Conservapedia

Being something that the content of the internet is entirely user based (more so increasingly with this Web 2.0 Garbage, but I'll comment on that later), the more the internet actually seems to reflect actual-factual life. Myspace perhaps, being one of the better examples, a forum for people to truly say what they want to say and some cases, be who they want to be.) It, in some cases, reflects life more accurately than life portrats itself. Of course, just as many times, you have a thirty year old fat man pretending to be a teenage coquette. It seems this Web 2.0 [read:buzzword] is a magical place, indeed.

But problems of Myspace aside, this user based thing was bound to have its problems anyway. If you disagree, go look at a usegroup or just about any forum- it's an eerie look into the future of LJDrama and MySpace acct. deletion and such actions.

And of course, with the political state in the past 5 or 6 years, this was bound to happen:

The Accusation of the Internet's Liberal Bias

And thus, the conservinet (You heard that term here first!) was founded! Conservapedia is a lot of what started it. I think. Unless you want to look BEYOND the internet, but who does that anymore? Apparently, Wikipedia has too much of a liberal bias. Articles like ''Fucktard Middle School (Oregon)'' and ''jacob and andrew r cool and not gay emos!'' (both real Wikipedia vandalism) are, apparently, the Liberal Media Machine at work. So, of course, Conservapedia was founded to counter this brainwashing of America. So, you can see how the creation of such an encyclopedia is completely justified.

Some of my favorite things from this site:

• Homosexuality is an immoral sexual lifestyle...Reference? Oh, just the BIBLE. Maybe you've heard of it?
• Though the liberal media continues to disparage Bush's handling of the economy, they often neglect to report the many aspects of the economy that Bush has improved. For example, during his term Exxon Mobil has posted the largest profit of any company in a single year, and executive salaries have greatly increased as well.Yes, the rest of the public, outside of the liberal media, is truly pleased with how Bush has handled the economy, especially when it comes to the oil companies. Thanks for pointing that out!
• Woody Allen is a comedian, writer, director and actor. Citation needed.

They define willful ignorance as The practice or act of intentional and blatant avoidance, disregard or disagreement with facts, empirical evidence and well-founded arguments because they oppose or contradict your own existing personal beliefs. The truest, and my favorite, page on their site.

Coincedentally, the LA Times ran an article on Conservapedia today. Apparently, this whole project started because one of the founder's students used BCE instead of BC on a paper. Andy Schlafly, the founder of Conservapedia, was so appalled that the girl picked this up from Wikipedia he decided he had to act. So, the site was born. Granted, Wikipedia is pretty dubious as a source of factual information... but let's face it. One girl's attempt at political correctness exploded into a web (pun intended!) spun of ire and the beginning of a NEW! faction of the conservative media machine- one where they bring you ''an objective, bias-free piece from a conservative perspective.''

Okay, wait. What?