RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/March 2011
March 2011[edit]
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VIDEO: A Wisconsin capitol policeman basically tells a woman and her two kids that the First Amendment is only in effect on the first floor of the capitol, not in the rotunda. Oh, well. No doubt he was just following orders. |
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Paul B. Farrell, a columnist at MarketWatch -- a Wall Street Journal website and a sister company of Faux News -- commits a bit of heresy with this proposition: "Tax the Super Rich now or face a revolution: A ‘Super-Rich Delusion’ is leading us to ruin" |
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The next wave in the wingnut flood of crazy: Remember when Utah Sen. Mike Lee said child labor laws were unconstitutional? Some people took him seriously. A bill to repeal certain child labor laws and safety standards recently shot down in Missouri is followed up by bills in Ohio and Maine to loosen child labor restrictions. Please sir, can we have some more? |
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Edge special on black swan events. |
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The new wingnut anti-abortion angle seems to be some kind of deranged amalgam of Jerry Falwell and Louis Farrakhan. |
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We should stop running away from radiation. Nuclear physicist and author, Wade Allison, suggests we need a sea-change in peoples attitudes to radiation to put things into perspective. |
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10,000? 100,000? No, wait a MILLION! So how do you count the number of people at a protest or a march and do people alter the number for political gain? |
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A time-lapse map of all 2053 nuke detonation between 1945 and 1998. (Can you guess which nation detonated 50.3 percent of all the nukes?) |
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Come one, come all! Hear arguments in the biggest sex-discrimination case in history as six women sue Wal-Mart in the Supreme Court. |
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The Guardian offers the public an alternative census - help make Brian Cox a new religion! |
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A First Amendment lawyer knows the law and does not like it. His dream: Scrap the First Amendment so we can ban "lying in journalism." |
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Joe "EPA regulations are anti-free market" Barton drops his latest "pearl of wisdom": Oil subsidies are all about the free market! |
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Skippy gives us the rules of debating on the internet. |
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If UK universities get to charge £9000 per year, it means 70% of graduates will never pay off the loan and the government would end up spending more money to subsidise that loss. Government response: shit, we didn't think of that. |
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A new study by the UK Govt examines how the global food business will have to change to feed a world of 9 billion people by 2050. |
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Turnabout is fair play: NPR's On the Media re-edits an interview with James O'Keefe. |
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James Fallows asks of Libya, "What happens then?" |
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Has all the talk of sieverts and ionizing radiation in the scaremongering media left you dazed and confused? Here is a little graphical perspective. |
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Well worth a read of the comments thread. Count the logical fallacies. The homeopath who 'discovered' the magical Venus light remedy finds a skeptical blog post about it. |
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Can you guess what I think of the "supermoon"? Hint: the blog is called Bad Astronomy. |
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Totalitarianism has come to the U.S., masquerading as corporatist neoliberalism. |
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Toll roads lead to serfdom, probably by the same means that Medicare leads to socialism. |
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Disaster areas: How to - and importantly, how not to - help. |
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Michael Pirsch: There's so much democracy down in Venezuela that the imperialist American pigs are getting nervous, which means that U.S. class warfare is in its final chapter (but don't get excited; class warfare's been that way for a century and a half). |
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The Nation: It is wrong for Rep. Peter King to demonize Muslims because extremists are individuals, not a community. But it is, of course, perfectly all right to wonder why a certain extremist community is not being investigated for the crime of being admired by Scott Roeder. |
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Nuclear reactor or nightclub? We report, you decide! |
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Somebody finally asked the question: What happens when a couple dozen children are homeschooled by a nitwit? |
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From the Obvious Department: James O'Keefe selectively edited the NPR tapes. Ironically, Glenn Beck's site The Blaze was the first to release unedited segments and analysis of the videos. |
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How dare my favourite quack take down their website before I could complain about it? The UK Advertising Standards Authority now has powers to regulate claims on websites. Some skeptics seem to be upset that the website they were about to complain about was taken down voluntarily. Is this "job done"? Why do some people seem to need the ASA to slap some wrists? |
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Bill Moyers and Michael Winship write to defend NPR against congressional budget-slashers and allegations of bias. |
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Perhaps more relevant to UK RationalWikians...A guide to studying with the Open University |
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Kevin Drum says manufactroversies are the wave of the future. |
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William Rivers Pitt, being ever so slightly upset about the recent union snafu, recites that well-known poetic line, "Then they came for the trade unionists..." |
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Psychoanalyst Peter Michaelson: The only reason conservatives dislike government is because they are psychosocially stunted and acting out teenage rebellion. Whatever happened to the good old days, when "progressives" encouraged teenage rebellion instead of aping Lyle Rossiter? |
   | 8 | This is what pi sounds like. |
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Robert Naiman: Sen. John Kerry, the anti-Vietnam-War Democrat, should know better than to act in ways suggesting that the U.N. charter is not the Constitution of the world. |
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Prof. Henry A. Giroux enters his umpteenth week of being upset about "formative cultures;" specifically such things as the welfare state, unions, public values, young people, and public schools, which, as everyone knows, are essential to democracy. |
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"The Lord is my shepherd" - kind of a dumb metaphor, really. |
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If RationalWiki is looking for a theme song, here's a candidate. |
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Republicans still acting cartoonishly evil when it comes to the environment. What's next on the agenda, "Screw the Earth" Day? |
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Glenn Beck, wanting to outdo himself talking to cupcakes, has recycled a decades old tin foil hatter story as "breaking news" (again) that Socialist chants are being taught to grade school children on his "news" site The Blaze. Morons are obviously shocked. |
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Glenn Beck seems to have gone off the deep end in trying to link money supply and inflation to cupcakes. During the confusing analogy, which only goes further to prove the definition of "currency" eludes him completely, he spends some quality time talking to the cupcakes. |
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WBC taunts Anonymous. Anonymous show their teeth. |
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Would Superman pass the birther test and other legal questions faced by comic book characters. |
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William Rivers Pitt will puke if he hears the phrase "liberal media" again. Why? Media outlets are owned by corporations, therefore, as everyone should know, they're the neoliberal media. (Makes a person wonder how Democratic candidates ever manage to get any editorial endorsements.) |
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