RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/November 2012
November 2012[edit]
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A Fox News contributor (who formerly declared Islam to be a “messed up” religion) tells the network that its War on Christmas coverage is just as silly as atheists fussing over it. |
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Higgs Boson nominated for Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" - pretty much every sentence in the nomination has some factual inaccuracy. |
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An analogy to try to explain what it's like arguing with a pseudoscience advocate. |
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Nothing in Movement Conservatism Makes Sense Except in the Light of Creationism. "The comparison isn’t just snark–that’s just a bonus." |
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RW linking to celebrity gossip blogs? Well I never! Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith deliver important lessons on preconceived notions of what is "female" and what it means to be in charge of your own body and life. |
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We won the Cold War, so where are all the monuments? |
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Not drinking wine is as bad for you as being a light smoker. |
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The Republican War on Arithmetic, summarized. |
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Answering the 10 questions for pro-choicers. |
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Daily Kos on the descent of the GOP: "The GOP has changed from a party that held a few extreme positions, into one that holds nothing but." |
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The Canucks were the first to figure this out, and now the folks at Slate finally got it: Republicans got a moderate conservative into the Oval Office that Mitt could never be. |
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FOX NEWS ALERT: President imitating Internet memes while America falls off fiscal cliff! |
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Maybe the divinely inspired book calls it "demonic possession" because it sounds more poetic than "anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis." |
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Pizza chain CEO who owns "a 40,000 square-foot mansion in a tony suburb of Louisville, Kentucky, that features several swimming pools, a private golf course and a 22-car garage among other amenities," threatens to make all of his employees part-timers in order to save the $5 to $8 million that (he says) Obamacare will cost him. He also claims that O-care will cost him between 11 and 14 cents per pizza. Forbes columnist does the math: It'll cost between 3.4 and 4.6 cents per pizza -- and, besides, the company gives away about 2 million pizzas in an annual promotion that costs between $24 and $32 million dollars. |
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Exactly why the Daily Mail is end-to-end vile shit. Alternate headline: Fuck You, Daily Mail. |
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The only hope for the pandas of politics: evolution. |
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An astoundingly useful and sensible post on Above Top Secret, of all places: The Illustrated Field Guide to Internet Kooks. |
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Snopes: Goodbye to the Redskins Rule. |
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In other election news, Maine elects the first open WoW gamer to state senate. From the comments: "Well I sure as hell wouldn't have voted for a horde player!!" |
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A visual representation of who was accurate on the presidential election, and who wasn't. |
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Welcome to Liberal America. Get over it. |
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The Onion shines again: "Nation Unsure Which Candidate's Plan To Destroy The Environment Will Create More Jobs" |
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IGN: Nearly 1/4 of registered voters are considering playing Halo 4 than casting their ballot. |
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"Barack Obama's presidency has been an inspiration to many Americans—especially nutjobs." (A list of (almost) every Obama conspiracy theory ever.) |
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The House is insanely close to having an all-black Democratic caucus and an all-white Republican caucus in the South. Zombie Lincoln arises... |
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Easiest way to usurp Iranian theocracy: start a rave. Protip: just don't adopt Israel's signature "music." |
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Ah, if conservatives only knew who Ian McKellen is. (And who the fuck are the Bieber/Twilight fans here?) |
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Artificial stupidity implemented! Mathgen paper accepted by journal. |
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