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[edit] July 2013

13Fundie Christians believe in talking snakes and donkeys. Should we be surprised that a growing number of Muslims in the Middle East believe that Israel is using birds to spy on them?
3Let us remember the time when Saint Ronnie nearly began WWIII for no reason.
20Come on, whites, get your act together!
14Meanwhile in Russia... Update: The Daily Mail says what everyone else is thinking.
17Oh Jenny.
8Please, Obama, don't let us have to write an article about Larry Summers.
4An open letter to Trayvon Martin's father: Forget the federal prosecution. Here's why you must sue George Zimmerman.
5Thanks Christie, we're going to have to differentiate between "civil" and "Rand Paul dreamland" libertarianism again.
12And there goes a political career.
16Andrews & Arnold trolls David Cameron.
7And that is why I consider myself a scientismist. I know it is supposed to be a perjorative, but I am reclaiming it.
15Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: you are not going to infringe the viewer's right to skip ads, especially hours after the TV show finishes broadcasting.
-16A bit of wishful thinking for atheists to indulge: In the developed world, "religion will completely disappear by 2041" and be replaced by atheism. (However, note that the author of the study has a rather limited definition of "the developed world" that doesn't include the richest and most heavily armed nation on the planet, at least when considering its current political and economic climate and its high levels of religiosity.)
-7Gawker has a warm word of welcome for the royal sprog.
20"Some Mormons Search the Web and Find Doubt."
15How economic equality in Canada and Denmark increases social mobility and meritocracy.
7How to end both Jack Thompson-esque censorship and the basement-dwelling nature of the the gaming world? "We need to find something that resembles the academic environment, someplace where people seem to have endless amounts of free time, where everyone is long-winded, argumentative and encouragely cliquish, someplace obnoxiously elitist and frustratingly male-dominated."
12First trailer for Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey.
14NPR Discovers the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory! And it may just be a positive feedback loop.
22Neil deGrasse Tyson has a possible explanation of why extraterrestrials have never contacted humanity: We're just too stupid to make contact worthwhile for them.
11Lakoff, don't stoop down to their level.
-7What type of atheist are you?
3Anonymous goes on a fruitful hunt for paedophiles within the English Defence League.
15Oh yes, blame the intern.
21XKCD raises a valid point on the absence of evidence.
10How Intellectual Property Reinforces Inequality.
19Fred Clark of Patheos spells out the reality of how prominent homophobic and misogynistic churches and evangelists are.
26Introducing Representative Mark Takano (D-CA).
20ForwardProgressives: Obama says GWB wasn't all that bad. Read the comments, but for the sake of your sanity, read the article too.
16This could have all been preventable if the government, not private companies, paid for the majority of health insurance. But no, we're still stuck in square one again, GOP.
16There's a reason nobody takes you seriously anymore, Krauthammer.
15Federal judge to the NSA: What State Secret? (Full decision)
16Apparently, we missed how poorly Bobby Jindal's school vouchers program is working in Louisiana; here, Bill Maher chimes in. Also missing: Proof that voucher money's being used responsibly.
12VIDEO (documentary film trailer): Ever hear of the tough love programs where parents have their uncontrollable kids spirited away to a juvenile boot camp to receive discipline training? Now imagine what it would be like if the reparative therapy movement used the same tactics. That's the subject matter of the new documentary Kidnapped for Christ.
11"When Women Used Lysol as Birth Control." (This article about a rather common, yet toxic, birth control method from the Good Old Days was first published more than a year ago. But since it wasn't posted here at that time, we offer it now as Rick Perry yet again calls the Texas legislature back into session to take another swing at passing that anti-abortion bill.)
3So, who runs the secret court that acts on all the NSA wiretap info? This guy.
9Salon notes that, having solved all bigger problems, armed SWAT teams are being deployed to perform raidsalcohol license inspections.
16All of this is true, Mr. Larsen, but please remember that the ratio of anti-science wingnuts to moonbats is 164 to... well, 1.
17How to troll NSA recruitment drives.
5How Copyright Makes Books and Music Disappear.
14Wine tasting is bullshit.
10The four sides of one seriously fucked-up Egypt: a military that wants to keep selling Windex, millions of increasingly liberal protesters that are being ignored, the remaining Mubarak apologists, and and a Muslim Brotherhood which proclaims itself to be "democratic" but thinks the Jews are everywhere. (The last of the four is now being shot at by the military.)
10NSFW video: A Brazilian(?) priest during Mass: Um... wow! I guess that's why they like wearing those cassocks.
14We all know how this is going to end.
16The one place Edward Snowden would be safe from prosecution.
9Ed Brayton blogs about the problems with the US Legal Standing Doctrine.
8The Washington Post: Let's burn the bridge right after we've crossed it.
16Stephen Meyer's new book is "a masterwork of pseudoscience."
25German online voters selected an innovative nuclear reactor for the GreenTec Awards environmental prize. The organizing greens threw a hissy fit and arbitrarily disqualified it.
13Guessing there were facepalms from this.
6Why worry about NSA spying when companies like Motorola keep track of all your login details through unsecured channels?
12Is this the laziest Congress ever?
16Who says atheists have no morality? We "commit less crime, have longer marriages and are more highly educated than almost any other group in America."
16Oh, Canada! The American media is starting to notice your current political climate. "How America's friendly northern neighbor became a rogue, reckless petrostate." (Psst... the wingnuts have already hijacked the comments, stay far away)
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