RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/February 2012

"Has he had the surgery yet?", "I look like such a tranny today", "CIS? What does that mean?", "I'll call you 'she' when you get the surgery". Shit CIS people say to trans people.

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On comparing the healthcare systems of Los Angeles and London, one woman comes up with a "surprising" result. (And if you check the worst rated comments, you get to see the resident Daily Fail readers trying to figure out exactly how this could possibly have come about)

8

President Harry Truman and Mitt Romney have both delivered speeches to an empty stadium. The difference is that Truman was a great president, and Romney is a crass asshole.

11

Lewis Black, don't get a heart attack. Also, why is Nancy Grace still on TV?

6

Coming soon, to a theater near you...

6

Identical twins not so identical after all.

4

TED: Wave of the future or Silicon Valley shills?

14

A natural disaster that cost the lives of thousands of people was ignored in favour of a nuclear 'disaster' that never was.

2

This is BBC News taken out of context.

13

All dead Mormons are now gay. (Unless they died in the Holocaust.)

8

Barack Obama is a total failure at all the things conservatives predicted he would do or not do.

13

Given the number of comments by Christians, politicians and the Daily Fail clogging up the media at the moment, Martin Robbins suggests that Christians should embrace secularism - because (from the comments) secularism doesn't consist of Richard Dawkins breaking into people's homes and stealing their Bibles at gunpoint, you know.

4

Good Guy Bill.

11

The punanny state. Also, Stalin-rape.

13

Newt Gingrich: "You can't put a gun rack in a Chevy Volt." Vlogger: Oh, really?

13

The Onion: One in five Americans believe Obama is a cactus.

7

Brian Cox (*swoon*) on why quantum theory is so misunderstood, and why good science should be part popular culture.

3

"The Right-Wing Id Unzipped"

4

Look how far they've gone...into the ground. And if the worst scenario happens in November, we'll only have one terrible actor to blame.

13

Damn you Jon Stewart!

5

Some parts of a Catholic sex education programme have been tracked to an unusual source - Beasts of Gor
Cue the "One promotes a world where women are secondary and subservient to men in all ways and have no control over there own thoughts and destiny, the other is Chronicles of Gor" jokes.

4

A list of UK politicians that stand to benefit from passing a new health reform bill.

15

George Takei: 70 years ago today, the President signed a decree that sent me and my family to a prison camp. Hear my story, and learn how you can help fulfil our pledge: Never Forget. Never Again.

5

How simple patents became the complex clusterfuck of intellectual property.

15

Karen Santorum, wife of Rick Santorum, wrote a book teaching children good manners. And its foreword is by Joe Paterno, the guy who knew about, but did nothing to stop, a child rapist. Great pick, Santorum!

21

The godly John Cleese responds to YouTube comments. "I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are...this explains not just Hollywood, but almost the entirety of Fox News."