RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/December 2013

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December 2013

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Her Majesty the Queen of Canada needs to put her foot down and say, as they say it in Canadian, boocoo de bucques is needed to make this incident of clueless vandalism go away.

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Vaccines may prolong the life of your children

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It seems the independent vote is getting secured.

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Meet the Gulf War veteran, Republican-backed judge who is now Utah's Great Satan.

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Hopefully, the future of Andy Schlafly's students: Homeschool Apostates

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The GOP post-Healthcare.gov: I have no idea what I'm doing.

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Edward Snowden's Christmas message. (Transcript.)

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Surprise, surprise: The Israel vote was never the Jewish vote.

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Dan Savage attempts to review Sarah Palin's book on Christmas.

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Rosenberg's free speech test.

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How the media will report the apocalyse

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UK Moving Backwards: Half a Century of Social Progress Reversed in Last Decade

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AlterNet tries to explain the unexplainable: "The 9 Most Baffling Passages in the Bible, and What They Really Mean."

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Get out while you still can!

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Anderson Cooper unleashes a load of whoopass.

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I dreamed I saw John Hill last night. (Yes, it's Cracked. But...)

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The general who put Guantanamo into business: "It validates every negative perception of the United States."

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So it seems Deepak Chopra's just been busted sockpuppeting Wikipedia for the past five years. Whoops. (Precis.) (More, from Jerry A. Coyne)

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The rainbow gravity theory, first proposed about ten years ago, posits that the universe is actually infinitely old.

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Australian tabloid posts hidden message about its proprietor in a children's puzzle.

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The Onion pretty much gets it right.

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If you can't stop the troll from feeding, plump him up like a pig.

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"God Created Gravity: Why the U.S. Can't Keep Pace With Slovenia" — A marine biologist/neurophysiologist's critique of American exceptionalism.

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Don't be evil? Let me google that for you.

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Reflecting on the death of Nelson Mandela, Ta-Nehisi Coates reminds us how utterly wrong the Republican Party was on apartheid.

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Slow-Witted Conspiracy Theorist Convinced US Government Behind NASA

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Gay skinhead

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An opportunity for cynics to say "I knew it!" and for science wonks to explain how these surveys are stupid and useless: The Week figures out Which professions have the most, and the least, psychopaths.

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A nice long conversation about science and society with Isaac Asimov from 1969.

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And this was after a four-year Democratic administration.

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Scott Aaronson on reasons to disbelieve JFK conspiracy theories (and conspiracy theories in general): "Now, though, I’d place the JFK conspiracy hypothesis firmly in Moon-landings-were-faked, Twin-Towers-collapsed-from-the-inside territory."

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Creationist Louis Agassiz: better in the concrete than the abstract.

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In light of World AIDS Day, all glory to Saint Reagan.