RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/March 2012

March 2012
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dpmN2PH5uKg#! Best chemistry lecture ever.] How to crash websites like Reddit [http://imgur.com/a/AZLY9 Bomb it. You know you want to.] An alternate version of the "militant atheist" comic. George Takei finds and shares the "alternate" Biblical version of what happened to the dinosaurs. An interesting opinion on homeschooling and anti-scientific indoctrination in American public schools by someone who grew-up in the USSR. Randi on why magicians are scientists' best friends. An open letter to Big Oil. Any LARPers out there? You might want to check out this guy.  Ricky, please don't be so quick to concede the nomination to Romney! NOOOOO!!!!!  Legalizing prostitution? Hey, it worked in the middle ages! Someone's excited. Here's a story that needs to grow legs/wings: Mitt Romney's cousin, a former Mormon high priest, denounces the religion as a cult. Shorter headline: "Duh." Transgender rights bill up for debate next month in Canada. (Yeah, like that will pass.) AVN survey reveals vast majority are idiots. I think we have our candidate for supreme galactic overloard. Bigots: An important segment of the 2012 swing vote. <vote poll=blog2207 closed="yes">Asshole gingers. <vote poll=blog2206 closed="yes">[http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/galileo-syndrome-and-the-principle-of-exclusion/ "The chief problem, therefore, with the Galileo gambit is the failure to understand the difference between a well-established scientific law and religious dogma." 'Nuff said.] <vote poll=blog2205 closed="yes">The David Coppedge case isn't living up to the hype. <vote poll=blog2204 closed="yes">An open letter those who elected (the tea party-esque Toronto mayor) Rob Ford.

<vote poll=blog2203 closed="yes">All those crackdowns on extreme Islam going on in Europe risk making things worse. <vote poll=blog2202 closed="yes">Rush Limbaugh finally finds a sponsor that he can relate to <vote poll=blog2201 closed="yes">Filling in some of the holes from the story of Jesus' childhood. For example, #5:  "Joseph yanks Jesus’s ear as punishment for murder, and Jesus cold tells Joseph to his face, 'Don’t you know that I don’t really belong to you? Don’t make me upset.'" <vote poll=blog2200 closed="yes">Sir, welcome to the internet, where saying stupid things will always come back to bite you in the ass. <vote poll=blog2199 closed="yes">In a case regarding the Family Medical Leave Act, the U.S. Supreme Court bent over backwards just to fuck over women as much as possible. Again. <vote poll=blog2198 closed="yes">What's in a name? Well, if you call your enemy "al-Qaeda" instead of "Muslims" quite a lot, as documents from Osama Bin Laden show that Obama's rebrand of the "war on terror" really did destroy al-Qaeda's image in the eyes of Muslims. <vote poll=blog2197 closed="yes">The Daily Mash: The diet industry and the homeopathy industry meet head on in... dietopathy! <vote poll=blog2196 closed="yes">Cracked gives us a list of six new age cures that aren't quite as full of crap as we think <vote poll=blog2195 closed="yes">A surprisingly good suggestion from Margaret Wente. <vote poll=blog2194 closed="yes">Zing. <vote poll=blog2193 closed="yes">We need to get support behind THIS idea. <vote poll=blog2192 closed="yes">La Cipolla: "Do not expect us to save you from yourselves again. From what we've seen, you don't deserve it."

<vote poll=blog2191 closed="yes">Social democrats, grow some balls for a change. <vote poll=blog2190 closed="yes">In the Second World War it was "Careless Talk Costs Lives" - in the 21st century, it's careless geo-tags and an unlocked Facebook profile. <vote poll=blog2189 closed="yes">Captain Hindsight... <vote poll=blog2188 closed="yes">The Discovery Institute has a yellow streak. <vote poll=blog2187 closed="yes">The $8 billion iPod: Hollywood accounting at its finest. <vote poll=blog2186 closed="yes">In fear of American Talibanism <vote poll=blog2185 closed="yes">One of the top headlines in in the gaming world this week has been Mass Effect 3's gloriously crappy endings (see below), but something related to our mission? If you count yet another backlash by fundies, then yes. Come on Faux, you know you want to. <vote poll=blog2184 closed="yes">North American conservatism in three words: cognitive dissonance clusterfuck. <vote poll=blog2183 closed="yes">Being really disappointed with the end of Mass Effect 3, some jackass builds a time machine and lets [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b33tJx8iy0A#! the last person in history who should have found out] know about it. <vote poll=blog2182 closed="yes">Conservatives aren't any crazier now than they were 50 years ago. It's just that the liberal movement is weaker.

<vote poll=blog2180 closed="yes">Rick Santorum: "The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is." Blogger: I can see all the climate scientists running for cover – "oh no! they’re on to us!" <vote poll=blog2179 closed="yes">All Hail Charlie Brooker. <vote poll=blog2178 closed="yes">Wallpaper of the Day. <vote poll=blog2177 closed="yes">It seems Goldman Sachs is just as deluded as we thought they were. <vote poll=blog2176 closed="yes"> The National Secular Society: Christian complaints about a "crucifx ban" are not a different take on a contentious issue, simply a pack of lies <vote poll=blog2175 closed="yes">l'Oignon: Vatican Dispatches Elite Team Of Bishops To Sabotage Contraceptive Manufacturer <vote poll=blog2174 closed="yes">Sandra Fluke speaks, not about Rush Limbaugh but about the issue at hand. Bonus: wanna know how stupid people are? Read through the comments. <vote poll=blog2173 closed="yes">How I learned to stop worrying and love Anonymous. <vote poll=blog2172 closed="yes">Santorum using the same tactics as postmodern Marxist thinkers. Frothy: Oh, that's just elitist propaganda. <vote poll=blog2171 closed="yes"> Why should the state be involved in marriage at all?

<vote poll=blog2170 closed="yes"> Is it wrong to eat meat? <vote poll=blog2169 closed="yes">A brief history of religious and conservative prudes and their own relationship with smut. <vote poll=blog2168 closed="yes">Country music may be politically conservative, but it's suburban conservatism, not rural conservatism. <vote poll=blog2167 closed="yes">[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cSjO-rWMuJo#! Work it, George.] <vote poll=blog2166 closed="yes">[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/jeffrey-simpson/watching-a-once-great-party-circle-the-drain/article2363134/ Gooood. I can feel your anger. Take your weapon. Strike down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the Dark Side will be complete!] <vote poll=blog2165 closed="yes">11 Eye-Opening Highlights From a Creationist Science Textbook. <vote poll=blog2164 closed="yes">Sick of the lies and half-truths about alternative sexuality and gender? Here are some 100% true facts about queers. <vote poll=blog2163 closed="yes">Africa here we come...

<vote poll=blog2162 closed="yes">Since RationalWiki tends to focus on the extreme and the batshit crazy, I thought it would be nice to balance things up a bit and relate a story of Catholics who are actually acting like Catholics while simultaneously putting the smack down on the unreasonable. <vote poll=blog2161 closed="yes">Cracked: Six things rich people need to stop saying. <vote poll=blog2160 closed="yes">The first Legoman in space, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bluQ4eOeBwo#! now the first space shuttle.] <vote poll=blog2159 closed="yes">A Washington Post reporter blogger writes a satirical article (a l'Oignon) on Rush Limbaugh...which Rush fails to realize is satirical lambasts for poor journalism. <vote poll=blog2158 closed="yes">With all the fuss over this "Kony 2012" thing, has anyone bothered to ask an actual Ugandan for their opinion?They do actually have internet over there, you know. And considering their financial status and inability to make sure they're not posing with guns...be skeptical, people. <vote poll=blog2157 closed="yes">Michael Moore: "This race could go from dog-on-car to man-on-dog", remarks that the GOP would be doing better to speak out against meat instead of birth control.

<vote poll=blog2155 closed="yes">Libertarians: only now, at the end, do you understand... <vote poll=blog2154 closed="yes">MAD Magazine asks to guess Who said it: Mitt Romney or Mr. Burns. No Poe's Law here, because, well, the source is known. <vote poll=blog2153 closed="yes">The man that will take Carl Sagan's place in the Cosmos next year. Manly (and womanly) tears are shed. <vote poll=blog2152 closed="yes">The Onion: Voters Slowly Realizing Santorum Believes Every Deranged Word That Comes Out Of His Mouth <vote poll=blog2151 closed="yes">I've spent the past 2 days trying to convince my 16-year-old she is not a "slut". <vote poll=blog2150 closed="yes">Rush Limbaugh stands firm on his contraception and "slut" comments... until his sponsors start dropping him, so he immediately offers an apology. Michael Moore: "Who's the prostitute now, bitch?" Don Imus: "Insincere pig". <vote poll=blog2149 closed="yes">A day in the House of Lords. <vote poll=blog2148 closed="yes">The Conservative Party's attacks on its critics seem oddly familiar... <vote poll=blog2147 closed="yes">The new Friedman Unit: "The Romney"...the 3 1/2 hour window in which a grown man running for President can change his deeply-held conviction to its opposite. Also, never offer Barbara Boxer a job in stand up. <vote poll=blog2146 closed="yes">Not only is tipping still demeaning and exploitative, but there's a real possibility that the servers don't get to keep the money you give them. <vote poll=blog2145 closed="yes">As you can't sock Rush Limbaugh in the jaw without winding up in jail, here's a list of his sponsors you can sock it to, instead. UPDATE: Advertisers begin to drop Limbaugh like a hot potato.

<vote poll=blog2144 closed="yes">"Do the Republicans become the “party of God” (Hezbollah, in Arabic) or do they try once more to become the party of big business and low taxes?" <vote poll=blog2143 closed="yes">[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-february-27-2012/neil-degrasse-tyson The beginning of your program. The earth is spinning in the wrong direction]. <vote poll=blog2142 closed="yes">The newspapers seem to be quite disappointed that Richard Dawkins wasn't the militant, violent, arrogant prick they've all made him out to be - did they really expect him to punch the Archbishop of Canterbury in the face?