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[edit] July 2012

9Don't worry, MRAs: when these women get judged for their skill and not how "fat" they are, we can start talking.
0You better have taken a day off.
22Time to come clean: I was one of American's top psychics — and, like all of them, a complete fraud.
6Frankie Boyle pwns Chris Brown.
3How positive thinking can be self-unhelp.
0On r/atheism, another good reason for America to tax religions -- audits! "My friend's mother keeps her church's checkbook. Wow." (Hard-to-read copy of a Facebook page where the poster lists some of the church's collections and outlays.) Pie chart of the church's outlays as per the information supplied by the poster. As you might imagine, this has prompted a lot of discussions on the comments board.
12 Facebook goes wild with Bananas cure cancer meme based on one small study on mice. Except they fucking misinterpret the study and get all the science completely wrong. And no, bananas do not cure cancer.
20The Daily Mail, keeping it classy: The NHS, therefore racism. With bonus attempt to cover their tracks when busted.
14Cracked: The 4 Most Meaningless Arguments Against Gun Control
6NewsBiscuit: Olympic terror threat level reduced after al-Qaeda outsource terrorism to G4S.
11Mitt, we love you.
36The history of the internet is the latest thing to be shoved down the glibertarian memory hole.
8Black folk don't do atheism?
44Mayor of Boston to Chick-fil-A: Fuck off.
13A Penn State fan makes a fatuous claim regarding the NCAA's sanctions against the university's football program. A HuffPo sportswriter's response: "[T]here seems [to be] little doubt that we need a version of Godwin's Law that pertains to references to the 9/11 terrorist attacks."
-1 What ado the Westboro Baptist Church? Ignore them.
6G4S: How not to go about training security personnel.
16Carl Zimmer pwns the Discovery Institute.
11An untestimony: from fundamentalism to skepticism
7SPAAAAAAAAACE!
15Why the Oatmeal brouhaha was so important. Update: Inman's Twitter page filled with upset fundies.
7Jon, it's been a Dickens novel for a loooong time.
-3The vlogger who submitted himself to torture for the entire world to see has finally stumbled upon Fifty Shades of Grey.
5Why Mitt Romney will not be the Republican nominee.
6If a birther like Sheriff Joe won't accept President Obama's birth certificate as real, why should anyone expect him to accept as real an ID presented in accordance to Arizona's "Papiere, bitte" law?
8Cracked delivers again: The 11 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Religious Paintings.
6Homeopathy companies pay journalist to set up websites to attack Edzard Ernst. Proves Ernst's Law.(self promotion warning)
2Five guys stand under an exploding atomic bomb. And live a long life.
16Any Republicans distressed over the supreme court's Obamacare decision? How about moving to Conservative Paradise!
11Bank robberies: Crime doesn't (statistically) pay.
5How to be a reverse-racist.
9Bikers Against Child Abuse
6Religion as Rorschach blot.
5Australian chicken farmers accidentally recombine viruses from two different vaccines causing a disaster. Australian anti-Vaccine Network goes batshit insane-again. Real science says everyone stay calm.
3A new book examines the US' addiction to apocalypse, tracing its origins from fundie-land to the secular world. Gross and Giles argue that if we refrain from similarly framing global warming and other issues, solutions will be reached faster. The problem with that? These idiots who really don't give a fuck either way.
8The Onion: God Admits Humans Not Most Impressive Creation
10Polly Toynbee: Who still thinks that outsourcing works?
12Courtesy of John McCain, a full, 200 page list of Mitt's flip-flops and WTFery.
15Heed these words.
7Beware of Pascal's Scams.
15PZ details why mind uploading is idiot bloviating. The reaction is predictable.
15Bill Maher makes an interesting analysis of Republicans who were impressed by Caiden Cowger. Perhaps his analysis explains shit like this.
15Pure, unadulterated hilarity: Obamacare will substantially help red states more than blue.
11Another B-actor lies about vaccines. He then invokes Nazis. Godwin has a stroke.
19"The Myth That Entitlements Destroy a Nation's Growth, Busted in 1 Chart"
10For fundies who insist that women should not wear pants because of Deuteronomy 22:5, The Atlantic explains why pants were invented in the first place -- horses.
10Natalie Reed: Fuck anti-science. Even within the "progressive" and activist communities.
15Matthew Inman delivers the goods.
10HuffPo religion blogger tells fellow Christians to avoid perpetrating these ten cliches. But as one atheist commenter who likes the list puts it, "[t]ake away all those cliches . . . and what have you got left?"
10What else would you expect from cdesign proponentsists, taking to the Evolution News blog whining about Wikipedia editors upholding real science: "They have nothing better to do with their time and will always erase your attempted correction and reinstate the bogus claim, with lightning speed over and over again."
7Wouldn't it be really convenient to wake up on Saturday and not have to worry about digging through your dresser, looking for your one pair of good green pants? Wouldn't it make life easier?
24Libertarians aren't the defenders of personal liberty they claim to be.
8You're welcome to enjoy a dishwasher, just don't assume "all women love dishwashers because they're women, and must clean everything".
13Remember, every time you call it 'The God Particle' Higgs kills a kitten.
17Stephen Hawking is Ace McWicked.
9Darren Naish takes on ReptileEvolution.com
31Texas is stupid, no, Texas is really stupid, no, it's the Texas Republicans who are really really stupid.
8The Onion: This just in at Mitt HQ: Plight of the unemployed continues around the country. HI-FIVE!
18The evil feminist hivemind has won Thunderf00t gets kicked out of FTB after writing for shit and creating a MRA circlejerk, and Greg Laden for, as part of said circlejerk, emailing threats to other bloggers.
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