{"id":1252,"date":"2004-12-09T16:55:04","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T00:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/09\/various-links-to-various-places\/"},"modified":"2004-12-09T16:55:04","modified_gmt":"2004-12-10T00:55:04","slug":"various-links-to-various-places-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1252","title":{"rendered":"Various links to various places"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been meaning to link to <a href=\"http:\/\/liliane.keenspace.com\/\">Liliane, Bi-Dyke <\/a>for ages. Lots of really terrific cartoons here. I particularly enjoyed her 27-page comic for women who&#8217;d like to be taken for men, <a href=\"http:\/\/liliane.keenspace.com\/d\/20041007.html\"><i>Tips on Passing<\/i><\/a>.\n<li>I wasted some time today reading through<a href=\"http:\/\/www.findadeath.com\/\"> Find A Death dot com<\/a>. I had no idea that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findadeath.com\/Deceased\/q\/GlennQuinn\/glenn_quinn.htm\">Glenn Quinn <\/a>&#8211; who I thought was excellent as Mark on <i>Roseanne<\/i>, and who also played Doyle on <i>Angel <\/i>&#8211; died two years ago. Typical sad Hollywood drug overdose thing.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2002114234_webprivacy09.html\">Interesting news story<\/a> &#8211; in at least one state, parents do not have the right to eavesdrop on their children. The Washington state Supreme Court has overturned a pursesnatching conviction, because some evidence used at trial came from a mom eavesdropping on her teen daughter&#8217;s phone conversation (the daughter&#8217;s boyfriend was the pursesnatcher). &#8220;The court ruled that the daughter and her boyfriend had a reasonable expectation of privacy on the phone. Washington state law prohibits intercepting or recording conversations without consent from all participants.&#8221;\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2004\/12\/05\/ngay05.xml\">At last, a good reason <\/a>for pregnant women to take weight-loss pills.\n<li>Just found this online &#8211; The Senate Judiciary Committee&#8217;s 1993 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mith2.umd.edu\/WomensStudies\/GenderIssues\/Violence+Women\/ResponsetoRape\/\">&#8220;The Response to Rape&#8221; <\/a>report. I remember reading this off a blurry microfilm copy a decade ago, and being appalled. A very important report on how the justice system is simply unlikely to put a rapist in prison; and a decade later, it&#8217;s still mostly accurate, as far as I can tell. From the report:\n<div class=\"snip\">* 98% of rape victims will never see their attacker apprehended, convicted and incarcerated.<br \/>\n* Over half (54%) of all rape prosecutions result in either a dismissal or an acquittal.<br \/>\n* Almost one quarter of convicted rapists are not sentenced to prison but, instead, are released on probation.<br \/>\n* Almost half of all convicted rapists are sentenced to less than one year behind bars.<\/div>\n<p>The lesson, imo, isn&#8217;t just that reforms are needed (although they are), but also that it&#8217;s folly to depend on the criminal justice system to bring about any large-scale reduction of rape.<\/p>\n<li>I&#8217;m getting to be a big fan of Minnesota <i>City Pages <\/i>writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citypages.com\/authors\/summary.asp?PPDID=104\">Beth Hawkins<\/a>. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll blog several articles of hers in the weeks to come.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lucy_skeleton.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/images\/lucy_skeleton.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"149\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelpaulus.com\/gallery\/character-Skeletons\">This is awesome<\/a> &#8211; skeleton studies of various cartoon characters. Do check it out.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mousewords.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/valuing-fetuses.html\">Amanda at Mouse Words <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/archives\/000712.html\">Jessica at Feministing <\/a>comment on Frances Kissling&#8217;s article about the value of a fetus.\n<li>The next stage of &#8220;conscience clauses&#8221;: a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?set_id=1&#038;click_id=13&#038;art_id=vn20041209031313859C716538\">South African nurse is suing <\/a>for the right to <i>refuse to treat critically injured women <\/i>who were hurt as a result of complications while getting an abortion. You read that right: She&#8217;s not suing for the right to refuse to <i>perform <\/i>abortions, she&#8217;s suing for the right to sit by and refuse to give women injured during abortion procedures lifesaving treatment. (Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/premature-terminal-delivery.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/compassion-or-frustration.html\">Premature Terminal Delivery<\/a>, where the pro-life blogger approves of this nurse&#8217;s position.) Tell me again how pro-lifers don&#8217;t want to see women punished?<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to link to Liliane, Bi-Dyke for ages. Lots of really terrific cartoons here. I particularly enjoyed her 27-page comic for women who&#8217;d like to be taken for men, Tips on Passing. I wasted some time today reading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1252\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,40,50,96,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights","category-international-issues","category-link-farms","category-rape-intimate-violence-related-issues","category-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}