{"id":11120,"date":"2010-09-03T00:14:13","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T07:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11120"},"modified":"2010-09-03T00:14:13","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T07:14:13","slug":"open-thread-wtf-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11120","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread: WTF Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Post what you like, as you like it. Self-linking makes me giggle like a small baby.<\/p>\n

This video might not be SFW:<\/p>\n

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  1. A buncha links on \u201ctriggering\u201d and \u201ccalling out\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Sex, Gender, and Toilet Signs<\/a>. A discussion of gender in bathroom signs. This is awesome, partly for the discussion, and partly for the enormous variety of signs that the blogger has collected and categorized.<\/li>\n
  3. Who are the girls<\/a> who need to bypass parental notification laws by going to a judge? It’s explained here, in painful and lengthy detail. This blogger really knows what she’s talking about; well worth reading.<\/li>\n
  4. “Charles Darwin … imagined a world in which organisms battled for supremacy and only the fittest survived. But new research identifies the availability of “living space”, rather than competition, as being of key importance for evolution.” Interesting idea<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  5. Great point:<\/a> But thinking of “choice” as the opposite of “discrimination,” as Brad Peck<\/strong> of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce did<\/a> in his blog post about the pay gap, is wrong. Discrimination and opportunity shape choice, and as long as women see an unfairly matched, uphill battle in every election, they’re unlikely to jump in willingly unless they have an unusual amount of resources or support.<\/em><\/li>\n
  6. Gov. Barbour Implicitly Criticizes GOP’s Tough Talk On Immigration<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. “The talented Ukrainian artist Vladislav Erko<\/a> has created an absolutely amazing deck of playing cards based on authentic traditional Ukrainian costumes.”<\/li>\n
  8. Riz Khan on Afghan Women<\/a>: “One thing that Riz Khan\u2019s program brought to light is that the damage done to women\u2019s rights is not just a result of Taliban rule nor is it just a result of occupation. The problems have preceded both the Taliban\u2019s rule and U.S. occupation and thus cannot be expected to be solved in just nine years of occupation.”<\/li>\n
  9. The Argument For Getting Rid Of The Home Mortgage Deduction<\/a>. Interestingly, what everyone says — that this deduction was created in order to encourage home ownership — isn’t true.<\/li>\n
  10. Female Impersonator reviews The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/a>. I really liked it, and would argue that it is a feminist novel (although not a perfect feminist work, but what is?).<\/li>\n
  11. “South Sudan is planning to literally re-build its city centers from scratch\u2026into the shape of… safari animals.” No, really. It’s worth clicking through <\/a>to see the proposed city plans.<\/li>\n
  12. Note to White House: It’s ugly out there. The base actually matters. Do something. Fast.<\/a> Although really, I think it’s too late. I’d be delighted to be wrong, but I think the Democrats are going to get creamed <\/em><\/a>in two months.<\/li>\n
  13. The Quest for a Solid Ice Beer Tray<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Republican Candidate Michael Stopa’s Anti-Atheist Bigotry Ignored.<\/a><\/li>\n
  15. I need a (non-copyrighted) drink<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. Quote<\/a>: “Really? No ‘more horrible person [can] be imagined’ than Alice Walker? Maybe if your imagination really, really sucks.”<\/li>\n
  17. The economy is going <\/a>to keep on sucking for a long, long time.<\/li>\n
  18. Prostitution on CraigsList: the US and Singapore<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. Ted Rall, of all people, argues that our mission in Afghanistan is doing some good<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  20. MLK\u2019s Movement Was More Interested in Justice Than Harmony<\/a>. There are also some really nice photos in this post.<\/li>\n
  21. The Death Dealer<\/a> — Rebecca Dart’s kitteny take on the famous Frazetta<\/a> painting.<\/li>\n
  22. I really like this 1916 photo<\/a> of a mother and her son, a marine. Not sure why.<\/li>\n
  23. You think your <\/em>hospital experience was bad? This man’s was worse<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  24. Eunomia <\/a>(one of the best foreign policy blogs out there — and I’m saying this about a conservative <\/em>blog!) discusses and defends Feisal Abdul Rauf’s most controversial statements.<\/li>\n
  25. (Yet Another Reason) Why immigration could help America<\/a><\/li>\n
  26. Paul Krugman: This Is Not a Recovery<\/a><\/li>\n
  27. The Ethos of an Advocate in an Adversarial Model of Democratic Discourse<\/a>: “Indeed, I worry that the whole premise of a \u201ccontest of advocates\u201d model is that there is someone sitting in the jury box, someone being convinced. But the more we sort into ideological tribes, the smaller the pool from which one might draw such a jury.”<\/li>\n
  28. Should Retirement Be Nasty, Brutish, and Shorter?<\/a><\/li>\n
  29. This cartoon cracked me up<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  30. A record backlog in immigration courts<\/a><\/li>\n
  31. Propaganda Posters of World War Two<\/a>. Includes some anti-American posters the Axis countries created!<\/li>\n
  32. On fatphobia, thin privilege, and \u201ceat a sandwich!\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n
  33. Below: An image from The LowBrow Tarot Card Project<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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