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[edit] August 2011

6Who wants a random taste of Canadian comedy?
10Are anti-science conservatives out of step with mainstream America? We certainly hope so.
4Internet memes have been on a roll recently.
4Hitch riffs on Perry.
18Krugman nails it.
11Here's an interesting role-reversal: Big Pharma homeopathy shills are suing a skeptical blogger.
7This user likes to call it The Proxmire Effect.
6John Mashey dissects the denialist echo chamber.
6PalMD moves to a new location.
6Two words: PETA porn.
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.
7NASA animation shows what it would look like when a black hole eats a star.
12Religious people are just another form of geeknerd.
6If conservatives have nothing else to do, they try to smear Paul Krugman on the East Coast Earthquake.
7Per PZ Myers: A bunch of "science-denying wackaloons." (except Jon Huntsman)
7Advertising copywriters are unable to understand basic mathematical concepts.
6Damn you, you snobby French! Always getting things right these days...
7The tax the moochers poor meme spreads.
9Rick Perry made $990 in Bisexual Barebacking venture.
14"if social conservatives take power we might have government policing our bedrooms."
6From the Department of Failed Predictions: Buying stuff on the internet? That's crazy talk!
7Long live our Soviet motherland!
12Weird Homeopathy - Oscillococcinum. Made from a bacteria that does not exist.
6There really needs to be a "Thalidomide Gambit" or a "Vioxx Gambit."
13An academic look at Tea Party members.
9Giorgio A. Tsoukalos becomes a full-fledged meme. Aliens. Update: More Giorgio mocking here.
17PolitiFact tests Warren Buffet's "Tax me!" editorial. Correct, as expected.
12Religion losing significant ground in Canada, New Zealand, Finland, The Netherlands, and other various nations.
8Can godless heathens secularists be more ethical than pure and moral religious folk?
7Climate denier Joe Bastardi delivers a truly epic Gish Gallop.
12Potholer54 shows us how dishonest TV producers fool you.
7The late, great Molly Ivins talks about Rick Perry.
21Stephen Colbert exposes the truth about thermodynamics.
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? Update: Awww yeah.
9But, but, but...wind power kills birds!
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.
10Teens try to hack Koch brothers site, get the FBI on their asses!
11Those bond vigilantes will strike any day now...any day now...
4Why looters aren't SCUM and answering them with violence is the worst idea ever.
24The Onion: New GOP strategy to make Obama's life miserable? Reelecting him.
6People are fed up with Mabus, now there's a poll to make the Montreal Police take "Mabus" death threats seriously.
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.
7The Metropolitan police are starting to make good on their promise to publish photos of the London rioters.
10July's heat records visualized.
7How to succeed in banking without really trying.
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."'
7Everything you wanted or didn't want to know about Michele Bachmann courtesy the New Yorker.
8The abortion that Mitt Romney doesn't talk about anymore
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.
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.
6Slate: Antioxidants don't work, but no one wants to hear it.
7Refuse to be terrorized.
11Dora? Spongebob? Lefties.
10Murdoch hacked us too
0Survey reveals most British people should be executed
12"Republicans fit the profile of a classic abuser."
12Governor Rick Perry's "Texas miracle" includes crowded homeless shelters, low-wage jobs and worker deaths.
14How marathon running is an affront to the Good Lord.
5Boobs Don't Work That Way!
9Christopher Monckton: Past his use-by date? Update: His "reputation for being mad as a snake clearly remains intact."
20Like with Sarah Palin, Matt Damon destroys Reason's logic..
10Paul Simms from the New Yorker reveals God's Creation Blog - with comments.
9What does the debt deal mean? Felix Salmon attempts to provide some answers. More: A good summary by Stephen Squibb.
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.
14A list of people (and their quotes) who are okay with murdering Julian Assange.
8VIDEO: Keith Olbermann's Special Comment (1 August 2011): "The Four Great Hypocrisies of the Debt Deal"
7It's the Disco 'Tute versus... the Institute for Creation Research?
8Obviously, UFO conspiracy kiddies will go nuts on this, but very interesting indeed.
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.
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