RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/August 2013

August 2013[edit]

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"Same Love" is about gay marriage? That's such a surprise! Of course, the real victim here is the supporters of "traditional marriage"! To top things off, she used a Neil Patrick Harris gif in the article and hoped that Eminem would make a heterosexual version of "Same Love", cause they're well known for their opposition to gay marriage.

14

Jerome Corsi doesn't believe sex is about fun. And to be fair, you've got to think that it probably isn't for him!

27

According to Ken Ham, storms are caused by sin, not weather.

23

Bananaman says he'll release the unedited footage of "Evolution vs God," provided American Atheists can "convince him with a good reason to."

28

Glenn, you do know that energy-efficient light bulbs cost you less in the long-term? We didn't know you were so anti-capitalist!

22

More nonsense from Pat: “Gay people deliberately spread HIV/AIDS by cutting people with special rings.” Apparently, it is also illegal to talk about AIDS.

7

Let's pay Edward Snowden's legal fund. With Bitcoins!

21

Hitler was a bitter beta male who wouldn’t have started World War II if he’d read my pickup artist blog. (HT Manboobz.)

18

Book your tickets for the "World Congress of Quantum ~~Woo~~ Medicine".

22

At last, RenewAmerica proposes an actual mechanism by which same-sex marriage will destroy heterosexual marriage! Women will all marry each other, take all the legal privilege from men and steal their sperm.

30

"Suppose ID wins…"

15

You'd think a $170 cure ^{Hat tip} for autism would remember to spell the condition it's curing right. The customer reviews make good reading.

25

Courtesy of arch-paleocon Thomas Fleming: "Chelsea Manning deserves to be punished like the witches at the Salem witch trials." Does he not realize that the people executed in those trials weren't actual witches?

4

A pastor at a Salt Lake City-area (non-Mormon) megachurch takes on the prosperity gospel in general and Joel Osteen and Joyce Meyer in particular. It might have been an interesting smack-down of an even more destructive addendum layered onto an already harmful belief system. But then it quickly degenerates into the old, familiar "our batshit crazy interpretation of this batshit crazy theology is true; your batshit crazy interpretation of this batshit crazy theology is false" argument.

29

Welfare is bad, except when I do it.

32

Before It's News' latest "Big Government BAD Small government GOOD" article: United States Senate wants to ban certain types of tattoos and piercings. Reality, and from their own linked source: the Arkansas State Senate passed the bill. The bill's sponsor is a Republican who thinks body modification is icky.

14

Yeah, Ergodan, just keep pushing your country's reputation down the drain.

24

Ken Ham: You see, we can’t depend solely on our reasoning ability to convince skeptics.

19

Ermehgerd! Congress is full of commies!

26

If you go to the MSN homepage today (18 August) and watch their little slideshow of headlines and puff pieces, you'll see the headline "New theory counters Darwin's evolution." Click on the link, and it will take you to this video clip from the Science Channel which, from the title, you will instantly realize is actually an old, discredited theory which is being presented as "new" by a "scientist" we've heard from before. UPDATE: Later in the day, the homepage headline was changed to "Through the Wormhole: Intelligent Design."

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TIME Journalist can't wait to write a drone strike that kills Julian Assange. He has since taken the tweet down and claimed he was hit with persecution complex

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No doubt the author will be this passionate about where the President was born when the Canuck Ted Cruz runs.

17

A Doctor of Oriental Medicine propounds a bold new taxonomy of disease: "Chinese medicine can help to make sense of most mental and physical problems in the United States and organize them into three main categories: those of chronic tension, excessive interior heat and excess weight." Also, said problems are all Reagan's fault. P.S.: One of his books is titled Avoiding Death Indefinitely.