Category Archives: Link farms

I meant to post this yesterday, but didn’t end up having time… I’m afraid I’ve also lost the source links to most of these, so apologies to everyone I should credit but didn’t. In The Antichrist of North Carolina, Barbara … Continue reading →

Unimpressed discusses the “first mover advantage” and asks: even if opportunity did become equal between women and men and all races, wouldn’t white men still retain their “first in” advantage? Language Hat reproduces a couple of terrific accounts of life … Continue reading →

Journalist Gregory Palast posts a follow-up to his Cynthia McKinney article, Relynching Cynthia McKinney. Thanks to Alas reader Dan Sallari for pointing this out to me. Trish Wilson discusses the issues surrounding no-fault divorce. The blogger behind I know this … Continue reading →

Yay! Groupthink Central is back! I knew I was right to leave GC on the blogroll… Yuval has a good post up on Sharon’s surprising use of the “O” word (“To keep 3.5 million people under occupation is bad for … Continue reading →

You’ve been scammed, now pay AT&T $20,000 This is pretty infuriating… It’s a news story about a scam some folks use to illegally charge calls to someone with a voicemail address. They guess the voicemail passcode, replace the regular message … Continue reading →

Huge portions of Iraq’s Library were saved! Via Making Light, some good news for a change: Some smart Iraqis, seeing which way the wind was blowing, hid many of the Iraqi Libraries holdings before the looters and fires got to … Continue reading →

Everything on Body and Soul today about Iraq and Afghanistan is essential reading. Just start with this post and scroll down. An interesting Science News article about different voting systems. Basically, the US’s voting system – plurality voting – is … Continue reading →