RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/April 2011

Thom Hartmann on how companies law has changed since 1873: Back then, corporations had to divulge all their business plans and make all their documents available to the legislature.

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"Wikipedia has a 'macaca' problem": Apparently a paper from an anthropologist studying the Congo is not an authoritative source for the statement that "macaca" was used as a racial slur there. Conservapedia is linked to as an example of craziness.

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Walker: Texas Plagiarist

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The GOP plan to "reform" health care? Gut it. That's the end result of a proposed federal spending cap and Paul Ryan's Path to "Prosperity."

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Apparently, "modern" Catholics don't believe in there was a revived cadaver... so, what was Thomas putting his hands in?

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The politics of voter fraud.

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Superstitious China

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Bill Nye was booed in Texas back in 2006 for claiming that the moon does not generate its own light. No one remembered this until the local newspaper pulled an Andy and burned the evidence.

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Five Myths about the Separation of church and state in America.

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The Smoking Gun has examined the philanthropy of Donald Trump. Their findings: He may be America's stingiest billionaire. (He isn't even the largest contributor to the charitable foundation that bears his name!)

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Warmist enviro-nuts are out-lobbying energy interests...oh wait, no they're not.

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The science of why we don't believe in science.

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People for the American Way release a thorough profile on pseudohistorian David Barton, just in case you didn't know he was a crank already.

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Literary theory or conspiracy theory?

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The BBC asks: "Is Cuba's Party Congress just a rubber-stamp exercise?" One hopes the intention was ironic.

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Commentary on how Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is planning to create "more Benton Harbors", cities taken over by the state government and ruled by ~~a Gauleiter~~ an Emergency Financial Manager who can effectively fire the sitting government.

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This Week In Fake Presidential Candidates

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Teabaggers turn out ~~en masse~~ in embarrassingly small numbers to prove that they have no idea when Tax Day 2011 is and that they still can't make banners for shit. Or spell.

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Roger Ebert on the new Atlas Shrugged film: "The most anticlimactic non-event since Geraldo Rivera broke into Al Capone’s vault. ★"

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From HuffPo: The pink toenails ad "showed real family values -- not the contrived kind put forth by social conservatives."

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The film of Atlas Shrugged is going to win in every way possible. Tim Cain notes that (a) it's being distributed by the same company that did Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (b) it's going to a very small number of odd, out-of-the-way cinemas (c) there's no critics' screening, always a mark of quality.

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The "abortion as black genocide" narrative hits the big time: Since Arizona passed its "anti-discrimination" abortion bill, the Family Research Council has jumped on the bandwagon. Alas, A Blog has a collection of videos tracing the roots of this campaign.

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Joe Scarborough on Donald Trump: "When your political rhetoric shocks a man who believes the rise of the Antichrist could be ushered in by President Barack Obama’s agenda, it might be time to refocus your communications strategy."

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Website: "Pick a Year to Begin THE END" -- A rather thorough (yet probably still far from complete) list of apocalyptic predictions. (According to various predictions, the world will end sometime between 4990 BCE and 4,500,000 CE.)