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[edit] January 2013

14Mercury thiocyanate igniting - enjoy the nightmares you'll have this evening!
14“It’s awful. I mean, what else am I supposed to do with my life?”
19The most pro-family values commercial you'll see this weekend. UPDATE: YouTube yanked (pun intended) the video file that most media sites are linking to.
16Buy ALL the tissues.
19More than 40 percent of American children are now born to single mothers. Two law professors/authors propose a new causal factor many right-wingers might disagree with: Working class Christian parents who are happy that their unmarried pregnant daughters (a) didn't have an abortion, and (b) didn't marry the no-good louts who knocked them up.
10Never start a debate on a perpetual motion forum.
12Andy Borowitz delivers an exceptionally powerful Poe.
20Cracked on "5 Staples of the Legal System That Statistics Say Don't Work" -- numbers 5, 3 and 2 discuss types of crime woo; 4 and 1 are just disheartening.
3Lawrence Krauss proposes that to match a demand for teachers of science and mathematics, (rather than going into research) we should consider paying them more than humanities teachers.
37Cracked: The 8 Greatest Wars Ever Fought by Fox News. Prepare for Papa Bear "Pinhead" attack in 3...2...1...
10VP Joe Biden versus Onion Joe Biden: FIGHT!
7Zing!
8The debt limit: The sound of someone hitting themselves...forever.
15BoingBoing calls attention to a photo copyright watermark by the Daily Mail that's even more Not even wronger than usual.
20Jazz, fucking over fundamentalism one day at a time.
4(At the Daily Mail offices...) Britain is full, you darkies! Wait, you have money? Erm...
7The sanest conservative statesman in the gun control debate. (Unfortunately, it's John Howard.)
20Remember that passive-aggressive ad against same-sex marriage by the Iona Institute in Ireland? Someone decided it was time to respond, and crank up the snark.
7Gilles-Eric Seralini, the professor behind the widely debunked "GMO gives cancer to rats" study, appears to be an ambassador to an alt-med company controlled by a New Age-style faith healing cult that sells homeopathic and detox products. You can't make this stuff up.
13Jason Colavito explains why skeptics shouldn't ignore Ancient Aliens, pointing out the TV ratings of the show.
20A righteous post by PalMD explaining why equating gun control to Nazism is really dumb
2Steven Pinker on why to be skeptical about claims of lead removal reducing crime (PDF).
10As a scientist your job is to bring new knowledge into the world. Hiding it behind a journal's paywall is immoral.
10The best description of herbalism was — guess what — hidden in a 13-year-old Pokemon game.
12After the endless banality of CNN's Belief blog, a New Atheist got her chance in the spotlight. Click the link for the reaction. (Also, it seems we are too way harsh on Comment is Free.)
9If you've ever wondered why the Second Amendment was written the way it was...
9I woke up to 20 emails asking for my opinion on pubic lice. How did your Monday Morning coffee go?
22Dr Brooke Magnanti (or Belle de Jour, if you remember) lays into lame accusations of "trolling" and second-wave feminism.
20No, you're not a welfare queen - you're just "living on the government plantation!"
23The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gorilla is a good guy with a gorilla.
7This blog post causes cancer.No, not the Daily Mail
9Hey Kerry, maybe if you had such wit back in 2004 maybe we wouldn't be in this shithole in the first place.
20Note to Alex Jones: when Glenn Beck calls you crazy, get help. Soon.
20Rich person gives lowly peasant waitress a tip: rich people are assholes.
10Mark Lynas gives a powerful speech about GM crops and anti-GMO sentiment in the environmental movement.
10Lowest of the low: Congress is less likeable than Nickelback.
13A nice infographic has been going viral - too bad it's a little misleading
13Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly start a new anti-gun violence campaign: Americans for Responsible Solutions
15Cue the hand-wringing.
16The NRA of Counter-Earth.
1Should American Catholics cheer for Notre Dame?
28Yes, science takes sides. So stop asking scientists to not be partisan.
4Why taking ideas seriously is probably a bad idea.
8Race, class and vaccines
-13The ongoing witch hunt against steroids in baseball isn't about justice — it's about an older generation preserving their favorite sports icons by attacking younger sports icons.
9We're done with the Internets people. Shut everything down.
6Michigan theologian-cum-social worker: Whaaaa! Nothing's being done to combat rape in Haiti!
Haitian women's rights lawyer: Um, actually, 2012 was a banner year for Haitian rape prosecutions.
10Do-it-yourself abortions are coming back.
20Old, but explains a lot: "a generation of men and women who literally don't understand what sexual consent looks like."
20Civil War in the GOP.
122012 Wipe - about time, the wankers.
-1Organic food and autism. Oh noes!
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