20Actually The Onion: Open-Minded Man Grimly Realizes How Much Life He's Wasted Listening To Bullshit.
20The 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.
19Where 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."
19Thanks 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.
19A remarkably accurate mapping of European stereotypes.
19"God put the Moon there", sez Bill O'Reilly.
19Ten 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.)
19Bill O’Reilly’s Tidal Skepticism Launches “You Can’t Explain That” Meme
19Indians 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?"
19Stuck on a boat with a doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Includes a scientifically accurate reflexology chart.
19Epic 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.”
19Loads of dirt from a former GOP operative.
19The Onion: Nation Finally Breaks Down And Begs Its Smart People To Just Fix Everything
19True to form, Canada apologizes for failing to not elect Stephen Harper.
19On 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)
19As 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.
19Sandra Fluke speaks, not about Rush Limbaugh but about the issue at hand. Bonus: wanna know how stupid people are? Read through the comments.
19More Christian "love" for little Jessica Ahlquist.
19Winter Climate Change is Coming! A Political Allegory of Thrones.
19Forbes, never mess with The Oatmeal.
19"The Myth That Entitlements Destroy a Nation's Growth, Busted in 1 Chart"
19More 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.
19The 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.
19Glenn 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.
19I used to be a professional psychic. I was a fraud. Ask me anything.
19Ronald Reagan's daughter: My Dad would have supported same-sex marriage.
19Do you know what happens when people start to learn?
19"The Right to Evade Regulation: How corporations hijacked the First Amendment"
19Why we should resist any northward spread of PRISM.
19Fred Clark of Patheos spells out the reality of how prominent homophobic and misogynistic churches and evangelists are.
199 questions about Syria you were too embarrassed to ask. (Well, at least something is in fashion.)
19And now you know why the vast majority of blacks vote Democrat. (Goodbye, fucker!)
19How Ice-9 almost became reality but didn't because science works.
19Reflecting on the death of Nelson Mandela, Ta-Nehisi Coates reminds us how utterly wrong the Republican Party was on apartheid.
19Megyn Kelly just doesn't know when to stop digging.
19Surprise, surprise: The Israel vote was never the Jewish vote.
19Meet the Gulf War veteran, Republican-backed judge who is now Utah's Great Satan.
19John Green takes on the ghastliest of American personality cults. (Verdict? Even when trying to be kind, not pretty.)
19The biggest threat to traditional marriage is conservative Protestants.
19Tired of being preached to by billboards? Introducing a billboard campaign that preaches back at the believers.
19Bill Maher takes on conservatives' false MACHEEZMO!
19Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik: a video on how to correctly leave a comment on a YouTube conspiracy theory video. (December 31, 2012)
19One-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.
19Austin, 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.
19While 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.
19Is the internet killing religion?
19Is Water Causing Autism?
19On 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."
19How 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.
19How 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."
19Let'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.)
19The Scopes Trial as drama.
19Jeff Berwick's Galt's Gulch in Chile isn't going well...
19The Tea Party: Dunning-Kruger effect at its finest.
19The polygraph has been lying to us for 80 years.
19You always wondered: Why cats love sitting in boxes.
19This video will make you angry, or how content on the internet act like infectious diseases (particularly, things that make you angry).
19James Randi: "I'm gay."
18What 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.
18Twitter 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.)
18Well 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.
18The 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.
18Teabaggers 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.
18The guy who live-blogged the bin Laden raid... without realizing it.
18Bad Science: Kids who spot bullshit, and the adults who get upset about it.
18The 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.
18If 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.
18Krugman nails it.
18The life of an 86-year-old, depicted via Rage Comics.
18More 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...
18Twenty years after Darwin on Trial, Intelligent Design is dead.
18The actual gay agenda vs. what conservatives think is the gay agenda.
18Bill Nye (the science guy) is at the Second White House Science Fair - and not a single creationist in sight!
18I'm a Jehovah's Witness and I run a business. Can I deny insurance coverage for blood transfusions?(Warning: Poe's Law in action!)
18Why don't Americans elect scientists? For lulz, see the comments, where one retard said "Solyndra."
18The man that will take Carl Sagan's place in the Cosmos next year. Manly (and womanly) tears are shed.
18Since 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.
18If 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?
18The 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.
18The battle against ungodly mathematics is wider than you think. What do Christian fundamentalists have against set theory?
18Well, 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."
18Why Obama's first term is not a disappointment.
18Thanks for making Iraq an enlightened, freedom-loving nation, Bush.
18Obama's ticket to re-election.
18PZ Myers calls out TheAmazingAtheist for being a callous asshole. (Again.)
18Artificial stupidity implemented! Mathgen paper accepted by journal.
18One for the Mittens article.
18False "fair and balanced" reporting allows vaccine denialists to make it appear vaccines cause autism. Shitty science journalism at fault.(self promotion warning)
18Run 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.
18The 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.
18A 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?
18A well-known ultra-leftist endorses a gun control law.
18 This year's Oscars may be the worst ever.
18A convenient map of post-election GOP infighting.
18Video game blog Rock, Paper, Shotgun reveals one of their writers is *shudder* female. Commenters go nuts. RPS then unleashes the snarkasm.
18The 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.
18But who will tell me that my movie sucks? UPDATE: NOOOOOOOOOO
18Jon 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?"
18Zoning regulations are for commies.
18Let me tell you the tale of a Fox News wannabe begging the government for welfare...
18Nate 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?
18Sorry Blitz.
18Immunization rates among children are falling, but not just from anti-vaccination movements.
18Meanwhile in Turkey... Update: Even more badass.
18More proof that the pro-life movement is doing the exact opposite of what it wants to achieve.
18American 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.
18How the cell strain of an aborted fetus has saved the lives of millions.
18Happy birthday, Curiosity!
18No! The Syrians have already experienced enough!
18Homeopaths are hallucinating if they think they are humanitarians.
185 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.)
18For popular rag journalists: the difference between scholars and cranks
18Mike "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.
18Vaccines may prolong the life of your children
18Bad 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!
18The real Republican "response" to the SOTU: What lines did they refuse to applaud for? It's really quite telling.
18A Republican: So much for any moral high-ground on Benghazi.
18As 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.)
18Wal-Mart finally owns up to being a welfare queen
18The GOP just lost the fake wrestling vote.
18A lesson for jingoists before the 70th anniversary of D-Day.
18Further 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.
18The audiophile woo motherlode: Wat Hifi?
18The "solar roadways" hype gets dissected step by step. (By Mother Nature Network of all places.)
18Vladimir has been feeding his trolls.
18The 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.
18Sanal Edamaruku is still stuck in Finland
18The Goat Brigade continues to troll Facebook conservatives. In this issue, their secret identity is almost exposed!
18The WaPo op-ed section is having a very bad week.
18A Muslim law student sits in on a Benghazi pep rally hosted by the Heritage Foundation. Fill in the blanks.
18A 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."
18It 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.
18The Pundit-Polling Statistics War begins anew!
18A 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."
18Reason magazine actually does something useful, says that the Bill of Rights isn't just for white people.
18Focus on the Family offers handy tips for parents about teaching their children about homosexuality.
18Shh, don't show this to American conservatives.
18Paul Krugman on being accused of rudeness, of arguing ad hominem, and of arguing from authority
18Happen 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.
18Idaho Chief of Police: We need to protect trans rights. *mic drop*
18The GOP’s Long Love Affair With Schmucks: Why Republicans fall in love with inexperienced, no-hope candidates every four years.
18What hope does public science reporting have when professional scientists have a hard time with the basics of each others' fields
18potholer54 takes on the anti-biotech crazies - and owns!
18Why you trust the internet more than your doctor.
18The problems with evolutionary psychology according to an actual biological anthropologist.
18The 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?
17Quackwatch is sued by quack medical lab Doctor Data for exposing them. I'm sure that'll work out just fine.
17The ultimate holistic remedy: homeopathic water.
17"Capitalism Uber Alles: How the American Working Class Got Brainwashed."
17What the fuck has Obama done so far?
17After 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.
17In 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.
17The Founding Fathers never intended for the Government to provide health care for the people...um... well, except for that time they totally did.
17The McGurk effect A very cool audio illusion thingy.
17The 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...
17Ah, 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.)
17There is a clash of civilsations, but not as usually understood
17PolitiFact tests Warren Buffet's "Tax me!" editorial. Correct, as expected.
17The beauty of technology.
17All time greatest scientific abstract ever.
17Perhaps 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.
17What if Tim Tebow was...Muslim? Update: Jimmy Fallon re-imagines David Bowie.
17The Red Flags Of Quackery, expanded edition, in handy comic form.
17How '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."
17Charlie Brooker on the two Daily Heils.
17Bigots: 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."
17TV "psychics" turn out to be stock photos.
17Stephen Hawking is Ace McWicked.
17Men aren't insatiable sexual predators who can't stop, cut that shit out.
17Wondermark: How to lie.
17Higgs Boson nominated for Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" - pretty much every sentence in the nomination has some factual inaccuracy.
17This comic about the friendzone is just too damn quotable.
17This NY Times Op-Ed nicely illustrates Betteridge's law of headlines.
17Let the states decide if Republicans can marry
1711 Most Absurd Lies Conservatives Are Using to Brainwash America's School Kids
17Neal's Yard promotes homeopathy for measles, because they are murderous pieces of shit.
17NonStampCollector'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.
17UnNews: Was 9/11 an outside job?
17The 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.
17Will 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.
17How to troll NSA recruitment drives.
17Oh Jenny.
17Lamar, we can't wait for the historical assessment of you 50 years from now.
17Video 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!"
17Anti-Muslim bigotry is pervasive. Standing up against it is neither cowardly, nor the same as being an apologist for fanaticism.
17Just how liberal is the liberal media? Here's a list of the 15 things everyone would know if there were a liberal media.
17The Beeb explores the flag that should be treated with the same disdain that Germany treats the swastika, but doesn't.
17A 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.
17Big Herbal is putting some nasty shit in their supplements. If Big Pharma did this, they'd be in jail.
17Avoiding Hypocrisy 101: If you want to devote your career to being against subsidized insurance, don't complain when you lose yours.
17The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory.
17The great irony of baraminology is that the very idea of species comes from trying to explain the story of Noah's Ark.
17Sisters, sisters, There were never such devoted sisters. The Cheney girls go public
17So it seems Deepak Chopra's just been busted sockpuppeting Wikipedia for the past five years. Whoops. (Precis.) (More, from Jerry A. Coyne)
17Dan Savage attempts to review Sarah Palin's book on Christmas.
17It 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.
17How 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."
17In a historically-unprecedented idea, "The enemy of my enemy might not be my friend."
17Surprise, surprise: The wealthy in America aren't paragons of virtue.
17In 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.
17How the truth is made at RT.
17I'm havin' pains in my chest because I'm laughing at so stressed from Fox News. (Goddamn procrastinators.)
1720 bizarre comments from the days of apartheid.
17Republican denial, deep in denial!
17*Everyone stares at Alex Trebek* "What? I really don't have an opinion on the matter."
17Not 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]
17So let's get started.
17Two years before a Democratic primary and we're already getting bullshit on whether Obama will pick Clinton or Warren.
17How the Israel-Palestine peace process died. Again. (Commentary)
17Jon 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.
17Sex offender laws have gone too far. (Parts one and two of a series from Slate.)
17Alex Gabriel: To the atheist tone police: stop telling me how to discuss my abuse.
17Stung 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.
17In which Christopher "moot" Poole gets new mods in and kicks #gamergate off 4chan. NOT EVEN 4CHAN wants these people.
17How Conservatives Justify Poll Taxes.
17A Natural A/B Test of Harassment — not just in the world of big AAA games, but even in the world of casual Flash games.
17If 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.
17While women's pay continues to lag behind men's, girls take the lead over boys in educational success.
17Cracked delivers yet again: 8 Obvious Signs Statistics Are Lying To You.
17Science fiction's valiant anti-SJW crusaders and Gamergate wannabes: the Sad Puppies. (Really.)
17A rundown on some of the more infamous Christian terrorist groups
17Facebook 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?
17A 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.
17VIDEO: 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.)
17It'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.
16A message to those praying for Christopher Hitchens. Hat tip
16 Roger Ebert on Sarah Palin: She's just trolling now, right?
16This is what I think: "Traditional Marriage Perverts the Tradition of Marriage"
16The Huffington Post calls them "The Most Ridiculous Anti-Obama Bumper Stickers". It could also be called "A Typical Day at Conservapedia".
16A teabagging group comes out in favor of... being cruel to puppies.
16NephilimFree 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.
16Weird 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!
16A 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)
16Johann Hari: My grandmother deserved a better ending than this
16The skeptic community is diverse and that's a good thing
16Tim Minchin's Storm is finally released.
16Box Office Mojo takes to task the right-wing spin over the lackluster debut for Sarah Palin's hilariously titled new documentary The Undefeated.
16Ha-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.
16The 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."'
16The best Private Eye covers over 50 years.
16Top ten dumbest objections to OWS. (The last one, unfortunately, is probably true.)
16The soldier who asked if the Republican presidential candidates would ban gay service-members from the military shares his reactions to being booed.
16William 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.
16The Onion: Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon. Invade! Invade!
16Santorum using the same tactics as postmodern Marxist thinkers. Frothy: Oh, that's just elitist propaganda.
16In fear of American Talibanism
16Here'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."
16Chris 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.
16Indeed. Global warming and warming caused by windmills are different. Duh.
16Nina Strohminger (psychology grad student at University of Michigan) doesn't often rip a Colin McGinn book apart. But when she does...
16Republicans, meet vaginas.
16New survey shows that the percentage of Americans born after 1980 who believe in god is declining rather rapidly.
16Explosm on the Bible
16Stephen's still got it.
16Any Republicans distressed over the supreme court's Obamacare decision? How about moving to Conservative Paradise!
16Carl Zimmer pwns the Discovery Institute.
16Slacktivist: The Maddow Show's Steven Benen counted up Mittens' lies for the past 30 weeks. Guess how many.
16Factcheck: "This shit again?"
16Joe Scarborough says it like we never will.
16US 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.
16Leveson Enquiry to the British media, RE: depiction and treatment of women: You're shit. Stop it.
16Time to link to The Onion again.
16A 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.
16Conservatives in Europe: Er... did you see that Romney guy over there? Tell us how to prevent that. Strategists: Well...
16Blogger 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!
16From the desk of George Takei: This made me cry.
16Exposing Pseudoastronomy goes through over 500 psychic predictions from 23 pros and dozens of laypeople for 2012. They didn't do so well. Update: Followup.
16The NRA of Counter-Earth.
16Buy ALL the tissues.
16Australians will understand and facepalm to hear: Andrew Bolt takes on Dr Karl about climate change.
16The 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!
16That's one hell of a filibuster.
16The 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."
16What the George W. Bush museum should look like.
16Sandra Day O'Connor: In hindsight, I fucked up.
16"Best" thank you's to George W. Bush
16In addition to abstaining from JAQing off, you should also stop FAPing.
16Ken Ham commits autoparody.
16Humans: only 70% similar to chimps?
16Oh, my! George Takei takes the usual anti-gay / reparative therapy PSA and turns it on its head.
16The 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.
16Richard Dawkins. GMO. Here combined into one story about the anti-science beliefs of Prince Charles
16This is how one should respond to cease-and-desist trolls.
16Oh, 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)
16Who says atheists have no morality? We "commit less crime, have longer marriages and are more highly educated than almost any other group in America."
16Stephen Meyer's new book is "a masterwork of pseudoscience."
16The one place Edward Snowden would be safe from prosecution.
16All of this is true, Mr. Larsen, but please remember that the ratio of anti-science wingnuts to moonbats is 164 to... well, 1.
16Apparently, 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.
16There's a reason nobody takes you seriously anymore, Krauthammer.
16This 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.
16Andrews & Arnold trolls David Cameron.
16American conservatives just can't get enough of that Vladimir. Mr. Mataconis should have mentioned Andy Schlafly as well in his post.
16Months ago this wouldn't be happening. What is wrong with you, Japan?
16Why Texas banned Tesla Motors
16Well, 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."
16Meanwhile, on Egyptian TV: Somebody dared criticise the military, nobody understands what atheism is, and politics continues to infect sport.
16And this was after a four-year Democratic administration.
16The Republicans on handling their wingnuts: Forget about it, What could go wrong? Canadian conservatives on handling their wingnuts: Shut them up, now!
16How gay adoption caused the Catholic Church to lose their shit completely — and become utilitarians.
16Impurifying all of our precious bodily fluids for 50 years.
16Comics journalism about privately-run immigration detention centres in Australia.
16Rachel Maddow: North Carolina Republicans put a believer in abiotic oil in charge of natural resources.
16Abandon ship!
16If only acceptance for interracial marriage occurred this fast.
16To tax cuts! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
16Why is public distrust in science so high at at time when science has done so much?
16What took you so long, GOP? Benghazi has officially entered into Truther levels. (And the jokes keep coming.)
16Republicans, if you really care about free speech, make sure you reflect that in your Supreme Court justices.
16Oh yes, UKIP is relevant, yes...
16I am shocked, shocked, to hear that there was massive fraudulent Bitcoin trading at Mt. Gox.
16On "the death of expertise" and why it matters.
16Nearly 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.
16A 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..."
16Oh, 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.)
16Why Can’t the Banking Industry Solve Its Ethics Problems?
16io9: This Classic Science-Denying Scandal Shows Why Too Much Testing Is Bad. "Bad", you say? This needs further study!
16Three sexist newspapers that completely missed the point of Emma Watson's UN speech (Daily Telegraph, The Star, Daily Mail)
16Why UN climate talks continue to fail
16Chris Wallace: "We have always been at war with Eastasia."
16Fracking + OPEC = this.
16Nice. 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
16So that's why American conservatives have been red-baiting Pope Francis.
16One 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.
16It will go nowhere, but thanks to ye.
16Another slam dunk for Kareem Abdul-Jabar.
16Open Carrying cop-watchers: Well, what can possibly go wrong?
16Comrades! 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!
16My Year Ripping Off The Web with the Daily Mail Online.
16Giles 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?
16Figure 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.
15The 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.
15Ah, Scientology. When will you ever learn? (Yes PZ, you are being a dick, but we love you for it.)
15Poor Shirley Sherrod, turns out that the Secretary of Agriculture and the President should have watched the whole video.
15Ted 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.
15Possibly the greatest quote mine ever; Obama stated that taxes will go up for everyone... or did he?
15Journalist Matt Taibbi makes fun of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and their assertion that Obama won the election via mass hypnosis.
15Plagiarism - 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.
15America's addiction to belief. Utne Reader has posted a copy of the article here.
15William 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.
15Following 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
15Exploring The Sun with Helioviewer Cool ESA and NASA funded toy to play with solar and heliospheric image data.
15An 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.
15Has all the talk of sieverts and ionizing radiation in the scaremongering media left you dazed and confused? Here is a little graphical perspective.
15If 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.
15Meteorites, the LIFE Project and the Outer Space Treaty of 1967
15Catholics denounce Conservative Deceit. These heretics will be excommunicated by Andy Schlafly as soon as he hears about it.
15A new 3D map of the universe is unveiled.
15Richard 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...)
15New research exposes "Big Wind" and how its windmills will blow the Earth out of its orbit.
15A 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!
15Global warming denialism ends now.
15What drives creationism? The scientific principle of Oogity Boogity.
15Shit's gonna go down.
15Yes furriners, many 'Murricans believe this nonsense.
15No, this is the best OWS sign.
15Find your human number among 7 billion.
15David Brin: It is your duty to risk your brain and argue with your crazy uncle about climate change.
15What 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."
15The 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!!!!!)
15Five founding fathers whose views on Christianity would make them unelectable today.
15Karen 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!
15George 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.
15Psychic 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?"
15l'Oignon: Vatican Dispatches Elite Team Of Bishops To Sabotage Contraceptive Manufacturer
15It seems Goldman Sachs is just as deluded as we thought they were.
15Transgender rights bill up for debate next month in Canada. (Yeah, like that will pass.)
15Good Guy Lucifer.
15Andy 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.
15Matthew Inman delivers the goods.
15Pure, unadulterated hilarity: Obamacare will substantially help red states more than blue.
15Bill Maher makes an interesting analysis of Republicans who were impressed by Caiden Cowger. Perhaps his analysis explains shit like this.
15PZ details why mind uploading is idiot bloviating. The reaction is predictable.
15Heed these words.
15Why the Oatmeal brouhaha was so important. Update: Inman's Twitter page filled with upset fundies.
15The problem with Mitt
15John Willke, the doctor who Todd Akin learnt about "legitimate rape" from, exists. And is gibbering batfuck crazy.
15Wonkette thrashes another columnist who says unemployment benefits keep people from looking for work.
15Could the toppling of Bullshit Mountain be at hand?
15This is probably the point where the United States' newspaper-of-record gives the gay guy with the argentum surname a hefty raise.
15Welcome to Liberal America. Get over it.
15A visual representation of who was accurate on the presidential election, and who wasn't.
15Maybe the divinely inspired book calls it "demonic possession" because it sounds more poetic than "anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis."
15Climate scientists are getting blunt, asking "is the Earth fucked?" And they're getting increasingly aggressive in trying to prevent it from getting any worse.
15Well, the National Post just outdid themsleves: "As FDR showed the world in the ’30s, sometimes it takes a socialist to save capitalism from itself."
15Secret revealed! The Thomas Friedman Op/Ed Generator.
15"Of course we still think these theories are just nonsense."
15Cue the hand-wringing.
15BoingBoing calls attention to a photo copyright watermark by the Daily Mail that's even more Not even wronger than usual.
15Switzerland, the last excuse by the NRA and their ilk to ignore gun control? Not really.
15Observe: pick-up artists trying their finest social skills on ... a robot horse.
15Basically, fuck the NRA
15All 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.
15Prepare to witness every neocon's brain explode.
15Software developer fired for making childish/sexist jokes during a tech conference. Woman who called him out also fired.
15Cracked: 5 Mind-Blowing Facts Nobody Told You About Guns
15Surprisingly, 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.
15Google releases remarkable Landsat footage of human expansion in the past 25 years. (Some commentary by Hank Green)
15Vaccine deniers are supported by Big Pharma to improve their profits. And here's some fucking proof of the conspiracy. It only makes sense.
15Politicus 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.)
15Federal judge to the NSA: What State Secret? (Full decision)
15Oh yes, blame the intern.
15How economic equality in Canada and Denmark increases social mobility and meritocracy.
15Ninth 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.
15Richard Lenski has started blogging!
15Science pushed tobacco. They forced DDT on the environment. They tried to trick everyone with Piltdown Man. Per usual, it's nothing but bullshit
15INFOGRAPHIC: 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.)
15No. You cannot boost your immune system. OK, there's one way.
15The 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.)
15American conservatives, Your lack of insight and compassion towards people in need makes you ugly.
15Context means everything.
15No Woman, No Drive!
15The SCOTUS has suspended habeas corpus. (Or it could be that another sovereign citizen is finding out what the law really is.)
15The Onion: Obama Not Ruling Out Military Action in Congress. "Troubled region" indeed.
15From HuffPo: 11 things atheists couldn't -- and in many cases still can't -- do because they didn't believe in God.
15The pollsters probably enjoyed this.
15I 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!
15This 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.
15You 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.'"
15The act of defiance that infuriated Kissin- a mass murderer.
15Anti-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."
15Richard C. Hoagland's latest claims about how the Chinese Chang'e 3 spacecraft photographed glittering glass towers miles high and across are debunked.
15Ham Rove made Americans smarter, unlike the real one.
15The 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?"
15Note 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.
15How 65-million-year old geographic formations affect contemporary US voting patterns.
15August 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.
15Willing to reconsider your no-byline policy, Economist? (Update: no, but they withdrew the review.)
15"Just how secure is Xi Jinping, really?"
15A guide to the glossary of the oh-so-accountable kids behind Gamergate.
15Harper's meets the Silicon Valley capitalists and transhumanists. It's unclear if the LessWrong crew realise how they appear to normal humans.
15Consent is key NSFW but it ought to be
15Protest outside John Edward show draws police to the scene.
15Gay 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!
15Daily Kos: "Can a vaccine be responsible for the profoundly stupid?" (Probably not.)
151. 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.)
15Two trans children.
15Every blog post, ever
15And 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? Wall.gif
14Hee! Splashing "holy water" on an atheist could lose you your job. Hat tip That old fake sneeze joke is still okay, though.
14The 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?
14Christians at Chicago Pride 2010 say sorry for past homophobia.
14Religious people tend to be more racist.
14Here'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")
14Tea Party Jesus, which now also has its own RationalWiki page.
14Question: How close is Glenn Beck to inspiring a body count? Answer: very.
14Harry 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.
14What 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.
14You may never have heard of them, but their combined wealth almost challenges Bill Gates, and they're bankrolling the Tea Party
14The 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.
14In 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...
14An uncharacteristically astute and well reasoned Ricky Gervais on "Why I'm An Atheist"
14Nadine Dorries: Conservative MP, pro-homeopathy, supporter of blasphemy laws, lying scum.
14Choices, choices... Should we build a stealth bomber, or should we build six hospitals? America's military budget, put into perspective
14Johann Hari: Why is it wrong to protect gay children?
14New head of the Budget Committee and Randroid Paul Ryan unveils his new budget: Screw everyone but the rich, build more bombs.
14WBC taunts Anonymous. Anonymous show their teeth.
14Republicans still acting cartoonishly evil when it comes to the environment. What's next on the agenda, "Screw the Earth" Day?
14How 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?
14From 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.
14The James Randi Foundation announces the 5 bullshitting winners of the annual Pigasus Awards.
14Richard Adams, Guardian blogger: "This Republican crop of candidates is a veritable "Who's that?" of American politics".
14Over 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.
14Fear 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.
14This is what happens when you fail to apply the KISS rule to cheating.
14That News International apology translated.
14A list of people (and their quotes) who are okay with murdering Julian Assange.
14How marathon running is an affront to the Good Lord.
14"if social conservatives take power we might have government policing our bedrooms."
14Poe's Law and RationalWiki featured on the front page of Know Your Meme!
14Internships 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.
14The Hamster Wheel takes a look at Sacha Baron Cohen's latest character: Lord Christopher Monckton. Totally serious.
14In Michigan, it is now perfectly fine to bully in the name of Jesus. Well, not anymore
14Neil deGrasse Tyson whoops serious ass.
14How climate change became a liberal conspiracy.
14Too 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.
14How to explain gay rights to an idiot.
14The 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
14The History Channel in 18 seconds.
14A natural disaster that cost the lives of thousands of people was ignored in favour of a nuclear 'disaster' that never was.
14Bomb it. You know you want to.
14Amen, Pastor. Amen!
14Jesuits 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."
14Just wait for the first Madame President...
14How vaccine denialists creates more vaccine advocates. Comments really show how this happened.
14Chuck Norris facts, updated.(self promotion warning)
14Cracked: The 4 Most Meaningless Arguments Against Gun Control
14As 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?
14The horrors of Guantanamo strike again.
14Roger 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."
14The Onion shines again: "Nation Unsure Which Candidate's Plan To Destroy The Environment Will Create More Jobs"
14Hey, life works in mysterious ways.
14Nothing 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!
14The trouble with skeptics telling jokes: Exposing PseudoAstronomy accidentally Poes some 2012 nutters.
142012: the year when it became okay to blame victims of sexual assault
14Hear this, people. Obama might actually have some balls.
14“It’s awful. I mean, what else am I supposed to do with my life?”
14Mercury thiocyanate igniting - enjoy the nightmares you'll have this evening!
14Say 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.
14Time for some more original lies for Jesus.
14Military-industrial complex Fuck Up #1.
14The atheist's guide to the next Pope.
14Yvain: Selecting the next pope for hilarity potential. Since all papabile look alike, includes pictures of people of similar-sounding names.
14Big Placebo is relabeling homeopathic remedies as "supplements" to avoid the stigma of homeopathy.
14Sky News reporter gets detained by Chinese police, hilarity ensues.
14Racist preacher elected president of Brazil's Human Rights Commission (over a week old but I don't think we've noted it)
14Church 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.
14This is not going to end well.
14Social network fuckwits (*cough*Reddit*cough*), fuck off.
14Say hello to Daniel Day-Lewis' fourth Academy Award! (Oh God, he's broken the self-deprecation meter.)
14How this helps hipsters or the religious is unknown.
14A 30 Second Guide to How the Gay Marriage Ruling Affects You. UPDATE: A similar list from HuffPo.
14Yo, fuck Marat.
14We all know how this is going to end.
14Wine tasting is bullshit.
14NPR Discovers the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory! And it may just be a positive feedback loop.
14What'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!
14Meanwhile in Russia... Update: The Daily Mail says what everyone else is thinking.
14An 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.
14Looks 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.
14It does kind of stagger the imagination, doesn't it?
14So 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.
14The 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.
14So much for trying to represent the anti-Murdoch, intellectual Tories, Telegraph.
14Journal of Cosmology follow-up post: how long does it typically take between data collection and paper acceptance? Does 10 days sound about right?!
14Want to know how Golden Dawn appeared almost out of nowhere in the Eurozone crisis? Ask the police.
14Where America's poor and uninsured live.
14Proliferation of shitty peer-reviewed journals. Good news for the pseudoskeptics. (self promotion warning)
14Somebody's going to get a Nobel. The idiots at Viacom have blocked the video, but you can read the answer here.
14In which the anti-vaxxers turn on each other. Popcorn!
14Toys Are Us has a message for you: Shopping > Science
14We still need scientists to appear on Question Time(self promotion warning)
14In light of World AIDS Day, all glory to Saint Reagan.
14Gay skinhead
14Edward Snowden's Christmas message. (Transcript.)
14A reminder that all fundie groups aren't the same.
14Crouching Tiger, Hidden Moron. (And look at all the fascists in Kiev!) Update: Seriously, in layman's terms, Putin is fucking himself.
14This 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."
14We 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".)
14Regarding 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."
14Where 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?”
14The G.O.P. Can’t Ignore Climate Change Shut up, Huntsman, you goddamn commie!
14Jeb Bush, Republican intellectual. No, seriously.
14Participating in deception: ‘Narrative can become fact’: how some murderous, delusional behavior resembles a role-playing game gone horribly wrong.
14Since 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.
14Real atrocities and easy fantasies—careful what you retweet.
14Why near death experiences aren't proof of heaven
14The only explanation for The Orange Overlord's "sue Obama" gambit that makes sense. Well, other than pettiness.
14Cherry Picking or Context in Bible Verse Selection
14Turns out you can do direct A/B comparisons on workplace gender discrimination: ask a transgender person. (Similar response comment on HN.)
14Skeptical Science launches a cheeky quote/caricature series called 97 Hours of Consensus.
14The “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.)
14The idea of "environmental classism" in America looks moronic now.
14The Guru Effect: if something's hard to understand, it must be true.
14Some scientist has no choice but to sell his Nobel medal.
14Apropos of the current "Black Lives Matter" movement, here is a photo-essay about the history of lynching in the USA.
14Real science vs. fake science: How can you tell them apart? (Complete with handy pocket-sized guide!)
14Bitcoin 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.)
14From Sluts Against Monsanto on Facebook: Science Denial Mad Libs!
14A 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"
14Fundies 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.
14Why is wind power a bad thing? Because it makes power too cheap.
14Daily Show video: Lewis Black says that Glenn Beck has "Nazi Tourette's."
13Welcome to booming school: first things first, it's not a boom, it's a fucking boom!
13A Christian blog ponders Why Christians are Jerks Online.
13If 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!)
13Latest periodic table: vaccine rejectionism.
13VIDEO: 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!
13Charlie 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."
13A 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.
13Via The Onion: Democrats: 'If We're Gonna Lose, Let's Go Down Running Away From Every Legislative Accomplishment We've Made'
13The Tea Party: "One of the biggest exercises in false consciousness the world has ever seen."
13Thom Hartmann: Roll back the Reagan tax cuts. Also, Americans are all such suckers that they don't realize what's good for them.
13Over the last two decades a Swedish city has effectively reduced to zero its use of fossil fuels to heat its homes and businesses.
13An 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.
13The Ivory Tower abstractions of the right.
13You might be a teabagger if...
13A 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?)
13Sam Harris on the Koran burning: "When will moderate Islam stand up to its Fundamentalist wing?".
13So you think Rebecca Black's Friday is the worst song ever made? How about the Christian version, Sunday?
13Walker: Texas Plagiarist
13Johann Hari skewers Trumperism.
13Do you think your own brand of alternative medicine won't stand up to new Advertising Standards Authority regulations? Just play the race card.
13Weird Homeopathy - Saturn. Appears to get you seriously stoned.
13The official retracted and totally denied position of the US Government is that Fox News "blathers" too much.
13No True Libertarian...
13The nonsensical "Obama misery index."
13All 51 Miss USA contestants answer the question "Should evolution be taught in schools?" Make sure your head and desk are well-rested before watching.
13GOP 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."
13Microevolution and macroevolution explained for more visual learners.
13Frequently bandied about statistics on income inequality receive a "mostly true" rating from PolitiFact.
13Republican governors try to pray away the gay heat.
13The Onion: US concedes, Soviets win the space race.
13A 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.
13An academic look at Tea Party members.
13Contender 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)
13The Onion: Harry Reid and John Boehner take Congress hostage. Update: The media actually believed it.
13Charlie 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?
13Why 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.
13An 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.
13More Parry parody ads are popping up. The new subject? Jesus.
13Every climate denial argument debunked, in one 50 minute presentation. If there's one video to spread around the Internets, it's this.
13Supposedly professional Politico reporter mistakes the Wisconsin state flag for the local labor union flag. Hail the future of journalism!
13Damn you Jon Stewart!
13The Onion: One in five Americans believe Obama is a cactus.
13Newt Gingrich: "You can't put a gun rack in a Chevy Volt." Vlogger: Oh, really?
13Given 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.
13All dead Mormons are now gay. (Unless they died in the Holocaust.)
13Kentuckians for Cretaceous Coastlines.
13Exposing PseudoAstronomy slaps down the Moon landing hoax arguments from photography.
13Anyone remember the Digg Patriots? You can now add Paulbots with them SMEARING THE GOOD NAME OF DR. PAUL!
13Karma: It works, bitches.
13All is not well in those big, happy families.
13But 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.
13An 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".
13Just what you always wanted: a web-based Deepak Chopra generator. (HT Unreasonable Faith.)
13American students are being taught that the Loch Ness Monster proves creationism. And American taxpayers are paying for it.(self promotion warning)
13Remember, every time you call it 'The God Particle' Higgs kills a kitten.
13A 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."
13I have fucking had it with the stupidity and arrogance of the vaccine denialist dumbfucks.
13There's no false dilemma anymore. Choose between the red or blue pill. (we'll let you decide which is which)
13Confessions of a former Randroid.
13Do 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."
13For fucksake, students.
13We won the Cold War, so where are all the monuments?
13Clearly, 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.
13Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly start a new anti-gun violence campaign: Americans for Responsible Solutions
13A nice infographic has been going viral - too bad it's a little misleading
13Jason Colavito explains why skeptics shouldn't ignore Ancient Aliens, pointing out the TV ratings of the show.
13There Are No Contradictions! — A Game for 3 to 6 Players.
13Why North Korea will fall faster than anyone would've expected.
13Cracked: 5 Ways Statistics Are Used To Lie To You.
13Ian McKellen pwns the Iron Homophobe.
13No worries, everyone.
13What is this? A Canadian Senator who's actually competent and useful?
13Technology 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."
13The 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."
13Teflon? No. At least Reagan had charisma.
13In 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.
13British Columbia introduced the first revenue-neutral carbon tax in North America four years ago. Guess the results.
13Guessing there were facepalms from this.
13Fundie 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?
13Just writing a column isn't going to do much, guys. But we appreciate the effort.
13The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet.
13Inelastic demand, shelastic demand, commie.
13Watch as every Republican's head now explodes.
13Senator McCain, you can probably joke about a bunch of things in Congress, but slacking on the job probably isn't one.
13Jon, 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."
13Conservative correctness at its very worst: History textbooks in Texas rename the slave trade.
13Why 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!
13Two 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.
13Qatar's brutal treatment of migrant labour
13So it turns out that organizing Libertarians is difficult.
13Seems that the NSA's "collect it all" approach is costing everyone it touches.
13Was Newton an astrologer? (Guess.)
13It'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)
13The Tea Party is five. We still wouldn't trust them with scissors.
13Fox News Crazy Alert: propping up Lost Cause of the South. (And, in full irony, Civil War-era Democrats.)
13Steven Wilson, The logic of Russian internet censorship. (Washington Post).
13Pro-life Christians.
13Thatcher: Oh Ronald, you have been a great friend of mine. *turns around and gags*
13Vladimir Putin seems determined to become the next Milosevic.
13Fox News may have just unsettled its $8 million hush money settlement.
13Here's a bold prediction: The Suppository of Wisdom will not survive to 2017.
13More Onion: Scientists Politely Remind World That Clean Energy Technology Ready To Go Whenever
13The Financial Times has some 'splainin' to do.
13My Conversation with “Eugene Goostman,” the Chatbot that’s All Over the News for Allegedly Passing the Turing Test
13A Channel 5 documentary alleges that Hitler was a serial tax evader. No comment.
13Dear Sam Brownback: Stay in politics for as long as you possibly can.
13Your time is running out, Lockheed Martin.
13End the Green Lantern Theory of the Presidency.
13The Texas Tank delivers yet again with a new series teaching science at a middle school level.
13The man who liked everything on Facebook has his counterpart: The woman who liked nothing.
13Herbals, Dietary Supplements Linked To Liver Injury
13Matt Walsh Doesn’t Get Historical Marriage Rate Trends
13Rioting over a lack of indictment is unacceptable
13There's one kind of bias that affects extremists less than other people.
13Steven Novella: Nobody's Perfect: dealing with flawed characters and the inverse stopped clocks of the world (a.k.a. "Welcome to Being Human.")
13You can lead a misogynist to evidence, but you can't make them accept it. (Full on Anita's Law in comments section)
13Guardian supplies rather sarky review of Daily Express weather predictions. Well, it made me laugh
13It 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.
13Misspelled political signs: Death to all juice!
13An analysis of the uncut "Collateral Murder" video.
13The 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."
12The 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.
12The 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!
12The 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.
12What makes more sense; homeopathic "explanations" or Star Trek's over-the-top technobabble? Lets find out.
12Conservapedia gets some more notoriety in the blogosphere: "Defending Einstein from the new barbarians," such as Andrew Schlafly.
12Weird 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?
12Clog: The ever-predictable Jenny McCarthy weighs in on the Andrew Wakefield scandal. Blog: "Orac" from ScienceBlogs tears her apart in a most spectacular way.
12A 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.)
12The 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."
12American 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%.)
12It's time to play Sheen, Beck or Qaddafi!
12You're next, Michigan!
12Nuclear reactor or nightclub? We report, you decide!
12Joe "EPA regulations are anti-free market" Barton drops his latest "pearl of wisdom": Oil subsidies are all about the free market!
12Roger Ebert ponders... well, everything.
12From HuffPo: The pink toenails ad "showed real family values -- not the contrived kind put forth by social conservatives."
12An account from one of the "disappeared" in Argentina during the 1970s.
12With President Obama's birth certificate, Klansman Trump reminds blacks they will never be American
12Skippy envisions the morning after Saturday's Rapture.
12A victory for sanity: Psychology Today shitcans major evo psych asshat Satoshi Kanazawa.
12New study confirms existing prejudice: (G)Libertarianism is about freedom from taxes and regulation.
12Michael Egnor has started his own blog called "Egnorance." No shit.
12Creationist school appears out of nowhere. "‘I was as surprised as anyone to find myself here,’ said newly created headmaster, Dr William Jennings Bryan."
12A petition to save the funding for the James Webb Space Telescope.
12Does local weather affect people's opinions of climate change?
12A free thinker is Satan's slave! Wat.
12Yes, ratings agencies suck at rating public debt as well as private.
12Climategate-gate? Neil Wallis is implicated in helping to feed the denialist echo chamber. More: Joe Romm on Olbermann on re-opening Climategate
12Good rundown of stupid House bills, including the emergency vote (!) to defund the dreaded NPR.
12Uncyclopedia: Successful government trolls are successful.
12Governor Rick Perry's "Texas miracle" includes crowded homeless shelters, low-wage jobs and worker deaths.
12"Republicans fit the profile of a classic abuser."
12Potholer54 shows us how dishonest TV producers fool you.
12Religion losing significant ground in Canada, New Zealand, Finland, The Netherlands, and other various nations.
12Weird Homeopathy - Oscillococcinum. Made from a bacteria that does not exist.
12Religious people are just another form of geeknerd.
12Potholer54 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!
12Atheism is on the upswing in America. Somebody tell ShockofGod!
12Alabama brings back slavery.
12Here'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)
12Denialism: Then and now.
12"How Ignorance, Greed and Ideology Are Warping Science and Hurting Democracy"
12Potholer54 delivers a quality debunking on Climategate 2.0
12As Cain drops out, pro-adultery voters switch to Gingrich.
12Nearly 20 years later, Sully is still finding a way to dig himself deeper on The Bell Curve. Safe to call him a wingnut now?
12Well, dur.
12Like father like daughter: Elizabeth Santorum has gay friends too!
12A happy[citation NOT needed] customer reviews Ray Comfort's wizard entertainment, Intelligent Design vs Evolution: The Board Game!
12Help, 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."
12How SOPA could negatively affect science.
12How the US' current "free market" health care is not any kind of freedom at all.
12New atheist billboard campaign unveiled!
12Even the creationists don't like Indiana Senate Bill 89.
12The "Every Sperm is Sacred" Lady speaks out.
12Ah, 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.
12The 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?
12North 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.
12Five bullshit myths spread by Titanic movies. But it isn't all as bad as trying to listen to this screeching Canadian menace
12Someone get this into one of our articles, stat. (source)
12An atheist tells us why she doesn't "just shut up".
12The tyranny of Big SeatbeltIt's satire, in case it's not obvious enough.
12In the military atheists aren't allowed to collect food for the homeless, but the Salvation Army can!
12Thanks, Captain fucking Obvious.
12Godwin is on our side for once.
12Courtesy 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.
12Mitt Romney's greatest hits contradictions, in one easy video.
12Dumbasses 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.
12Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
12This 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?
12PROTIP: If you utterly rely on unpaid volunteers to run your website, don't sue them.(self promotion warning)
12What sick cosmic joke is this?
12"Be nobody or be a loud, mean somebody."
12GMO opponents are the Global Warming Denialists of the Left.(self promotion warning)
12Find this hard to believe? You may be a skeptinazi (1,990 results).
12Homeopaths 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.
12Snopes: Goodbye to the Redskins Rule.
12Meryl Dorey has been ordered to stop her fucking lying bullshit.(self promotion warning)
122012 Wipe - about time, the wankers.
12After 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.)
12Andy Borowitz delivers an exceptionally powerful Poe.
12"Godless," another documentary made by Christians claiming to be something they're not.
12In order to prove men and women are not equal (original screenshot), Suzanne Venker uses a picture of ... two lesbians marrying.
12Exactly why Jesus wasn't the king of Edessa (Or exposing pseudo scholarship)
12The Bronze Dog has a nice, concise post about privacy, the surveillance society and Google Glass
12The history of the solar system, Scientology-style.
12Sam Harris, scientific racism, the new atheism and Islam. Update: Harris replies in conversation with Greenwald
12Why Bitcoin is no longer a currency.
12Conclusive Proof That There Is No God and Humans Are Essentially Evil The truly sad and disturbing story of Pony the Orangutan.
12How blind salamanders make nonsense of creationists' claims. by Christopher Hitchens. (July 21, 2008)
12Pseudo scholarship exposed (along with debunking resources)
12Competition is fierce indeed.
12Scientists to Lamar Smith: your previous op-ed is regurgitating political talking points, and none of the implied conclusions is accurate.
12A ridiculous claim, substantiated by nothing more than facts.
12Is this the laziest Congress ever?
12VIDEO (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.
12First trailer for Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey.
12And there goes a political career.
12The 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.
12On atheism and white knight sexism
12Let's make a chant for the jobs you're all going to lose.
12The 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.
12Why 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?
12America: 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.
12Inside the head of one of the dumbest Supreme Court judges known to man.
12The Koch brothers: "Shit."
12Biologist/blogger Kelly Weinersmith shares her story of sexual harassment in the field.
12'Because' has become a preposition, because grammar.
12America's angriest white men: Up close with racism, rage and Southern supremacy
12In 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!)
12The first female presiding bishop of the ELCA cites St. Paul as a major inspiration and theological influence. Yes, that St. Paul.
12The New Republic is getting very weird.
12Just when you thought it was safe to go back in Louisiana, Edwin Edwards is running for office again.
12Emily Willingham: Hyping your conspiracy theory in 5 easy steps
12McConnelling.
12LALALALA 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?"
12University 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."
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12You Soviet-nostalgic, Marx-invoking, socialist freaks! ...Oh hello, Mr. Putin.
12Just like Anti-Italianism and Anti-Catholicism, history repeats itself.
12With "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]
12In the face of the facts and his own history regarding POW swaps, John McCain reaches a brand new low.
12Surprise, surprise. Climate Change Deniers Using Same Methods as Tobacco Industry, Says Physicist
12Which Iraq War are you?
12The Great Russo-Ukrainian Fuckup, summarized.
12Just imagine if Fox News went bankrupt out of nowhere.
12Scamworld: how internet get-rick-quick schemes work to separate you from your money.
12Chart Brut: The red-string-and-thumbtacks of the Internet generation
129 ways Christian zealots cripple America. (No, it's not from Cracked. It's a Salon.com repost from Alternet.com.)
12The 5 Most Insidious Conspiracy Theories of 2014.
1223 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!
12It 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)
12No one's really racist these days, not even the commissioner of a white's only basketball league. /endsarcasm (self promotion warning)
12The 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.
12Sarah 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!
12Nadine 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.
11Somebody wants to make a biographical movie about Rush Limbaugh. (And not a flattering one.)
11It'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.
11When science challenges your worldview, you're more likely to just turn around and say well, you can't actually prove that with science anyway!
11Republican 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.
11The Intelligent Gestation Institute challenges the Theory of Pregnancy. Not strictly speaking a blog, but quoted in full on Pharyngula.
11Is the Birther Movement 2.0 in the works? And will the knuckleheads behind this new effort be called "Baptismers"?
11Dating 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.
11Cracked'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"
11Retired 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.
11IEEE Spectrum is sick of Ray Kurzweil's technobabble futurism.
11The 2010 “Editing Wikipedia From Inside Parliament” Awards
11Regarding 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."
11You are stardust and lightning. How cool is that?
11Michele 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.
11Brian 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."
11PZ Myers points out that Eric Hovind is offering free DVDs! Ahh, out of stock. But wait, what's this?
11Wouldn't it be nice if conservatives shut up about the value of marriage?
11The Beast's 50 most loathsome Americans of 2010.
11William 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.)
11If RationalWiki is looking for a theme song, here's a candidate.
11Perhaps more relevant to UK RationalWikians...A guide to studying with the Open University
11Somebody finally asked the question: What happens when a couple dozen children are homeschooled by a nitwit?
11Roger Ebert on the new Atlas Shrugged film: "The most anticlimactic non-event since Geraldo Rivera broke into Al Capone’s vault. ★"
11Five Myths about the Separation of church and state in America.
11Now would be a good time for the U.S. to tell the Saudis where to shove their human rights abuses, etc.
11The 10 key myths about Osama bin Laden
11Universities 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.
11The reason we reason: not to get the right answer, but to convince that other chimp to give you the fruit.
11Australia is planning to ban 1,000s of plants that contain natural DMT... including their national flower.
11Johann 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."
11Daniel 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.
11CIA official admits to attempts to illegally spy on Juan Cole. Surely they will be held accountable for this, right?
11With 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."
11Roger Ebert finally reviews Expelled. Two evolved opposable thumbs down.
11Dora? Spongebob? Lefties.
11Those bond vigilantes will strike any day now...any day now...
11Here'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."
11Is atheist money just too controversial for the American Cancer Society?
11The Onion: Obama finally punches a banker in the face. His approval rating skyrockets to 93%.
11Economics has met its match: itself. Where the hell is the Globe and Mail hiring these people?
11The best anti-bullying video in a while. But, as always, Jesusland won't listen.
11Death to America!!!...Online. I just signed up for DSL.
1114 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.
11Shock-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.
11In 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.
11Picture paints a thousand words... Update: The meme's growing every hour.
11Paul Krugman pwns yet again.
11Peter Thieberger of Brookhaven National Laboratory delivers the comprehensive and conclusive smackdown of Andrea Rossi and the E-Cat "cold fusion" device.
11Dirty librulz have (allegedly) legalized bestiality in the army!
11Norway 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!
11The 10 Most Ridiculous Right Wing Outrages of 2011
11The value of Curiosity Driven Research
11Go back. We fucked up everything.
11A 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.
11Five big lies about the phony 'war on religion'
11America, Fuck Yeah!
11The punanny state. Also, Stalin-rape.
11Lewis Black, don't get a heart attack. Also, why is Nancy Grace still on TV?
11With 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.
11Social democrats, grow some balls for a change.
11Asshole gingers.
11Those "ex-gay" adverts shouldn't be blocked because they're offensive, but because they're just factually incorrect.
11Randall Munroe has something to say about Atlas Shrugged.
11How to win-win the prisoner's dilemma.
11Polls shows America still has its head up its ass about global warming
11Maybe 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!
11From 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."
11Another B-actor lies about vaccines. He then invokes Nazis. Godwin has a stroke.
11Bank robberies: Crime doesn't (statistically) pay.
11An untestimony: from fundamentalism to skepticism
11Mitt, we love you.
11Oatmeal: Let's build a goddamn Tesla museum.
11An 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."
11Rahm Emanuel doesn't like Nickelback
11Maybe parroting the biggest asshole on your team won't work out for you after all.
11Mr. 47% achieved.
11Here, 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.
11Fifty Shades of Takei.
11E.J. Dionne: Republicans are rejecting their own ideals.
11How Changes in the Workplace Have Reinforced Pay Inequality
11Something is going down at the Burzynski clinic, with an FDA audit going another month and whispers that Burzynski's snake oil killed a patient.
11Stavvers: Why I never signed the No More Page 3 Girls petition: the real problem with The Sun is pages 1,2 and 4-76.
11Bill O'Reilly is writing a book about Jesus
11Exposing Pseudoastronomy on Russian meteor conspiracy theories.
11Notorious 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)
11The Best Amendment
11Glenn Beck suffers a sudden outbreak of common sense, uses libertarian arguments to vocalize endorsement for same sex marriage.
11Cracked: The 5 Most Insulting Defences of Nerd Racism
11Tom “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.)
11Lakoff, don't stoop down to their level.
11If there's one thing the US should be exporting, it's probably not its labour relations.
11xkcd compiles questions found in Google Autocomplete. ("Why are there slaves in the Bible?" Good question...)
11How American homeschoolers enabled and funded German child abuse
11Mrs. 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.
11Headline or RationalWiki Mad-Libs contest winner: U.S. Official Blames Shutdown for Failure to Explain NSA Spying
11Worst magazine sex advice ever.
11Wanted to post this a few weeks back, but it was hidden behind a paywall. Ben MacIntyre speaks against anti-Roma hatred Absolutely superb
11Alex 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*
11I was wrong. (138-page book PDF) Andrew Sullivan admits to being wrong over Iraq War
11Scott 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."
11Salon: In the wake of Obama's State of the Union speech, the GOP is melting down in real-time.
11Role reversal French film (sort of) touches on how women are treated in society
11Popbitch looks at the revenue numbers the Daily Mail Online claims: and they don't add up. At all.
11Did 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."
11Who knew that "the Google" would be the gaffe that best summarizes Dubya's life?
11So what does Al Franken do after getting his hands into SOPA/PIPA? Declaring war against 2014's Worst Company in America.
11Canuckistan'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.)
11Big Brother is watching you toke up.
11Australia the bizarre: after the Suppository of Wisdom failed to repeal the carbon levy, he's now increased gas taxes and taxes on the rich.
11The Illuminati summer newsletter.
11Seymour Hersh's reporting on Syrian gas attacks gets taken apart.
11Strangely 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...
11Could we get Justice Cromwell to speak a little more slowly when delivering the court's reasons? Harper seems to be having difficulty understanding him.
11ISIS has learnt how to astroturf on twitter.
11Will 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?"
11Every time ISIS murders a journalist in broad daylight, there's only one conclusion.
11Even Albert Einstein once got fooled by a purported psychic. (HT PZ Myers.)
11"37 percent of Americans think a free press is overrated." Ah.
11Conservatives 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?
11King v. Burwell, or How I Learned to Stop Obamacare and Lose the South. (Make your choice, Roberts.)
11In 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).
11Hey, Creationists! Charles Darwin got something wrong about evolution! But it won't help your case.
11Discovery channel promises to mend its ways, entire internet calls bullshit. [citation NOT needed]
11An 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."
11Faith vs. Facts
11Special 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.
11Ray 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.
11Role-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)
11An 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.
11Facts 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.
11Jon Stewart does a long-form skewering of Glenn Beck.
11The 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."
11The problem with facts, is that they change.
11Ben Goldacre on evidence based voting
11Everything becomes clear now. Facts make conservatives less likely to believe you.
10Rachel Maddow shows us that the current oil spill problems are really deja vu all over again. Something very similar happened in 1979.
10After 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.
10Oh to be in the land of the free! Free to incite murder?
10Hello. 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"
10The 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?)
10A 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.
10The 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.
10Jerusalem was dismantled here/ in England's green and pleasant land.
10The story of a gay minor league baseball umpire who was publicly outed during a game by an irate team manager.
10Charlie Brooker on the fun of language and buzzwords.
10American employers aren't meaner than their European counterparts; American employees lack backbone unions.
10Haley Barbour of Mississippi thinks that southern Republicans embraced integration. Eugene Robinson "Not a word of this is true."
10They 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.
10Is 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".
10Another 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!"
10A 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!!!!!
10Those 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.
10Is 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?
10Hey, Sarah! Who's been teachin' your daughter all them nasty, homey-phobic words that she's been usin' on the Facebook?
10What? The GOP took back the House of Representatives? When did that happen?
10Some cranks have been pushing "Vaccine Awareness Week" - so why not jump on that bandwagon and show them for the assholes they are.
10In 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.
10Bad Science: NMT are suing Dr Wilmshurst. So how trustworthy are this company?
10Karl 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.
10Striffler: 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.
10Skeptical Humanities looks through a TV station's crank mail after they ran a chemtrails story. A cornucopia of green ink!
10Glenn 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.
10Can you guess what I think of the "supermoon"? Hint: the blog is called Bad Astronomy.
10The 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?
10An interesting take on the motives of the Tea Party. Discusses how fiscal conservatism is cherished by some because it's about exclusion.
10The science of why we don't believe in science.
10Breaking news: 4/27/11 - Obama finally releases his long-form birth certificate.
10Is bad decision making and risk taking a consequence of evolution? Bad decision making and the framing effect
10Changes as Scienceblogs is bought out by National Geographic? PZ Myers and Ed Brayton wonder if they'd have to become "family friendly".
10What role does global warming play in tornado activity?
10Five 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."
10This GOP pre-debate rally brought to you by the John Birch Society and the Oath Keepers
10Research in memory may lead to new treatments for PTSD, as well as ethical questions.
10How the recent commodities crash is making hyperinflation scare-mongerers look even dumber.
10Thirty 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.
10Lyndon LaRouche jets climate deniers to Sweden to protest a conference in Stockholm.
10Six politicians who've failed epically on Twitter.
10It's not just Andy: Using facts on conservatives makes them cling to their beliefs even more firmly.
10Educated 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.
10Phil 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.
10In honor of The Young Turks reaching nearly half a billion video views on YouTube, have a classic clip of Cenk Uygur going fucking ballistic.
10What happened to the anti-war movement?
10Quackery: It also evolves.
10Paul Simms from the New Yorker reveals God's Creation Blog - with comments.
10Murdoch hacked us too
10July's heat records visualized.
10Teens try to hack Koch brothers site, get the FBI on their asses!
10Are anti-science conservatives out of step with mainstream America? We certainly hope so.
10On the use (and mis-use) of Godwin's Law.
10Has American-style conservatism become a religion?
10Tearing pages from Bibles makes atheists ugly. PZ says what we're all thinking.
10The Onion: Comatose GOP candidate drops out of the presidential race due to sex scandal.
10The largest victims of the economic turmoil: pets. Go on and adopt a cat, you know you want to.
10The 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.
10Welcome to the Bigot-O-Tron 9000!
10Apparently organized football can cause brain damage to almost an entire university campus.
10The 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.
10Math teacher at a Christian school has been accused of masturbating during class. This is obviously the fault of insufficient prayer.
10GET IN MAH BELLY, America!
10Memo 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.
10The Spectator runs a piece stating that sea-level rise is a scam - George Monbiot would like to tear them a new one for it.
10But global warming stopped in 1995 1998 2005 2007 ...
10Cue 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.
10Lemony Snicket's 13 Observations About Occupy Wall Street.
10If 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."
10The 9 Voters Who Lost Iowa For Santorum
10Cracked: 6 Small Math Errors That Caused Huge Disasters. And nuclear makeup.
10The ultimate Star Wars nerdgasm.
10New journal to be launched will combat publication bias by publishing negative results.
10You 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."
10The 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
10The Onion: "Look, one-third of the human race has to die for civilization to be sustainable, so how do we want to do this?"
10Why people still use Facebook.
10The "best" swag at CPAC.
10The climate inquisition continues, including death threats.
10If movie posters were a bit more descriptive.
10A Picture of Rick Santorum... made of gay porn!Too low rsolution to be NSFW, though.
10Putin's gonna steal your voter virginity.
10Work it, George.
10Rush 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!!!!!
10Religiosity versus societal dysfunction in the US. Religiosity is a symptom of failure.
10Meryl Dorey drinks water to cure whooping cough. Calls it quantum medicine.
10Over 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.)
10Oklahoma courts set an interesting precedent.
10Anti-vaxxers think that whooping cough is nothing. They'd be wrong. Again (self promotion warning)
10Snark - it works, bitches.
10The difference between doctors and lawyers.
10But the nukes! Why does nobody think of the children nukes?!
10Best Father's Day present ever (make sure you scroll down, that's why it's called Poe's Law.)
10From Aaron Sorkin's new series The Newsroom.
10What 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."
10HuffPo 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?"
10Natalie Reed: Fuck anti-science. Even within the "progressive" and activist communities.
10For 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.
10Polly Toynbee: Who still thinks that outsourcing works?
10A good assessment of the Tea Party movement and the Republican Party.
10AronRa speaking out against hate directed at women
10BuzzFeed documents some unreasonably angry Daily Mail commentors.
10Why Christianity?
10Cracked.com on wingnut assertions that Obama is the Antichrist -- Least efficient Antichrist ever.
10A philosopher Sokals the theologians.
10It's Golden Crocoduck time once again! Voting site is here.
10Didn't someone say something about no detailed rigorous explanations for how complex biochemical systems could arise by a random mutation and natural selection?
10Fuck the polls, the psychics are calling the election for President Obama. (self promotion warning)
10In 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!!"
10An astoundingly useful and sensible post on Above Top Secret, of all places: The Illustrated Field Guide to Internet Kooks.
10RW 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.
10So the Australian Vaccination Network site got hacked ... and has been serving up pharma spam.
10VIDEO: 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?)
10Edzard Ernst: How to become a charlatan.
10Cosmos will be in good hands.
10Science deniers invent a debate by presenting a false equivalency between real science and denialism(self promotion warning)
10Do-it-yourself abortions are coming back.
10Lowest of the low: Congress is less likeable than Nickelback.
10Mark Lynas gives a powerful speech about GM crops and anti-GMO sentiment in the environmental movement.
10The best description of herbalism was — guess what — hidden in a 13-year-old Pokemon game.
10As a scientist your job is to bring new knowledge into the world. Hiding it behind a journal's paywall is immoral.
10VP Joe Biden versus Onion Joe Biden: FIGHT!
10Never start a debate on a perpetual motion forum.
10When 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
10Well, yes. Yes, they are.
10How 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.)
10Hiroshima and Nagasaki in colour.
10So it turns out science makes you more moral. (in one study with a small and very WEIRD sample)
10The Republicans have a Pope Francis problem.
10It's the vaccines that saved lives dumbass. Vaccine deniers still ignore the evidence.
10Rand 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."
10Another intriguing factoid from the NSA fiasco: Germany is apparently more dangerous to warrant spying on than the Ruskies.
10It'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.
10Here's some ethical oil at work.
10How things change... ArsTechnica reveals Edward Snowden's past as a goldbug gun nut who thought leakers should be "shot in the balls." Whoops.
10NSFW video: A Brazilian(?) priest during Mass: Um... wow! I guess that's why they like wearing those cassocks.
10The 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.)
10How Intellectual Property Reinforces Inequality.
10Chad Hurley, co-founder for YouTube: TV for everybody!
10Maybe the replacement of Jay Leno won't be bad after all: Hear Yahoo! Answers in musical form.
10The 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.
10Duckface Vietnam, motherfucker!
10Bruce Schneier: How to Remain Secure Against the NSA.
10Well, at least they think it's happening, right?
10It 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!)
10We 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.
10A 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.”'
10Why 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.
10LG Smart TV caught collecting data on files stored on connected USB Drives
10A world where anti-biotics no longer work......is here already!
10Moonbeam in his office: "Yay!"
10It's a strange day when Mother Jones and the Cato Institute agree with each other on economics.
10Review 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?"
10Nate Silver, who you will recall, is a witch, predicts the GOP may be able to take the Senate. (Then again, this mess.)
10And here's how the climate change deniers will lose.
10If 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."
10Jeffrey Stacey contends: Putin is losing the current round of the Ukraine crisis
10A 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.
10We have a problem with child refugees because the government of the United States is serious about you staying clean and sober.
10Juan Williams: "...I work at Fox News."
10Why Twitter won't do shit to fix its harassment problem
10Somebody is using Lorem Ipsum to troll google translate.
10Number #1 on Frank Luntz's Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary: Do not hire Frank Luntz. (The presser in question.)
10In which many of the people ruining the reputation of skeptics are the people ruining the reputation of gamers.
10 When is "awareness" awareness day?
10A truly beautiful and only slightly cruel writeup of a Bitcoin convention at Disney in Florida.
10The Interview is out!! and it's offensively stupid garbage. WHAT ARE THE ODDS HUH
10The state of satire in the Muslim world.
10An overview of the controversy over American Sniper. Though it is less about the movie and more about the background and subject.
10Here's an interesting analysis of Putin's Russia, specifically in the realm of foreign policy.
10More 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)
10John McCain apparently believe it honors American troops to dismiss them from service. Fuck him. (self promotion warning)
10Introducing the New Apostolic Reformation who wish to exorcise the demons ruining America. And among its proponents? Sarah Palin.
10After 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.
10Jon 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!")
10Tom 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.
10A 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.
9What do you get if you visit a chiropractor? Another appointment.
9If 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?
9A contestant on The Biggest Loser details the horrifying abuse and pressures the show puts contestants through.
9Glenn 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.
9Why do Republicans from Texas seem to be more overtly batshit crazy than most other Republicans?
9Back 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.
9TAPL will seemingly never learn.
9Now is the time to stand up to Faux News
9If you're a right winger running against Tom Tancredo, who could blame you for trying to out-batshit-crazy him?
9Who'da thunk? FDA warns consumers that drinking industrial bleach does not in fact cure asthma, Crohn's or cancer.
9Sarah 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.
9Thrilling: all the crazy Christine you can barely handle on one page.
9British 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.)
9UK Libel law threatens science and honesty.Libel reform campaign's petition
9Sorry 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."
9Sarah Palin's Alaska vs. The Walking Dead: Fictional TV show about mindless undead gets better ratings than competing "reality show" about the mindless.
9What 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.
9In 1960 John F. Kennedy said his faith would be separate from his public role, guess who thinks that's a bad idea.
9How 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.
9William 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.
9So, why was your paper retracted? "It’s none of your damn business." Hat tip
9Six stories overlooked by the Biased Liberal Corporate Media.
9Prof. 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."
9William Rivers Pitt: Keith Olbermann was a victim of a right-wing cabal who dominate and control not only MSNBC, but the entire news media.
9customer relations at its best. (read it all)
9What "Original Intent" Would Look Like
9James Fallows asks of Libya, "What happens then?"
9Turnabout is fair play: NPR's On the Media re-edits an interview with James O'Keefe.
9VIDEO: 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.
9Infographic: The GOP war against the youth vote.
9Website: "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.)
9Joe 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."
9People for the American Way release a thorough profile on pseudohistorian David Barton, just in case you didn't know he was a crank already.
9The 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!)
9Superstitious 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.
9Get ready for new bin Laden conspiracy theories
9Christopher Monckton is socking up.
9What do the anti-vaxers actually want? Their aims are political and legal - we need science, but it's not enough.
9Raising taxes and the debt ceiling is just like the Holocaust! Time for a corollary to Godwin's Law?
9A new Duke University study finds further dangers of fracking.
9Top 10 scientific zingers
9Wegman-gate update: I didn't plagiarize nothin'! It was all my student's fault!
9With notably rare exceptions, a president has never called for Israel to change its borders.
9Dominique 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.
9Wegman continues shooting himself in the foot.
9Goldman gets served but "dodges" the Gaddafi bullet.
9Creeping Sharia: Not coming to a courthouse near you.
9Daniel 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.
9Shorter Hillary then: Hey Dubya, stop terrorism-baiting! Shorter Hillary now: You're either with us or against us.
9Miss USA contestants answer the question: Should math be taught in schools? Okay, not really, but it's a hilarious spoof.
9Deficit fetishes.
9A Bloomberg gov't app lets you decide who to screw over if the debt ceiling isn't raised.
9On the Historicity of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
9Worst Congress ever?
9What does the debt deal mean? Felix Salmon attempts to provide some answers. More: A good summary by Stephen Squibb.
9Christopher Monckton: Past his use-by date? Update: His "reputation for being mad as a snake clearly remains intact."
9What can the police do in London? Well... nothing that we haven't already banned, aren't equipped for or would risk making things worse.
9But, but, but...wind power kills birds!
9Giorgio A. Tsoukalos becomes a full-fledged meme. Aliens. Update: More Giorgio mocking here.
9Rick Perry made $990 in Bisexual Barebacking venture.
9What happens when you get Cleverbot to talk to itself?
9Want to solve our economic problems? Simple. We tax Ronald Reagan.
919 states allow you to marry your first cousin, but only if you're not the same sex
9I wouldn't hold my breath for headlines reading "New study blows GAPING hole in denialist arguments."
9The best argument for raising taxes: Bill-O will go Galt.
9A perfect analysis of the current insanity in the US.
9The "denier-industrial complex" in one graphic.
9Marge 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."
9Wait, didn't Heath Ledger play that gay cowboy role a couple of years ago?
9Climate deniers are like magicians. They can make data just...disappear.
9Ariane Sherine (of the ABC fame) looks "a little bit brown", so people just seem compelled to ask ...so where are you from?
9What is the right action to take to stop the Stop Online Piracy Act? (We'd like Option #1, thank you very much...)
9Ever 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".
9A Brit tears SOPA a new one. Watch and spread.
9Atlantic Monthly weighs in on PolitiFact's 2011 "Lie of the Year". (Includes several links to other pundits who are decrying the choice.)
9The jokes write themselves.
9A 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?
9Know Your Meme confirms Jesusland.
9Sweden innovating again. But the sheep? Seriously? Give us our goat.
9Bloomberg, don't start up a mini-Prohibition.
9The 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.
9Paris Lees pens a beautiful and inspiring response to a transphobic Daily Fail hatchet job.
9The beginning of your program. The earth is spinning in the wrong direction.
9The 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.
9A day in the House of Lords.
9Libertarians: only now, at the end, do you understand...
9Gooood. 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!
9A brief history of religious and conservative prudes and their own relationship with smut.
9La Cipolla: "Do not expect us to save you from yourselves again. From what we've seen, you don't deserve it."
9In 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.
9Sir, welcome to the internet, where saying stupid things will always come back to bite you in the ass.
9Best chemistry lecture ever.
9Conservative values summed up in 40 quotes.
9There's Waldo! Sheriif Joe Arpaio can't get no respect that isn't beaten into folks first.
9Mara Wilson (that girl wot played Matilda back in the day) has her first brush with the infamous Daily Mail.
9The Stridency and Sensitivity of Carl Sagan (on why Dawkins is getting more flak than Sagan)
9Good morning!
9If you thought the "Who said it: Mitt Romney or Mr. Burns?" quiz was too easy, try this.
9Darren Naish takes on ReptileEvolution.com
9Bikers Against Child Abuse
9Don't worry, MRAs: when these women get judged for their skill and not how "fat" they are, we can start talking.
9Google changes its doodle midday to commemorate the Curiosity landing.
9Suddenly, Mitt's VP choice makes a whole lot more sense.
9The Official Guide to Legitimate Rape Update: Rape: The Idiot's Primer
9Patton Oswalt: "I'm Voting for Obama Because I Love Money, But I'm Not Money's Bitch."
9Ok, cut it with the Jim Cramer jokes for a sec. Update: Thankfully, there are always exceptions for the rich and famous.
9A president and his moose. (No relation to you-know-who.)
9Cue millions of Republicans' brains exploding. UK Tories: Obama's one of us.
9Cracked: What would Mitt Romney have to do to win the election?
9"After all, a fella needs some job security."
9Morgan 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.
9We're done with the Internets people. Shut everything down.
9Hey Kerry, maybe if you had such wit back in 2004 maybe we wouldn't be in this shithole in the first place.
9I woke up to 20 emails asking for my opinion on pubic lice. How did your Monday Morning coffee go?
9If you've ever wondered why the Second Amendment was written the way it was...
9Rummy demonstrates the stopped clock theory.
9Bigoted poem spewer on Dan Savage's blog gets a taste of his own medicine.
9Cracked: 3 Personal Disneylands Being Planned by Total Lunatics (featuring Becky and the Citadel)
9Because let's face it, Monica Lewinsky is in desperate need of even more humiliation
9An interesting look at those who still think Congress is doing an OK job.
9No, Jesus wasn't the king of Edessa
9Cecil Adams gives us the Straight Dope on Pedophilia
9What is the opposite of progress?
9Arkansas, meet Canadian ethical oil.
9Capitalism and Slavery, redux.
9Gore'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.)
9No, 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."
9Oh, 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.
9Ed Brayton blogs about the problems with the US Legal Standing Doctrine.
9Salon notes that, having solved all bigger problems, armed SWAT teams are being deployed to perform raidsalcohol license inspections.
9More from that treasure trove of British declassified documents: Helmut Kohl was apparently a xenophobe... and then went "oops" when open immigration policy worked.
9Heritage Foundation, get me a study co-relating a basketball team's winning percentage with the amount of taxes they pay, stat!
9Nature asks scientists about Keystone XL: Eh...
9Good job, Elon Musk/Norway.
9Well, 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?
9Let's just hope Brand isn't seen wearing any (more) Hugo Boss clothing anytime soon.
9The 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]?
9A 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!
9Check your irony meters: Immigrants are more likely to identify as "British" than Scots, Welsh, or Englishmen outside London.
9Yes, women, it's your fault!
9Wu Tang Clan explains the Big Bang.
9The FDA has ordered Google-backed genetic test maker 23andMe to halt sales of its personalized DNA test kits
9Rosenberg's free speech test.
9The expected response to tonight's SOTU: Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan.
9The Onion: "US advances to women's hockey... hey, get the fuck back here, sexist asshole!"
9A 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."
9China: Intimidating superpower wannabe, or barely breathable and in serious economic trouble?
9How 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.
9Stuart 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.
9David Rose is at it again, supposedly pounding another nail in the coffin of climate change. (Debunking from Skeptical Science)
9Brookings Institution: The Tea Party has a losing record for 2014.
9The Republican Scandal Machine modus operandi 101.
9Ann Coulter: less political commentator, more polemic performance artist and satirist.
9IO9: The Fine Line Between Conspiracy Theory And Rational Skepticism.
9On the different degrees of subtlety in a person's opinions and behavior: The Subtlety Illusion
9"Capt. Kirk vs. the Internet"
9Because the head-exploding nature of Republicans wanting to move to Canuckistan does not seem to be a joke.
9Finally, 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.
9The Mind Body Soul Experience: "a celebration of good posture, human credulousness and the placebo effect"
9How to be a pickup artist (with science) (contains satire)
9An incredibly useful site: Realorsatire.com.
9A seventeen-year-old writes a poem composed entirely of anagrams of Eric Garner's last words. Chilling.
9So, what do U.S. cops get punished for?
9Failed psychic predictions of 2014.
9So much for respect for the dead. At least in the eyes of William Donahue.
9What 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!
9Why the macho sludge peddled by the American Sniper is really cowardice.
9Annotated version of the Atheist Ireland post below. (Bonus: There's a link to RW's Gish Gallop article in the post)
9Nearly 1 in 10 American adults have both undiagnosed impulsive anger issues and access to firearms
9The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi talks about GMOs.
9When does pseudoscience stop being funny? When a government spends $85 million on dowsing rods for detecting bombs.
9Britain'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
9The FDA seem to get a little confused over an apple.
9Ben 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!
9A list of the crimes and misdemeanors of the Bush administration. (25 July 2008)
9Tabloids make shit up. Who knew?Face.gif
9A takedown of an obnoxious pro-"Don't Ask Don't Tell" editorial. (self promotion warning)
9Death of the Dawkins forum. The world’s busiest atheist forum closes. UPDATE : Resurrection is expected in 30 days.
9Mikhail Gorbachev: Post-communist economic "shock therapy" completely ruined Russia's economy.
9Sean 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.)
9Be afraid. Be very afraid. The Teabaggers now have military weaponry at their disposal.
9Why do some Christians insist Hitler was an atheist?
9Nevada 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.
9Thunderf00t is fucking furious.
9Ever 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.
9On 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?
9American 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.
8Pat Robertson definitely has machismo.
8Brian Cox: Why we need the explorers
8Joe Barton isn't alone when it comes to feeling sorry for BP. In fact he may be in the GOP's mainstream
8Sick systems, and how people get trapped in them.
8PZ on strike
8Transportation 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...
8Got half an hour? A Treatise on Morality that's well-spoken.
8In 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?
8A "Who's Who" of the Tea Party. "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
8Michele Bachmann called Glenn Beck "the nation's educator". At least she didn't pick Andy Schlafly's homeschooling programs...
8Hitchens vs Hitchens: Can Civilization Survive Without God?
8Every 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.
8Sarah Palin, Mamma Grizzly or complete n00b
8dprjones 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?
8Worst. Nutcracker. Ever. With Nazi rats. And sharks. And Albert Einstein. I am not making this up.
8The first atheist in the Islamic Maldives is now speaking out after death threats; he's open to questions via YouTube. (Some background via dprjones)
8Be careful what you let access your Twitter account.
8HuffPo 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.
8Eric 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!
8Thom 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.
8The 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.
8Are lesser websites competing with you? Is due process an inconvenience? Why not just ask the government to shut them down?
8The 2011 Slantie Awards, for the most biased reporting from right wing "news" sites in 2010.
8Clear thinking: it's not just for science. Skeptical Humanities fights bullshit over in the other building.
8Why 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."
8Cracked delivers again: 20 Tacky Religious Products Guaranteed to Anger God.
8Robert Reich on The Real Republican Strategy
8Would 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.
8Totalitarianism has come to the U.S., masquerading as corporatist neoliberalism.
8A 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.
8Come one, come all! Hear arguments in the biggest sex-discrimination case in history as six women sue Wal-Mart in the Supreme Court.
8Chickenhawks become chicken...doves?
8Paul Krugman on European austerity and confidence fairies.
8We 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.
8The new wingnut anti-abortion angle seems to be some kind of deranged amalgam of Jerry Falwell and Louis Farrakhan.
8Misinformation and Facts about Secularism and Religion
8Christopher Hitchens makes a rousing defence of the King James Bible.
8 Glenn Beck's TV show has been canceled on Fox.
8Mark Oppenheimer: PBS has gone downhill due to 1990s-era political threats from Newt Gingrich's Congress.
8Warmist enviro-nuts are out-lobbying energy interests...oh wait, no they're not.
8SkepticalScience 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
8The Inner Party was right: War is peace! Coming up: Why 2 + 2 = 5.
8Anthony Watts continues to be the most useful global warming denier, yet again debunking his own claims.
8The Wegman Report takes a further beating.
8Political polarization? Not when it comes to trampling civil liberties.
8The Abortionplex is on Yelp. Free nachos and mojitos during the procedure? It doesn't get better than that.
8Canada's election explained.
8It's a shit sandwich...literally.
8Wait, who is it that's "subverting the peer review process" in the global warming "debate" again?
8Ron Paul wants to know: Where's the gold in that thar fort?
8The Conversation wraps up an excellent two-week series called "Clearing up the Climate Debate"
8Bobo, of all people, decides to get "shrill." (Update: Krugman notices the shrillness. Update II: Comment gold.)
8A 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".
8The Daily Telegraph is live-blogging the hackgate scandal; get popcorn.
8Obamageddon: The Novel!
8Butthurt billionaires' greatest hits.
8Maureen 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)
8Get 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.)
8Obviously, UFO conspiracy kiddies will go nuts on this, but very interesting indeed.
8VIDEO: Keith Olbermann's Special Comment (1 August 2011): "The Four Great Hypocrisies of the Debt Deal"
8The abortion that Mitt Romney doesn't talk about anymore
8Can godless heathens secularists be more ethical than pure and moral religious folk?
8Female orgasms: I think you'll find it's a little more complicated than that.
8The ACLU on civil liberties ten years after 9/11.
8Nobel prizewinner and Royal Society president Paul Nurse: Stamp out anti-science in US politics
8Dr. Ashens gets a letter from Peter Popoff about his SUPERNATURAL DEBT CANCELLATION!
8European philosophers as anime girls. Includes Spinoza panty shot.
8Years after King Arthur was baffled by the question, Wolfram Alpha gives us an answer.Eugh, I don't get it?
8Wingnut welfare hits the UK.
8You know something's wrong when pro-market groups start worrying about income inequality, calling it the "New Gilded Age."
8Papa Bear's running out of "coherent" responses.
8By now, it's probably conclusive that there isn't a left-wing bias in the American media.
8PZ Myers rips Deepak Chopra a new one.
8Engineers vs. intellectuals?
8It's that season again...Climate denial season!
8Massimo 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.""
8PZ 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."
8A useful quack spotters guide
8Superliminal neutrinos and the Vindication of All Kooks Doctrine.
8Cracked: 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.
8Radio host Jamila Bey discusses the rise of black Atheism in America
8The Stewart/Colbert team say their final goodbyes to Herman Cain. Gotta catch 'em all!
8Want to donate something unique this year? How about this particularly special creature?
8Subtle (as a brick) gendering and racialising in job adverts.
8Naomi Wolf backpedals on her civil war conspiracy theory.
8Meme Time: What other unpopular opinions can Rick Perry endorse?
8It's that time of year again. Merry War on Christmas!
8Glenn Greenwald tears into Hitch.
8CNN asks: How do you nonbelievers celebrate the pagan festival of Saturnalia?
8Ricky Gervais in Twitter battles with fundamentalist Christians. Bonus Fun: Imagine it's our friend Ken.
8Nature throws standards out the window for some quick quack cash.
8The 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.
8What 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."
8Carl Zimmer [8] about research on the evolution of multicellular life.
8"I'm sorry for how the Church treated you"
8Comments speak for themselves.
8The greatest movie trailer of all time?
8Barack Obama is a total failure at all the things conservatives predicted he would do or not do.
8President 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.
8Right wing groups announce plan to do absolutely nothing pray for the repeal of Obamacare. Kill the poor for Jesus!
8The Conservative Party's attacks on its critics seem oddly familiar...
8MAD Magazine asks to guess Who said it: Mitt Romney or Mr. Burns. No Poe's Law here, because, well, the source is known.
8The first Legoman in space, now the first space shuttle.
8Sick of the lies and half-truths about alternative sexuality and gender? Here are some 100% true facts about queers.
8How I learned to stop worrying and love Anonymous.
8One 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.
8The $8 billion iPod: Hollywood accounting at its finest.
8Captain Hindsight...
8We need to get support behind THIS idea.
8An open letter those who elected (the tea party-esque Toronto mayor) Rob Ford.
8AVN survey reveals vast majority are idiots.
8An alternate version of the "militant atheist" comic.
8Maybe 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.)
8xkcd, dying? Never say that ever again.
8Die Zwiebel: Obama has dicked Democrats around for four years. Now it's our turn.
8Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson explain the Higgs boson.
8Website: Would Jesus Discriminate?
8Scalzi's take on white male privilege
8PZ Myers posts a top-class example of how to respond to requests to debate creationists.
8Climate deniers are branching out to new forms of denialism.
8Socialism, socialism, socialism. Socialism? Socialism! Socialism...
8Weekly Standard writer uses a meme ("Al Gore invented the internet.") while disparaging the concept of memes.
8Only 85% of Americans believe in some form of creationism. What are evolution denialists doing wrong? (self promotion warning)
8PRIVACY NOTICE: Warning - any person and/or institution and/or Agent and/or Agency of any governmental structu... dammit, reality!
8The Onion: This just in at Mitt HQ: Plight of the unemployed continues around the country. HI-FIVE!
8You're welcome to enjoy a dishwasher, just don't assume "all women love dishwashers because they're women, and must clean everything".
8The Onion: God Admits Humans Not Most Impressive Creation
8Cracked delivers again: The 11 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Religious Paintings.
8Black folk don't do atheism?
8NASA 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.
8Other things Todd Akin Believes To Be True About The Uterus.
8Goddamn Estonia.
8Pull 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.
8Edzard Ernst, the bane of UK alternative medicine, has started a blog.
8Giving men the right to vote was a horrible idea.
8Ah, if conservatives only knew who Ian McKellen is. (And who the fuck are the Bieber/Twilight fans here?)
8Easiest way to usurp Iranian theocracy: start a rave. Protip: just don't adopt Israel's signature "music."
8IGN: Nearly 1/4 of registered voters are considering playing Halo 4 than casting their ballot.
8Not drinking wine is as bad for you as being a light smoker.
8Remember when gay men threatened to marry your girlfriends? *Ahem*. Ladies...
8This 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.
8Race, class and vaccines
8The debt limit: The sound of someone hitting themselves...forever.
8Nick Cohen on abuse and misogyny in the far left.
8Tom Shales helps dissect the "hoopla and pageantry" that surround the SOTU.
8A new ENCODE smackdown in Genome Biology and Evolution is rather snarky, though too much so for some.
8Worth 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.)
8Immigrants and video games together, a Fox News nightmare come true.
8RIP Doomsday Lady. :(
8How to construct your own Susan Greenfield technological panic article.
8Here'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.
8A one-question quiz to determine whether or not your Christian denomination should support same-sex marriage.
8The Crazification Factor to be put on the test again in Virginia.
8The Washington Post: Let's burn the bridge right after we've crossed it.
8Please, Obama, don't let us have to write an article about Larry Summers.
8Has 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!)
8Even more dirt on the American MIC's current fiscal disaster.
8Dr. Sanjay Gupta thinks weed is great. Except his scientific evidence blows.
8Nature profiles eminent psychologist and skeptic Elizabeth Loftus.
8One woman's journey from pro-life to pro-choice.
8She's the Elizabeth II to the current SCOTUS. (At least Scalia isn't selling snake oil, right?)
8Hey, why trash England? Can't you trash the rest of your country? (Or can you find anything to trash?)
8Obama, even if you get confirmation that chemical attacks were ordered by Assad, please don't seriously think "common sense" is an effective argument.
8First we had Spacebat. Now we have Spacefrog.
8It's finally happened: The New Right becomes the New Left. Update: And oh, how about all the fun we're going to have!
8A very short lesson in genetics for creationists
8Economists on the debt ceiling: KILL IT WITH FIRE
8Don't Call What Happened in Iran Last Week an Election: It was a crudely stage-managed insult to everyone involved.
8Creationist Louis Agassiz: better in the concrete than the abstract.
8Liberal media! Liberal media! Liberal media! Oh.
8It turns out that the Crystal Skull vodka bottle is Zippy the Pinhead (or, perhaps. Smeagol).
8When internet cranks turn deadly: check out this "where are they now" list of cranks at Bombs, Taxes, and Red Crayons blog.
8Why Yellen's nomination as Fed Chair was vital.
8We've reached the point where Bill Kristol — yes, Bill Kristol — is speaking more sense than the entire GOP hierarchy.
8Say 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.
835 Top excuses why 29,999,000 people missed Operation American Spring.
8The Attack of the Drones seems to be silently ending in Pakistan.
8MRAs petition Canadian Arts Councils about a lesbian haunted house that was open last Halloween
8CNN serves up some Watergate apologism. The Ludwig von Mises Institute takes this in a rather...interesting direction.
8How politics makes us stupid.
8Look at all the female Democratic votes, they're falling from the sky!
8Who 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.”
8NY Times - the internet is One big circle jerk
8Kirk Cameron makes a prat of himself.
8Glenn Beck, "a snake-oil salesman's dim-witted assistant," debuts on British TV.
8Now that the Keystone XL debate is suddenly relevant again.
8Charlie 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.
8All those leaders marching in France for freedom of speech .....?? ...perhaps not as much as you might think!!
8The Plight of the Bitter Nerd, Arthur Chu's take on nerd opposition to feminism.
8Conservative deceit: Yes, it does exist!
8Steven 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."
8In 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)
8Cracked.com goes over some truly impossible examples of Poe's Law (though they unfortunately didn't link to our article on it).
8#Thingsjesusneversaid
8The people at large respond with largely sensible opinions regarding Gordon Brown's bad handwriting.
8A 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.)
8A climate change skeptic shows how the science was able to convince him!
8Even the President of Russia is against glossing over the crimes of Stalin, but there are groups in Russia trying to anyway. (self promotion warning)
8The 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.
8Oh, 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.
8The Amazing Randi on the ADE-651.
8An abstinence-only program that actually works - by dropping the only bit.
8 No.
8Looks like the Republican Party is done being so helpful. UPDATE: Republicans decide to start happy hour early
8Is there still vulcanism on Mars? (see also entry above)
8Hadron Collider II planned for Circle Line. Meanwhile, in other LHC news, Dimensional Portal Incursion At The LHC!
8The 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.
8A surprisingly insightful article from Cracked: 5 creepy ways video games get you hooked
8Is Hammersmith and Fulham the Ghost of Tory Yet to Come?
8Ever 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)
8For 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."
7Drilling 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.
7Climategate and the "Wall Of Certainty"
7Irony alert! Joe Lieberman says that utilities "Just want a breather" from air pollution regulations.
7InfoGraphic: Why you should stop drinking bottled water.
7Just released: The 2009 list of books that were the "most challenged" in America.
7Prof. 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.)
7Slide show: Many Americans think that fossil fuels come from dinosaurs (and/or uranium), and that climate change is beneficial.
7A 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.)
7Ms. Magazine claims that New Atheism is unappealing to women, cites Conservapedia. Jen McCreight takes them to task.
7A philosophy professor says quite bluntly: Students are not products and teachers are not social engineers.
7A 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.
7All the contradictions in the Bible, shown graphically
7Time 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.
7We know that "the stupid, it hurts." But, where hurts? And how much? LessWrong investigates!
7Why 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."
7Ed 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.
7VIDEO: 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.
7NSFW due to mature language: Ben Goldacre gives a speech at Nerdstock about placebos, nocebos, and homeopathy.
7Dubya 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.
7Pogrom 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.
7Glenn Greenwald: Some Tea Party members break ranks in the House and vote against extension of provisions in the PATRIOT Act.
7Throw an Egg at a Climate Scientist! Buy a Hayek T-Shirt! Inside CPAC's Carnival of Right-Wing Wares.
7Does cash get results in schools? - Spending, class, results, and comparing like with like.
7Trade 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.
7The 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.
7Glenn 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.
7Robert 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.
7Michael 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).
7Liveblogging from the protests in Lansing, Michigan.
7Disaster areas: How to - and importantly, how not to - help.
7The Guardian offers the public an alternative census - help make Brian Cox a new religion!
710,000? 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?
7Edge special on black swan events.
7Glenn Greenwald on Terry Jones, free speech, and unending war.
7The "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.
7This Week In Fake Presidential Candidates
7Commentary 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.
7The BBC asks: "Is Cuba's Party Congress just a rubber-stamp exercise?" One hopes the intention was ironic.
7Mikey Weinstein: The Moonie-owned Washington Times has got no business criticizing "fringe ideas" in religion.
7The neocon/liberal-interventionist alliance, or How I stopped worrying and learned to love the military–industrial complex.
7Besides 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?
7The internet gets its own currency. I was into it before it was popular.
7Less lead equals less crime?
7Financial "reform" was shot full of loopholes. Hoocoodanode?
7Whither Elizabeth Warren?
7Andrew Breitbart's long history as a liar.
7Wegman: The copypasta never stops.
7Apparently, 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.
7As 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.
7An amazing brain injury recovery.
7Robert Nozick's libertarianism.
7Michele Bachmann uses just about every Republican budgetary PRATT in the book, Salon issues a good debunking.
7A new Pew poll shows evangelicals don't like evolution...or yoga.
7The Hampture is near! Countdown to hamsternaut deployment has started.
7The latest facepalm-worthy homeopathy indication: Malaria
7Britain's press and politicians enjoy a far too cosy relationship.
7Author Andrew Morantz works for a summer at an Indian call center, and learns some interesting things about Australians.
7Justice Stephen Breyer fails at neuroscience.
7How UK libel laws may have influenced the press' use of underhand tactics, i.e., phone hacking.
7It's the Disco 'Tute versus... the Institute for Creation Research?
7Refuse to be terrorized.
7Everything you wanted or didn't want to know about Michele Bachmann courtesy the New Yorker.
7How to succeed in banking without really trying.
7The Metropolitan police are starting to make good on their promise to publish photos of the London rioters.
7The late, great Molly Ivins talks about Rick Perry.
7Climate denier Joe Bastardi delivers a truly epic Gish Gallop.
7Long live our Soviet motherland!
7The tax the moochers poor meme spreads.
7Advertising copywriters are unable to understand basic mathematical concepts.
7Per PZ Myers: A bunch of "science-denying wackaloons." (except Jon Huntsman)
7NASA 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.
7This user likes to call it The Proxmire Effect.
7A handy guide to Republicans and global warming and evolution.
7Here's a neat idea: let's start a fund for cryptozoologists to go on a basic photography course.
7We 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."
7Who wants a Mitt's the Shit hat? And the Typical Republican Voter.
7The battle against Big Solar.
7The "anti-science" false equivalence.
7Penn 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."
7Jerry 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.
7The so-called "Communist Broadcasting Corporation" at its conservative worst.
7HuffPo 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.
7Not all deficits are economic.
7Alan 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.)
7The ultimate gauntlet that every major politician must face: APEC.
7It's-a me! Your new Prime Minister!
7The Onion: Renewable Energy Source Encoded in Charlie Sheen's Rants
7Google posts its 2011 version of Year in Review.
7Newt Gingrich's letter to Virginia regarding the existence of Santa Claus and claims he said otherwise.
7It'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.
7Stephen 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?"
7The secret formula for an Oscar-winning movie revealed!
7Today in bad philosophy: Libertarianism has no real answer for how to raise children.
7Just what can you do with a law degree, in picture form? (Answer: not much.)
7Stephen Harper sets up Canada's version of MiniTru.
7Introducing our new Paul the Octopus: Megyn Kelly Shelly!
7A way to hide your doings from light and time! Now how to best improve it so the USA someone can weaponize it.
7If you haven't heard this before, it's Saturn dropping the beat.
7How the universe began.
7Too...many...awesome...Stephen Colbert videos...
7A plan to restore America to it's Christian RootsWarning, intensive levels of sarcasm detected.
7According to Google, geek girls are really men.
7The despicable behavior by some, including but not limited to psychic frauds, towards families of missing persons.
7Charles Murray isn't racist -- he also hates (poor) white people!
7This week in Harperland...
7Brian Cox (*swoon*) on why quantum theory is so misunderstood, and why good science should be part popular culture.
7This does seem to be biased to those with facial hair, though.
7Germans and their beer...
7Cool story, bro. Phyllis Schlafly gets a mention.
7Michael 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.
7Africa here we come...
7Wallpaper of the Day.
7All Hail Charlie Brooker.
7A surprisingly good suggestion from Margaret Wente.
7Snap.
7The Religious Antagonist trolls a few atheists.Warning: Contains an image of Mike Lee half naked and sat on a toilet.
7A re-enactment of North Korea's totally dangerous rocket launch.
7Presidential nomination tip: never let an Antarctic-based aquatic bird attack you, presumably for denying global warming.
7Producing very expensive urine does not cure cancer
7As the first riding gets null and void, Sacha Baron Cohen General Aladeen praises our good ol' Canadian friend.
7Try not to wince.
7 A nice deconstruction of conservative arguments about abortion and eugenics.
7The dark side of TED.
7A more enlightened, and thankfully briefer, version of 50 Shades of Grey.
7The roasting of Jimmy Carr.
7Wouldn'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?
7Beware of Pascal's Scams.
7Jon, it's been a Dickens novel for a loooong time.
7SPAAAAAAAAACE!
7Meet the Mayor of Reykjavík. In comparison, here's the "Mayor" of Toronto.
7Wool the real Romney please stand up? "New Zealand has trouble distinguishing Presidential candidate from a sustainable source of natural fibre."
7Good ol' Faux.
7Stop eating! Foods cause cancer.(self promotion warning)
7This blog post causes cancer.No, not the Daily Mail
7Gilles-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.
7The sanest conservative statesman in the gun control debate. (Unfortunately, it's John Howard.)
7Zing!
7Cecil Adams tells you the ins and outs of accessing the "Deep Web"
7Roger Ebert: how I am a Roman Catholic
7Exposing PseudoAstronomy interviews a former BBC producer from the Apollo era on some of Richard Hoagland's (mostly NASA-related) conspiracies.
7The Corn God's schedule.
7Is 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.)
7The Atlantic Wire tempts Betteridge's Law on the Rob Ford crack scandal.
7How Turner Barr got fired from a job he invented.
7A 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.
75 Shockingly Progressive Ideas from 'Primitive' Cultures. (Monks have some explaining to do.)
7Potential treatment/prevention for people who happen to validate Salem Hypothesis.
7How 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."
7And that is why I consider myself a scientismist. I know it is supposed to be a perjorative, but I am reclaiming it.
7Those libtards are going to implant you with microchips! Thanks Obama!
7We'll keep Boris Johnson, thanks. Bonus: Rob, just what were you doing in March?
7As climate change denial fades away, enter...climate policy denial. Also: Why nations haven't insisted on more significant climate change countermeasures
7Amanda 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!
7The third time we've linked to the Fraser Institute in less than 20 days. Wow, they're batshit prolific!
7The Canadian Senate story, redux.
7Skeptoid lists the ten worst anti-science sites on the internet. Guess who comes in at number 9.
7Don't worry, there's a cure for it, isn't there?
7Times were, conservatives were more understanding of human weakness.
7Fareed Zakaria: Governing like FDR? Carter? If you really want to compare Barack Obama, start looking at Eisenhower.
7What trolls did to the ‘Obama Lynching’ Facebook page will make your week. Think GOAT!
7Why Keystone XL is nowhere near approval.
7Joel 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.)
7Nicholas Wade just wrote an apologetic for scientific racism. (And guess which great luminaries are trying to put it into the spotlight.)
7A few of the best #YesAllWomen tweets.
7A basic rundown of ALL the major conspiracy theories with paranoid right-wing roots.
7Cracked: 16 Famous Mysteries That Everyone Forgets Have Been Solved. Spoilsports.
7Reason magazine and Ralph Nader see eye to eye.
7Want to stop the Catholic Church getting Penn & Teller's Bullshit show cancelled? Start here.
7BREAKING NEWS: Democratic congressman finally grows some balls and goes on the offensive against Republican efforts to derail health care reform.
7AlterNet looks at the men's rights movement
7Evangelist 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!
7David 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.
7New movie, Hexpelled! No Wizardry Allowed, investigates the persistent "pro-Newtonian bias" in academia.
7Atheist Ireland publicly dissociates itself from PZ Myers. I'm sure he's really cut up about that.
7The 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.
7NYT 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.
7In 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.
7Good 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?
7Ben 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.
7On 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.
7Hint, 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.
7Something you won't see in CP's broken news - Alaska's largest ever political rally is anti-Palin. 14 September 2008
7Exposing the utter nonsense that is presented to support Don't Ask Don't Tell.
7How crazy is it getting when principals are spying on their students through school-provided webcams? (self promotion warning)
7Yet more for the best of the Daily Fail - as it pretty much outright lies about child grooming happening on Facebook.
7Run for your lives! Texas Republican says that Demos demons have invaded the U.S. Capitol! ONOZ!!!!!
7Facebook leads to syphilis; O RLY?
7How many companies want you dead?
7Fortune 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.
7Criminal Brief argues the iPhone raid against Gizmodo is a disguised prosecutorial attack upon freedom of the press.
7The 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").
7PZ gives us a nice little diatribe on Xtianity & women Fun!
6The Rational Reply to Conservapedia on Starlight. (July 19, 2008)
6Report from a climate denial... sorry, I mean, "sceptic" skeptic conference in Chicago.
6Arctic 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.
6An 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."
6What happens when BP spills... coffee
6Ten things that terrify conservatives
6Seven myths about the Tea Party
6The 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.
6Nothing outrageous, just a bit about Biblical inerrancy vs Biblical storytelling.
6An unemployed couple, who "both suffer from unspecified physical and psychological disabilities," have applied Godwin's Law to the naming of their children.
6Somebody out there likes us. (self promotion warning) (29 July 2008)
6Sex and death lie at the poisoned heart of religion.
6Media Channel, the news website that watches the media, is in trouble and could shut down.
6Don't worry RationalWiki; if you're going to throw a cow over a logo change, you're not alone.
6Barack Obama Sr. wasn't quite the radical anti-colonialist that Distort D'Newsa thinks he was.
6Could you go 24 hours without communications technology, networking, and the media?
6Analysis 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."
6Tim 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."
6Did NASA really find New Life?? - Do the claims published in Science justify NASA's press conference?
6Wisdom, 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.
6A 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.
6I wonder what Andy Schlafly would make of this
6Using democracy to dismantle democracy: History repeating itself An alarming new Latin American trend.
6In 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".
6Garrison 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."
6Have yourself a counterculture Xmas.
6Stanley 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.
6The Independent lambasts scientists for not responding to criticism from the blogosphere. Careful, fellows; there's a creationist in that woodpile.
6You 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).
6Pay 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.
6What school "reform" means.
6Matt Taibbi wants to know why Wall Street crooks aren't in jail. Where is this generation's Pecora Commission or S&L trials?
6Cory Doctorow on WBC attempting to lure Anonymous into an attack. Some interesting comments that talk about how they make their money.
6We 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!
6How to beat the Watson Jeopardy computer
6William 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..."
6Kevin Drum says manufactroversies are the wave of the future.
6Bill Moyers and Michael Winship write to defend NPR against congressional budget-slashers and allegations of bias.
6Johann Hari: How to turn Ed Miliband into a winner - how politicians should communicate effectively with people.
6Literary theory or conspiracy theory?
6The politics of voter fraud.
6Apparently, "modern" Catholics don't believe in there was a revived cadaver... so, what was Thomas putting his hands in?
6The 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."
6Thom 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.
6Most new WP editors are editing in Good Faith... I wonder what the chart looks like for CP?
6Krugman continues his work calling out the Very Serious People.
6How the military trained "spy crows" to catch Osama.
6Beware the creeping Sharia...actually, not really.
6Village idiots in wonderland (as usual).
6Slate ponders how to convince people who believe a man named Babu can cure AIDS with herbs to go with western medicine instead.
6It's peer-reviewed! A new anti-vax study citing the likes of the Geier family and Russell Blaylock is making the rounds.
6Medical professionals launch Science-ish, a fact-checker on medical journalism.
6Thunderf00t + Bible + Westboro Baptist Church = Shouty-shouty Time!
6Ratings agencies are totally impartial organizations with no ulterior political or financial motives.Do You Believe That?
6Need some cheering up? Enjoy the delights of the Cartoon Colour Wheel, from the blue of the Smurfs to the green of the Ninja Turtles.
6Slate: Antioxidants don't work, but no one wants to hear it.
6People are fed up with Mabus, now there's a poll to make the Montreal Police take "Mabus" death threats seriously.
6There really needs to be a "Thalidomide Gambit" or a "Vioxx Gambit."
6From the Department of Failed Predictions: Buying stuff on the internet? That's crazy talk!
6Damn you, you snobby French! Always getting things right these days...
6If conservatives have nothing else to do, they try to smear Paul Krugman on the East Coast Earthquake.
6Two words: PETA porn.
6PalMD moves to a new location.
6John Mashey dissects the denialist echo chamber.
6Who wants a random taste of Canadian comedy?
6Jon Stewart flays Huckabee on the gay marriage issue, by proving the emptiness of appeals to tradition, especially when tradition is equivocal.
6Slate is currently running a series on everything you ever wanted to know about 9/11 conspiracy theories. (Latest entry here.)
6Natural gas: A bridge to nowhere?
6An 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.
6David Mitchell rants on climate change. Says what we're all thinking.
6Contradictory beliefs (or, Crooked Timber goes Jeffrey Sachs.)
6Some honesty on global warming.
6"Why Is (American) TV Suddenly Overstuffed With Buxom Bunnies, Sexy Stewardesses, and Charlie's Angels?"
6Edward Current reveals that his great 9/11 video was a massive hoax - and laughs at the Truthers who fell for it.
6From Goldman Sachs ruling the world to a crashing Euro: How many of Alessio Rastani's bold, frank and controversial statements were actually right?
6Anthony Watts desperately fails at attempting to "debunk" Al Gore and Bill Nye. (Snarkier take at Wotts.)
6Robert Reich explains the US credit downgrade.
6VIDEO: A young Midwesterner who went through reparative therapy talks about the experience.
6Socialists and market fundamentalists are the same...at least in one way.
6It wasn't long ago that top Republicans were appalled by the idea of giving super-rich investors a big tax break...
6Kate 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."
6Confused about whether or not to be a dick?
6Steve Jobs and woo.
6Robin Ince on political correctness, Ricky Gervais' bullishness and some horribly turbulent language.
6One pair of hands at work does more than a thousand clasped around a piece of paper with writing on it.
6An 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.
6Why 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.
6I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
6If you thought Obama Girl was creepy... Also, you know a country is fucked when you have libertarian librarians.
6The Circle of Life debt! France, we're so very sorry.
6Is income inequality the new climate change?
6Pesky skeptics, no ice cream for you!
6Errol 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."
6Everything you ever wanted to know about free will but were afraid to ask.
6While 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.
6Siri might not find nearby abortion clinics, but help you out with committing suicide? Eh, okay.
6Don't believe in free will? That doesn't mean you're a mean old determinist.
6Chick-fil-A - the fast-food restaurant of choice for the Schlafly's and their ilk.
6PolitiFact Lie of the Year finalists are here and Paul Ryan is looking for good PR.
620 Ridiculous Things You Didn't Know About the Deard Leader
6Observations 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?
6New Hampshire is next in line for a Scopes Award.
6Cracked ends the year with: The 9 Biggest Bastards of 2011.
6Another product of the recovered memory craze: The "epidemic" of multiple personality disorder.
6To anyone who is still completing their degrees.
6It's not a blatant violation of the separation of church and state. It's called "school choice!" You know, for totally secular "charter schools."
6Scumbag Gingrich.
610 great reasons to be against equality in marriage.
6Martin Robbins lays into the BBC over science.
6The Pythons are back?
6So, a Catholic, an Anglican and a humanist walk into a bar say what they would put on their cards, if they carried them.
6A Hitchslap from beyond the grave: Christopher Hitchens on why William Lane Craig's brand of pernicious nonsense is not merely foolish, but dangerous.
6Identical twins not so identical after all.
6Coming soon, to a theater near you...
6You learn something new everyday: Greek workers spend the most hours on the job in Europe.
6Not 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.
6A slightly sinister Christian lobbying outfit seems to be behind almost all of the "persecuted Christian" stories hitting the press in the last year.
6A 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.
6Country music may be politically conservative, but it's suburban conservatism, not rural conservatism.
6Conservatives aren't any crazier now than they were 50 years ago. It's just that the liberal movement is weaker.
6The Discovery Institute has a yellow streak.
6Filling 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.'"
6What happens when you get caught sleeping in the act with the American MIC.
6Reddit asks their fellow Muslims their experiences after 9/11.
6Bottled water facts(Warning: Poe's Law in action!)
6Create RationalWiki Gilbert and Sullivan troupe in 3, 2, 1...
6It 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?)
6Want to pray before you have sex? The Catholics have a prayer for that.
6EA = Wal-Mart 2.0
6 Call off the funeral. The reports of the death of evolution are grossly exaggerated
6Religion as Rorschach blot.
6Homeopathy companies pay journalist to set up websites to attack Edzard Ernst. Proves Ernst's Law.(self promotion warning)
6If 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?
6G4S: How not to go about training security personnel.
6NewsBiscuit: Olympic terror threat level reduced after al-Qaeda outsource terrorism to G4S.
6Frankie Boyle pwns Chris Brown.
6If you want to visualize how far off the US is now with the rest of the world, talk to the business executives.
6Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage vs. Dan Savage
6Goldbuggery debunked in 2 graphs.
6An atheist neuroscientist talks about atheism, faith and "Spinoza's God".
6Apple does know how many people will download this, right?
6The creationism of Ann Coulter.
6Ben Goldacre interviewed by b3ta about his book Bad Pharma. "It's like fighting with homeopaths in suits."
6Ted 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.
6Absurdities in Genesis.
6Troll Level: Pastor. On the flip side, another speaker references Conservapedia's homosexuality article
6Ah, so that's where Conservapedians made their exodus.
6After Apple banned a drone strike tracking app earlier this year, the developer has decided to do it all on Twitter.
6Eternal 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.
6Would Christianity be better without priests?
6Another wasteful study that shows acupuncture doesn't do anything. Let's be clear. Acupuncture is fucking junk medicine.
6Atheism as a civil rights issue.
6TEDTalk video: "What Doctors Don't Know About the Drugs They Prescribe." Some real world effects of publication bias, by Ben Goldacre.
6The easiest way to determine China's views on North Korea: link them to Jon Stewart. (YT link)
6With 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.
6The saga of David Mayo.
6According 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!)
6The Simon Singh Verdict: British Skeptics are Under Siege
6I can't believe we fought a war to keep this fucking state.
6Do not tempt the Darwin Awards, Nenshi.
6Why worry about NSA spying when companies like Motorola keep track of all your login details through unsecured channels?
6Jesse 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."
6Jobs! 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!!!!)
6PZ 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.)
6Sharon Hill explains that weird noise.
6The cold summer of 2013 and growth of the arctic ice sheets disproves global warming forever!
6You probably won't get this from Campbell.
6Beavers don't kill people, people do!
6The March of Dumbs. (Is it a gerbil, or a hamster? You Decide!)
6Addressing some MRA bull. (See #10 for some studies worthy of debunking.)
6The Jewish brain drain. To Berlin. No, really.
6Even 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.
6Lego? SCIENCE!
6A rational look at how the myth of historical Sunni and Shia conflict was manufactured
6An 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.
6Meanwhile on the ISS: "What is that coming from Wisconsin?"
6A 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.
6Stuart Robbins on Alex Tsakiris, Rupert Sheldrake, Rome Viharo and Wikipedia.
6Perhaps the best analysis of Bitcoin out there.
6Women 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.
6Meanwhile in Canada, another whale hasn't exploded yet.
6Coupenomics.
6Stephen Hawking to Investor's Business Daily - I like my Death Panel thank you very much
6It is actually the apolitical nature of Obama's speech to school children that the wingnuts fear most.
6Richard Dawkins, please STFU.
6Dear 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.)
6The Guardian speaks of how political correctness actually further disempowers the powerless.
6They’ve banned Christmas! Sort of!- Liberal Conspiracy examines lazy "Winterval" stories.
6Well, 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.
6As 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)
6McCain 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
6Just what English punctuation needs - the sarcasm point
6Ahoy, me hearties! Arr! It might just be that our ancestors were sailin' the old briny 5 million years ago. Arr!
6Distilling 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>
6Time 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.
6Interesting about inerrancy (of the Biblical kind)
6Ronald 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!)
6President 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."
6Charlie Brooker writes on a bizarre combination of existentialism, philosophy, Tralfamadorians and putting LSD in the water to save the world.
6So, 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.
6Scott Adams makes his views on homeopathy abundantly clear.
6Everybody 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!
6Bernie Goldberg thinks Jon Stewart is right. UPDATE: Mr. Stewart responds.
6Stephen Hawking says that we should fear aliens. (Video included) The Telegraph has more here.
6PalMD is asking for a little help with social media.
6Saints 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.
6Crusader 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.
6What you can and can't do in a polling booth (yes, you can do it drunk, providing you can wield a pencil!)
6Flash Media presentation: "The Journey of Mankind -- The Peopling of the World
6Snake oil: an ""evidence bubble" for popular health supplements.
5Compare and contrast: ThisDoh.gif and thisSmiley.gif.
5The Genuine and Legitimate Psychic Medium List! Accept no substitutes!
5Ryanair 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.
5The 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.
5Religious freedom is not tolerance.
5Seth 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."
5Race and ethnicity in the United States, in black and white red and blue.
5A 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."
5Davids 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...
5Penn Jillette - Subtle as ever.
5Robert Sapolsky: Symbols, metaphors, analogies, parables, synecdoche, figures of speech: we understand them. He hasn't been around creationists or New Atheists much, we gather.
5Two 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.
5Andy 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.
5What Wikileaks has taught us about the open internet
5Another 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!
5Welcome to Hamtramck, Michigan -- A city with a deepening fiscal crisis and no budget items left to cut.
5Slideshow: "13 Products Most Likely To (Be) Made By Child Or Forced Labor."
5Meet 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)
5How 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."
5Facebook is valued at $50 billion, but is it really worth it?
5Haitian 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.
5PZ Myers reacts to and mocks the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy press release informing us that it is unconstitutional to criticize religion. (30 July 2008)
5Utne 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.)
5Quantitative easing explained by someone who knows what he's talking about
5Psychoanalyst 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?
5A whole hour of FedSpeak. Oh boy!
5The 92nd Skeptics' Circle is up! (self-promotion warning) (31 July 2008)
5The "true" self.
5You too can have your own expert for hire.
5Baron Robert Skidelsky on the embattled status of free speech in Britain.
5How Fundamentalist Religion Is Destroying the World.
5Five myths about the debt ceiling.
5Marcus Bachmann: possibly straight man.
5Jan "Why there was nothing 'natural' about Stephen Gately's death" Moir quote-mines Stewart Lee to death, and Lee hits back.
5Steve Novella looks at "nudges" for public health.
5More shrillness! First it was Bobo, now Kathleen Parker has joined in the shrillfest.
5Boobs Don't Work That Way!
5Who'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.”
5Some non-hysterical reading to sate your 9/11 needs.
5James Carville shatters some irony meters.
5God Hates Fax
5But changing my mind is, like, hard 'n stuff.
5A warning that must be sent throughout the Interwebs.
5Fascinating Video: Richard Dawkins interviews Derren Brown, the famous British "mentalist".
5Where 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.
5And if there weren't still monkeys ... then the humans could replace them.
5Inverse theodicy: The evidential problem of good. Enough to give William Lane Craig problems.
5Mocking "International Men's Day" just proves it's needed.
5Climategate Deux (Electric Boogaloo) shoots through the denialist echo chamber.
5Seven types of Republican idiots.
5Atheist 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)
5Inside OWS.
5You 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.
5What to do when politicians engage in WTFery? We quote Barbara Walters.
5And 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.
5Some motivation for a motivational speaker.
5Who needs Viagra when you've got Mad Honey?
5Ian Plimer goes further 'round the bend.
5Robert Foster and Rap News #Occupy2012. Featuring Terence McKenna, Noam Chomsky and the 2012 apocalypse.
5Andrew Brown at the Guardian: a comparative historical assessment of Kim Jong Il's miracles.
5The 2012 US Government Terrorist Identification Chart. Stop the Terrorist Battlecruiser!
5Another way the War on (Some) Drugs fails: "Drug-sniffing" dogs fare no better than chance.
5Traversing the tight line between the latest fertility technologies and eugenics.
5Stephen Colbert retakes his Super PAC power after Jon Stewart tells him to fuck off.
5Honestly, Peta's ads make me so angry I could stamp on a kitten.
5How simple patents became the complex clusterfuck of intellectual property.
5Some 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.
5BBC is slowly turning into the next TV Tropes.
5Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayres are better liked than Rush Limbaugh.
5In the Second World War it was "Careless Talk Costs Lives" - in the 21st century, it's careless geo-tags and an unlocked Facebook profile.
5Could Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream be any more awesome? To this the ice creams gurus say, "Yes, Pecan!"
5The David Coppedge case isn't living up to the hype.
5I think we have our candidate for supreme galactic overloard.
5Andrew Sullivan and Mark Slouka agree: If you know not of what you speak, STFU. "English was good enough for Jesus Christ..."
5Conservapedia announce exciting new linked data project, Conservadata.
5Weinerworks does a point by point on homeopathy
5LOLWUWT and Christopher Monckton can't stand the heat.
5A webcomic offers something philosophers of ethics may need to consider.
5Who needs Big Government?
5Fuck you, I'm going to find a private school...what? Fifty grand a year?!!
5Cracked.com video: "How Ayn Rand and L. Ron Hubbard Came Up With Their Big Ideas." Got a better explanation?
5What 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.
5This is an exciting time.
5The Donald Trump hoax, exposed.
5As 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.
5Australian 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.
5How to be a reverse-racist.
5Why Mitt Romney will not be the Republican nominee.
5Best diet advice ever. Eat like a chimpanzee. That means lots of figs.
5What you talkin' 'bout, Willis? Meet Ryan's favourite band.
5Why "they" still don't hate "us"
5Bacteria mutation + Pokemon = _
5Surgeons find a tree growing in a man's lung. Seriously.
5A Two-Faced British Tabloid are basically campaigning AGAINST the HPV vaccine in Britain, but FOR it in Ireland.
5The intricacies of The Pirate Bay. (Of course the documentary is free!)
5Whoops, 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.
5The latest synonym for financial chicanery: London Whale.
5BuzzFeed documents some unreasonably angry Daily Mail commentors.
5Video 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."
5It happened again. Spain this time, and at night.
5"The print media are here for two very good reasons: food, and shelter."
5Young 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.
5A speculative essay of 'Murca ten years from now: "How America Became a Third World Country: The impact of sequester down the line."
5Tea heil! The Hitler kettle is in hot water. UPDATE: Aw, they pulled it from their site!
5How to stop the coming redneck uprising following the VRA decision: automatic voting?
5Is the Westboro Baptist Church planning to "go Jonestown"?
5NMAtv's take on the Wendy Davis filibuster. With dinosaurs.
5How Copyright Makes Books and Music Disappear.
5Thanks Christie, we're going to have to differentiate between "civil" and "Rand Paul dreamland" libertarianism again.
5Remember when you were a top correspondent for a renowned magazine and deleted a comment calling for the assassination of a journalist? Twitter remembers.
5On no! Add another entry to the list of things that cause autism. This time inducing labor causes autism. Whoops, probably not.
5Why nations haven't insisted on more significant climate change countermeasures
5James 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.
5Syria in Five Minutes. (Fuck you, Putin.)
5Meet 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.
5Seems that nice man, Dick Cheney is hoping for a terrorist attack to put that uppity mooslem Obama in his place... according to the CIA
5A nice long conversation about science and society with Isaac Asimov from 1969.
5Tyler Cowen: Paul Ryan takes a dump on fiscal conservatism again.
5Another writer makes the case that America has strongman-envy. (The cycles of history.)
5Inflatiomageddon! Buy gold! The Austrian school was right! Do You Believe That?
5Post-banking crisis: The system worked. Kinda.
5Musician Jello Biafra interviews Unarius UFO cultists.
5Why isn't the Supreme Court ruling on Second Amendment cases? (Anthony Kennedy seems to be breaking from the conservative wing again.)
5You can't hide from the past Beck
5The 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.
5The disturbing rumors about Glenn Beck continue to fester. Beck's refusal to deny the allegations speaks volumes.
5Meet 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.
5Do you still think #GamerGate was a spontaneous grassroots movement of any sort? Zoe Quinn has screenshots for you.
5Let's try this again: Why Scotland didn't secede: economics.
5As 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?
5Why academic writing stinks
5The 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
5PZ Myers explains why God is dead like Nietzsche claimed.
5One 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.
5Sarah 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.
5Many 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.
5If you believe that lie detection is accurate, you should know that most "tells" are inaccurate and that children have fewer "tells" than adults.
5If 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.)
5Goldman 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)
5Thunderf00t has started a mini research project to test a hypothesis that communal religious activity goes up as society becomes more threatened.
5Liberals, libertarians, and religionists agree Jesus rifles are nonsensical, unconstitutional, and violate foreign policy and common sense.
5So, 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.
5Self stalking and the end of anonymity.
5From 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
5Was God a volcano?
5"Welcome to Glennbeckistan."
5Incompatible couples used to stay together for the kids. Or were they just staying together for the health insurance?
5SLIDE SHOW: "15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America"
5With it being a very real possibility, a hung parliament explained
5Marxist traitors, God's omniscience and heavy rain; a snapshot of Speaker's Corner
5It'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.
5Andrew Breitbart shares with us just a little too much information.
5The UK General Chiropractic Council finally admits that subluxations don't exist.
5The problem with the idea of "the majority support this action" is that the majority aren't always affected by it.
5How'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.
5Are you a sceptic or a denier?
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