RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/April 2012

April 2012
We should force people to look at aborted foetuses, because slavery. And next in the Telegraph's vendetta against witchcraft: "So it seems there are now two kinds of witchcraft: the bad kind that black people believe in, and the kind that should be celebrated because it is believed in by Cornish people. " Answers in Genesis responds, line by line, to an email. Daily Mail: Ban online porn! - Just don't look at all the scantily-clad and/or objectified women in the right hand column of the Mail Online site, all there in the open for the little kiddies to see. Rightwingers insecure about their masculinity open a new front in the Culture War: Equestria.

Birtherism goes to a whole new level of crazy. Natural News: Why would the FDA raid a place proffering something as dangerous effective as ozone therapy? It's the Medical Mafia, of course! Wingnut Daily: [http://www.wnd.com/2012/04/fast-and-furious-exposes-explosive-scandal/ Why won't the lamestream media cover our manufactured outrage, dammit?! ($$Oh, and buy the book from our superstore!$$)] Wente logic: Sentence 1: "Liberals are almost exclusively concerned with harm and fairness." Sentence 2: "...they see society as composed of autonomous individuals who should be free to satisfy their wants and needs as they see fit." It would appear that autism and shrinking bee populations have a common cause: chemicals such as toxic metals. "National Petroleum Public Radio" has joined most environmental groups in selling out to the oil industry, as shown by an article in which they spiel oil industry propaganda about "fracking." Some say that the article is actually about problems with fracking; but they're all trolls in the pay of the oil companies. It is "racist war propaganda" to suggest that the cleric leader of a theocratic state might, for religious reasons, behave differently from the lay leaders of a secular democratic state. My green is greener than your green! And besides, the Green movement is all about Lenin! Wait... A Tennessee university states that campus groups’ leadership requirements can no longer discriminate on race, faith, gender or sexual orientation. To fundies, this means that men can lead sororities or Muslims can lead Bible studies. Congratulations, you've siphoned $10 million from the US economy without winning a single state! What will you spend it on? Faux News is becoming too left leaning. <vote poll=clog2232 closed="yes">Celebrating Earth Day? Then you're a filthy commie!

<vote poll=clog2231 closed="yes">David Cameron is No True Christian because he isn't abusing his position to give Christians political and social dominance over all other faiths and non-faiths. <vote poll=clog2230 closed="yes">And into the to-do list we go, Wente. <vote poll=clog2229 closed="yes">Why is Nicolas Sarkozy disliked so much by the French electorate? It depends. Arguing that "80 to 95% of journalists are on the left or far-left" won't give you points for objectivity, though. <vote poll=clog2228 closed="yes">Does the Disco 'Tute actually understand what Douglas Adams was talking about? <vote poll=clog2227 closed="yes">Coulter: [http://www.wnd.com/2012/04/negroes-with-guns/ A guy shot an innocent black kid. WELL THE DEMOCRATS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR SLAVERY!] <vote poll=clog2226 closed="yes">Teaching Paganism and Druidism in schools? How dare they teach something I don't believe in! <vote poll=clog2225 closed="yes">A complicated array of political views, upbringing and social conditions, cumulating in delusional paranoia and an increasing hatred of out-groups? Nah video games dunnit. <vote poll=clog2224 closed="yes">The agony of trying to rationalize with a woman who has never read a single science textbook in her entire life. <vote poll=clog2223 closed="yes">Woman Rapes Man #firstworldproblems <vote poll=clog2222 closed="yes">Child: "Help Jesus, my parents are doing drugs!" Christian Apologist: "Stop whining about trivial details like that and thank God for his hard work!"

<vote poll=clog2221 closed="yes">It's easy to refute the entire contents of RW's atheism FAQ: "No, because God, that's why". <vote poll=clog2220 closed="yes">Not only is Santa Claus real, he spends the rest of the year "singing" prose poems about the horrors of a godless world to the tune of stock Christmas music! Really. (Of course, this is an improvement on his past history of violence toward heretics.)

<vote poll=clog2219 closed="yes">A somewhat overextended metaphor: an Uncommon Descent blogger challenges Zack Kopplin to a poker game. Apparently, the fact that two of his Nobel Prize winning signatories don't think 'Darwinism' can explain everything...means that he loses two cards? <vote poll=clog2218 closed="yes">Stop persecuting Christians... or... or... or else!! <vote poll=clog2217 closed="yes">Celebrate Subversive Science! Throw away all that predictability and affinity with constituted power and alter your consciousness, just like that denialist crank eminent biochemist, Kary Mullis. Tools that have been used by such subversive scientists in the past include hashish, laughing gas, and LSD. <vote poll=clog2216 closed="yes"> The difference between the Right and "the Wrong and the Left" in chart form! <vote poll=clog2215 closed="yes">Donald Trump hops off the birther bandwagon and onto the anti-vax bandwagon. <vote poll=clog2214 closed="yes">Look out, lieberal media! There's a new Conservative Teen magazine about to hit shelves! Possibly. If you order a copy for print-on-demand and then hit your shelf with it. <vote poll=clog2213 closed="yes">David Coppedge, the creationist suing NASA for discriminatory dismissal, has submitted his legal brief. It is ... [http://ncse.com/webfm_send/1685? bizarre.] (Transcript, commentary.)