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RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/February 2013
February 2013[edit]
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The left case against gay marriage. |
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David Wong, Cracked: 5 Easy Ways to Spot a BS News Story on the Internet |
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Because let's face it, Monica Lewinsky is in desperate need of even more humiliation |
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Wingnuts: Michelle Obama's satellite appearance at the Oscars was "obscene." So what about Laura Bush, FDR, and Almighty Reagan? |
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This year's Oscars may be the worst ever. |
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Cracked: "5 Miracles Deleted From the Bible For Being Too Awesome" |
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A new ENCODE smackdown in Genome Biology and Evolution is rather snarky, though too much so for some. |
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The atheist's guide to the next Pope. |
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Bill O'Reilly is writing a book about Jesus |
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Cracked: 3 Personal Disneylands Being Planned by Total Lunatics (featuring Becky and the Citadel) |
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That's one hell of a filibuster. |
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This NY Times Op-Ed nicely illustrates Betteridge's law |
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Cracked yelling at politicians that don't understand what "poor" means |
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Shocker: MRA guru Warren Farrell is an incest apologist. Update: that's not exactly news for some people... |
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Should have gone up a month back but Caroline Heldman versus Sexy Lies |
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John Stumbles: Stephanie's Measles Mischief. A remarkably calm but very firm response to insanely dangerous anti-vaccine bozos. |
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Bigoted poem spewer on Dan Savage's blog gets a taste of his own medicine. |
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When the point-of-entry cost of UK higher education increased, people wondered if it would actually cost the government more - two years on, new studies and evidence emerges that it almost certainly will, dipshits.Hat-tip |
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Rummy demonstrates the stopped clock theory. |
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Observe: pick-up artists trying their finest social skills on ... a robot horse. |
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How the Electoral College would look with proportional representation. (Can we just change the names?) |
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Tom Shales helps dissect the "hoopla and pageantry" that surround the SOTU. |
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The Discovery Institute wanted to use a lovely photo of the Burgess Shale on one of their books. They asked the geologist who took the photo for permission. His response, their response and the ensuing dialogue are very instructive. |
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Say whatever you will about Obama's SOTU, but it fails in comparison to Mark Rubio's self-inflicted elimination of any chance at the 2016 presidency. |
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Cecil Adams tells you the ins and outs of accessing the "Deep Web" |
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Stavvers: Why I never signed the No More Page 3 Girls petition: the real problem with The Sun is pages 1,2 and 4-76. |
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Loud and brazen, the George Carlin of gay rights advocacy groups, FCKH8, surprises everyone with two videos in the same day! Warning: SERIOUSLY NSFW!! |
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New director of the CIA has decided there is a country called Palestine. [1] |
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Switzerland, the last excuse by the NRA and their ilk to ignore gun control? Not really. |
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This comic about the friendzone is just too damn quotable. |
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The intricacies of The Pirate Bay. (Of course the documentary is free!) |
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Something is going down at the Burzynski clinic, with an FDA audit going another month and whispers that Burzynski's snake oil killed a patient. |
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"Godless," another documentary made by Christians claiming to be something they're not. |
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Glenn Beck, noted for his opposition to all things green, is now spearheading The Citadel as "America's Most Conservative Green Community," in which "Marxists, socialists, liberals, and Establishment Republicans" are not welcome and toting a gun is mandatory. |
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Lawrence Krauss on the teaching of creationism: "And if you think about it, teaching kids - or allowing the notion that the earth is 6,000 years old to be promulgated in schools is like teaching kids that the distance across the United States is 17 feet. That's how big an error it is." |
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Cracked double whammy: The 6 Greatest Acts of Trolling in the History of Science and 29 Conspiracy Photos Crazy People Will Be Forwarding Next (This one was one of their Photoshop competitions, but they're still worryingly likely). |
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Nick Cohen on abuse and misogyny in the far left. |
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Australians will understand and facepalm to hear: Andrew Bolt takes on Dr Karl about climate change. |
   | 28 | Worst. Socialist. Ever. |