RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/April 2009

April 2009
Science on the Telly - A response to Kathy Sykes New Scientist article. Does Torture Actually Work? (First of my new column at Liberal Conspiracy). The death of the birthers. Ames makes a small innocuous post and his blog is over run by a bunch of load mouths discussing random topics. Global Warming isn't due to human activity, it's Intelligent Warming! Swine Flu - The Conspiracy: The feds are coming to vaccinate you with brain plague!!!11! 10 year aniversary of the Columbine shootings, how can we spit on the memory? I know, how about I use Columbine to rant about getting rid of school sports Have A Holly Jolly Moron Day The correlation between religious belief and opinion on global warming. Michael Savage is now part of the Pro-terrorist left. Bonus clogo lulz: watch out for the homo-Leninists. Our resident lawyer Ames tests Godwin's Law. [http://bgtd.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/surfing-the-net-beware-the-wave-of-stupid/ The Internet. Warning: contains stupidity. ] Torture, Secession, Chromosomes and Picasso; a bit everything from A Candid World. Stephen Colbert's response to the National Organization for Marriage's "gathering storm" ads. Regarding the Sunday school teacher accused of raping and murdering a young girl, O.J. Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark asks, "Do women rape?" although the title is a little misleading. She's referring the uninformed idiots ordinary citizens who refuse to believe that a frail, motherly female could do such a thing Why is the Rush Limbaugh Show broadcast in every American city and small town? Because, unlike other shows that charge stations a syndication fee, Oxycontin Man syndicates his program for free. <vote poll=blog282 closed="yes">Get your Anti-Vaccine Body Count widget today! <vote poll=blog281 closed="yes">A Two-Faced British Tabloid are basically campaigning AGAINST the HPV vaccine in Britain, but FOR it in Ireland. <vote poll=blog280 closed="yes">Surgeons find a tree growing in a man's lung. Seriously. <vote poll=blog279 closed="yes">If you make a "mockumentary" about assassinating Dubya, you should be held responsible if it really happens. But if you whip gun nuts into a frenzy about an impending Obama-led gun grab, and those gun nuts go on shooting sprees, then only the shooters should be held responsible. So sayeth Hannity, Beck and other righties. <vote poll=blog278 closed="yes">It is becoming a strange world: The UN Human Rights Commission is restricting the right to free speech and the Republicans have rejected Goldwater's economic policies. <vote poll=blog277 closed="yes">Jabba the Rush... <vote poll=blog276 closed="yes">Eternal Critic learns the futility of arguing with people on the internet and the lengths people will go in twisting logic so they can continue to use their favourite argument. <vote poll=blog275 closed="yes">The Republican Party celebrate Silly Picture Week with extreme extrapolation. <vote poll=blog274 closed="yes">Atheism ≠ Nihilism.