RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/May 2014

May 2014
The Illuminati summer newsletter. The Attack of the Drones seems to be silently ending in Pakistan. The audiophile woo motherlode: Wat Hifi? Further coverage of the manosphere's lower depths in the the wake of the UCSB massacre: A look at some of the forums where Elliot Rodger hung out and the people he crossed paths with. More disturbingly, a look at the PUAHate forum community in the aftermath of the shootings, many of whom apparently see Rodger as an everyman or a hero. If Ayn Rand had written Harry Potter The Financial Times has some 'splainin' to do. On "the death of expertise" and why it matters. Arthur Chu: "So, a question, to my fellow male nerds. What the fuck is wrong with us?" Politico decides to give its conservative readers a reality check on the Religious Right. When Stephen Colbert called the Teabaggers "a bug up the elephant's ass," he may have been too kind. A few of the best #YesAllWomen tweets. Jeb Bush, Republican intellectual. No, seriously. Cracked looks into Vladimir Putin's crazy Bond-villainy. I am shocked, shocked, to hear that there was massive fraudulent Bitcoin trading at Mt. Gox. Coupenomics. Post-banking crisis: [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/is-this-a-golden-age-of-internationalism/article18814967/ The system worked. Kinda.] <vote poll=blog3647 closed="yes">Speaking of The Onion...

<vote poll=blog3646 closed="yes">Hooray! Now cops have to serve even those with different religious beliefs! Wait...why would any sane person think they shouldn't? <vote poll=blog3645 closed="yes">And nothing of value was lost. <vote poll=blog3644 closed="yes">More Onion: Scientists Politely Remind World That Clean Energy Technology Ready To Go Whenever <vote poll=blog3643 closed="yes">The Onion: Congress Reluctant To Cut Funding For Tank That Just Spins Around And Self-Destructs <vote poll=blog3642 closed="yes">With "250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of separate but equal, 35 years of state-sanctioned redlining," and a continued only-in-America anti-intellectualism on what should be the blatant, blatant obvious, should we seriously consider reopening the debate on reparations? <vote poll=blog3641 closed="yes">Not A Racist Nick Wade gets his book on genetic European superiority dismantled by Eric Michael Johnson in Scientific American. <vote poll=blog3640 closed="yes">Here's a bold prediction: The Suppository of Wisdom will not survive to 2017. <vote poll=blog3639 closed="yes">Wow. Even the freakin' National Review thinks the gun nuts have gone too far. <vote poll=blog3638 closed="yes">Just like Anti-Italianism and Anti-Catholicism, history repeats itself. <vote poll=blog3637 closed="yes">You Soviet-nostalgic, Marx-invoking, socialist freaks! ...Oh hello, Mr. Putin. <vote poll=blog3636 closed="yes">*Everyone stares at Alex Trebek* "What? I really don't have an opinion on the matter." <vote poll=blog3635 closed="yes">35 Top excuses why 29,999,000 people missed Operation American Spring. <vote poll=blog3634 closed="yes">A lesson for jingoists before the 70th anniversary of D-Day. <vote poll=blog3633 closed="yes">UKIP show their true colours - they're the same as the Standing At The Back Dressed Stupidly And Looking Stupid Party from Blackadder. <vote poll=blog3632 closed="yes">Psychic Sally shows her true skills by receiving messages from somebody who's alive and well and in the audience...

<vote poll=blog3630 closed="yes">(Video) Exorcist beats demons, but not cell phone.

<vote poll=blog3628 closed="yes">Oh yes, UKIP is relevant, yes... <vote poll=blog3627 closed="yes">Denmark. It is a silly place. <vote poll=blog3626 closed="yes">US military brass: Republicans Congress continues to threaten national security by ignoring climate change. <vote poll=blog3625 closed="yes">How do you know when American conservatism is (finally) losing the war on economics? When Marginal Revolution is reduced to this. <vote poll=blog3624 closed="yes">It appears "Ban Bossy" had a point to make.

<vote poll=blog3622 closed="yes">How not to design a plane crash memorial. <vote poll=blog3621 closed="yes">Future US Senator: “Government cannot force citizens to violate their religious beliefs under any circumstances.” <vote poll=blog3620 closed="yes">Australia the bizarre: after the Suppository of Wisdom failed to repeal the carbon levy, he's now increased gas taxes and taxes on the rich. <vote poll=blog3619 closed="yes">Everyone's favorite motor mouth of wrestling, Jim Cornette, compares religion to cosmetic surgery: all of it's elective but some people need it drastically, some for a touch up, and some are addicted and want to force it on you. <vote poll=blog3618 closed="yes">Nicholas Wade just wrote an apologetic for scientific racism. (And guess which great luminaries are trying to put it into the spotlight.) <vote poll=blog3617 closed="yes">Just in case anyone really thinks the poor are secretly living the high life, or that all people are jerks. <vote poll=blog3616 closed="yes">"How God May Replace the US Constitution in Just Three Easy Steps." <vote poll=blog3615 closed="yes">Got someone who doesn't understand that correlation does not imply causation? Show them that, for instance, US spending on science, space, and technology correlates with the number of suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation. <vote poll=blog3614 closed="yes">"Not All Men--Misandry’s greatest foe" <vote poll=blog3613 closed="yes">Iranian women using Facebook to subvert their country's hijab laws <vote poll=blog3612 closed="yes">"Dear Americans, Your Hashtags Won't #BringBackOurGirls; You Might Actually Be Making Things Worse." <vote poll=blog3611 closed="yes">If the Kremlin is trying to create a Ukrainian Civil War, it's not working. Cue Napoleon. <vote poll=blog3610 closed="yes">*Wakes up, puts bread into the toaster* Hmm...hmm... [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/upshot/the-countrys-most-republican-company-the-makers-of-wonder-bread.html? Oh.] Oh my god. <vote poll=blog3609 closed="yes"> The G.O.P. Can’t Ignore Climate Change Shut up, Huntsman, you goddamn commie! <vote poll=blog3608 closed="yes">Fox News may have just unsettled its $8 million hush money settlement. <vote poll=blog3607 closed="yes">Two parter on Atheism Plus's rise and fall (and how it could have avoided its eventual demise). <vote poll=blog3606 closed="yes">“Why do Muslim women accept and believe these things anyway?” <vote poll=blog3605 closed="yes">Republicans, if you really care about free speech, make sure you reflect that in your Supreme Court justices. <vote poll=blog3604 closed="yes">The Conspiracy Theory Flowchart THEY don't want you to see! <vote poll=blog3603 closed="yes">Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the reaction to the comments of LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling: "More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism." <vote poll=blog3602 closed="yes">Joel McHale drops anvils on everyone at the 2014 White House Correspondents Dinner. (Not as good as Colbert's, but it's going to be remembered.) <vote poll=blog3601 closed="yes">What took you so long, GOP? Benghazi has officially entered into Truther levels. (And the jokes keep coming.) <vote poll=blog3600 closed="yes">Richard C. Hoagland's latest claims about how the Chinese Chang'e 3 spacecraft photographed glittering glass towers miles high and across are debunked. <vote poll=blog3599 closed="yes">Vladimir Putin seems determined to become the next Milosevic. <vote poll=blog3598 closed="yes">"One has to ask: Does anyone in the offices of these (US) 'pro-Israel' organizations follow Israeli political debate?" <vote poll=blog3597 closed="yes">Meanwhile in Canada, another whale hasn't exploded yet.