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June 2012[edit]

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Neo-Luddism: The Rap

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The ultimate George Lucas tribute

16

Stephen's still got it.

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Chuck Norris facts, updated.(self promotion warning)

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From LEO's fake issue: Answers in Koran, LLC, receive $75 million in tax breaks to build Koran Kountry - a "family-friendly attraction that celebrates the truth of the Koran, and the power of the global jihadist movement to liberate Muslims from the oppression of the infidels and Jews. We also have roller coasters."

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If you thought the "Who said it: Mitt Romney or Mr. Burns?" quiz was too easy, try this.

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TV "psychics" turn out to be stock photos.

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American students are being taught that the Loch Ness Monster proves creationism. And American taxpayers are paying for it.(self promotion warning)

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From Aaron Sorkin's new series The Newsroom.

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Someone in the annals of Yahoo! News actually gets it right.

7

The roasting of Jimmy Carr.

16

Explosm on the Bible

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A more enlightened, and thankfully briefer, version of 50 Shades of Grey.

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The Donald Trump hoax, exposed.

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Joffrey Baratheon, where is the birth certificate? Game of Thrones attack ads.

5

This is an exciting time.

13

Just what you always wanted: a web-based Deepak Chopra generator. (HT Unreasonable Faith.)

13

An anthology of Cosmo magazine's sex "tips", Featuring super-erotic hits like "spray each other with ice-cold water" and "as if you were pushing his penis back into his body".

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"Four good men with extensive government experience tried to stop the Harper government. Predictably, they failed – predictably, because this government listens to almost no one who actually knows about given policy fields." D'oh, Canada!

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Best Father's Day present ever (make sure you scroll down, that's why it's called Poe's Law.)

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Forbes, never mess with The Oatmeal.

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But Black Widow in The Avengers is just a shallow token female, whose sole reason for existing is to look cute in leather. No she isn't, idiot, stop dismissing all female characters off hand like that.

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Ridley Scott's Prometheus is getting lots of attention from skeptics for promoting anti-science.

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What does austerity mean for Canada? Sky-rocketing food prices to the point of potential starvation, if you happen to live in the North. And the usual deafening silence and obfuscation out of the Harper Party.

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The dark side of TED.

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But the nukes! Why does nobody think of the children nukes?!

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[Spoilers] Prometheus character fail

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A nice deconstruction of conservative arguments about abortion and eugenics.

3

So, a bunch of Redditors want to go live on an island somewhere.

10

The difference between doctors and lawyers.

6

Call off the funeral. The reports of the death of evolution are grossly exaggerated

4

The recent announcements of the discovery of a "City of Gold" in Honduras contains some good science, lots of hype, and ultimately, bad archaelogy.

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Cracked.com video: "How Ayn Rand and L. Ron Hubbard Came Up With Their Big Ideas." Got a better explanation?

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New survey shows that the percentage of Americans born after 1980 who believe in god is declining rather rapidly.

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"Atheism to Defeat Religion By 2038"

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Andy Wakefield is a fraud and is no longer a physician, yet people still believe in his shit Not really a funny article, so serious that it hurts. Read the comments to really see the stupidity of it all.

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PRIVACY NOTICE: Warning - any person and/or institution and/or Agent and/or Agency of any governmental structu... dammit, reality!

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Picture of the year? Update: Oh come on people.

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The Onion: Would the organization responsible for the developed world's laxest gun laws and highest gun crime rate ever rethink what they're spewing about? "Yeah, something like 1,000 dead kids."

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Your disgruntled self came to adore genocide because you couldn't get into art school? Please enlighten me with your heavenly justifications for human extermination.

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How vaccine denialists creates more vaccine advocates. Comments really show how this happened.