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[edit] May 2013
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![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | If the mountain won't come to the Mohammedan, then... |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Survey finds Christianity in the UK is declining 50% faster than originally thought and 1 in 10 under-25s is Muslim. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | We're totally not Nazis, we swear! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | George Takei responds to anti-gay marriage protestors. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | And the calamity in Syria isn't going to end anytime soon. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrew Weaver is elected in BC, representing the Green Party (sorry Tim!) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Is the Vatican about to stop worshipping Mammon and actually spend some of its filthy lucre on helping the poor? [1] |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -5 | Your local government at work, part umpteen. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | The FSM doesn't want us to see his tentacle-work on an Earth Analogue, and nixes the Kepler observatory |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | And the creationists rejoiced, for Darwin was wrong! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -5 | Joe Biden allegedly favours the idea of an extra tax on violent video games. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Everybody drink! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Today on Fox: The OECD is full of communists! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Obama fires the IRS commissioner. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Second time in a week: U.S. military official in charge of preventing sexual abuse gets charged with sexual abuse. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Abercrombie & Fitch don't like "uncool" and "unattractive" people wearing their clothes? - Give them to the homeless! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | Brazil's National Council of Justice votes with a 14-1 majority in favour of gay marriage, arguing that since same-sex marriage is already legal in some jurisdictions, it cannot be denied in others. According to Wikipedia this means that gay marriage is now legal in all of Brazil, while other sources say that it still may or has to go before the Supreme Court and/or Congress. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | In other news, reactionaries everywhere are assholes |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | North Carolina moves to ban sale of the Tesla cars to 'prevent unfair competition'. This would extend to both physical dealers and online sales. Note that Texas already puts heavy restrictions on in person salesmen in their state, but does allow online purchase. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | For the math geeks: About 2300 years ago, Euclid hypothesized that there are an infinite number of "twin prime" numbers -- prime numbers that differ by a value of 2, such as 3 and 5, 17 and 19, 2,003,663,613x2195,000-1 and 2,003,663,613x2195,000+1, et cetera. Euclid's hypothesis hasn't been proven yet, but a mathematician has just published proof that there are an infinite number of prime numbers that differ from each other by a value of no more than 70,000,000, which actually narrows down the range by a considerable amount. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Republicans: Benghazi is worst scandal ever! Uuuuhh... Where is Benghazi? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | This has an uncanny resemblance to Republican's "outreach program" when skeletons in the closet are being dug up. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Ever notice how quiet it goes when the murdering bastard in question is one of ours? BONUS QUESTION: How many times does the "liberal leftie" BBC tell us who sponsored the fucker? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | Japan is now the new home for political batshittery. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | The findings of an 11 year study of 83,000 American men ages 45 to 69, conducted by Kaiser Permanente on the risks of tobacco smoking versus marijuana smoking with regards to contracting bladder cancer: "Cannabis use only was associated with a 45 percent reduction in bladder cancer incidence, and tobacco use only was associated with a 52 percent increase in bladder cancer." (Emphasis added) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | Another State joins the 21st century: Minnesota Senate approves marriage equality; governor will sign. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | And this is why medical clinics need to be inspected. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | US Department of Justice engages in "massive and unprecedented intrusion" of AP phone records. Update: Technology was always the issue, or so they think. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | A movie theatre in Missouri decides to have actors with fake guns storm an Iron Man 3 screening on the weekend. Someone calls 911, police respond to what they believe is an active shooter situation. No injuries, fortunately. (h/t to BoingBoing) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | FBI investigates Saudi student seen carrying a pressure cooker; it contained rice |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 33 | Transgender marriage allowed in Hong Kong. [2] |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Two years after the apocalypse, Harold Camping's Family Radio still exists—but maybe not for much longer. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Snapchat, the social media sharing service that lets you send photos that will automatically delete themselves so you can share your kinky nude shots without them being spread around, doesn't. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | 17 wounded as gunmen open fire on a New Orleans Mother's Day parade. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | John McCain can't make up his mind on Benghazi. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | House Republicans have voted in favor of ending overtime pay, in favor of more days off. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Do we need gun control via 3D printer control? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Of course it's just microevolution. I mean it's still a fish. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | That guy with three teenaged girls locked in his basement? Amateur. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | In case you've been living under a rock and haven't seen the viral video of a student standing up to a teacher over lacklustre teaching methods, here it is. The real news story is that not only has the student not been sanctioned, but the district is actually investigating the teacher to see if she's competent. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | And the latest thing that Midas Harper touched and turned to shit is... the National Research Council! (And that's what happens when you leave a country's scientific direction to a creationist.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | 400 ppm. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | Outsourcing services to the private sector is more efficient and saves money. Now, with that right-wing mantra in mind, here's a case where an outsourced, privately contracted translator refuses to turn up to a court hearing because they wouldn't make enough money for it to be worth it. Update: Not only was this kind of thing seen coming a year ago, it's been happening the whole time, and it's been well-understood that the outsourcing program has produced strings of failures. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 33 | The dominoes continue to fall. Philadelphia's mayor just signed into law the most expansive LGBT rights and benefits program in the country. Nevada is (slowly) heading towards overturning and completely reversing its ban on same-sex marriage. Illinois' governor is pushing the state House to give him the damn bill to sign already. Meanwhile, the emoting turns up to eleven from someone on the wrong side of history in Minnesota. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | In non-gun news, CERN has discovered pear-shaped atomic nuclei. It's a tricky situation to orange in the lab, but the peachy-keen scientists' mouths were agrape when the data came in. These puns are berry bad, I know. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Today's "accidental shooting death by toddlers playing with guns" incident is brought to you by Texas, where a two-year-old shot himself in the head with his father's loaded pistol when dad turned away for a moment. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Sidewalk chalk is not a crime. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | USians - meet your members of the Congressional Science Committee who have no understanding of science. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | The Heritage Foundation goes from Beltway crank magnetism to all-out eugenics. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Minnesota will be the 12th state to pass gay marriage. Bachmann's response will be glorious. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Tesla museum is GO! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Congressman has a raffle giveaway for the same model of rifle used to slaughter 20 children in Newtown, with the slogan "Grab this gun before Obama does!" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Meet Saudi Arabia's first female lawyer. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | It's strange to hear a female barrister suggesting that the law should be changed to accomodate old men with pedophilic tendencies. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | NH rep Stella Tremblay isn't done being an attention whore yet. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | Stephen Hawking is boycotting the Presidential Conference in Jerusalem due to the Israel-Palestine conflict. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Cops visited Cleveland kidnapper-captor Ariel Castro's dungeon-house three times in the last ten years and left when nobody answered, unaware of the three women bound in ropes and chain inside. This is the same police dept that held an unauthorized 59-vehicle police chase in which 137 shots were fired and two unarmed people were killed. That's some fine work, boys. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | The only thing worse than banning a YouTube video, is banning a YouTube video of David Bowie harshly criticizing the Catholic Church. Enjoy the Streisand.(Alternate link) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Disney and Pixar are working on a movie inspired by Mexico's traditional Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) holiday, so naturally, Disney tried to trademark it for themselves. They backed off after loud public outcry made them realize how insane that was. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Member of a Christian heavy metal band is arrested for attempting to hire a hitman on his wife. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Sometimes, the headline is enough: Deadly giant snail found in Houston |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | The Internet is down in Syria. Update: State media - "Oh, it was just a fault in the optical fibre cables!" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Laugh-inducing hypocrisy thy name is Wayne LaPierre. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Time to start hiking the trail again...and right back into court! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Obama announces "End of concessions" to North Korea whenever it starts trying to threaten war |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 38 | Delaware becomes the eleventh U.S. state to legalize same sex marriage. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Rick Perry's advice to the Boy Scouts of America on a Family Research Council webcast: Oppose "gay pop culture" like Sam Houston opposed slavery. Okay, in two weeks teh gheys have been compared to cheaters, smokers and now slavers. What's next? UPDATE: Pat Robertson answers the "what's next" with "rapists, thieves, and murderers". |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | In predominantly Muslim Indonesia, non-Muslim children are routinely taken from their parents so that they may receive some "education" that they can (attempt to) pass on to the folks back home. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | "A generation of untrained scientists" in New York and New Jersey... and across the United States. |
[edit] Earlier entries
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | File under "I can't possibly see what could go wrong". |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Those missing women in Cleveland that were found? Sylvia Browne previously said one of them was dead. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | American Air Force official in charge of preventing sexual assault, well, you can guess where it goes from here. Update: Arguably, this really isn't all that remarkable. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Three Ohio women were rescued from a Cleveland house where they'd been kidnapped and held for about a decade. Bonus: The neighbour who helped rescue one of the three and called 911 gives an interview that ends up getting way too real for the local news. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | The NRA adds a three year old lifetime member (and outdoes a joke from The Simpsons) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Eugenie Scott to retire from the NCSE. Anyone up to try to fill those shoes? Anyone? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -2 | In case you somehow thought we were living in a just society, here's a reminder that Congress gets free airport parking and you don't. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland is threatening to excommunicate Taoiseach Enda Kenny for trying to pass well-needed abortion laws. His response is for the win. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 1 | An elementary school's cafeteria in New York has been America's first 100% vegetarian public school for five months, with great results. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | High school track team wins relay, one member points to the sky to thank divine intervention...and the entire team is disqualified from the next round on grounds of "excessive celebration"...in Texas?! What?! Update: It wasn't a religious gesture. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | Rich 20-something in Mexico walks into a packed trendy cafe, is unable to get the exact table she wants. She has a tantrum and makes a phone call to her daddy. Daddy is the attorney general of consumer protection and has the place immediately shut down on bogus infractions. The Streisand effect kicked in, the story quickly went to Twitter, and you can guess the rest. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | A former Mayor and councillor of a Greater London borough passed unpopular, strict parking laws. Caught by a citizen recording him while he was illegally parked in a loading bay, he decided that the best decision was to assault her. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | NH State Rep Stella Tremblay, Tea Party member, birther, and fucking idiot. Not content, she doubles down by JAQing off about one of the bombing victims supposedly faking a double amputation. After everyone goes after her for her disgusting insensitivity, she issues an apology, and then goes onto Boston radio to continue JAQing off about his "suspect" injuries. Bonus: She doesn't want the FBI investigating it, but an "unbiased" group like Sheriff Joe Arpaio's cold case posse! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Solar powered plane to cross the United States. As of this writing, it is in Phoenix, Arizona. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Another nasty episode of the UK's Colonial past comes back to haunt it. [3] |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | The rest of us agree, but would add the word "off". |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | So, a new principal takes over at a failing school, and fires all the security guards and uses the money to reopen the arts wing. Three years later, that school is one of the most improved in the state. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Niall Ferguson has launched off the deep end... for real this time. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | The opponents of a proposed New Jersey law that would ban reparative therapy have come up with a new tactic. Nickname it (unofficially) the "Jerry Sandusky Victimization Act" after the child molesting former assistant football coach at Penn State. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Fucking pricks vote in fucking scumbag |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Teen arrested for science experiment gone wrong |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 38 | Muslim taxi driver is assaulted and called a terrorist in his own cab. The reality? He's an Iraq vet. Naturally, the assailant's a chickenhawk to boot. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | JPMorgan can't outrun the consequences forever. However, the punishments mentioned in the artcle are "fines" and "reprimands", because those always work. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Howard Kurtz gets fired for not knowing how to read. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Same-sex marriage legalized in Rhode Island, with a 56-15 vote, set to be implemented in August. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | After being held hostage for seven weeks by Somali pirates, a merchant naval captain gives talk to Women's Institute about his ordeal and is then asked to pick the best-dressed pirate. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 51 | Former Green Bay Packer LeRoy Butler was scheduled to give a lecture at a local church on Tuesday night. Butler's presentation was cancelled after he tweeted congratulations to Jason Collins for coming out of the closet. The pastor told Butler that he would only be allowed to give his presentation if he retracted the tweet and asked Gawd for forgiveness. The subject of that night's discussion? Bullying. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | Marvin the Martian imperils plane |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 30 | Homosexual civil unions in Colorado are now legal and celebrated. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Atoms star in smallest ever film |
[edit] April 2013
![]() ![]() ![]() | 35 | Five (FIVE!) year old, given gun as gift, shoots and kills 2 year old sister. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Bonkers UK councillor hopeful says feminism is evil, gay rights activists are termites, education should be about obedience, and strenous physical activity prevents gayness. Considering he clearly hasn't been watching gay porn, I think we can rule out Haggard's Law this time. Good luck in the election tomorrow, champ! UPDATE Tough luck, old chap. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | A reparative therapy camp leader in South Africa is on trial for killing 3 gay teens and torturing more over several years. Meanwhile, the Bachmanns are probably thinking "Damn, why didn't we think of that?" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Who doesn't like stem cell research now? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 2 | Obama to send "Lethal Weapons" to Syrian rebels, and he doesn't mean Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Steve, we can't just keep re-editing your article once a week. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Iran arrests thousands of men for claiming to be a fake messiah. Insert Life of Brian joke here. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Dear Austrian supermarket, please don't call yourself "Common Sense" and then do this. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Republic of Ireland to legalise (limited) abortion. |
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![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Diary of Anne Frank "too pornographic" for middle school students. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Another Republican gets caught out; acts like a petulant asshat in response. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Time for more conservative butthurt. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Flat screens are just so noughties. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 36 | Out of the closet, onto the hard court. UPDATE: A Breitbart editor does his best to launch the blowback on behalf of the right-wing noise machine. UPDATE 2: ESPN's Chris Broussard doubles down: "I would not characterize [Collins] as a Christian." UPDATE 3: The parents of Matthew Shepard feel honored that Collins chose his uniform number (98) to memorialize their son's 1998 murder. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Somebody still doesn't know what blowback means. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Time to write an article on Lamar "I Don't Understand the Nature of Research Grants" Smith. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Mother makes her 13 year old accept a role as her artificially inseminated babymaker. Nice. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 33 | Jenny, it's all a conspiracy against you! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | RINO Alert! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | 9/11 landing gear appears to have been found |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | America's answer to school shootings, part deux: bulletproof whiteboards. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | America's answer to school shootings: bulletproof school uniforms. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 36 | "Were you there?" is the correct answer to this school test's question, "The next time someone says the Earth is billions of years old, what can you say?" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | The price of our cheap clothing. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | After almost twenty years of the bill languishing without a vote, Rhode Island is now extremely likely to pass same-sex marriage, which would bring the number of states that allow it into the double digits. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | SOPA II is about to die. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Smartest person in the entire family. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Michele Bachmann's ethical problems worsen, which results in her running away from the media. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Dinner pictures. You're doing it right. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 36 | Police threaten woman with eviction for "too many" domestic violence reports. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Britain, France, and Israel claim repeated use of chemical weapons in Syria. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Body of student falsely accused of Boston attacks possibly found Update: Confirmed, police say no foul play involved |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Suspect in Canadian terror case bullet proof defense? The Criminal Code of Canada is not a holy book and should not apply to me. You use that defense good sir! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Canadian woman has marker put on her US Customs and Borders Service file. Her crime? Having condoms and traveling with a married man [4]. Follow-up from her [5] |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Ireland's coalition government: "How about we get women wanting an abortion to have panel-based counselling from six to a dozen doctors?" The minister for children and the college of psychiatry: "How about no?" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | People on US Terror Watch Lists can still buy guns. Of course, no one seems concerned about the arbitrary "enemies list" the US Government has... |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | NASA (accidentally?) drew a penis on the surface of Mars. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Bret Easton Ellis, The gay author of American Psycho, has been banned from attending GLAAD's Media Awards night on the grounds that "the gay community" responded negatively to his Tweets. Meanwhile, the guest host is that guy who instituted DADT and DOMA. For an extra punch in the gut, head to the comments section and watch them become gradually more and more homophobic with worrying upvote distribution. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | French parliament passes law allowing same-sex marriage. 331 votes for and 225 against. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | The ricin letter charges against Elvis impersonator and conspiracy theorist Paul Curtis have been dropped. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Bitcoin advocates burst into tears as Ron Paul says he isn't a fan. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | Bomber in Boston Marathon attack cites the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts as source of grievance against the US (according to The Washington Post and its mysterious sources). |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Dear idiots: prayer doesn't work. You might have figured that out by now. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Republican representative Dennis Johnson, of Oklahoma, uses the phrase "Jew me down" on the House floor. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Sorry Sam and Ann: An imam just helped the Mounties prevent an Al Qaeda-inspired terrorist attack in Canada. |
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![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | How about the Higgs Englert Gurainik Kibble Brout Hagen Particle? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Serbia and Kosovo sign a historic agreement. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Another disturbing ethical oil statistic: Alberta, which consists of only 10% of Canuckistan's population, now contributes to half the country's AGW emissions. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 30 | Attention Cranks: this is how academia works |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 29 | Apparently 10 seconds on Google is too hard for a number of people, forcing the Czech Republic's embassy to clear things up |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Meet Ruslan "Badass" Tsarni. UPDATE: It's over, final suspect in custody. One seriously fucked up week. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 35 | Paul LePage, the Republican Governor of Maine, believes that windmill generators are actually "powered" with electricity when no wind is blowing to convince people clean energy works. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Meanwhile in Michigan, a church minister who has two prior convictions for attacking women is convicted of killing his fiance's 24-year-old daughter because he was jonesing for some necrophilia. Memo to churches: (1. BACKGROUND CHECKS, dammit! 2. If you did a background check and hired him anyway, this is why they included 1 Timothy 3:1-16 in that book you're always shoving in everybody's faces.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Advertising Standards Authority has to tell a quack that you can't claim sitting in a cave will cure asthma. (HT Quackometer.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Second bombing in a week in Iraq, with a death toll nine times higher than the Boston Marathon bombing |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Android app is developed to help the population of Iceland (300,000) avoid accidental incest.[No, not The Onion] |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Well, this is disappointing: more coal power plants are being installed than renewable ones. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | The guy who sent the ricin letters is apparently a nutcase. And an Elvis impersonator. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | US Senate (y'know, the one the Dems control) rejects gun background checks. |
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![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | First a Mississippi Senator, now a package containing ricin just got sent to Obama. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 49 | Wait for it, wait for it… New Zealand set to pass gay marriage. (Live stream.) Update: bill passes with 77 votes for to 44 against - and the chamber breaks out in song. Update II: Conservatives Chris Auchinvole and Maurice Willaimson deliver the awesome. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | A Dutch company is now accepting applications for a 2023 one-way colonisation trip to Mars, which will be filmed for a reality TV show. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Baby, I want to hike the Appalachian Trail again! I don't care if Colbert's sister beats me! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | A nonpartisan review confirms everything we already know. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Kickstarter rejects all manner of sane pledge drives, but accepts a pledge drive for an anti-gravity device from someone who rejects mere current physics and compares himself to Copernicus. Here's the paper ... on viXra. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Belief in an angry God correlates with poor mental health. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | You're too handsome to live in Saudi Arabia. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | The Harper machine is beginning to fray at the edges. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | How dare you ask me not to be an autocrat! Jail for you! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Two explosions at Boston marathon. Update: The NY Post brings the lies and islamophobia. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | Someone put the von Mises Institute on suicide watch. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | It appears a combination of prayer and inhuman treatment cures mental illness (If you're a wing nut) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | "It's as though the Tories have fingerpainted 'FUCK OFF AND DIE' on Parliament in heavy crude." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Good news: Same-sex marriage in Ireland is headed to referendum in 2014 after being cleared by the constitutional convention: 100 votes break down as 79 yes, 18 no, 1 abstain, 2 spoiled. Better news: said referendum looks set to be a landslide. The writing is on the wall, and it spells "Equality". (clip of in-house announcement here.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | The Bitcoin network uses 982 megawatt-hours a day just computing hashes. That would power 31,000 American homes or half a Large Hadron Collider. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Look what you just did, Kim. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Thought racial segregation was a thing of the past? Think again. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | The callous, dishonest bastard strikes again, only to have the Dept. of Health tell him to fuck off. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Ireland's constitutional convention starts discussing same-sex marriage today, and voting to clear it for referendum tomorrow. Links to live stream, timetables (in PDFs) and where the clips will be archived all here. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Welcome to North Carolina. Papers, please. And none of that |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Hi, my name is Joe Oliver, and now I will show you why I shouldn't be in charge of Canada's natural resources. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Liz II: You do know that the Queen didn't die, right? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Senator Feinstein blames video games for mass violence. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Don't even think about speeding in Dubai |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | Is North Korea trolling us? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | It was inevitable. (It's actually topped the UK iTunes chart, too) UPDATE: The sound of free speech |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Looks like Mars might be a quicker trip than we thought. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | During a committee hearing, Joe Barton actually said the following for the record: "I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy." |
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![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | A non-US gun tragedy: 13 people killed in a shooting spree in Serbia. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | April 9: Bitcoin is soaring! April 10: Maybe not... |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Russian parliament moves ahead on |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | France is finally going to get gay marriage. Update: And Uruguay! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | In Texas, a community college student stabs 14 people before being wrestled to the ground by two other students. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Today's US gun tragedy is brought to you by New Jersey, where a four-year-old shot a six-year-old in the head. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Blue Angels and Thunderbirds grounded by sequestration. *cough* the Washington Monument tactic *cough* If only they flew F-35s... |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Rather than tackle any kind of actual issue, Oklahoma's house is busy making it perfectly clear they hate marriage equality to send a message to the Supreme Court. 84 vote in favour of a "one man one woman" affirmation, every democrat in favour of gay marriage walks away. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Putting the "Vice" in "Vice-Mayor" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Those lovable loonies from Westboro Baptist Church get set to picket Roger Ebert's funeral. Start taking bets on the possibility of Ebert rising from his coffin just to tell Steve Drain all of his videos are shit. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Evolution can work much faster than previously thought? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | As one of Pinochet's friends passes away, one of his victims is exhumed |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 40 | It would appear that "the ethical treatment of animals" includes the slaughter of nearly 2700 house pets per year. "...[I]n the last 11 years, PETA has killed 29,426 dogs, cats, rabbits, and other domestic animals." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Florida woman finds "sign from God" on Goldfish cracker. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 54 | Margaret Thatcher is dead. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | You will be pleased to note that the Vatican does not seem to consider torrenting movies to violate "thou shalt not steal". |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | WikiLeaks unleashes the motherlode on Henry Kissinger: 2 million classified US documents from 1973-1976, five times the size of Cablegate. Have fun! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | The US makes a smart military decision. Hard to think the Bush Administration would've played it this way. Update: Start laughing. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Fucking Andrew Wakefield rears his scaly head once more. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Fuck the Establishment Clause |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Fundamentalist Muslims in the hundreds of thousands from Bangladesh: "Hang atheists for hurting our feelings over the internet! Update: Bangladesh's PM: Fuck off. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | "Millionaires are raking in unemployment benefits." The number of unemployment claims for US households earning more than $1 million jumped 44% in 2009-10. (Considering how often right-wingers call working class people on the dole "leeches," it's kinda heartwarming to read the comment section and see them jumping to the defense of all these rich people sucking on the public teat.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | "It's time to redraw the map of the world during the reign of the dinosaurs." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | Brooklyn judge declares birther "delusional", fines him $177K. In other news, Terry Hurlbut explodes. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | North Korea declares that it can't guarantee the safety of British diplomats after 10 April, in the event of war. Update: Warns all embassies. Update II: A SK official actually predicted this beforehand. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | Cameron, the minute you turn into a Blair clone is the minute your government will fall. Remember that. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 29 | The Human Rights Campaign shows its uglier, appearance-obsessed side once more. Last I checked, immigrants and transgender people are humans too. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Rest in peace, Roger Ebert. You will be missed. UPDATE: The official obituary posted to his blog Update II: The Onion's obituary for Ebert, that manages to be both classy, and The Onion, at the same time. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | The US military discovers $900 million worth of misplaced equipment that it originally lost due to "accounting error." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Not April Fools: Apple's text messaging system is effectively PATRIOT Act-proof. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Suddenly the US debt outlook doesn't look so bad. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Virginia Attorney General and Gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli wants to ban consensual oral and anal sex. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Got Bitcoins? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Enbridge: Shit, Obama's serious about rejecting Keystone. What are we going to do? Alberta: Carbon...taxes? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | HIV vaccine possible? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 33 | RationalWiki thrilled as North Carolina seeks to declare an "official state religion", because mocking Texas gets boring after a while. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Public Policy Polling surveys belief in conspiracy theories, finds 4% of the US thinks the lizard people are real. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Iain M Banks: less than a year to live! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | With a kid spouting rhetoric like that, someone's trying to impress Westboro Baptist Church... |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | North Korea is currently denying entry into the Kaesong Industrial Park. We could be in all-out war within days. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Brain mapping proposed by Obama Will this bring out the cranks? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | ...they didn't call her Sleipnir? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | The scientific establishment lets down Henrietta Lacks again. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Georgian Republican senator: We need, uh, to stop gay marriage because, um, um, um, only gay people are the ones who'll get married just for legal benefits! Wait, what? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Where the hell were you for the past three years? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Lech Walesa, |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -9 | Try out Google Nose |


