RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/January 2015

January 2015
Women who complain about a lack of women in the tech industry, are hypocrites, if they also aren't complaining about the lack of female boilermakers. From the weird-ass fan theory department: Faux News contributor Mary Ham says [https://mkhammer.squarespace.com/blog/2014/10/27/frozen-is-just-disneys-the-shining Disney's Frozen is just a retelling of... The Shining.] The East Asian "blood types determine personality" is nothing compared to this: God Divides Us By Blood Type, complete with TimeCubesque writing style. Germaine Greer:Trans women aren't women because they don't have "smelly vaginas." Bobby Jindal just took a new level in dumbass. A (straw) Atheist abandons his flock. For the latest analysis on the SONA, we turn to Sandy Rios: "Obama used subliminal Islamic messages in his speech..." Pax Dickinson was fired for gross, sustained offensiveness on the company dime. This has made it difficult for him to get venture capital. He writes on a neoreactionary blog asking that people check their non-asshole privilege and stop discriminating against people just expressing themselves. He is, of course, a libertarian. For when TempleOS just doesn't cut it: Cre@tion of civilization, the "Stolen Fire"... actually language. Modern Computing (an Oracle?) showing the light of the superuser, Periodic Table prescient knowledge, and/er the light of "soligion." Re-reading eX odus from Linux to right (before 9/11). In the past it was... Let there be light. Richard Dawkins reads his hate mail, pt 2. As most are from religious fundamentalists, viewer discretion is advised. Part 1. Fleshlight not your thing? Meet the vajankle. Ron Paul still can't get his crazy newsletter under control. ("No, I don't actually believe the Charlie Hebdo shooting was a false flag, I'm just asking questions!") VIDEO: A QVC hostess and a fashion designer trying to sell his wares on the shopping channel get into a debate over whether the moon is a planet or a star.  All hail science education in the age of renewed religious fundamentalism. Noted pussyconomist Roosh Valizadeh offers these sobering thoughts on the rising costs — and decreasing quality — of vagina. (HT Mammoth) Faux News just keeps on giving - how can you tell who the bad guys are if you can't see their skin colour??? The Peach ingratiates herself to the Clogroll by using the recent Charlie Hebdo attacks to demonstrate that she doesn't quite understand how or why Hate speech laws work or exist, respectively. Do you want to build a snowman? It doesn't have to be a snowman... 'cause it's a sin. Fox News pundits strike again, telling their US audience that the English city of Birmingham is exclusively Muslim and is a no-go area for non-Muslims, and that Muslim religious police in parts of London use violence to enforce Islamic dress. The apology didn't take long. Update: Pundit claims his treatment was worse than being waterboarded. David Icke has evidence that the Parisian policeman wasn't shot in the head. It's not clear who he thinks organised this piece of street theatre - the Illuminati, perhaps? The supposed "token liberal" on Fox News' The Five compares supporting radical Islam to supporting interracial dating. Even the other hosts realized what a major gaffe he made. "Hebdo consistently aimed to provoke Muslims." "[The shooting] was understandable." Victim blaming lines you'd expect to hear from religious right-wingers. Except... they weren't. Roosh V's wannabe Gamergate site Reaxxion reposted content from The John Birch Society, with only the barest dash of find-replace. In a truly breathtaking example of unintentional accuracy, George Will decries the "climate Cassandras" who claim that anthropogenic climate change is real. Filthy pinko gets lesson on how hard it is to be a cop. The article conveniently forgets the part where due process gets botched. Of course there are Charlie Hebdo truthers. NaturalNews: Because of Monsanto, 50% of all children in 2025 will be autistic!! Not just the wrong Austrian, but the not even wrong Austrian. #wholebottle