RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/February 2011
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| 4 | Prof. Henry A. Giroux is all excited about how young people have decided to reject neoliberalism and related repressive regimes, such as the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Peoples' State. |
| 2 | David Macaray of CounterPunch: As long as those stupid little proles remain benighted in their false consciousness, refusing either to bawl communist slogans or to support social engineering, the rich have nothing to worry about. |
| 7 | The Republicans, unbeknownst to themselves, have got a new political program, involving evaporating public goods, ending public education, and outlawing unions. Also, their budget cuts amount to a coup. |
| 6 | We need to stop all the demonization that's been happening in politics recently. We can't blame teachers, sick people, students, etc., for all our problems. To arms, comrades! Bash the bankers! |
| 10 | Skeptical Humanities looks through a TV station's crank mail after they ran a chemtrails story. A cornucopia of green ink! |
| 17 | The McGurk effect A very cool audio illusion thingy. |
| 7 | Trade unions fought hard to end piecework. This blogger doesn't make the connection, but she did get a firsthand lesson on the exploitative nature of this practice. |
| 12 | American kids today really do face harder economic circumstances than their parents did. (Between 1970 and 2004 -- when adjusted for inflation -- the price of housing increased by about 50% and the cost to earn a bachelor's degree increased by about 30%, while the average weekly income decreased by about 11.2%.) |
| 8 | Robert Reich on The Real Republican Strategy |
| 15 | An Indiana official, supposedly a deputy attorney general for the state of Indiana, tweeted 'Use live ammunition' against protesters. Then when called out by a Mother Jones staffer he stated "You're damned right I advocate deadly force." The Indiana Attorney General's office is investigating, but when asked to comment he stated "For 'context?' Or to silence me? All my comments on twitter & my blog are my own and no one else's. And I can defend them all." Update: He was fired after they found it was him pretty quickly. Can't exercise your second amendment rights on those who disagree with you. |
| 15 | Exploring The Sun with Helioviewer Cool ESA and NASA funded toy to play with solar and heliospheric image data. |
| 6 | Cory Doctorow on WBC attempting to lure Anonymous into an attack. Some interesting comments that talk about how they make their money. |
| 8 | Cracked delivers again: 20 Tacky Religious Products Guaranteed to Anger God. |
| 8 | Why the unrest in Wisconsin? "Conservatives really want to change the basis of American life, to make America run according to the conservative moral worldview in all areas of life." |
| 6 | Matt Taibbi wants to know why Wall Street crooks aren't in jail. Where is this generation's Pecora Commission or S&L trials? |
| 7 | Does cash get results in schools? - Spending, class, results, and comparing like with like. |
| 16 | The skeptic community is diverse and that's a good thing |
| 6 | What school "reform" means. |
| 11 | The Beast's 50 most loathsome Americans of 2010. |
| 2 | How President Obama's proposed 2011 budget puts him at odds with his own life story. |
| 19 | Bill O’Reilly’s Tidal Skepticism Launches “You Can’t Explain That” Meme |
| 9 | What "Original Intent" Would Look Like |
| 7 | Throw an Egg at a Climate Scientist! Buy a Hayek T-Shirt! Inside CPAC's Carnival of Right-Wing Wares. |
| 11 | Wouldn't it be nice if conservatives shut up about the value of marriage? |
| 4 | William Fisher: The U.S. engaging in diplomacy instead of acting against foreign dictatorships is an objectionable course of action — except, apparently, in situations when the U.S. is actually ready to take action. |
| -5 | William Rivers Pitt: War and unrest, not peace, are the true hallmarks of a functioning democracy, since in peace you have the U.S. Presidents from Reagan to Obama, who are all dictators worse than Hosni Mubarak. |
| 1 | CSM's take on Egypt and US foreign policy |
| 4 | Courtesy of The Far Left Side: Valentine's Day cards for hard-line fundy Christians. |
| 7 | Glenn Greenwald: Some Tea Party members break ranks in the House and vote against extension of provisions in the PATRIOT Act. |
| 14 | New head of the Budget Committee and Randroid Paul Ryan unveils his new budget: Screw everyone but the rich, build more bombs. |
| 20 | Meeting a Neutrino Skeptic/Denialist. Or should that be "neutrino numpty"? |
| 19 | Ten things conservatives don't want you to know about Ronald Reagan (and would probably get you banned from CP for adding to his page there.) |
| 1 | "A Jungian analyst explains the psychology of political polarization |
| 7 | Pogrom in Cairo! U.S.-backed and U.S.-financed Egyptian military does not fire its U.S-backed and U.S.-financed guns at Mubarak's thugs, come to beat up Egyptian demonstrators; they just sit on their U.S.-backed and U.S.-financed tanks and watch. And lest you forget the most important thing, we'll say it again: They're U.S.-backed and U.S.-financed. |
| 7 | "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. |
| 8 | Clear thinking: it's not just for science. Skeptical Humanities fights bullshit over in the other building. |
| 11 | PZ Myers points out that Eric Hovind is offering free DVDs! Ahh, out of stock. But wait, what's this? |
| 19 | "God put the Moon there", sez Bill O'Reilly. |
| 20 | Ten reasons Fox News isn't covering the Egypt story. |
| 21 | No, Betelgeuse will not explode and kill us all in 2012 |