RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/January 2012
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| 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." |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. |