RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/November 2012
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[edit] November 2012
| 20 | A Fox News contributor (who formerly declared Islam to be a “messed up” religion) tells the network that its War on Christmas coverage is just as silly as atheists fussing over it. |
| 17 | Higgs Boson nominated for Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" - pretty much every sentence in the nomination has some factual inaccuracy. |
| 23 | An analogy to try to explain what it's like arguing with a pseudoscience advocate. |
| 14 | Nothing in Movement Conservatism Makes Sense Except in the Light of Creationism. "The comparison isn’t just snark–that’s just a bonus." |
| 10 | RW linking to celebrity gossip blogs? Well I never! Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith deliver important lessons on preconceived notions of what is "female" and what it means to be in charge of your own body and life. |
| 11 | Mr. 47% achieved. |
| 22 | Ten reasons why men should not be ordained. |
| 13 | We won the Cold War, so where are all the monuments? |
| 4 | Revealed! The secret pagan origins of ... Thanksgiving. |
| 8 | Not drinking wine is as bad for you as being a light smoker. |
| 24 | No, you're not entitled to your opinion. |
| 20 | The Republican War on Arithmetic, summarized. |
| 32 | Answering the 10 questions for pro-choicers. |
| 20 | Anderson. Fucking. Cooper. |
| 25 | Daily Kos on the descent of the GOP: "The GOP has changed from a party that held a few extreme positions, into one that holds nothing but." |
| 25 | The Canucks were the first to figure this out, and now the folks at Slate finally got it: Republicans got a moderate conservative into the Oval Office that Mitt could never be. |
| 20 | FOX NEWS ALERT: President imitating Internet memes while America falls off fiscal cliff! |
| 22 | The circle of death. |
| 15 | Maybe the divinely inspired book calls it "demonic possession" because it sounds more poetic than "anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis." |
| 50 | Pizza chain CEO who owns "a 40,000 square-foot mansion in a tony suburb of Louisville, Kentucky, that features several swimming pools, a private golf course and a 22-car garage among other amenities," threatens to make all of his employees part-timers in order to save the $5 to $8 million that (he says) Obamacare will cost him. He also claims that O-care will cost him between 11 and 14 cents per pizza. Forbes columnist does the math: It'll cost between 3.4 and 4.6 cents per pizza -- and, besides, the company gives away about 2 million pizzas in an annual promotion that costs between $24 and $32 million dollars. |
| 18 | One for the Mittens article. |
| 22 | Exactly why the Daily Mail is end-to-end vile shit. Alternate headline: Fuck You, Daily Mail. |
| 20 | The only hope for the pandas of politics: evolution. |
| 10 | An astoundingly useful and sensible post on Above Top Secret, of all places: The Illustrated Field Guide to Internet Kooks. |
| 22 | Onion's on a roll again. |
| 12 | Snopes: Goodbye to the Redskins Rule. |
| 10 | In other election news, Maine elects the first open WoW gamer to state senate. From the comments: "Well I sure as hell wouldn't have voted for a horde player!!" |
| 15 | A visual representation of who was accurate on the presidential election, and who wasn't. |
| 32 | The five stages of Fox News grief. |
| 15 | Welcome to Liberal America. Get over it. |
| 14 | Hey, life works in mysterious ways. |
| 15 | This is probably the point where the United States' newspaper-of-record gives the gay guy with the argentum surname a hefty raise. |
| 14 | The Onion shines again: "Nation Unsure Which Candidate's Plan To Destroy The Environment Will Create More Jobs" |
| 8 | IGN: Nearly 1/4 of registered voters are considering playing Halo 4 than casting their ballot. |
| 30 | "Barack Obama's presidency has been an inspiration to many Americans—especially nutjobs." (A list of (almost) every Obama conspiracy theory ever.) |
| 23 | The House is insanely close to having an all-black Democratic caucus and an all-white Republican caucus in the South. Zombie Lincoln arises... |
| 8 | Easiest way to usurp Iranian theocracy: start a rave. Protip: just don't adopt Israel's signature "music." |
| 8 | Ah, if conservatives only knew who Ian McKellen is. (And who the fuck are the Bieber/Twilight fans here?) |
| 18 | Artificial stupidity implemented! Mathgen paper accepted by journal. |
| 15 | Could the toppling of Bullshit Mountain be at hand? |