RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/November 2013

November 2013
Mike "Asshole" Huckabee. In a wonderful display of "karma is a bitch," Bob "Chop off gays' heads" Mugabe's son comes out the closet. [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/25/no-obama-s-iran-deal-was-not-a-munich-style-surrender.html Make concessions? "Munich." Remove sanctions in exchange for temporary dismantling and international oversight? "Munich." Squeeze them till the pips squeak? "Munich." Bomb their enrichment facilities? "Munich." Nuke Tehran? "That's what we're talking about!"] The FDA has ordered Google-backed genetic test maker 23andMe to halt sales of its personalized DNA test kits So it turns out that organizing Libertarians is difficult. We still need scientists to appear on Question Time A rational look at how the myth of historical Sunni and Shia conflict was manufactured Wu Tang Clan explains the Big Bang. A world where anti-biotics no longer work......is here already! LG Smart TV caught collecting data on files stored on connected USB Drives I was wrong. (138-page book PDF) Andrew Sullivan admits to being wrong over Iraq War Qatar's brutal treatment of migrant labour Alex Gabriel takes on Pat Condell about British Muslims' attitude towards gays. The comments are gonna be fun, especially if it attracts the attention of Condell. *opens popcorn* Sisters, sisters, There were never such devoted sisters. The Cheney girls go public Meanwhile, on Egyptian TV: Somebody dared criticise the military, nobody understands what atheism is, and politics continues to infect sport. America's angriest white men: Up close with racism, rage and Southern supremacy <vote poll=blog3358 closed="yes">Remember that couple a couple years back who refused to reveal their child's sex? Here's an update on what raising a kid outside the gender binary might look like. <vote poll=blog3357 closed="yes">Oh yeah, let the anti-vaxxer have a important job in the VRBPAC. This won't possibly go wrong for anyone. <vote poll=blog3356 closed="yes">'Because' has become a preposition, because grammar. <vote poll=blog3355 closed="yes">Two weeks ago, in a case that many have compared to that of Trayvon Martin, Renisha McBride was shot in Detroit. Today, the police charged someone in her death. <vote poll=blog3354 closed="yes">"It is the same condescending populism, the same aggressively dumb, harshly divisive message that has become the playbook for the right generally in this country, in all its contempt for learning, its disdain for facts, its disrespect of convention and debasing of standards." The GOP: Our hero! <vote poll=blog3353 closed="yes">Why don't vaccine deniers worry about kids dying from gunshots, car accidents, and suicide? Instead, they lie about vaccines which may have caused 1-2 deaths over the past 20 years. <vote poll=blog3352 closed="yes">Obama's Harvard professor calls his administration a "disaster". <vote poll=blog3351 closed="yes">"(David) Barton is still, inexplicably, trusted by many conservative evangelicals. He has himself built his reputation on twisting and misrepresenting historical documents for ideological and propagandist purposes," says an official of the Southern Baptist Convention. He also calls Barton's debasement of history "satanic." <vote poll=blog3350 closed="yes">'“The sky is falling,” said Chicken Little. “Heard it on Fox TV.”' <vote poll=blog3349 closed="yes">Why the Tea Party can't govern. <vote poll=blog3348 closed="yes">Toys Are Us has a message for you: Shopping > Science <vote poll=blog3347 closed="yes">Wanted to post this a few weeks back, but it was hidden behind a paywall. Ben MacIntyre speaks against anti-Roma hatred Absolutely superb <vote poll=blog3346 closed="yes">[http://gizmodo.com/what-happens-when-you-throw-lego-bricks-into-a-washer-f-1462463889 Lego? SCIENCE!] <vote poll=blog3345 closed="yes">Worst magazine sex advice ever. <vote poll=blog3344 closed="yes">How Ice-9 almost became reality but didn't because science works.

<vote poll=blog3342 closed="yes">Well, it turns out the people you disagree with are probably not stupid. It's merely a clash of irreconcilable worldviews as a result of your (likely) upbringing.