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[edit] May 2012
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![]() ![]() ![]() | 0 | Justin Bieber will go. He will vanish and shrink. Jesus is more popular than him now. We don't know which will go first — pop music or Christianity. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | Kansas has passed a law that makes it legal for doctors to refuse to fill birth control prescriptions. Critics say that under the law, a doctor could also refuse to treat a pregnant woman for cancer if the treatment could cause a miscarriage. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | Now it is not just the "moonbats" saying that Dubya is a war criminal; the matter has been decided by a Malaysian court that apparently decided to give itself jurisdiction in the matter. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 2 | Greece creates another caretaker government after parties can't decide on anything, and the day of reckoning will occur in June. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | The Pentagon paid $150 million each for this crap? |
[edit] Earlier entries
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Faux News blames the increase in support for same-sex marriages on... public schools. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Want to stop the spread of AIDS? Make the women shave their heads and bathe less. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | You know the meme about "Ceiling cat is always watching? Well, substitute "pastor" for "ceiling cat" and you've got it. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | After a 2008 car accident left a 71-year-old man paralyzed, doctors managed to bypass the damaged nerves through surgery. While he was able to move his arm, he had still lost the ability to pinch and grab with his fingers... until now. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Supreme Court to issue a ruling on if pumping someone with 50,000V of electricity is police brutality. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | Norway disestablishes its state-funded church. Secularists, always happy to sling broadsides at their best friends in lieu of grappling with an actual adversary, rejoice. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Hey, Texas kills another innocent! Rick Perry now seriously considering a death lottery as a means to sate citizens' bloodlust |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Paul Cameron says that because Obama supports gay marriage, he must also be gay. Oh yes, and all gays should be locked up, before they rape children. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 29 | In Lexington, Kentucky, two lesbians are barred from their school prom, so the students hold a better one in the car park. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Nevada issues a driver's license to a car. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | The stupid continues to burn above the 49th parallel. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Somewhere, I hope, someone is telling Romney: You can take yer approval ratings and shove 'em straight up yer ass! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Ron Paul announces he will no longer campaign (citing lack of money); but still wants his followers to vote for him |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -5 | The dark history of Mothers' Day. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Arrrrr, ye mateys! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Trekkies going too far? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Romney goes to a certain institution of -- AHEM! -- "higher learning" to deliver the commencement address. (BTW, he used the opportunity to double-down on his anti-gay marriage stance. It's a one-liner about halfway through the speech which you can read here.) Since LU was founded by Jerry Falwell, it should come as no surprise that it is so fundamentalist Christian that the curricula of two required courses teach that Mormonism is a cult. And many of the students believe that so whole-heartedly that they remain pissed off that the school invited a cultist to deliver the speech even after Jerry Junior told them weeks ago to get over it. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 44 | Fundie school forfeits state championship, rather than play against a girl. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Read the fine print, 2012 apocalypse proponents! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Missing - 1 Bow Shock: Please return to Sol if found. IBEX starts probing |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | All glory to |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Joe "Sheriffs are all powerful"" Arpaio is sued by the Justice Department over civil rights abuses. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Mitt Romney was, of course, a violent gaybasher at school. But it's okay! After initially denying it, he now says "if anybody was hurt by that or offended by that I apologize". |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 72 | President Obama declares his support for marriage equality. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -1 | Ron Paul gets a new campaign theme song... courtesy of "Pokemon." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 34 | Teabaggers call for armed revolution if Obama wins again. So much for democracy. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | North Carolina takes a step further back from Equal Rights, banning official non Male-Female relationships. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | The Obama Administration turns a surplus for their first month. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Fuck, fuck, fuck. Update: Oh no. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Three years on, can al-Qaeda improve on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's underwear bomb and get it working? Nope. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | After greenhouse gas emissions declined by 1.5% in 2009, they increased by 5.8% in 2010. Thanks economic recovery! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Introducing the 100% effective, reversible male birth control. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | "We think it's a good idea to spend $30 billion because...er...yes! Put an extra 'very' in there. That will get them off our backs." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Le nain a perdu. Je répète, le nain a perdu. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Democratic congressman: We should respect nonbelievers. But they don't really exist! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | Kathryn Rogers flies for free then? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | The Prosperity Gospel works for some people at least. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | The beginning of the end. I'm not a crook! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 1 | Remember the Sedsuden movement from the to-do list? It's going to go one step further: Japan will try to survive the summer without any nuclear power. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Cautious optimism... |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Rand Paul has an actually thoroughly good idea for the first time in his life: scrap the TSA. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | 'Billboards in Chicago paid for by The Heartland Institute point out that some of the world’s most notorious criminals say they “still believe in global warming”' |
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![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Suddenly those kiddies' programs I used to watch make far more sense... |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Porn vs. religious internet sites -- can you guess which type Symantec says is by far the riskiest to click on? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Barack Obama might be the first President to have his early sex life detailed while still in office (well, with the exception of Bill, but that was an in-House relationship). In the words of one NPR commenter, "I will hazard the observation that the contrast with Shrub could not be starker." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Afghan woman flees home and finds refuge from an "honor killing" among the U.S. Military |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 1 | Prison personnel being laid off? Replace them with dog-wolf hybrids |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | The World Trade Center quietly reclaims the New York skyline. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Ouch. Not a time to be a Murdoch. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 33 | Any Stephen King fans out there? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | "But it's from Berkeley! They're all a bunch of godless sodomites!" |
[edit] April 2012
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | A top Romney campaign adviser tries to give Romney credit for the GM and Chrysler bailouts. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Zach Wahls (this guy) to appear on the Daily Show tonight. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Some billionaires want to mine asteroids. Others want to unironically recreate the subject of one of the worst maritime disasters in human history. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Hello, Great (x1000000000) Grandpa! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | *hysterically shakes American RationalWikians* Don't tell me you've been dealing with shit like this for three fucking decades. 2015, why can't you come any sooner? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Egypt may or may not be considering allowing husbands to have sex with their dead wives. [1] [2] |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | Seriously, this needs to stop. Now. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Century old tenet of physics overturned: Light is affected, under the right conditions, by magnetism. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Thanks for the 5% tax decrease, Dave! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Premier Wen, with great difficulty, I have escaped. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | For the first time, a federal commission in the U.S. has ruled that trans people are protected from employment discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Now we wait for a Supreme Court case and/or ENDA... |
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![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | UKIP leader Nigel Farage makes some comments regarding |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | And we have found our first candidate for Stopped Clock of the Year. Update: This was just before Harpo pulled yet another Godwin, sparking more Twitter hashtag lulz. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | CISPA manages to do what SOPA didn't - pass the House. Veto time, Obama? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Trump demands Scotland not build "ugly, noisy and dangerous" wind turbines, fearing they will ruin the view from his golf course. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Newt throws in the towel. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | After a five year trial, Charles Taylor is found guilty of war crimes. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Connecticut to abolish capital punishment shortly, California to ask its citizens in November. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 36 | Whoa, Libya, when we asked for secular values in the Middle East, we didn't mean making the GOP look like a fucking jihadist group. Update: The Muslim Brotherhood's response - "We are a nationalist party and Islam is our religion. This law is unacceptable and only suits liberals." Problem bro? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Spain re-enters recession, though not in a way you might expect from countries like Greece. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | It seems Santorum has brushed on too many people in Pennsylvania. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Remember, not everyone in the world is a total jerk: donations to the Samaritans, in the name of the woman who died in the London Marathon, exceed |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Several big |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Reports of a Wildrose majority were greatly exaggerated. Alberta abstains from officially joining Jesusland. For now. Update: The two best tweets of the night. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Scientists from 67 countries call to ban all commercial fishing in the Arctic. One psychopath stands in the way. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | And Jon Huntsman gets kicked out of the Republican Party in 3...2...1... |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Fatal equation: one Easter Passion play + zero safety checks + many inattentive onlookers = one dead actor. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Geir Haarde, the man who left Iceland begging for survival, is given a slap on the wrist. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Another day, another North Korean war threat |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Houston to put TSA agents on its buses to conduct random interviews and bag searches. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | It is officially legal to abort a fetus without a brain in Brazil. "Pro-lifers" protest, presumably drawing on experiences with pet rocks. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -9 | Sweden says hello to Diana Moon Glampers: "Ironically, in the effort to free Swedish children from so-called normative behavior, gender-neutral proponents are also subjecting them to a whole set of new rules and new norms as certain forms of play become taboo [and] language becomes regulated." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Geert Wilders singlehandedly brings down the Dutch government by holding up austerity measures. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | US nuns fight the power. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | 2012 LSEA repeal effort fails, but by a narrower margin than last year. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | RUBBER CHICKEN 2012. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | You know who else tried to get women health care? Hitler. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Skepticon trolling the theists. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | And now, the day before his birthday, HuffPo brings you two entries for the Godwin almanac: Central Illinois bishop claims President Obama is on "a similar path" as You-Know-Who and Stalin; and West Virginia Republican senate candidate says that requiring restaurants to put "no smoking" signs on the front doors is like requiring Jews to wear Stars of David on their lapels. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | A Taliban officer learns about the concept of wanted posters the hard way. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Being the "least terrible" candidate may win you the nomination, but it doesn't mean you're likable. Especially if you've got the worst favorability ratings of any major-party nominee in decades. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -10 | Louisiana moves closer to allowing guns on college campuses. [3] |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -1 | Dick Clark dies of heart attack at age 82. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Oregonians who use faith healing to "treat" their sick children are learning that the state means business when it comes to its new child abuse law that is aimed at curbing this psycho horseshit practice. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Man at Oregon airport sets off nitrate detector, strips naked to prove he isn't carrying a bomb. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -1 | This is why we worship Mighty Lord Jerboa... and some other mangy beast. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | Need some sausage & mash? Why not nip to the cab rank and pick up a lady godiva[4]? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 0 | The (racist) cake is a lie! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Beware of Anders Behring Breivik's fellow travelers. "They are neo-conservatives. They are Christian evangelicals. They are hardline racists. They are football hooligans. They are nationalists. They are populists. They are hardline Zionists. They are former leftists. The 'counter-jihad' movement comes in all shapes and sizes but they are united in a common loathing of Islam." And here we thought the phrase "fellow traveler" went out with McCarthy. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Sexual orientation reprogrammed by a stroke? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Now we can add Earthquakes to the things Fracking bring us. It's fracking bullshit. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | The space shuttle goes out in style. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -8 | FIFA institutes video review |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 2 | Racist cranks absorbed by racist cranks[5] |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Twitter has a picture of the Taj Mahal on its homepage. English Defence League leader Stephen Lennon cites this as another example of creeping sharia, starting a comedy Twitter trend in the process. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Lord Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury, argues that British Christians are being persecuted, driven underground and "framed by homosexual activists". |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -11 | Socialist Obama! *shakes fist* |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | If you can't beat 'em, pose as 'em. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Nobel Prize winner, Chairman of the Elders, one of the most respected men worldwide, but we don't want you to talk here because you're not pro-life! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -18 | North Korea doesn't actually lie to their people concerning their rocket test. Up if you think it's progress, down if you think they couldn't really cover it up. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | I am not a Nazi Polka! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Physics professor successfully fights ticket with knowledge of physics |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Kirk Cameron's child-star peers rip him a new one. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Just because the Shuttle program has ended, doesn't mean NASA aren't covering up UFO stories. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | North Korea finds out that it is rocket science. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Not from The Onion: Tennessee Senate warns hand-holding is a 'gateway sexual activity' |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Arseholes not allowed a bus advert |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Author of Leading Ex-Gay Study Admits Findings Were Flawed |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Male congressmen being inundated with handmade vaginas. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Even Republicans don't want to be in Afghanistan anymore. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Tennessee takes a giant leap into the darkages as the anti-evolution "Monkey Bill" becomes law. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | A recent study links low-effort thought with political conservatism. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Zimmerman to be charged. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Remember a few years ago, when "tsunami" was just a word in a book? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Could anybody have seen this coming? Frothy is suspending his campaign! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | No psychiatric care for you. |
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![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | They keep playing that one note. Anti-Evolution ‘Monkey Bill’ Poised To Become Law In Tennessee. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | I knew it all along! Heavy metal killed Jesus! That's why we have Easter! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | If you repeat a lie often enough, it will become the truth. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Haggard's Law: Scientifically Confirmed. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 1 | 100 internets if you resist reading this in Palpatine's voice. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | John Derbyshire leaves his dog-whistle at home in his latest racist rant and gets fired from the National Review. (See also a fisking by Angry Black Lady.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Project Steve tops 1200 signatures. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act; because privacy on the Internet is dead, remember? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Christmas: Gifts, carols and decorated trees. Easter and Good Friday: Colored eggs, chocolate bunnies and batshit crazy fools reenacting the Passion. Here's a more Life of Brian-ish photo. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Why you shouldn't date a feminist, by America's leading Lady Against Women. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Those lovely folk at Focus on the Family say that anti-bullying laws are a threat to their religious freedom. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Fluffy! One-ton fuzzy theropod dinosaurs once roamed the earth! How adorably terrifying and extinct! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | If you couldn't love Sweden any further: Metro asks why children there enjoy Easter. In translation... |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | U.S. drone attacks inside Pakistan were supposed to be secret from their start in 2004 until President Obama announced them in 2009. Too bad MADE IN USA was printed on the missiles. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | What we knew all along: Conservatives' Trust of Science Hits All Time Low |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Jim Marshall unplugs for the last time |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Watch out, we're dealing with a badass here. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | This is why I like having Barack Obama in the White House: President meets Nichelle Nichols, both give the Vulcan hand salute. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Alas, the Republicans have finally entered Canada with a clone of Caribou Barbie. Why should you be shitting bricks? She will have near-full control of the US/Canadian oil supply if elected Premier. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | The end of the internet as we know it (at least of Arizonans)? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Ann Romney: "Unzip him and let the real Mitt Romney out." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 1 | But... but Tunisia, Libya and Egypt were supposed to be the one we should be afraid off! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Miss Universe Canada reverses its prior trans rights fail. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | So much for abstinence education... |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Mitt Romney: Obama wants to establish a hair color called "bald". |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | First there was #TellVicEverything, now a certain Brit has spawned a sequel. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Science and best practices be damned, in AZ, women may soon be defined as pregnant 2 weeks before conception. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | We can now confirm that the Supreme Court is completely off the rails. (and no, not talking about Obamacare) |
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![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | Syria: The next Libya? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | A Catholic priest forgets the golden rule of giving a Power Point presentation: Make sure the presentation is up, and your gay porn folder is properly closed before switching on the projector. (He remembered to ask the kiddies for their money, though.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Pro-life terrorism in Wisconsin |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | More sudden outbreaks of common sense: Tunisia shows the middle finger to Sharia. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Unbelievable that people are surprised by this. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Thanks Dave! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Veteran dissident Aung San Suu Kyi appears to have won her seat in a by- election in Burma. Will the country's repressive military regime recognise this victory? |


