RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/August 2013

August 2013
[http://www.catholicvote.org/same-love-aint-about-love/ "Same Love" is about gay marriage? That's such a surprise!] Of course, the real victim here is the supporters of "traditional marriage"! To top things off, she used a Neil Patrick Harris gif in the article and hoped that Eminem would make a heterosexual version of "Same Love", cause they're well known for their opposition to gay marriage. Jerome Corsi doesn't believe sex is about fun. And to be fair, you've got to think that it probably isn't for him! According to Ken Ham, storms are caused by sin, not weather. Bananaman says he'll release the unedited footage of "Evolution vs God," provided American Atheists can "convince him with a good reason to." Glenn, you do know that energy-efficient light bulbs cost you less in the long-term? We didn't know you were so anti-capitalist! More nonsense from Pat: “Gay people deliberately spread HIV/AIDS by cutting people with special rings.” Apparently, it is also illegal to talk about AIDS. Let's pay Edward Snowden's legal fund. With Bitcoins! Hitler was a bitter beta male who wouldn’t have started World War II if he’d read my pickup artist blog. (HT Manboobz.) Book your tickets for the "World Congress of Quantum Woo Medicine". At last, RenewAmerica proposes an actual mechanism by which same-sex marriage will destroy heterosexual marriage! Women will all marry each other, take all the legal privilege from men and steal their sperm. "Suppose ID wins…" You'd think a for autism would remember to spell the condition it's curing right. The customer reviews make good reading. Courtesy of arch-paleocon Thomas Fleming: "Chelsea Manning deserves to be punished like the witches at the Salem witch trials." Does he not realize that the people executed in those trials weren't actual witches? A pastor at a Salt Lake City-area (non-Mormon) megachurch takes on the prosperity gospel in general and Joel Osteen and Joyce Meyer in particular. It might have been an interesting smack-down of an even more destructive addendum layered onto an already harmful belief system. But then it quickly degenerates into the old, familiar "our batshit crazy interpretation of this batshit crazy theology is true; your batshit crazy interpretation of this batshit crazy theology is false" argument. Welfare is bad, except when I do it. Before It's News' latest "Big Government BAD Small government GOOD" article: United States Senate wants to ban certain types of tattoos and piercings. Reality, and from their own linked source: the Arkansas State Senate passed the bill. The bill's sponsor is a Republican who thinks body modification is icky. <vote poll=clog2851 closed="yes">Yeah, Ergodan, just keep pushing your country's reputation down the drain. <vote poll=clog2850 closed="yes">Ken Ham: You see, we can’t depend solely on our reasoning ability to convince skeptics. <vote poll=clog2849 closed="yes">Ermehgerd! Congress is full of commies! <vote poll=clog2848 closed="yes">If you go to the MSN homepage today (18 August) and watch their little slideshow of headlines and puff pieces, you'll see the headline "New theory counters Darwin's evolution." Click on the link, and it will take you to this video clip from the Science Channel which, from the title, you will instantly realize is actually an old, discredited theory which is being presented as "new" by a "scientist" we've heard from before. UPDATE:  Later in the day, the homepage headline was changed to "Through the Wormhole: Intelligent Design." <vote poll=clog2847 closed="yes">TIME Journalist can't wait to write a drone strike that kills Julian Assange. He has since taken the tweet down and claimed he was hit with persecution complex <vote poll=clog2846 closed="yes">No doubt the author will be this passionate about where the President was born when the Canuck Ted Cruz runs. <vote poll=clog2845 closed="yes">A Doctor of Oriental Medicine propounds a bold new taxonomy of disease: "Chinese medicine can help to make sense of most mental and physical problems in the United States and organize them into three main categories: those of chronic tension, excessive interior heat and excess weight." Also, said problems are all Reagan's fault. P.S.: One of his books is titled Avoiding Death Indefinitely. <vote poll=clog2844 closed="yes">Orson Scott Card says that Obama is preparing to arm street gangs as his stormtroopers. (Why didn't I think of that?) <vote poll=clog2843 closed="yes">George Will: [http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-obamas-unconstitutional-steps-worse-than-nixons/2013/08/14/e0bd6cb2-044a-11e3-9259-e2aafe5a5f84_story.html?hpid=z2 The POTUS is postponing the implementation of Obamacare? NIXON'S BACK!] (Arooo!) <vote poll=clog2842 closed="yes">Glenn Beck furiously demands that if you think he's a "nincompoop" you must bring him the names of people that have predicted the future better than he has. Because he'd totally accept that and admit he was wrong if you did. <vote poll=clog2841 closed="yes">Redefining terrorism so it covers Obama but not Al Qaeda. <vote poll=clog2840 closed="yes">ZOMG! Gigantic pentagram found in Kazakhstan! If you don't pay any attention to which megalomaniac regime Kazakhstan used to be a part of... <vote poll=clog2839 closed="yes">[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0dZIQZIfkg Oh, men aren't raised to hate women. Why? I totally said so!] <vote poll=clog2838 closed="yes">[http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100230115/just-when-you-thought-stephen-fry-couldnt-get-any-more-pompous-he-declares-war-on-russia-on-behalf-of-the-civilised-world/ Oooh, Stephen Fry is pompous! Time for me to be pompous!] <vote poll=clog2837 closed="yes">According to Frothy, it isn't always fun to stay shower at the YMCA, because the guy next to you might be a librul. <vote poll=clog2836 closed="yes">Chemtrail believers get the whistleblower they need to prove the conspiracy exists...(original was removed once the hoax was revealed) or perhaps not. Let the whining continue! <vote poll=clog2835 closed="yes">Because referencing the Bible to show how "racist" you aren't has worked spectacularly well in history. (Also, congratulations on banning Christmas trees in your city, because you've given the War on Christmas folks an actual enemy.) <vote poll=clog2834 closed="yes">More stupid from Stupid. <vote poll=clog2833 closed="yes">Tanya Luhrmann recommends that [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/opinion/sunday/addicted-to-prayer.html atheists should ... pray.] (This is your brain on Templeton Foundation money.) (HT Jerry Coyne.) <vote poll=clog2832 closed="yes">Britons Against Left-Wing Extremism: 275,000 Britons go missing every year. How many are being kidnapped by left-wingers and used for Satanic rituals, Hostel-like bloodsports in Ukraine, or as an alternative to animal testing? <vote poll=clog2831 closed="yes">Nicholas Cummings whines and cries about an SPLC lawsuit filed against his Jewish reparative therapy practice. Apparently, calling clients 'faggots' as you have them re-enact being sexually abused as children is "not unethical". <vote poll=clog2830 closed="yes">[http://news.google.com/news?ncl=dQiFUEEH2QzEUdM80ywk0T3mYSeLM&q=sharpton&lr=English&hl=en Everybody laugh at the racist and close friend to Neo-Nazis... criticizing someone for being racist.] <vote poll=clog2829 closed="yes">What do you do when your monopoly, which results in the highest cellphone prices worldwide, is finally at risk? Create a propaganda campaign in which you want "fairness."