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Of all the sins that worry the religious right, lust, in the form of pornography, seems to dominate their every other waking thought.
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People are reading more articles with which they agree, and are twisting satire and humor to fit their existing worldview, even when they're told they're being mocked.
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After Stalin's crackdowns were over, the USSR was a lot less hostile to religion than Americans are often taught.
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Texas finally had enough of Don McLeroy's leadership of the school board. But he's still on the board and still a threat to reality-based education.
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GOP congressman Mike Pence managed to perform a rare feat: an interview about science and environment in which every statement was completely wrong.
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Disease prevention suddenly turns partisan thanks to America's most out of control congresswoman...
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Fundamentalism and politics becomes a noxious, incoherent mess in Utah County.
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You can make a lot of money and still feel like you're just barely getting by. It's all a matter of math and geography...
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Fundamentalists want credit to their chosen deity for everything that happens in your life. Except the bad stuff that is...
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Capitalism will always be with us. We just need to learn how to use it, not serve it like an angry deity.