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

December 2013
Her Majesty the Queen of Canada needs to put her foot down and say, as they say it in Canadian, boocoo de bucques is needed to make this incident of clueless vandalism go away. Vaccines may prolong the life of your children It seems the independent vote is getting secured. Meet the Gulf War veteran, Republican-backed judge who is now Utah's Great Satan. Hopefully, the future of Andy Schlafly's students: Homeschool Apostates The GOP post-Healthcare.gov: I have no idea what I'm doing. Edward Snowden's Christmas message. (Transcript.) Surprise, surprise: The Israel vote was never the Jewish vote. Dan Savage attempts to review Sarah Palin's book on Christmas. Rosenberg's free speech test.

How the media will report the apocalyse UK Moving Backwards: Half a Century of Social Progress Reversed in Last Decade AlterNet tries to explain the unexplainable: "The 9 Most Baffling Passages in the Bible, and What They Really Mean." Get out while you still can! Anderson Cooper unleashes a load of whoopass. I dreamed I saw John Hill last night. (Yes, it's Cracked.  But...) The general who put Guantanamo into business: "It validates every negative perception of the United States." So it seems Deepak Chopra's just been busted sockpuppeting Wikipedia for the past five years. Whoops. (Precis.) (More, from Jerry A. Coyne) <vote poll=blog3389 closed="yes">The rainbow gravity theory, first proposed about ten years ago, posits that the universe is actually infinitely old. <vote poll=blog3388 closed="yes">Australian tabloid posts hidden message about its proprietor in a children's puzzle. <vote poll=blog3387 closed="yes">The Onion pretty much gets it right. <vote poll=blog3386 closed="yes">If you can't stop the troll from feeding, plump him up like a pig. <vote poll=blog3385 closed="yes">"God Created Gravity: Why the U.S. Can't Keep Pace With Slovenia" — A marine biologist/neurophysiologist's critique of American exceptionalism. <vote poll=blog3384 closed="yes">Don't be evil? Let me google that for you. <vote poll=blog3383 closed="yes">Reflecting on the death of Nelson Mandela, Ta-Nehisi Coates reminds us how utterly wrong the Republican Party was on apartheid. <vote poll=blog3382 closed="yes">Slow-Witted Conspiracy Theorist Convinced US Government Behind NASA <vote poll=blog3381 closed="yes">Gay skinhead <vote poll=blog3380 closed="yes">An opportunity for cynics to say "I knew it!" and for science wonks to explain how these surveys are stupid and useless: The Week figures out Which professions have the most, and the least, psychopaths. <vote poll=blog3379 closed="yes">A nice long conversation about science and society with Isaac Asimov from 1969. <vote poll=blog3378 closed="yes">And this was after a four-year Democratic administration. <vote poll=blog3377 closed="yes">Scott Aaronson on reasons to disbelieve JFK conspiracy theories (and conspiracy theories in general): "Now, though, I’d place the JFK conspiracy hypothesis firmly in Moon-landings-were-faked, Twin-Towers-collapsed-from-the-inside territory." <vote poll=blog3376 closed="yes">Creationist Louis Agassiz: better in the concrete than the abstract. <vote poll=blog3375 closed="yes">In light of World AIDS Day, all glory to Saint Reagan.