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January 2012[edit]

10

How we got Ayn Rand instead of FDR: How Tea Party 'Populism' Derailed a New New Deal

17

How 'Europe' became a dirty word in the US election. Europe's response: "Wait, we're socialist?" and "Hmm...Republicans don't want to pay higher taxes to match government spending, how familiar."

5

Stephen Colbert retakes his Super PAC power after Jon Stewart tells him to fuck off.

32

Fox News is now the Republican establishment, and it may cost the party the 2012 Presidential election.

10

The Transadvocate on the transgender bathroom issue: prohibiting trans women from using women's restrooms rests on the same logic as prohibiting black women from doing so, or even cis women themselves.

10

"All the other kids with the pumped up kicks, you better run, better run, outrun my gun."

1

Increasing political polarization? Impending civil war? Think again.

26

Dan Savage has been sufficiently annoyed. "To 'rick' is to remove something with your tongue ... which makes 'rick santorum' the most disgusting two-word sentence in the English language after 'vote Republican.'"

12

New atheist billboard campaign unveiled!

0

New word: Nagnostic

10

You heard it here first: Vaccines are part of the transhumanist agenda to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids.

7

According to Google, geek girls are really men.

9

The Unexpurgated Atheist FAQ. Complete in every detail.

6

The Pythons are back?

8

"I'm sorry for how the Church treated you"

6

Martin Robbins lays into the BBC over science.

24

Rick Santorum thinks rape is a gift from God... seriously?Seriously!?

10

New journal to be launched will combat publication bias by publishing negative results.

20

Note to self: Create Elizabeth Warren article.

10

The ultimate Star Wars nerdgasm.

11

Go back. We fucked up everything.

34

The great forgotten Republican.

4

Hacker cracks a senator's Twitter account, but still manages to trip over Skitt's Law.

4

Neuroanthropology takes out the trash on "sexy" evo psych "findings."

3

They call it a loophole in medical journals, we call it "narrative review."

6

10 great reasons to be against equality in marriage.

7

A plan to restore America to it's Christian RootsWarning, intensive levels of sarcasm detected.

6

Scumbag Gingrich.

26

So how is Kentucky funding the $43 million in tax cuts for the Ark Experience? By cutting $50 million from its education budget.

11

The value of Curiosity Driven Research

12

How the US' current "free market" health care is not any kind of freedom at all.

7

Too...many...awesome...Stephen Colbert videos...

6

It's not a blatant violation of the separation of church and state. It's called "school choice!" You know, for totally secular "charter schools."

6

To anyone who is still completing their degrees.

8

Carl Zimmer [1] about research on the evolution of multicellular life.

7

How the universe began.

12

How SOPA could negatively affect science.

17

The Red Flags Of Quackery, expanded edition, in handy comic form.

9

Bloomberg, don't start up a mini-Prohibition.

17

What if Tim Tebow was...Muslim? Update: Jimmy Fallon re-imagines David Bowie.

9

Sweden innovating again. But the sheep? Seriously? Give us our goat.

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."

19

True to form, Canada apologizes for failing to not elect Stephen Harper.

20

In the face of an undeniable, egregious violation of civil rights, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas finds a way to be a bullheaded asshole.

14

The History Channel in 18 seconds.

2

To those reading up on the Sara Ackerman story, it gets even funnier: she's defending Chris Brown and declaring war on Obama "minions."

15

Five founding fathers whose views on Christianity would make them unelectable today.

9

Know Your Meme confirms Jesusland.

12

Help, help! I'm being repressed by science!

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?

12

A happy[citation NOT needed] customer reviews Ray Comfort's wizard entertainment, Intelligent Design vs Evolution: The Board Game!

8

What if nobody told you that your daughter had been mistakenly deported? - "...it’s concerning to think of how many people this has happened to that have never been heard from."

14

The Onion: "I'm asking if anybody out there can come up with even one reason why I'd want to endure this unmitigated shit show for another minute, let alone through 2016. What's in it for me, exactly? Can anyone answer that? Anyone at all?" - Barack Obama

10

Cracked: 6 Small Math Errors That Caused Huge Disasters. And nuclear makeup.

7

If you haven't heard this before, it's Saturn dropping the beat.

4

The Neuroskeptic debunks the recent news stories about increased costs of antidepressant drugs on UK taxpayers.

5

Traversing the tight line between the latest fertility technologies and eugenics.

-1

An Optimistic History of the Next 40 Years (assuming we won't nuke ourselves first) It does get a little wacky by 2040 2020, though.

6

Another product of the recovered memory craze: The "epidemic" of multiple personality disorder.

9

A Redditor asks: what New Age garbage make you shudder with intolerance? 6786 comments in the first 12 hours.

9

The jokes write themselves.

10

The 9 Voters Who Lost Iowa For Santorum

8

The Iowa caucuses showed us both kind of Republican candidate: the elitist rich guy and the elitist rich guy who pretends to care about the working class.

7

A way to hide your doings from light and time! Now how to best improve it so the USA someone can weaponize it.

5

Another way the War on (Some) Drugs fails: "Drug-sniffing" dogs fare no better than chance.

2

Naive determinism strikes again.

7

Introducing our new Paul the Octopus: Megyn Kelly Shelly!

12

Like father like daughter: Elizabeth Santorum has gay friends too!

5

The 2012 US Government Terrorist Identification Chart. Stop the Terrorist Battlecruiser!

2

Pedobear appears at Penn State's last game of the year.

3

Crazy Finns.

7

Stephen Harper sets up Canada's version of MiniTru.

10

If you have a free hour, here's Charlie Brooker's 2011 Wipe. On the UK riots: "Over the following weeks the media went into a full blown hand-wringing exercise trying to work out why the giddy heck [it] had happened...assholes on horrible US shitcasts blamed immigrants."

2

Sally Jenkins asks why is it that Tim Tebow's beliefs are anybody's business?

6

Cracked ends the year with: The 9 Biggest Bastards of 2011.