RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/November 2015

November 2015
Frustrated Gunman Can’t Believe How Far He Has To Drive To Find Nearest Planned Parenthood ClinicThe Onion Anne Frank and her family were also denied entry as refugees to the U.S. It's all the rage, but fingerprints are less secure than passwords. Companies still push biometric authentication, of course... New Faith-Based Job Listing at Ark Encounter Proves Kentucky Was Lied To Rep. Lamar Smith Continues His Harassment of Scientists Richard Dawkins gives atheists a bad name. [http://www.religionnews.com/2015/11/23/bigotry-hatred-christians-say-theyre-tired-of-being-made-into-the-bad-guys/ Bigotry? Hatred? Christians say they’re tired of being made into the bad guys] Let's Learn Religion: The Harsh Truth of the ePeople The "New Atheism" ain't that new.... Cracked: 6 Man-Made Things You Totally Thought Were 'Natural' Cracked: 4 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About Free Speech and College Cracked: 6 Shockingly Outdated Problems The US Legal System Won't Fix TYT responds to Bernie Sanders' speech on democratic socialism. The last few minutes are the best. Cracked: 7 Things I Learned Reading Every Issue Of ISIS's Magazine Regardless of the recent successful attacks by DAESH, the fact that 2500 Mormons publicly resigned their membership over the church's anti-LGBT baptism policy proves that "the religious fundamentalists are losing." (We'll see.) World hunger is the result of politics, not production Cracked: 5 Idiotic Things Science Shouldn't have to Put up with. New York Times: "Red mercury was the unobtainium of the post-Soviet world" - because it doesn't exist North Carolina Charter School Suspends All Clubs So That LGBT Students Can’t Meet George Hrab's TEDx Talk, "The Power of Skepticism: Why Doubt is a Virtue." Who's to blame for the Paris attacks? Women, of course; according to the Manosphere. The day before the Paris attacks, Obama said that DAESH had been "contained". He's right (in a sense), but has it made DAESH more dangerous? Paris conspiracy theories rounded up and debunked in one convenient article. Why we should call them Daesh and not ISIS - it helps that speakers of Arabic are in on the joke Kansas Elementary School Held Bible Distribution for Students On sexism in the gay community. Fantastic Aussie producer Pogo makes a superb dance track from televangelist's drivel. Julia Serano teaches us how to write an article complaining about all that damn political correctness. "Docu-Tainment" shows like Bigfoot Captured: "It's essentially a Russian nesting doll of bullshit." On Starbucks and the "War on Christmas", from a Christian who's had enough of that nonsense. Why the slogan "safe, legal and rare" stigmatizes abortions.

Return of socialism to the U.S. (Note: worldwide, it's not considered socialism.) Not sure I buy it, but the first obituary for JEB!'s campaign is out.... The privatization of the US justice system, thanks to a 2011 Supreme Court decision that allows businesses (defendants) to shift an individual plaintiff's lawsuit out of the courts and to a private arbitrator -- who is usually hired by the defendants. So basically...