The Onion is a satire news site. They report ridiculous, outlandish things that are gross exaggerations or outright fabrications for the purpose of humor. However, if you've been watching Twitter, Facebook, or other social media sites long enough, you can see people who...

1.) ...clearly have no idea what satire is ( Read more... )

(...wherein I begin playing PolitiFact for myself ( Read more... )

There's a chain e-mail
Sayin' Obama's Kenyan.
Who you gonna call?
RUMOR BUSTERS!In this exciting issue of the blog ( Read more... )

So, Hosni Mubarak left Egypt and resigned as its president. This is a truly historic moment for the Egyptian people, as it not makes possible the free and democratic election of legitimate leaders that the Egyptians have been missing out on for decades now.

This is a good thing.

But Glenn Beck thinks otherwise.

He says:But, just in case, let ( Read more... )

Sarah Palin, re: "Sputnik Moment""Yeah, that was another of those 'WTF' moments, when he so often repeated, this 'Sputnik moment', he would aspire [SIC] Americans to celebrate, to remember back then with the former Communist U.S.S.R., and their victory, that their, and their race to space, that yeah, they won, but they incurred so much debt at the ( Read more... )

A fact is something that is can be proven true. There are records, numerical data sets, or empirical observations that substantiate that something is factual ( Read more... )