RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/September 2009
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| 7 | BREAKING NEWS: Democratic congressman finally grows some balls and goes on the offensive against Republican efforts to derail health care reform. |
| 5 | Meet Perimeter, also known as Dead Hand, the Soviet Union's (semi) automated nuclear retaliation system that would activate in the event of a surprise attack. Sleep well. |
| 1 | A new book claims that the 9/11 Commission was given false information by the Bush Administration. The book isn't getting any press coverage, which would be expected if it were written by just another 9/11 conspiracy theorist. However, this book was written by the Senior Council of the 9/11 Commission (a Republican). Currently, the book is being supported by the 9/11 Commission Chairman (also a Republican) and at least one member of the Commission (a Democrat). |
| 2 | Another film misrepresents the scientists interviewed for it, this time, on the subject of HIV denial. |
| 1 | Are Recent AIDS Vaccine Claims Seriously Flawed? |
| 8 | Kirk Cameron makes a prat of himself. |
| 2 | The cultural side of the culture war. |
| 3 | Will the "culture war" that the righties have obsessed about -- War on Christmas, War on the Flag, etc. -- become an actual shooting war? |
| 1 | Speaking of pre-existing conditions, the American health care debate is overlooking the most prominent of all pre-existing conditions: America's obesity epidemic. |
| 4 | To the list of pre-existing conditions that American insurance companies have used to deny coverage -- e.g., acne, broken bones -- eight states allow one other condition: spousal abuse. There would be nine states, but Arkansas passed a law prohibiting this in April. |
| 0 | An alternative medicine we can all appreciate. |
| 0 | Are the Stars and Bars Racist? |
| 2 | Love makes people think creatively. Lust makes people think analytically. LSD makes people think like Utne Reader bloggers. |
| 3 | The party that opposes state healthcare in the US is the same party that Supports it in Iraq. Hypocrisy much? |
| 6 | It is actually the apolitical nature of Obama's speech to school children that the wingnuts fear most. |
| 2 | Urban low wage earners in America are often cheated out of bonuses, overtime, etc. (Not that their rural counterparts fare much better.) |