RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/May 2011
May 2011[edit]
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The Abortionplex is on Yelp. Free nachos and mojitos during the procedure? It doesn't get better than that. |
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Six politicians who've failed epically on Twitter. |
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"So, how about some accountability for the false prophets, gross opportunists, and irresponsible rumor-mongers who threaten society with truth decay? Here’s a suggestion: Call them out publicly, post their names on some Wall of Shame, and then stop listening – it only encourages them." |
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Electrons are spherical, it's official now. |
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Political polarization? Not when it comes to trampling civil liberties. |
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Lyndon LaRouche jets climate deniers to Sweden to protest a conference in Stockholm. |
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn really should have kept his dangler in his pants: not only has he fulfilled the iconography of power dynamics with parallels in Greek mythology, smut, and colonialism, but he went and groped a union maid. |
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Dave Johnson: Political philosophies with a "producer-and-parasite" world-view are fundamentally at odds with the concepts of democracy. (But good luck telling that to the adherents of one particular "producer-and-parasite" world-view, who spend a lot of time saying exactly the opposite.) |
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With notably rare exceptions, a president has never called for Israel to change its borders. |
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The CDC has released a blog post detailing its plans to deal with a Zombie Apocalypse. |
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Thirty five of the top evolutionary psychologists tell Satoshi Kanazawa to go fuck himself (well, in academic form at least). PZ Myers, however, is a bit more explicit. |
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Catholics denounce Conservative Deceit. These heretics will be excommunicated by Andy Schlafly as soon as he hears about it. |
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The internet gets its own currency. I was into it before it was popular. |
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Skippy envisions the morning after Saturday's Rapture. |
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Johann Hari: Heaven: A fool's paradise |
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Wegman-gate update: I didn't plagiarize nothin'! It was all my student's fault! |
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Australia is planning to ban 1,000s of plants that contain natural DMT... including their national flower. |
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How the recent commodities crash is making hyperinflation scare-mongerers look even dumber. |
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Weird Homeopathy - Saturn. Appears to get you seriously stoned. |
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Anthony Watts continues to be the most useful global warming denier, yet again debunking his own claims. |
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Do you think your own brand of alternative medicine won't stand up to new Advertising Standards Authority regulations? Just play the race card. |
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Besides the facepalming stupidity of fart based smartphone applications, one of the few real lessons we learned from The Apprentice challenge to built an app was that people will try anything if it's free - though speaking of Lord Sugar and internet technology, anyone own any of the these? |
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Research in memory may lead to new treatments for PTSD, as well as ethical questions. |
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The neocon/liberal-interventionist alliance, or How I stopped worrying and learned to love the military–industrial complex. |
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Daniel Larison on the inconsistent approach to "humanitarian" war in Libya. |
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Krugman continues his work calling out the Very Serious People. |
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A new Duke University study finds further dangers of fracking. |
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Raising taxes and the debt ceiling is just like the Holocaust! Time for a corollary to Godwin's Law? |
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Mikey Weinstein: The Moonie-owned Washington Times has got no business criticizing "fringe ideas" in religion. |
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The reason we reason: not to get the right answer, but to convince that other chimp to give you the fruit. |
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The Inner Party was right: War is peace! Coming up: Why 2 + 2 = 5. |
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Most new WP editors are editing in Good Faith... I wonder what the chart looks like for CP? |
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This GOP pre-debate rally brought to you by the John Birch Society and the Oath Keepers |
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What do the anti-vaxers actually want? Their aims are political and legal - we need science, but it's not enough. |
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Universities electing their own MPs using AV, rotten boroughs with no actual constituents, and a system that wasn't really worked out until 1950. The voting system that Cameron is fighting for is a veritable novelty. |
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Now would be a good time for the U.S. to tell the Saudis where to shove their human rights abuses, etc. |
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The winger reaction to Osama's death is as remarkably consistent as it was for Egypt: How can we attack Obama with this? He didn't get OBL fast enough! He took too much credit! Ad infinitum ad nauseam... |
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SkepticalScience has been running a good series dismantling the arguments of "lukewarmer" climatologist Richard Lindzen: The Lindzen Illusion, Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3. Update: Pt. 4 is out |
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Five bizarre GOP reactions to OBL's death. UPDATE: And from a quickly forming group of conspiracy theorists led by Andrew Breitbart comes reaction number 6. To paraphrase Mark Twain, "the story of OBL's death may be greatly exaggerated." |
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The guy who live-blogged the bin Laden raid... without realizing it. |
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Indians who wish to volunteer as translators for the Missionaries of Charity are often turned away, for two reasons: (1) they speak the language, so they might try to actually treat the patients; (2) they are more prone to be nosy and ask stupid questions such as, "What are you doing with all your money?" |