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RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/August 2011
August 2011[edit]
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Who wants a random taste of Canadian comedy? |
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Are anti-science conservatives out of step with mainstream America? We certainly hope so. |
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Internet memes have been on a roll recently. |
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Krugman nails it. |
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Here's an interesting role-reversal: Big Pharma homeopathy shills are suing a skeptical blogger. |
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This user likes to call it The Proxmire Effect. |
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PalMD moves to a new location. |
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Two words: PETA porn. |
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"America is choking on the edifice of empire....If this is what global dominance looks like, who needs it?", per an opinion piece at Reuters. |
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NASA animation shows what it would look like when a black hole eats a star. |
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If conservatives have nothing else to do, they try to smear Paul Krugman on the East Coast Earthquake. |
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Per PZ Myers: A bunch of "science-denying wackaloons." (except Jon Huntsman) |
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Advertising copywriters are unable to understand basic mathematical concepts. |
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Damn you, you snobby French! Always getting things right these days... |
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"if social conservatives take power we might have government policing our bedrooms." |
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From the Department of Failed Predictions: Buying stuff on the internet? That's crazy talk! |
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Weird Homeopathy - Oscillococcinum. Made from a bacteria that does not exist. |
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There really needs to be a "Thalidomide Gambit" or a "Vioxx Gambit." |
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Giorgio A. Tsoukalos becomes a full-fledged meme. Aliens. Update: More Giorgio mocking here. |
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PolitiFact tests Warren Buffet's "Tax me!" editorial. Correct, as expected. |
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Religion losing significant ground in Canada, New Zealand, Finland, The Netherlands, and other various nations. |
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Climate denier Joe Bastardi delivers a truly epic Gish Gallop. |
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The late, great Molly Ivins talks about Rick Perry. |
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Warren Buffett: "Stop coddling the super-rich!" Let's see how Fox handles this. Calling one of the top wealthiest people on the planet a socialist? Update: Awww yeah. |
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Dennis Markuze (David Mabus) gets featured on the news after Montreal police finally begin a formal investigation, after 18 years of death threats and internet spam made to PZ Myers and other atheists.Update: He has now officially been arrested. |
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Teens try to hack Koch brothers site, get the FBI on their asses! |
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Those bond vigilantes will strike any day now...any day now... |
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Why looters aren't SCUM and answering them with violence is the worst idea ever. |
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The Onion: New GOP strategy to make Obama's life miserable? Reelecting him. |
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People are fed up with Mabus, now there's a poll to make the Montreal Police take "Mabus" death threats seriously. |
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What can the police do in London? Well... nothing that we haven't already banned, aren't equipped for or would risk making things worse. |
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The Metropolitan police are starting to make good on their promise to publish photos of the London rioters. |
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The sad truth behind London riot: '...The TV reporter from Britain's ITV had no response. So the young man pressed his advantage. "Two months ago we marched to Scotland Yard, more than 2,000 of us, all blacks, and it was peaceful and calm and you know what? Not a word in the press. Last night a bit of rioting and looting and look around you."' |
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Everything you wanted or didn't want to know about Michele Bachmann courtesy the New Yorker. |
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A HuffPo religion writer makes a list for other Christians of what he thinks are "4 good reasons not to read the bible literally." (Of course, being a Christian religion writer, he doesn't include the best reason -- i.e., it's all ancient mythology.) BTW, he wrote this article because he was shocked to find out that about 30 percent of all Americans take the bible literally. |
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Ha-Joon Chang economist at the University of Cambridge says things that conservatives don't like to hear, comments are already ripe with butt-hurt, enough said. |
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Slate: Antioxidants don't work, but no one wants to hear it. |
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Governor Rick Perry's "Texas miracle" includes crowded homeless shelters, low-wage jobs and worker deaths. |
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Christopher Monckton: Past his use-by date? Update: His "reputation for being mad as a snake clearly remains intact." |
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Like with Sarah Palin, Matt Damon destroys Reason's logic.. |
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Paul Simms from the New Yorker reveals God's Creation Blog - with comments. |
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What does the debt deal mean? Felix Salmon attempts to provide some answers. More: A good summary by Stephen Squibb. |
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If a married couple saved forty people from the Norwegian massacre, they'd be widely reported as heroes... unless they were a gay married couple, that is. |
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A list of people (and their quotes) who are okay with murdering Julian Assange. |
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VIDEO: Keith Olbermann's Special Comment (1 August 2011): "The Four Great Hypocrisies of the Debt Deal" |
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It's the Disco 'Tute versus... the Institute for Creation Research? |
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Obviously, UFO conspiracy kiddies will go nuts on this, but very interesting indeed. |
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Need some cheering up? Enjoy the delights of the Cartoon Colour Wheel, from the blue of the Smurfs to the green of the Ninja Turtles. |