RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/March 2012
March 2012[edit]
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   | 3 | How to crash websites like Reddit |
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George Takei finds and shares the "alternate" Biblical version of what happened to the dinosaurs. |
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An interesting opinion on homeschooling and anti-scientific indoctrination in American public schools by someone who grew-up in the USSR. |
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An open letter to Big Oil. |
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Any LARPers out there? You might want to check out this guy. |
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Ricky, please don't be so quick to concede the nomination to Romney! NOOOOO!!!!! |
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Legalizing prostitution? Hey, it worked in the middle ages! |
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Here's a story that needs to grow legs/wings: Mitt Romney's cousin, a former Mormon high priest, denounces the religion as a cult. Shorter headline: "Duh." |
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Transgender rights bill up for debate next month in Canada. (Yeah, like that will pass.) |
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I think we have our candidate for supreme galactic overloard. |
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The David Coppedge case isn't living up to the hype. |
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An open letter those who elected (the tea party-esque Toronto mayor) Rob Ford. |
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All those crackdowns on extreme Islam going on in Europe risk making things worse. |
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Filling in some of the holes from the story of Jesus' childhood. For example, #5: "Joseph yanks Jesus’s ear as punishment for murder, and Jesus cold tells Joseph to his face, 'Don’t you know that I don’t really belong to you? Don’t make me upset.'" |
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Sir, welcome to the internet, where saying stupid things will always come back to bite you in the ass. |
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In a case regarding the Family Medical Leave Act, the U.S. Supreme Court bent over backwards just to fuck over women as much as possible. Again. |
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What's in a name? Well, if you call your enemy "al-Qaeda" instead of "Muslims" quite a lot, as documents from Osama Bin Laden show that Obama's rebrand of the "war on terror" really did destroy al-Qaeda's image in the eyes of Muslims. |
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The Daily Mash: The diet industry and the homeopathy industry meet head on in... dietopathy! |
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Cracked gives us a list of six new age cures that aren't quite as full of crap as we think |
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A surprisingly good suggestion from Margaret Wente. |
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La Cipolla: "Do not expect us to save you from yourselves again. From what we've seen, you don't deserve it." |
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In the Second World War it was "Careless Talk Costs Lives" - in the 21st century, it's careless geo-tags and an unlocked Facebook profile. |
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The $8 billion iPod: Hollywood accounting at its finest. |
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In fear of American Talibanism |
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One of the top headlines in in the gaming world this week has been Mass Effect 3's gloriously crappy endings (see below), but something related to our mission? If you count yet another backlash by fundies, then yes. Come on Faux, you know you want to. |
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North American conservatism in three words: cognitive dissonance clusterfuck. |
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Being really disappointed with the end of Mass Effect 3, some jackass builds a time machine and lets the last person in history who should have found out know about it. |
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Conservatives aren't any crazier now than they were 50 years ago. It's just that the liberal movement is weaker. |
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Rick Santorum: "The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is." |
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It seems Goldman Sachs is just as deluded as we thought they were. |
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The National Secular Society: Christian complaints about a "crucifx ban" are not a different take on a contentious issue, simply a pack of lies |
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l'Oignon: Vatican Dispatches Elite Team Of Bishops To Sabotage Contraceptive Manufacturer |
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Sandra Fluke speaks, not about Rush Limbaugh but about the issue at hand. Bonus: wanna know how stupid people are? Read through the comments. |
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Santorum using the same tactics as postmodern Marxist thinkers. Frothy: Oh, that's just elitist propaganda. |
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A brief history of religious and conservative prudes and their own relationship with smut. |
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Country music may be politically conservative, but it's suburban conservatism, not rural conservatism. |
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11 Eye-Opening Highlights From a Creationist Science Textbook. |
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Sick of the lies and half-truths about alternative sexuality and gender? Here are some 100% true facts about queers. |
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Since RationalWiki tends to focus on the extreme and the batshit crazy, I thought it would be nice to balance things up a bit and relate a story of Catholics who are actually acting like Catholics while simultaneously putting the smack down on the unreasonable. |
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The first Legoman in space, now the first space shuttle. |
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A Washington Post |
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With all the fuss over this "Kony 2012" thing, has anyone bothered to ask an actual Ugandan for their opinion?They do actually have internet over there, you know. And considering their financial status and inability to make sure they're not posing with guns...be skeptical, people. |
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Michael Moore: "This race could go from dog-on-car to man-on-dog", remarks that the GOP would be doing better to speak out against meat instead of birth control. |
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MAD Magazine asks to guess Who said it: Mitt Romney or Mr. Burns. No Poe's Law here, because, well, the source is known. |
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The man that will take Carl Sagan's place in the Cosmos next year. Manly (and womanly) tears are shed. |
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The Onion: Voters Slowly Realizing Santorum Believes Every Deranged Word That Comes Out Of His Mouth |
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I've spent the past 2 days trying to convince my 16-year-old she is not a "slut". |
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Rush Limbaugh stands firm on his contraception and "slut" comments... until his sponsors start dropping him, so he immediately offers an apology. Michael Moore: "Who's the prostitute now, bitch?" Don Imus: "Insincere pig". |
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The Conservative Party's attacks on its critics seem oddly familiar... |
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Not only is tipping still demeaning and exploitative, but there's a real possibility that the servers don't get to keep the money you give them. |
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As you can't sock Rush Limbaugh in the jaw without winding up in jail, here's a list of his sponsors you can sock it to, instead. UPDATE: Advertisers begin to drop Limbaugh like a hot potato. |
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The beginning of your program. The earth is spinning in the wrong direction. |
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The newspapers seem to be quite disappointed that Richard Dawkins wasn't the militant, violent, arrogant prick they've all made him out to be - did they really expect him to punch the Archbishop of Canterbury in the face? |