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23How one guy realised the sheer levels of misogyny within gaming: logging in under his wife's gamer tag.
23Jimmy Carter tells an audience at the Mobilizing Faith for Women conference that the world's religious leaders need to share the blame for their part in the continued mistreatment of women.
13British Columbia introduced the first revenue-neutral carbon tax in North America four years ago. Guess the results.
18How the cell strain of an aborted fetus has saved the lives of millions.
14Yo, fuck Marat.
5NMAtv's take on the Wendy Davis filibuster. With dinosaurs.
21In celebration of the Supreme Court striking down a chunk of the Voting Rights Act, try your hand at this fair and simple literacy test given to black voters in 1960s Louisiana.
-3Is there any need to learn the 12 times table?
10How things change... ArsTechnica reveals Edward Snowden's past as a goldbug gun nut who thought leakers should be "shot in the balls." Whoops.
14A 30 Second Guide to How the Gay Marriage Ruling Affects You. UPDATE: A similar list from HuffPo.
5How to stop the coming redneck uprising following the VRA decision: automatic voting?
7Potential treatment/prevention for people who happen to validate Salem Hypothesis.
12A ridiculous claim, substantiated by nothing more than facts.
4Using the Tabarrok Curve, Tim Worstall explains the problem of too much patent strength.
9Oh, those whacky red states. Some of them are crafting "federal nullification laws" that they think will empower them to arrest federal agents trying to enforce federal laws within their borders. Sounds like some legislators have been reading the "Citizen's Rule Book" in their spare time.
6Do not tempt the Darwin Awards, Nenshi.
75 Shockingly Progressive Ideas from 'Primitive' Cultures. (Monks have some explaining to do.)
7How Turner Barr got fired from a job he invented.
10Here's some ethical oil at work.
13In 2011, marijuana accounted for 89 percent of all US drug seizure cases (cocaine was second at 7.4 percent), and 99.5 percent of seizures by weight.
23Obama pulls a "Pants on Fire."
16This is how one should respond to cease-and-desist trolls.
10"This extraordinary creature is called the David Attenborough." The rest of Bird and Moon is also worth checking out.
16Richard Dawkins. GMO. Here combined into one story about the anti-science beliefs of Prince Charles
17"When a Doctor Wields a Bible: The Alarming Rise of Catholic Hospitals." For several years, Catholic hospital corporations have taken over many formerly secular hospitals across America. In addition to seeking a greater profit margin, they also are seeking to impose their sense of morality on women's healthcare.
10It's not a Godwin if you can actually make a link to the You-Know-Whos. "Legitimate rape" and other instances of rape apologetics by the GOP seem to have originated with a 1972 essay by an obstetrician who cited a concentration camp study where many (but not all) women who were told they were going to the gas chamber and then allowed to live missed their next ovulation cycle. That essay was recently republished in a book by Americans United for Life.
4A new horror novel set for release on July 1st tells the alternate history story of what might have happened following a McCain-Palin victory and the subsequent death of President McCain.
37"That awkward moment when the primitive tribe you have come to convert to Christianity, instead converts you to atheism."
26GM feed harmful to pigs? Nope. The real story: anti-GMO activists harmful to pigs.
21The Right's legislative war on women continues with another round of Shit Republican Men Say (about women's health issues).
18American right wing politicians on the issue of safety vs. right to privacy: Regarding background checks on guns, the right to privacy is more important than the anticipated safety that the checks will bring. On NSA snooping, the anticipated safety that the snooping will bring is more important than the right to privacy.
22"Here's a picture of my dick!" "I'm telling your mum!"
3Yesterday's (already disastrous) Microsoft E3 conference is raising even more questions: Rape joke or no rape joke?
10Another intriguing factoid from the NSA fiasco: Germany is apparently more dangerous to warrant spying on than the Ruskies.
22A Turkish game show host pulls a V for Vendetta amidst the media blackout.
12Scientists to Lamar Smith: your previous op-ed is regurgitating political talking points, and none of the implied conclusions is accurate.
19Why we should resist any northward spread of PRISM.
18More proof that the pro-life movement is doing the exact opposite of what it wants to achieve.
30Three professors of religious studies and history from Iowa have written an op-ed for the state's largest newspaper knocking down the appeal to biblical tradition that marriage has always been "one man, one woman."
12Competition is fierce indeed.
8The Crazification Factor to be put on the test again in Virginia.
15"The senior Obama administration official quoted in The Times said the executive branch internally reviews surveillance programs to ensure that they 'comply with the Constitution and laws of the United States and appropriately protect privacy and civil liberties.' That’s no longer good enough." (Also, check out Sensenbrenner calling his own act un-American.)
19"The Right to Evade Regulation: How corporations hijacked the First Amendment"
13Teflon? No. At least Reagan had charisma.
20Ten US states try to force evolution denialism upon their public school students. Failed in nine of those states.
13"Sir! Sir! Our campaign is falling apart at the seams!" "Was it my 47% comment?" "No. Gmail."
25Have one and a half million adults in the UK “stumbled across” online child porn? No, the Internet Watch Foundation are still lying liars who lie.
18Meanwhile in Turkey... Update: Even more badass.
23The best argument for universal health care in the USA: It's the colonoscopies, stupid!
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