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[edit] May 2012

5Fuck you, I'm going to find a private school...what? Fifty grand a year?!!
8Only 85% of Americans believe in some form of creationism. What are evolution denialists doing wrong? (self promotion warning)
1Conclusions in the social sciences are not reliable like those in the physical sciences, because "while the physical sciences produce many detailed and precise predictions, the social sciences do not."
8Weekly Standard writer uses a meme ("Al Gore invented the internet.") while disparaging the concept of memes.
10Snark - it works, bitches.
2Needs more explosions.
-9Now do this to the Beliebers and you might have a social network.
13All is not well in those big, happy families.
8Socialism, socialism, socialism. Socialism? Socialism! Socialism...
9Good morning!
208 ways Christian fundamentalists create atheists
12Godwin is on our side for once.
6EA = Wal-Mart 2.0
2Is everyone ready for another Bush v. Gore?
5A webcomic offers something philosophers of ethics may need to consider.
8Climate deniers are branching out to new forms of denialism.
9The Stridency and Sensitivity of Carl Sagan (on why Dawkins is getting more flak than Sagan)
2Who sells this bumper sticker? Everybody at RW will probably want to buy a dozen. And this one too.
24Sascha Baron Cohen as The Dictator gets it. Note: Link taken down by copyright claims.
1TED slides further into corporatism.
22030 - Oxygen tanks and frozen corpses to be seen from orbit
11Maybe everything will go alright in Europe after all.
10Anti-vaxxers think that whooping cough is nothing. They'd be wrong. Again (self promotion warning)
32"The Conservative Fantasy History of Civil Rights". Or as the photo caption puts it, "Ronald Reagan, Strom Thurmond, and other civil rights heroes. Not pictured: black people."
18If 1,200 emails can convince the Arizona Secretary of State to investigate Obama's origins, does this mean enough signatures can get him to investigate anything?
7Try not to wince.
10Oklahoma courts set an interesting precedent.
25Futurama does what it does best - explain the entirety of US politics in less than a minute.
10Over fifteen years and a ridiculous amount of blockbusters on, can Will Smith shake off the shackles of The Fresh Prince? He can not. (BONUS: He does his thing at 1:50. BEST CHAT SHOW EVER.)
11Polls shows America still has its head up its ass about global warming
13Karma: It works, bitches.
1[1] A pretty balanced, non-tl;dr version of what's happening in Greece.
7As the first riding gets null and void, Sacha Baron Cohen General Aladeen praises our good ol' Canadian friend.
-19Apple is fucked.
6Want to pray before you have sex? The Catholics have a prayer for that.
2A case of some actual exaggeration about global warming.
2Interesting list of Daily Mail fans around here...
10Meryl Dorey drinks water to cure whooping cough. Calls it quantum medicine.
-4Eh? Zombies invade British Columbia.
8Scalzi's take on white male privilege
25Tesla > Edison
25The inevitable Heartland Institute parody billboards.
14Just wait for the first Madame President...
10Religiosity versus societal dysfunction in the US. Religiosity is a symptom of failure.
6It seems that some people are concerned that Mitt Romney didn't get the memo informing him that the Cold War ended 21 years ago. (As an aside, it seems that some people in Hollywood also didn't get the memo. And WTF! North Korea? Really?)
7Producing very expensive urine does not cure cancer
8Website: Would Jesus Discriminate?
6Create RationalWiki Gilbert and Sullivan troupe in 3, 2, 1...
6Bottled water facts(Warning: Poe's Law in action!)
16Republicans, meet vaginas.
46Shortest evolution debate ever?
-22Meet the New Communism, same as the Old Communism.
16Nina Strohminger (psychology grad student at University of Michigan) doesn't often rip a Colin McGinn book apart. But when she does...
7Presidential nomination tip: never let an Antarctic-based aquatic bird attack you, presumably for denying global warming.
16Indeed. Global warming and warming caused by windmills are different. Duh.
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