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

February 2013
[http://irrco.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/there-are-no-contradictions-a-game-for-3-to-6-players/ There Are No Contradictions! — A Game for 3 to 6 Players.] The left case against gay marriage. David Wong, Cracked: 5 Easy Ways to Spot a BS News Story on the Internet Because let's face it, Monica Lewinsky is in desperate need of even more humiliation Wingnuts: Michelle Obama's satellite appearance at the Oscars was "obscene." So what about Laura Bush, FDR, and Almighty Reagan?  This year's Oscars may be the worst ever. Cracked: "5 Miracles Deleted From the Bible For Being Too Awesome" A new ENCODE smackdown in Genome Biology and Evolution is rather snarky, though too much so for some. The atheist's guide to the next Pope. Bill O'Reilly is writing a book about Jesus Cracked: 3 Personal Disneylands Being Planned by Total Lunatics (featuring Becky and the Citadel) That's one hell of a filibuster. Let the states decide if Republicans can marry This NY Times Op-Ed nicely illustrates of headlines. Cracked yelling at politicians that don't understand what "poor" means Shocker: MRA guru Warren Farrell is an incest apologist. Update: that's not exactly news for some people... <vote poll=blog2874 closed="yes">Should have gone up a month back but Caroline Heldman versus Sexy Lies <vote poll=blog2873 closed="yes">John Stumbles: Stephanie's Measles Mischief. A remarkably calm but very firm response to insanely dangerous anti-vaccine bozos. <vote poll=blog2872 closed="yes">Military-industrial complex Fuck Up #1. <vote poll=blog2871 closed="yes">Harry Potter and the Evil Chocolate Movie Moguls of Doom. <vote poll=blog2870 closed="yes">Bigoted poem spewer on Dan Savage's blog gets a taste of his own medicine. <vote poll=blog2869 closed="yes">When the point-of-entry cost of UK higher education increased, people wondered if it would actually cost the government more - two years on, new studies and evidence emerges that it almost certainly will, dipshits.Hat-tip <vote poll=blog2868 closed="yes">Rummy demonstrates the stopped clock theory. <vote poll=blog2867 closed="yes">Observe: pick-up artists trying their finest social skills on ... a robot horse.

<vote poll=blog2865 closed="yes">[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mavB1lbtIow Elizabeth. Fucking. Warren.]

<vote poll=blog2863 closed="yes">How the Electoral College would look with proportional representation. (Can we just change the names?) <vote poll=blog2862 closed="yes">Tom Shales helps dissect the "hoopla and pageantry" that surround the SOTU. <vote poll=blog2861 closed="yes">"Anonymous billionaires donated $120m to more than 100 anti-climate groups working to discredit climate change science" <vote poll=blog2860 closed="yes">The Discovery Institute wanted to use a lovely photo of the Burgess Shale on one of their books. They asked the geologist who took the photo for permission. His response, their response and the ensuing dialogue are very instructive. <vote poll=blog2859 closed="yes">Time for some more original lies for Jesus. <vote poll=blog2858 closed="yes">Would Christianity be better without priests? <vote poll=blog2857 closed="yes">Say whatever you will about Obama's SOTU, but it fails in comparison to Mark Rubio's self-inflicted elimination of any chance at the 2016 presidency. <vote poll=blog2856 closed="yes">Cecil Adams tells you the ins and outs of accessing the "Deep Web" <vote poll=blog2855 closed="yes">Stavvers: Why I never signed the No More Page 3 Girls petition: the real problem with The Sun is pages 1,2 and 4-76.

<vote poll=blog2853 closed="yes">Loud and brazen, the George Carlin of gay rights advocacy groups, FCKH8, surprises everyone with two videos in the same day! Warning: SERIOUSLY NSFW!! <vote poll=blog2852 closed="yes">Bill Gates: "It would be nice if all governments were as rational as the Nordic governments - reaching compromise and providing services broadly." <vote poll=blog2851 closed="yes">New director of the CIA has decided there is a country called Palestine.  <vote poll=blog2850 closed="yes">Switzerland, the last excuse by the NRA and their ilk to ignore gun control? Not really. <vote poll=blog2849 closed="yes">This comic about the friendzone is just too damn quotable. <vote poll=blog2848 closed="yes">The intricacies of The Pirate Bay. (Of course the documentary is free!)

<vote poll=blog2846 closed="yes">Something is going down at the Burzynski clinic, with an FDA audit going another month and whispers that Burzynski's snake oil killed a patient. <vote poll=blog2845 closed="yes">"Godless," another documentary made by Christians claiming to be something they're not. <vote poll=blog2844 closed="yes">Glenn Beck, noted for his opposition to all things green, is now spearheading The Citadel as "America's Most Conservative Green Community," in which "Marxists, socialists, liberals, and Establishment Republicans" are not welcome and toting a gun is mandatory. <vote poll=blog2843 closed="yes">Lawrence Krauss on the teaching of creationism: "And if you think about it, teaching kids - or allowing the notion that the earth is 6,000 years old to be promulgated in schools is like teaching kids that the distance across the United States is 17 feet. That's how big an error it is." <vote poll=blog2842 closed="yes">Cracked double whammy: The 6 Greatest Acts of Trolling in the History of Science and 29 Conspiracy Photos Crazy People Will Be Forwarding Next (This one was one of their Photoshop competitions, but they're still worryingly likely). <vote poll=blog2841 closed="yes">Nick Cohen on abuse and misogyny in the far left. <vote poll=blog2840 closed="yes">Australians will understand and facepalm to hear: Andrew Bolt takes on Dr Karl about climate change. [http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/01/1183881/-Must-be-the-worst-socialist-ever Worst. Socialist. Ever.]