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29It's Patrick Stewart, you love Patrick Stewart. If not, why not? I mean, seriously, watch it. You love Patrick Stewart.
3Religion can't stop boot-knocking.
18Immunization rates among children are falling, but not just from anti-vaccination movements.
16The White House's We The People petition to support an international treaty that would expand media accessibility to blind people is itself not accessible to blind people.
9"And at my age you’re glad of the company, so immigration doesn’t bother me. The more the merrier as long as they’re not French."
23Shedding some light on the "Hitler Loved Gun Control" Argument.
5Tea heil! The Hitler kettle is in hot water. UPDATE: Aw, they pulled it from their site!
11Tom “Female Penguins are Whores ” Martin, banned from A Voice for Men for excessive feminism?
8A one-question quiz to determine whether or not your Christian denomination should support same-sex marriage.
13The Onion calls it quits, can't keep up with the other side of Poe's Law (Yes, it is a joke....)
7The Atlantic Wire tempts Betteridge's Law on the Rob Ford crack scandal.
22A new one for the books: argumentum ad monsantium
21The Family Research Council cries "persecution!" and clearly does not know what a minority is, and the Southern Poverty Law Center has to spell out exactly why we think fundies are assholes.
24Fox News last week: The Department of Justice must prosecute journalists who leak classified information!
Fox News this week: "We will not allow a climate of press intimidation, unseen since the McCarthy era, to frighten any of us away from the truth." Oh.
14How this helps hipsters or the religious is unknown.
15Politicus USA takes a look at how quickly Congressman Tom Cole (R-OK) decided Obama was his best friend in the wake of the tornado.
13"The danger for the Republicans is that pressing the Watergate analogy could simply transform (the Obama scandals) into a farce... If they project a hungry look of vengeance, they may be the victims, not the beneficiaries, of all these problems."
18Sorry Blitz.
10"My bike, it's messed up...I fuck your mother!" "Oh really? That's so good for her, she hadn't had much of a sex life. First I thought you were angry with me and now you come with this wonderful message."
5A speculative essay of 'Murca ten years from now: "How America Became a Third World Country: The impact of sequester down the line."
20The Pirate Party of Georgia draws a line in the sand.
33The cult of "before" stories - I was a satanist, a drug dealer, a porn addict and a rapist before I came to God and became a liar.
2Now you know where those bigots come from.
8Here's one for mothers of newborns. Maybe formula isn't as bad as the pseudoscience types say. The war against natural mothering starts in 3…2…1.
15Vaccine deniers are supported by Big Pharma to improve their profits. And here's some fucking proof of the conspiracy. It only makes sense.
18"Ignoring the cost of climate change is bad business." - wait, that's not the traditional right-wing mantra, right?
-64 Things We Should Remember When Arguing About Politics
13Technology is not a barrier to sustainable energy, but we need to change our thinking.
23Conspiracy theorists are flummoxed by an actual scandal.
7Is overt racism and sexism really a good advertising strategy? "Mountain Dew Releases Arguably the Most Racist Commercial in History." If you're curious, this video commentary by the Young Turks includes the full ad within the first 70 seconds. (The ad revolves around a trash-talking goat, so it must be RW material.)
17Will the conservative old codgers of the House of Lords block same-sex marriage in the UK? Unlikely, actually. (Clogorific bonus material in the comments)
11Cracked: The 5 Most Insulting Defences of Nerd Racism
15Google releases remarkable Landsat footage of human expansion in the past 25 years. (Some commentary by Hank Green)
16Oh, my! George Takei takes the usual anti-gay / reparative therapy PSA and turns it on its head.
28The EU would like to slow down automated stock trading so that a purchased stock must be held for 500 milliseconds (1/2 second) before being resold. To illustrate the current virtually unregulated situation, a company specializing in stock-trading software has produced a video showing 500 milliseconds of the trading of a single stock, slowed down by a factor of 720.
25Stavvers: Has it been scientifically proven racists and homophobes are stupid? Er, no.
28"Why didn't she just run away?" Ten years after being rescued from her kidnappers, Elizabeth Smart tells a Johns Hopkins University audience that rape victims raised in conservative households and communities often feel worthless, like a "chewed-up piece of gum. Nobody re-chews a piece of gum. You throw it away."
18Nate Silver summarizes argumentum ad verecundiam.
9No, the DSM is not being thrown out.
16Humans: only 70% similar to chimps?
16Ken Ham commits autoparody.
27What I would say to creationists if I were was more of a dick.
16In addition to abstaining from JAQing off, you should also stop FAPing.
26From this day forward, Donald Trump will be given the title of Fuckface von Clownstick.
6According to this blogger's unnamed sources, almost every player in the NFL has a closet to go with their locker room. (Warning: Poe's Law in action!)
19Do you know what happens when people start to learn?
22We have to start questioning if wingnuts' attention to Nancy Pelosi is simply because she's just a liberal boogeywoman.
1Food buzzwords demystified, a video focusing on food labels as protected terms, most notably "organic". sadly the informative video is followed by a petition link that borders on crankery
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