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8The Abortionplex is on Yelp. Free nachos and mojitos during the procedure? It doesn't get better than that.
10Six politicians who've failed epically on Twitter.
3Andy Bacevich on what it means to "support the troops."
7Less lead equals less crime?
11"So, how about some accountability for the false prophets, gross opportunists, and irresponsible rumor-mongers who threaten society with truth decay? Here’s a suggestion: Call them out publicly, post their names on some Wall of Shame, and then stop listening – it only encourages them."
15A new 3D map of the universe is unveiled.
23Electrons are spherical, it's official now.
9Wegman continues shooting himself in the foot.
8Political polarization? Not when it comes to trampling civil liberties.
10Lyndon LaRouche jets climate deniers to Sweden to protest a conference in Stockholm.
9Dominique Strauss-Kahn really should have kept his dangler in his pants: not only has he fulfilled the iconography of power dynamics with parallels in Greek mythology, smut, and colonialism, but he went and groped a union maid.
-6Dave Johnson: Political philosophies with a "producer-and-parasite" world-view are fundamentally at odds with the concepts of democracy. (But good luck telling that to the adherents of one particular "producer-and-parasite" world-view, who spend a lot of time saying exactly the opposite.)
9With notably rare exceptions, a president has never called for Israel to change its borders.
4On Netanyahu's "hissy-fit."
23The CDC has released a blog post detailing its plans to deal with a Zombie Apocalypse.
10Thirty five of the top evolutionary psychologists tell Satoshi Kanazawa to go fuck himself (well, in academic form at least). PZ Myers, however, is a bit more explicit.
15Catholics denounce Conservative Deceit. These heretics will be excommunicated by Andy Schlafly as soon as he hears about it.
7The internet gets its own currency. I was into it before it was popular.
13The official retracted and totally denied position of the US Government is that Fox News "blathers" too much.
12Skippy envisions the morning after Saturday's Rapture.
11Johann Hari: Heaven: A fool's paradise
9Wegman-gate update: I didn't plagiarize nothin'! It was all my student's fault!
6Beware the creeping Sharia...actually, not really.
8The Wegman Report takes a further beating.
11Australia is planning to ban 1,000s of plants that contain natural DMT... including their national flower.
10How the recent commodities crash is making hyperinflation scare-mongerers look even dumber.
6How the military trained "spy crows" to catch Osama.
13Weird Homeopathy - Saturn. Appears to get you seriously stoned.
8Anthony Watts continues to be the most useful global warming denier, yet again debunking his own claims.
13Do you think your own brand of alternative medicine won't stand up to new Advertising Standards Authority regulations? Just play the race card.
7Besides the facepalming stupidity of fart based smartphone applications, one of the few real lessons we learned from The Apprentice challenge to built an app was that people will try anything if it's free - though speaking of Lord Sugar and internet technology, anyone own any of the these?
10Research in memory may lead to new treatments for PTSD, as well as ethical questions.
7The neocon/liberal-interventionist alliance, or How I stopped worrying and learned to love the military–industrial complex.
4Daniel Larison on the inconsistent approach to "humanitarian" war in Libya.
6Krugman continues his work calling out the Very Serious People.
9Top 10 scientific zingers
9A new Duke University study finds further dangers of fracking.
9Raising taxes and the debt ceiling is just like the Holocaust! Time for a corollary to Godwin's Law?
7Mikey Weinstein: The Moonie-owned Washington Times has got no business criticizing "fringe ideas" in religion.
11The reason we reason: not to get the right answer, but to convince that other chimp to give you the fruit.
8The Inner Party was right: War is peace! Coming up: Why 2 + 2 = 5.
6Most new WP editors are editing in Good Faith... I wonder what the chart looks like for CP?
10This GOP pre-debate rally brought to you by the John Birch Society and the Oath Keepers
9What do the anti-vaxers actually want? Their aims are political and legal - we need science, but it's not enough.
11Universities electing their own MPs using AV, rotten boroughs with no actual constituents, and a system that wasn't really worked out until 1950. The voting system that Cameron is fighting for is a veritable novelty.
11The 10 key myths about Osama bin Laden
11Now would be a good time for the U.S. to tell the Saudis where to shove their human rights abuses, etc.
17The winger reaction to Osama's death is as remarkably consistent as it was for Egypt: How can we attack Obama with this? He didn't get OBL fast enough! He took too much credit! Ad infinitum ad nauseam...
8SkepticalScience has been running a good series dismantling the arguments of "lukewarmer" climatologist Richard Lindzen: The Lindzen Illusion, Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3. Update: Pt. 4 is out
9Christopher Monckton is socking up.
10Five bizarre GOP reactions to OBL's death. UPDATE: And from a quickly forming group of conspiracy theorists led by Andrew Breitbart comes reaction number 6. To paraphrase Mark Twain, "the story of OBL's death may be greatly exaggerated."
9Get ready for new bin Laden conspiracy theories
18The guy who live-blogged the bin Laden raid... without realizing it.
19Indians who wish to volunteer as translators for the Missionaries of Charity are often turned away, for two reasons: (1) they speak the language, so they might try to actually treat the patients; (2) they are more prone to be nosy and ask stupid questions such as, "What are you doing with all your money?"
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