Welp ... The Whore of Babylon, perhaps related to the bunch of stories in the right column following the lead one (Hosing the influence of evolutionist rats out of Britain before more British college women enter the sex trade!); recitation of line 1 of the The Creed (One thing you can be very sure of: The world is approximately 6,000 years old.[4]); some sports news (The liberal media continue to prefer failure rather than support playing the conservative Tim Tebow. Today the Jets barely squeaked by the 2-11 Jaguars.); and that's just the first glance.
If it says so in The Trustworthy Encyclopedia, then it MUST be true.
Although ... Phyllis Schlafly's son is evidently a little butthurt. Here's a partial screengrab of his Very Important Project's current home page. (Click image to enlarge, and note that original screen grab is 666 pixels wide. Coincidence???)
What's worse, fundie wingnut math or fundie wingnut attempts at humor?
Also: PK happened to blog about this ("First They Came For The Climate Scientists") BECAUSE HE'S A LIEBRUL and that caused Tom Tomorrow to email him a link to his latest comic. (Which is a truly marvelous comic, but unfortunately, the margins of this blog are too small to contain it.)
The Conservative Bible Project is a project utilizing the "best of the public" to render God's word into modern English without liberal translation distortions.[1]
And as a further measure of the utter cluelessness of these people, they note with pride:
A Colbert Report interview featured this project.[2]
[Update 2009-01-27 20:03] Looks like I put the whammy on things. The site appears to be coming back up, slowly. See the Comments.
As of this moment, Conservapedia, the "Trustworthy" (i.e., wingnut) version of Wikipedia, is missing from the Web. I'm not just getting a "site busy" or "server taking too long to respond" message; I'm getting a message saying that the name itself is unknown. (Try it.)
Would it be irresponsible to speculate? As those who might favor Conservapedia would say: It would be irresponsible not to speculate!
Total Drek, after detailed analysis, thinks the site owner (yes, Phyllis's son) is trying to turn back the clock to better days:
Folks, there is only one possible conclusion: Andrew Schlafly is attempting to go back in time to when Barack Obama was not president and conservatives* had not been utterly repudiated by the masses. My best guess at this point is that he'll keep going until Reagan is in office.
A backup site, conservativeencyclopedia.com, supposedly containing a static (non-editable) version of Conservapedia, appears at this moment to have vanished, too. That URL now only shows a generic parked page, as though hosting bills have not been paid.
There's a timeline of recent events on the watchdog site, RationalWiki.
Atheistic theories of the origin of the Moon, widely taught for decades despite lacking the falsifiability requirement of science (see Philosophy of science), have been proven false.
Not falsifiable, yet falsified. Now that's magical thinking!
I have added a Google Custom Search box to the sidebar. This tool allows you to do a Google-powered search over a restricted set of sites (instead of the entire Web). I call this set a sampling of Wingnuttia. It's made up of some of the better-known blogs and websites that represent the unhinged Right.
If you enter a search string into the box and click the Search button, your results should appear in a new tab (or window, I suppose), depending on your browser and how you have it configured. You may see Google-generated ads on the search page. These are Google's, not mine. TANSTAAFL.
As of this moment, the search space comprises 3233343637454647484952555657595859616263646566656669727374 75 sites. I'll post the full list in the Comments in a few minutes [update: done].
[Update 2 (2008-12-12): the list now appears at the bottom of this post, and will be updated in that place from now on. The earlier versions of the list in the Comments have been deleted, out of some twisted sense of frugality on my part.]
Please feel free to suggest additional sites to be added to the list. Any other questions, comments, or criticisms are of course welcome, too.
Thanks to Twin for suggestions he's already made (and now to Dan Weston and J.A. Baker, too), and to Teh Sadlys, from whom I swiped an image to dress up the search results page, and who do such an inspirational job keeping an eye on the wingnutosphere. And if you're really new to Wingnuttia, Roy Edroso's guide is the best general introduction.
If you like this little toy but don't want to have to come here to use it, you have options:
Click the "Wingnuttia Search" hyperlink above the search box. This takes you to the home page for this particular custom search engine. Bookmark that page.
Click the "+Google" icon below the box. This takes you to a page where you can add this particular gadget to your own iGoogle page.
If you want to grab the code for this gadget to embed it on your own blog or website, click the "Wingnuttia Search" hyperlink and on the new page, click the link labeled "Add this search engine to your blog or webpage." On that next page, click the "Get the Code" button. If you like, you can customize the look of the gadget before you copy and embed the code.
Cripes. Is that song really more than a quarter of a century old? Ouch.
Here is the list of sites that make up the Wingnuttia Search space, as of 2010-04-08 22:04.
Notes:
Sorting is naively alphabetical, except for a possible leading definite article. Therefore, you'll find both Ann Coulter and Anchoress, The under A.
Instapundit is not explicitly listed here. The Ole Perfesser's heh, indeeds are found as part of the search over the Pajamas Media domain. (See?)
Similarly for Big Hollywood -- it's under the breitbart.com domain.
Gateway Pundit now spews at firstthings.com, so I've added that whole domain to the list. I've left his old site on the list, for historical research purposes, though I'm not sure the old stuff is still there. UPDATE: Looks like he got fired, or got a better offer from Kelsey. He's now at rightnetwork.com. Again, old site left on the list, for the same reason as before. UPDATE: Fired again? No longer at rightnetwork, in any case. This time, just changed the URL for "Gateway Pundit," since the old Blogspot version seems to be gone or at least fully redirected.
Interested in a Canada-specific version? See here.
NB: (2008-12-17 17:37) Removed Lucianne from the list because Google is currently showing it as a site that may infect your computer with malware. [Site fixed, added back 2008-12-24 05:08]
I often find that the results for a current hot topic are cluttered by frenzied chatter on Free Republic. To eliminate hits from the Freepers, add -freerepublic.com to the search string. (Note leading hyphen.) You can do this in the initial search or by adding it to the search box on the page of results.
To restrict the date range, do the search that you want. Then, on the results page, go up to your browser's location (address) bar, and add a string like this to the end of the URL: &as_qdr=d5. Then press Enter. (Note leading ampersand.)
This particular example restricts the results to the past five days. You can use another number in place of 5, of course. You can also use, say, &as_qdr=w2 to get results restricted to the last two weeks, &as_qdr=m4 to get results restricted to the last four months, &as_qdr=y1 to get results restricted to the past year, and so on. Here's what it looks like after searching for obama and then appending &as_qdr=d5 to the URL of the results page.
Note that, because of added comments or other updates to a given page, you may get hits from pages originally posted outside of the date range restriction you specified.
These techniques are general to all Google searches.
• Bob Cesca makes me slap my head -- in my morbid obsession of tracking unhinged Obama-haters, how could I have forgotten to keep an eye on Conservapedia?
