RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/May 2013

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May 2013

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It's Patrick Stewart, you love Patrick Stewart. If not, why not? I mean, seriously, watch it. You love Patrick Stewart.

3

Religion can't stop boot-knocking.

18

Immunization rates among children are falling, but not just from anti-vaccination movements.

16

The White House's We The People petition to support an international treaty that would expand media accessibility to blind people is itself not accessible to blind people.

9

"And at my age you’re glad of the company, so immigration doesn’t bother me. The more the merrier as long as they’re not French."

23

Shedding some light on the "Hitler Loved Gun Control" Argument.

5

Tea heil! The Hitler kettle is in hot water. UPDATE: Aw, they pulled it from their site!

11

Tom “Female Penguins are Whores ” Martin, banned from A Voice for Men for excessive feminism?

8

A one-question quiz to determine whether or not your Christian denomination should support same-sex marriage.

13

The Onion calls it quits, can't keep up with the other side of Poe's Law (Yes, it is a joke....)

7

The Atlantic Wire tempts Betteridge's Law on the Rob Ford crack scandal.

22

A new one for the books: argumentum ad monsantium

21

The Family Research Council cries "persecution!" and clearly does not know what a minority is, and the Southern Poverty Law Center has to spell out exactly why we think fundies are assholes.

24

Fox News last week: The Department of Justice must prosecute journalists who leak classified information! Fox News this week: "We will not allow a climate of press intimidation, unseen since the McCarthy era, to frighten any of us away from the truth." Oh.

14

How this helps hipsters or the religious is unknown.

15

Politicus USA takes a look at how quickly Congressman Tom Cole (R-OK) decided Obama was his best friend in the wake of the tornado.

13

"The danger for the Republicans is that pressing the Watergate analogy could simply transform (the Obama scandals) into a farce... If they project a hungry look of vengeance, they may be the victims, not the beneficiaries, of all these problems."

18

Sorry Blitz.

10

"My bike, it's messed up...I fuck your mother!" "Oh really? That's so good for her, she hadn't had much of a sex life. First I thought you were angry with me and now you come with this wonderful message."

5

A speculative essay of 'Murca ten years from now: "How America Became a Third World Country: The impact of sequester down the line."

20

The Pirate Party of Georgia draws a line in the sand.

33

The cult of "before" stories - I was a satanist, a drug dealer, a porn addict and a rapist before I came to God and became a liar.

2

Now you know where those bigots come from.

8

Here's one for mothers of newborns. Maybe formula isn't as bad as the pseudoscience types say. The war against natural mothering starts in 3…2…1.

15

Vaccine deniers are supported by Big Pharma to improve their profits. And here's some fucking proof of the conspiracy. It only makes sense.

18

"Ignoring the cost of climate change is bad business." - wait, that's not the traditional right-wing mantra, right?

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4 Things We Should Remember When Arguing About Politics

13

Technology is not a barrier to sustainable energy, but we need to change our thinking.

23

Conspiracy theorists are flummoxed by an actual scandal.

7

Is overt racism and sexism really a good advertising strategy? "Mountain Dew Releases Arguably the Most Racist Commercial in History." If you're curious, this video commentary by the Young Turks includes the full ad within the first 70 seconds. (The ad revolves around a trash-talking goat, so it must be RW material.)

17

Will the conservative old codgers of the House of Lords block same-sex marriage in the UK? Unlikely, actually. (Clogorific bonus material in the comments)

11

Cracked: The 5 Most Insulting Defences of Nerd Racism

15

Google releases remarkable Landsat footage of human expansion in the past 25 years. (Some commentary by Hank Green)

16

Oh, my! George Takei takes the usual anti-gay / reparative therapy PSA and turns it on its head.

28

The EU would like to slow down automated stock trading so that a purchased stock must be held for 500 milliseconds (1/2 second) before being resold. To illustrate the current virtually unregulated situation, a company specializing in stock-trading software has produced a video showing 500 milliseconds of the trading of a single stock, slowed down by a factor of 720.

25

Stavvers: Has it been scientifically proven racists and homophobes are stupid? Er, no.

28

"Why didn't she just run away?" Ten years after being rescued from her kidnappers, Elizabeth Smart tells a Johns Hopkins University audience that rape victims raised in conservative households and communities often feel worthless, like a "chewed-up piece of gum. Nobody re-chews a piece of gum. You throw it away."

18

Nate Silver summarizes argumentum ad verecundiam.

9

No, the DSM is not being thrown out.

16

Humans: only 70% similar to chimps?

16

Ken Ham commits autoparody.

27

What I would say to creationists if I were was more of a dick.

16

In addition to abstaining from JAQing off, you should also stop FAPing.

26

From this day forward, Donald Trump will be given the title of Fuckface von Clownstick.

6

According to this blogger's unnamed sources, almost every player in the NFL has a closet to go with their locker room. (Warning: Poe's Law in action!)

19

Do you know what happens when people start to learn?

22

We have to start questioning if wingnuts' attention to Nancy Pelosi is simply because she's just a liberal boogeywoman.

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Food buzzwords demystified, a video focusing on food labels as protected terms, most notably "organic". sadly the informative video is followed by a petition link that borders on crankery