RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/January 2012
January 2012[edit]
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How we got Ayn Rand instead of FDR: How Tea Party 'Populism' Derailed a New New Deal |
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How 'Europe' became a dirty word in the US election. Europe's response: "Wait, we're socialist?" and "Hmm...Republicans don't want to pay higher taxes to match government spending, how familiar." |
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Stephen Colbert retakes his Super PAC power after Jon Stewart tells him to fuck off. |
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Fox News is now the Republican establishment, and it may cost the party the 2012 Presidential election. |
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The Transadvocate on the transgender bathroom issue: prohibiting trans women from using women's restrooms rests on the same logic as prohibiting black women from doing so, or even cis women themselves. |
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"All the other kids with the pumped up kicks, you better run, better run, outrun my gun." |
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Increasing political polarization? Impending civil war? Think again. |
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Dan Savage has been sufficiently annoyed. "To 'rick' is to remove something with your tongue ... which makes 'rick santorum' the most disgusting two-word sentence in the English language after 'vote Republican.'" |
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New word: Nagnostic |
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You heard it here first: Vaccines are part of the transhumanist agenda to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids. |
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According to Google, geek girls are really men. |
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The Unexpurgated Atheist FAQ. Complete in every detail. |
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Rick Santorum thinks rape is a gift from God... seriously?Seriously!? |
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New journal to be launched will combat publication bias by publishing negative results. |
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Note to self: Create Elizabeth Warren article. |
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Hacker cracks a senator's Twitter account, but still manages to trip over Skitt's Law. |
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Neuroanthropology takes out the trash on "sexy" evo psych "findings." |
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They call it a loophole in medical journals, we call it "narrative review." |
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A plan to restore America to it's Christian RootsWarning, intensive levels of sarcasm detected. |
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So how is Kentucky funding the $43 million in tax cuts for the Ark Experience? By cutting $50 million from its education budget. |
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How the US' current "free market" health care is not any kind of freedom at all. |
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It's not a blatant violation of the separation of church and state. It's called "school choice!" You know, for totally secular "charter schools." |
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Carl Zimmer [1] about research on the evolution of multicellular life. |
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The Red Flags Of Quackery, expanded edition, in handy comic form. |
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Bloomberg, don't start up a mini-Prohibition. |
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What if Tim Tebow was...Muslim? Update: Jimmy Fallon re-imagines David Bowie. |
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Sweden innovating again. But the sheep? Seriously? Give us our goat. |
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True to form, Canada apologizes for failing to not elect Stephen Harper. |
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In the face of an undeniable, egregious violation of civil rights, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas finds a way to be a bullheaded asshole. |
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To those reading up on the Sara Ackerman story, it gets even funnier: she's defending Chris Brown and declaring war on Obama "minions." |
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Five founding fathers whose views on Christianity would make them unelectable today. |
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Know Your Meme confirms Jesusland. |
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A happy[citation NOT needed] customer reviews Ray Comfort's wizard entertainment, Intelligent Design vs Evolution: The Board Game! |
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What if nobody told you that your daughter had been mistakenly deported? - "...it’s concerning to think of how many people this has happened to that have never been heard from." |
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Cracked: 6 Small Math Errors That Caused Huge Disasters. And nuclear makeup. |
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If you haven't heard this before, it's Saturn dropping the beat. |
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The Neuroskeptic debunks the recent news stories about increased costs of antidepressant drugs on UK taxpayers. |
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Traversing the tight line between the latest fertility technologies and eugenics. |
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An Optimistic History of the Next 40 Years (assuming we won't nuke ourselves first) It does get a little wacky by |
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Another product of the recovered memory craze: The "epidemic" of multiple personality disorder. |
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A Redditor asks: what New Age garbage make you shudder with intolerance? 6786 comments in the first 12 hours. |
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The Iowa caucuses showed us both kind of Republican candidate: the elitist rich guy and the elitist rich guy who pretends to care about the working class. |
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Another way the War on (Some) Drugs fails: "Drug-sniffing" dogs fare no better than chance. |
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Introducing our new Paul the Octopus: Megyn |
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Like father like daughter: Elizabeth Santorum has gay friends too! |
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The 2012 US Government Terrorist Identification Chart. Stop the Terrorist Battlecruiser! |
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Stephen Harper sets up Canada's version of MiniTru. |
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If you have a free hour, here's Charlie Brooker's 2011 Wipe. On the UK riots: "Over the following weeks the media went into a full blown hand-wringing exercise trying to work out why the giddy heck [it] had happened...assholes on horrible US shitcasts blamed immigrants." |
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Sally Jenkins asks why is it that Tim Tebow's beliefs are anybody's business? |
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Cracked ends the year with: The 9 Biggest Bastards of 2011. |