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RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/May 2014
May 2014[edit]
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The Attack of the Drones seems to be silently ending in Pakistan. |
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The audiophile woo motherlode: Wat Hifi? |
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Further coverage of the manosphere's lower depths in the the wake of the UCSB massacre: A look at some of the forums where Elliot Rodger hung out and the people he crossed paths with. More disturbingly, a look at the PUAHate forum community in the aftermath of the shootings, many of whom apparently see Rodger as an everyman or a hero. |
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The Financial Times has some 'splainin' to do. |
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Arthur Chu: "So, a question, to my fellow male nerds. What the fuck is wrong with us?" |
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Politico decides to give its conservative readers a reality check on the Religious Right. |
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When Stephen Colbert called the Teabaggers "a bug up the elephant's ass," he may have been too kind. |
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Jeb Bush, Republican intellectual. No, seriously. |
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Cracked looks into Vladimir Putin's crazy Bond-villainy. |
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I am shocked, shocked, to hear that there was massive fraudulent Bitcoin trading at Mt. Gox. |
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Post-banking crisis: The system worked. Kinda. |
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Hooray! Now cops have to serve even those with different religious beliefs! Wait...why would any sane person think they shouldn't? |
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And nothing of value was lost. |
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More Onion: Scientists Politely Remind World That Clean Energy Technology Ready To Go Whenever |
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The Onion: Congress Reluctant To Cut Funding For Tank That Just Spins Around And Self-Destructs |
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With "250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of separate but equal, 35 years of state-sanctioned redlining," and a continued only-in-America anti-intellectualism on what should be the blatant, blatant obvious, should we seriously consider reopening the debate on reparations? [1] |
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Not A Racist Nick Wade gets his book on genetic European superiority dismantled by Eric Michael Johnson in Scientific American. |
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Here's a bold prediction: The Suppository of Wisdom will not survive to 2017. |
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Wow. Even the freakin' National Review thinks the gun nuts have gone too far. |
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Just like Anti-Italianism and Anti-Catholicism, history repeats itself. |
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You Soviet-nostalgic, Marx-invoking, socialist freaks! ...Oh hello, Mr. Putin. |
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*Everyone stares at Alex Trebek* "What? I really don't have an opinion on the matter." |
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35 Top excuses why 29,999,000 people missed Operation American Spring. |
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A lesson for jingoists before the 70th anniversary of D-Day. |
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UKIP show their true colours - they're the same as the Standing At The Back Dressed Stupidly And Looking Stupid Party from Blackadder. |
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Psychic Sally shows her true skills by receiving messages from somebody who's alive and well and in the audience... |
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Denmark. It is a silly place. |
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US military brass: |
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How do you know when American conservatism is (finally) losing the war on economics? When Marginal Revolution is reduced to this. |
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It appears "Ban Bossy" had a point to make. |
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Future US Senator: “Government cannot force citizens to violate their religious beliefs under any circumstances.” |
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Australia the bizarre: after the Suppository of Wisdom failed to repeal the carbon levy, he's now increased gas taxes and taxes on the rich. |
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Everyone's favorite motor mouth of wrestling, Jim Cornette, compares religion to cosmetic surgery: all of it's elective but some people need it drastically, some for a touch up, and some are addicted and want to force it on you. |
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Nicholas Wade just wrote an apologetic for scientific racism. (And guess which great luminaries are trying to put it into the spotlight.) |
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Just in case anyone really thinks the poor are secretly living the high life, or that all people are jerks. |
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"How God May Replace the US Constitution in Just Three Easy Steps." |
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Got someone who doesn't understand that correlation does not imply causation? Show them that, for instance, US spending on science, space, and technology correlates with the number of suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation. |
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Iranian women using Facebook to subvert their country's hijab laws |
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"Dear Americans, Your Hashtags Won't #BringBackOurGirls; You Might Actually Be Making Things Worse." |
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If the Kremlin is trying to create a Ukrainian Civil War, it's not working. Cue Napoleon. |
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*Wakes up, puts bread into the toaster* Hmm...hmm... Oh. Oh my god. |
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Fox News may have just unsettled its $8 million hush money settlement. |
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Two parter on Atheism Plus's rise and fall (and how it could have avoided its eventual demise). |
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“Why do Muslim women accept and believe these things anyway?” |
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Republicans, if you really care about free speech, make sure you reflect that in your Supreme Court justices. |
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the reaction to the comments of LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling: "More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism." |
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Joel McHale drops anvils on everyone at the 2014 White House Correspondents Dinner. (Not as good as Colbert's, but it's going to be remembered.) |
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What took you so long, GOP? Benghazi has officially entered into Truther levels. (And the jokes keep coming.) |
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Vladimir Putin seems determined to become the next Milosevic. |
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