RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/November 2008
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[edit] November 2008
| 1 | One of longer versions of the YouTube video "Did You Know?" ("Shift happens." Not that Dubya and his ilk care.) |
| 2 | "War on Christmas," meet "War on Thanksgiving." |
| 6 | The next time some well-meaning relative sends around a chain-letter about the latest Evil Librul Plot, send them this: Talking Turkey: Ten Myths Conservatives Believe About Progressives. |
| 4 | Why "academic freedom" doesn't require equal time for affirmatively wrong schools of thought. |
| 5 | Barack Obama: Communist, Muslim, or just an agent of the Borg Collective? |
| 1 | Per the Wall Street Journal, secularists are to blame for America's economic collapse. Atheists are the new Jews!! |
| 3 | What's to blame for the GOP's horrific defeat in the recent election? According to Phyllis Schlafly, kids with self-esteem and women who don't want to return to their abusive husbands. |
| 5 | Did talk radio kill conservatism? Nate Silver reflects on an interview with a conservative pundit and considers how, somewhere along the line, conservatism became more about shouting your opponent down than convincing him. Points to ponder on Conservapedia day. |
| 1 | Two takes on the question of why the Democrats won (or, why the Republicans lost): in laying the blame on the economy, Bill Kristol misses the point, while Obama, in moving to the center, gets it. |
| 2 | Ahhhh PUMAs - the Conservapedia of the center-right. Listen to PUMAs defend their narrative of how Obama stole the primary from Hillary, in one of the most hilarious hours of radio... ever. |
| 1 | No matter what you might be thinking after Obama's election, racism is not dead. |
| 1 | Sarah Palin: she's a uniter, not a divider. Or at least she thinks so. |
| 2 | British faith healer dies after refusing medical attention, and being prescribed honey for gangrene by a homeopathist. |
| 2 | The Lay Scientist is offering slots for occasional guest bloggers. (self promotion warning) |
| 2 | Someone at Weird Universe reads us! |
| 5 | "My Witchdoctor Stole My Election Donations": Witchcraft, Religion and Nigerian Oil. |
| 1 | We haz teh stupid an' we cain't intelecshooly figer stuff out no more. |
| 1 | Are we allowed to joke about Obama? Maybe, maybe not. |
| 1 | With domestic |
| 3 | They say that a neat desk and an uncluttered house are signs of a disordered mind. Here's proof. |
| 2 | U.S. News and World Report senior writer Michael Barone tells a room full of academics that the "liberal media" was against Sarah Palin because she didn't abort her |
| 3 | The Republican defeat narrative: it's John McCain's fault. Under the bus with you! |
| 3 | Gay marriage is not the same as polygamy. |
| 3 | What's conservative talk radio look like during an Obama presidency? Does all that bluster about unlimited executive power translate to the new administration? Hint: no. |
| 4 | The New Yorker examined the issue of unwed teenaged fundies who get pregnant. Abstinence-only education -- which has an interesting "30 percent" side effect -- is only part of a broader, problematic mindset. |
| 8 | Sarah Palin, like creationists, thinks that disagreeing with her is tantamount to censorship |