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<vote poll=blog1177>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/myriam-miedzian/capitalism-uber-alles-how_1_b_775495.html "Capitalism Uber Alles: How the American Working Class Got Brainwashed."]</vote>
 
<vote poll=blog1176>[http://www.slate.com/id/2272419/ A "Who's Who" of the Tea Party]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr0ZyMPFJeU "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.]</vote>
 
<vote poll=blog1176>[http://www.slate.com/id/2272419/ A "Who's Who" of the Tea Party]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr0ZyMPFJeU "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.]</vote>
 
<vote poll=blog1175>The Tea Party: [http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/10/25/toxic-brew/ "One of the biggest exercises in false consciousness the world has ever seen."]</vote>
 
<vote poll=blog1175>The Tea Party: [http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/10/25/toxic-brew/ "One of the biggest exercises in false consciousness the world has ever seen."]</vote>

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October 2010

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17"Capitalism Uber Alles: How the American Working Class Got Brainwashed."
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8A "Who's Who" of the Tea Party. "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
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13The Tea Party: "One of the biggest exercises in false consciousness the world has ever seen."
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13Via The Onion: Democrats: 'If We're Gonna Lose, Let's Go Down Running Away From Every Legislative Accomplishment We've Made'
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28Homeopathy: Is There Nothing In It Worldwide? After the FDA warn of "inconsistent amounts of belladonna" in homeopathic remedies for children, can people still assume homeopathy is safe (as well as being useless)?
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4Robert Fisk: There has been a mass exodus of Christians from Muslim lands lately. Fisk pretends not to know why, but he does know that it is not the result of some "mythic" East-West clash.
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0It's time for skeptics to stop preaching to the converted.
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37Weird Homeopathy - Neptunium. Homeopaths attempt a double blind/placebo controlled study and conclude...the effect of the active pills somehow leaked out of their bottles into the placebo pills.
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4To illustrate how far down the road to Crackpotville Glenn Beck has gone, on the 22nd he added a new (but old) book to his show's reading list. That's right. Beck is recommending the 1952 screed Secrets of the Federal Reserve by anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist Eustace Mullins. Now that's Fair and Balanced!
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7A 568-word explanation of the historical reasons for the First Amendment's separation of church and state; one that is so to-the-point that you might assume even Christine O'Donnell could understand it -- until you read some of the comments. (The first one was so nasty that it was deleted.)
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6Could you go 24 hours without communications technology, networking, and the media?
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7Slide show: Many Americans think that fossil fuels come from dinosaurs (and/or uranium), and that climate change is beneficial.
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12The Official US Irony Meter, located in an undisclosed mountain root somewhere in the Rockies, in a room lined with lead 8 feet thick, explodes. The USIM was built to withstand a load of 3,000,000 kilofers!
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10It helped that they [Gerald Ford and Bob Dole] came to Washington as young military veterans, survivors of a war against an implacable enemy. They knew the difference between the Nazis, who were truly evil, and the Democrats, who were simply fellow Americans with different political beliefs.
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28XKCD uses economics to disprove some woo
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31Weird Homeopathy - A love potion called 'Tempesta'. Created by putting an empty bottle outside during a thunderstorm.
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20More stats from OKCupid, this time gay vs straight sex
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7Prof. Najam Haider explains that Sharia is not an immutable law, but a flexible way of thinking that changes with circumstance. (Rather like how Christians interpret the proscription against women wearing men's clothing; not that that's ever stopped fundamentalists railing against women wearing pants.)
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9"I Ate A Bowl of Soup, and Now I'm Muslim!" A Muslim reflects on some anti-halal paranoia. (In a completely unrelated development, pork has been off the menu at Church's Chicken for five years now.)
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0Jacob Weisberg: Whatever can the right-wingers possibly mean by "elitism"? (Hint, Mr. Weisberg: the meaning in question has been around almost 100 years.)
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-8That noted Buddhist big-shot, the Dalai Lama, is preaching several Billy Graham-scale sermons at the University of Minnesota. Please tell us why the ACLU is not suing someone's socks off on First Amendment grounds?
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6Barack Obama Sr. wasn't quite the radical anti-colonialist that Distort D'Newsa thinks he was.
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6Don't worry RationalWiki; if you're going to throw a cow over a logo change, you're not alone.
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-1Although the Founding Fathers were political revolutionaries, they were social right wingers. (It's no surprise that they would oppose divorce and non-marital sex, but children's games and fashion too? Perhaps that explains why the Tea Party movement is so enamored with them.)
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-13A vegetarian heard a story about a McDonald's hamburger that lasted for 12 years without rotting. To test this, she bought a Happy Meal on April 10. Six months later, the food has hardened without rotting.
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9British conservatives are a lot saner than American conservatives.
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6Media Channel, the news website that watches the media, is in trouble and could shut down.
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0A new iPhone app called "Pic Bubbler" demonstrates the cognitive tricks our brains can play on us. By placing "bubble-shaped" windows over photographs of people wearing revealing clothes like halter tops, swimsuits or underwear, the app makes those people appear nude.
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13A new study from Iowa State University shows why parents should make their children stop bullying others: When they become adults, childhood bullies are more likely to have sociopathic personality traits, are at greater risk of being homeless, and are more likely to physically attack others. A copy of this story is posted here.
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8In 1840, Joseph Smith is believed to have delivered the "White Horse Prophesy" wherein he said that when the Constitution hangs "upon a single thread," the elders of the Mormon Church will step in -- on the proverbial white horse -- to save the country. In the earliest days of his Fox News show, Mormon convert Glenn Beck and lifelong Mormon Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) both claimed that the Constitution was now hanging by a thread. Coincidence, or code words intended to go over the heads of Beck's non-Mormon viewers?
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15Journalist Matt Taibbi makes fun of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and their assertion that Obama won the election via mass hypnosis.
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16A teabagging group comes out in favor of... being cruel to puppies.
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11Dating website OKCupid analysed half a million of their members' postings and ran some interesting analysis. Most if it is race-based, but the part you RW'ers want is at the bottom of the article, where they found that people who take their atheism seriously read and write better than any other religious group.
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37The list of straight kids who were bullied by gays and lesbians until they felt they had no other option but to end their lives.
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5A different take on The Social Network: Many techies believe it is "the biggest culmination yet of old media's disdain and misreading of new media." I.e., Hollywood is trying to prove that "the internet is not a revolution, but the creation of a few odd machine-men -- it's the revenge on the revenge of the nerds."

September 2010

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13"We defend it not because these ideas are particularly worthy of being protected, but because all ideas, even the most loathsome, are."
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45Twitter Joke Trial: a layman journalist’s view. Paul Chambers was prosecuted for joking on Twitter that he planned to "blow an airport sky high" if they didn't deal with their snow problem. This blog post is about the appeal and a layman's view from the court room.
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5Race and ethnicity in the United States, in black and white red and blue.
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5"Junkets for Jesus": Regarding how the "Fellowship Foundation" -- aka, "The Family" -- sends bible-thumping members of Congress around the world to proselytize despotic rulers of mineral-rich third-world countries because the separation of church and state "doesn't extend overseas."
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9Thrilling: all the crazy Christine you can barely handle on one page.
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0BBC: The poor U.S. government was powerless to stop that awful blasphemy deep offensiveness in Florida, because Americans, in a gross violation of people's dignity, have >ugh!< free speech.
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3We don't need no stinkin' opera; let's blow the money on mass delusions of grandeur for our kids instead of giving them inspiration.
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24This is a news website article about a scientific paper.
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7Just released: The 2009 list of books that were the "most challenged" in America.
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2P.Z. Myers on the folly of modern people venerating ancient scriptures because of their perceived historical and societal importance.
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19A remarkably accurate mapping of European stereotypes.
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12The right-wing media kick up a fuss over porn in fertility clinics (because twenty quid a year on smut is so totally breaking the bank...). But wait! Evidence suggests that it actually helps stimulate sperm count, which is the entire point.
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16The Huffington Post calls them "The Most Ridiculous Anti-Obama Bumper Stickers". It could also be called "A Typical Day at Conservapedia".
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10A recent survey shows that most Americans (a) vastly underestimate wealth disparity in the US, and (b) would rather live in a country where the distribution of wealth resembles that of (gasp!) SWEDEN!!!!!
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5"The History Of What Things Cost In America: 1776 to Today."
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10Another piece opposing "Don't Ask Don't Tell". Standard piece except for the wonderful sentence, "Oh, no, once you have openly gay soldiers, next thing you know, the Republican party will be running witches for the Senate!"
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15Possibly the greatest quote mine ever; Obama stated that taxes will go up for everyone... or did he?
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40Skepticism *is* making a difference
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51Complaining to the Advertising Standards Authority about the British Homeopathic Association. UPDATE: A response has been received from Advertising Standards Authority. Seems they agree that the BHA leaflet "contains material that is likely to be problematic".
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14In 1998, Christine O'Donnell appeared on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. She claimed that she never lies because that's disrespectful to the person you're lying to. Then Eddie Izzard asked her a pointed follow-up question, and her response was...um...well...hmmm...
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6Sex and death lie at the poisoned heart of religion.
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5Seth Godin: This is broken
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23PalMD vs. PZ Myers. FIGHT!
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10Is it Censorship or "I've got your back"? Google Instant automatically blanks out many (but not all) searches for NSFW content; e.g., "Playboy", "penis" and "vagina".
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10They are apparently handing out master's degrees in communication very, uh, liberally these days, as evidenced in this video: MY NAME IS PHIL DAVISON!!! AND I'M SEEKING OUR PARTY'S NOMINATION FOR THE POSITION OF STAR COUNTY TREASURER!!! And if he runs for president, we might get to witness spontaneous human combustion during one of his debates.
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32Quack Busting Resources.
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19Thanks to Dan Savage and da Google, Rick Santorum has a bit of an image problem. He'd like to run for president, but whenever someone Googles his name, two or the first three results are the Wikipedia page about the neologism "Santorum"; and a website dedicated to, um, further plumbing the depths of this new term.
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10Haley Barbour of Mississippi thinks that southern Republicans embraced integration. Eugene Robinson "Not a word of this is true."
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2David Korten: Why do economists not understand the difference between "phantom wealth" and "real wealth", thus allowing capitalist culture to glorify the Seven Deadly Sins? (Uh, that would be because they've heard it all before...)
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5Religious freedom is not tolerance.
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10American employers aren't meaner than their European counterparts; American employees lack backbone unions.
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14The Dick Wars continue with a taxonomy of skeptical dickery Hat tip. For fun, you can try to identify in which categories fall your fellow RationalWikians.
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8Got half an hour? A Treatise on Morality that's well-spoken.
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10Charlie Brooker on the fun of language and buzzwords.

August 2010

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20Once a skeptic, always a skeptic
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11Is the Birther Movement 2.0 in the works? And will the knuckleheads behind this new effort be called "Baptismers"?
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11The Intelligent Gestation Institute challenges the Theory of Pregnancy. Not strictly speaking a blog, but quoted in full on Pharyngula.
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14You may never have heard of them, but their combined wealth almost challenges Bill Gates, and they're bankrolling the Tea Party
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25Wow. Homeopaths can carry antimatter around in a vial: Weird Homeopathy - Positronium
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4PZ Myers: Being a dick (probably) saved my life
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24Weird Homeopathy - made from a shipwreck
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21The unscientific method of homeopathic proving.
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13Charlie Brooker sums up the absurdity of the "Ground Zero Mosque" in two sentences: I once had a poo in a pub about two minutes' walk from Buckingham Palace. I was not subsequently arrested and charged with crapping directly onto the Queen's pillow.
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17The ultimate holistic remedy: homeopathic water.
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20Ten Scariest tributes to Ayn Rand.
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16This is what I think: "Traditional Marriage Perverts the Tradition of Marriage"
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16 Roger Ebert on Sarah Palin: She's just trolling now, right?
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9Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, and other members of the right wing scream machine may think that the neighborhood around Ground Zero is hallowed ground. But the strippers and gamblers who frequent the area beg to differ.
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13VIDEO: Are your holidays ruined by the spectre of socialism (public beaches, police protection, etc.)? Then take your vacation back from Big Government! Come to Somalia, the libertarian paradise that's been government free since 1991!
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3Peter Wilby: It is "undemocratic" to allow billionaires to donate to charity. (Careful, there; people might realize just what you mean by "democracy.")
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13Latest periodic table: vaccine rejectionism.
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9Who'da thunk? FDA warns consumers that drinking industrial bleach does not in fact cure asthma, Crohn's or cancer.
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10The story of a gay minor league baseball umpire who was publicly outed during a game by an irate team manager.
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10Jerusalem was dismantled here/ in England's green and pleasant land.
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4Dr. Laura, upset that African American comedians get to use the n-word on HBO, decides to use the word ten times within a five minute rant of her nationally syndicated talk radio show.
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16A message to those praying for Christopher Hitchens. Hat tip
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18What do you do when people want to keep their taxes low no matter the results? Start reverting back to 19th century-style infrastructure.
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14What happens if the Pentagon manages to nail Julian Assange? Wikileaks posts the key to this file, called "INSURANCE". In the meantime, US military are banned from looking at Wikileaks. The Taliban still can, of course.
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13If you dig Digg and you've suspected that since Obama's inauguration a lot of "diggs" have gone to rightist content while progressive content has gotten "buried," your suspicions have been confirmed. (Local interest too!)
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6An unemployed couple, who "both suffer from unspecified physical and psychological disabilities," have applied Godwin's Law to the naming of their children.
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9If you're a right winger running against Tom Tancredo, who could blame you for trying to out-batshit-crazy him?
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8Transportation Security Administration (TSA): We promise that none of the full-body security scans we do at airports will ever be stored. Never. They are discarded immediately. Honest. You can trust us. Really. Okay, maybe we store a few, but not many. Honest...
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19Where are all the sane Republicans? Boggling at the batshit gibbering lunacy of the people they find themselves sharing a party with. "I have this view that the Ninth Commandment must mean something."
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14Harry Reid's Teabagger opponent, Sharron Angle, has baffled and amused the mainstream media with this request: "Don't ask questions that you want me to answer. Ask me questions that I want to answer. Oh, and be my friend.
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32All time. Greatest. Creationist. Answer: "because DNA wasn't invented then".


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