Got a question? Want to learn something new or be surprised by what you didn't know about something old? Want to laugh your butt off?

Try [rationalwiki.org].

Their mission statement:

Our purpose here at RationalWiki includes:

1. Analyzing and refuting pseudoscience and the anti-science movement;
2. Documenting the full range of crank ideas;
3. Explorations of authoritarianism and fundamentalism;
4. Analysis and criticism of how these subjects are handled in the media.

It is a relentlessly rational (well, duh!) examination of just about everything in the universe since the beginning of Time itself (I may exaggerate, but not much). The site's speciality is tearing down your illusions about just about everything you might still hold dear. Believe in Bigfoot? You won't. Loch Ness Monster? Ditto. Homeopathic Medicine? Oh, please. UFOs visiting Earth? Spare me.

And politics are in no way off limits. All parties come in for a shellacking; although it may seem the Republicans are the butt-monkeys of the site, it's only because they do, say, and believe so many utterly irrational things (and they lie their asses off, too). But Democrats, Libertarians, Socialists- all get taken down a few pegs, if only because the site's contributors and editors are scrupulously, relentlessly honest, and because Democrats, etc. lie sometimes too (along with breaking promises, exaggerating, shading the truth... you get the picture).

They also give credit where credit's due. For instance, we can thank the Republicans for legalizing abortion in the first place: Roe v Wade occurred in 1973, and of the 9 justices on the court, 4 were appointed by Nixon and two more under Eisenhower. [rationalwiki.org] Nixon also Signed Title IX into law, banning federally funded education programs from discriminating based on sex; championed the 26th Amendment lowering the voting age to 18 (Nixon was probably aware that the majority of the people enfranchised by the amendment were left-wing Democrat supporters, but viewed it as necessary to make American democracy stronger); reduced the United States deficit by 70% (what Republican President since can make that claim?); and passed the National Cancer Act and launched the War on Cancer, massively increasing spending on cancer research.

These are just a few of the surprises awaiting you. If you want to know the truth, as much of the whole truth as we know, and nothing but the truth about almost anything under the sun, or if you just want a bloody good wiki-walk down more rabbit holes than all the back 40s in Texas; visit [rationalwiki.org].

(I have received no compensation, promotional materials, or favors, sexual or non-, for this post! I just like the hell out of this website.)