RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/November 2011
November 2011[edit]
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Mock trials against the Dirty Petroleum Pigs are underway at Occupy Wall Street. The prosecutor, a yellow-journalist known for slinging reckless conspiracy-theoretic charges in all directions, will present you with all the evidence; just buy his book for $35. |
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This year's bill for funding the U.S. military has has really got this blogger upset, as he calls it a "Soviet proposal" implementing "Sino-Chinese security policy." |
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Same sex marriage violates the fifth and fourteenth amendments, as a feminist conspiracy for women to enter into gay marriages for the tax benefits. From a protege of Phyllis Schlafly. |
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Some facts about Iceland that the American media doesn't want you to know: (1) it is a member of the EU; (2) it had an "agrarian collapse" in the 9th century, despite its not even having any agriculture to collapse until the end of that century. UPDATE: Naomi Klein endorses the article and fact-checkers find almost more errors in it than there are words. |
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Why use half-baked personality tests to make personnel decisions when you've got the power of astrology? (Now with 100% more Brazilian supermodel link bait.) |
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Graham Spanier and Linda Katehi at one point served on the same academia-FBI liaison council. Therefore, this council must be abolished, since the FBI used it not only to tell Katehi to have protesters pepper-sprayed at UC Davis, but to help Spanier cover up abuse at Penn State. |
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For those who wish to turn the Thanksgiving dinner table into a full-blown critique of global capitalism, some tips: Drop the jargon and use plain language, such as, "Did you see that video of the police cracking down on the non-violent student protesters?" |
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From the man who resigned after Muslim students complained about him being an asshole comes The Cult of Atheism - with extra added bonus chilling font. |
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Irony meters take a beating as Prof. Henry A. Giroux launches a broadside against "intellectuals who have retreated into arcane discourses" and make "few connections with audiences outside of the academy or to the myriad issues that bear down on everyday lives." |
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The Coultergeist on OWS: "It just took a few shootings at Kent State to shut that down for good." |
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1: Claim there is a conspiracy. |
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Comment Is Free, but woo is sacred, as a freeman on the land gets space in the Guardian. |
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Can't cover-up the mass libertarian faults in 2008? Pull the Greece straw man, and blame everything on the students. |
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Mike Adams reveals the most outrageous cover-ups of modern life, including water fluoridation, fake honey, Ron Paul press coverage, and much more! |
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Let's string pro-vaccine people up! As in, literally lynch employees of the CDC |
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From the man who brought you the "Gaystapo" (see below), Stonewall giving Melanie Phillips a (well-deserved) "Bigot of the Year Award" is giving her a yellow star to wear. |
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Chuck Norris weighs in on vaccines. |
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Theology insufficiently sophisticated to have heard of Mike Godwin. (This one made the papers.) |
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We sorry to hear you've stopped coming to Church, so fuck off and die. |
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Pamela Geller: YouTube is a well-known pro-Jihadi outlet subject to Sharia law. |
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How the "virtuocracy" really caused all the world's problems. |
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The old "electric pickle" experiment proves two things: first, that sodium atoms (such as the ones in the pickle brine) will produce light when excited and second, that Christianity is the One True Religion |
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Pale Blue Dot refuted! Also, Sagan was a plagiarist. |