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[edit] February 2013

13There Are No Contradictions! — A Game for 3 to 6 Players.
-35The left case against gay marriage.
27David Wong, Cracked: 5 Easy Ways to Spot a BS News Story on the Internet
9Because let's face it, Monica Lewinsky is in desperate need of even more humiliation
25Wingnuts: Michelle Obama's satellite appearance at the Oscars was "obscene." So what about Laura Bush, FDR, and Almighty Reagan?
18 This year's Oscars may be the worst ever.
2Cracked: "5 Miracles Deleted From the Bible For Being Too Awesome"
8A new ENCODE smackdown in Genome Biology and Evolution is rather snarky, though too much so for some.
14The atheist's guide to the next Pope.
11Bill O'Reilly is writing a book about Jesus
9Cracked: 3 Personal Disneylands Being Planned by Total Lunatics (featuring Becky and the Citadel)
16That's one hell of a filibuster.
17Let the states decide if Republicans can marry
17This NY Times Op-Ed nicely illustrates Betteridge's law of headlines.
26Cracked yelling at politicians that don't understand what "poor" means
22Shocker: MRA guru Warren Farrell is an incest apologist. Update: that's not exactly news for some people...
4Should have gone up a month back but Caroline Heldman versus Sexy Lies
21John Stumbles: Stephanie's Measles Mischief. A remarkably calm but very firm response to insanely dangerous anti-vaccine bozos.
14Military-industrial complex Fuck Up #1.
2Harry Potter and the Evil Chocolate Movie Moguls of Doom.
9Bigoted poem spewer on Dan Savage's blog gets a taste of his own medicine.
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
9Rummy demonstrates the stopped clock theory.
15Observe: pick-up artists trying their finest social skills on ... a robot horse.
24Elizabeth. Fucking. Warren.
20How the Electoral College would look with proportional representation. (Can we just change the names?)
8Tom Shales helps dissect the "hoopla and pageantry" that surround the SOTU.
32"Anonymous billionaires donated $120m to more than 100 anti-climate groups working to discredit climate change science"
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.
14Time for some more original lies for Jesus.
6Would Christianity be better without priests?
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.
7Cecil Adams tells you the ins and outs of accessing the "Deep Web"
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.
3Loud and brazen, the George Carlin of gay rights advocacy groups, FCKH8, surprises everyone with two videos in the same day! Warning: SERIOUSLY NSFW!!
20Bill Gates: "It would be nice if all governments were as rational as the Nordic governments - reaching compromise and providing services broadly."
1New director of the CIA has decided there is a country called Palestine. [1]
15Switzerland, the last excuse by the NRA and their ilk to ignore gun control? Not really.
17This comic about the friendzone is just too damn quotable.
5The intricacies of The Pirate Bay. (Of course the documentary is free!)
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.
12"Godless," another documentary made by Christians claiming to be something they're not.
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.
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."
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).
8Nick Cohen on abuse and misogyny in the far left.
16Australians will understand and facepalm to hear: Andrew Bolt takes on Dr Karl about climate change.
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29Worst. Socialist. Ever.
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