{"id":1260,"date":"2004-12-14T04:16:57","date_gmt":"2004-12-14T12:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/14\/link-here-link-there-link-everywhere\/"},"modified":"2004-12-14T04:16:57","modified_gmt":"2004-12-14T12:16:57","slug":"link-here-link-there-link-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1260","title":{"rendered":"Link here, link there, link everywhere!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gotta clear the build-up off my desktop&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not really new material, but <a href=\"http:\/\/left2right.typepad.com\/main\/2004\/12\/girlie_men.html\">a post on Left2Right <\/a>nicely sums up some of the ways Republicans made the 2004 election about masculinity.\n<li>And <a href=\"http:\/\/left2right.typepad.com\/main\/2004\/12\/letting_roe_go_.html\">another post on Left2Right <\/a>brings up the &#8220;shouldn&#8217;t we give up on defending late-term abortions?&#8221; idea that I think we&#8217;ll soon get tired of. (There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/left2right.typepad.com\/main\/2004\/12\/letting_roe_go_.html#c3095674\">long post by me <\/a>far down in the comments.)\n<li>Hey, have you read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.org\/administration\/sisters.asp\">Lynne Cheney&#8217;s lesbian frontier novel?<\/a> Here are some outtakes. For real. Some of the stuff could have been written by Andrea Dworkin at her most radical:\n<div class=\"snip\">[Men, including husbands] indulge themselves selfishly, sensually, with no thought of the consequences for us. For their own pleasure, they condemn us to early graves, murdering us as surely as if they had knotted a cord around our necks.<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwenworld.com\/2004\/12\/one-of-most-beautiful-places-in-texas.html\">Gwen&#8217;s Petty, Judgemental, Evil Thoughts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/philobiblion.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/working-week.html\">Philobiblon argues <\/a>that the historic working week was actually much less work-filled than we imagine nowadays.\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redpolka.org\/blog\/archives\/001670.html\">good post on Wicked Thoughts <\/a>comments on my recent &#8220;being fat and being gay&#8221; post.\n<li>Penn State&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelberube.com\/index.php\/weblog\/keeping_conservatives_out_of_academe\/\">Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9 <\/a>details how he works, day in and day out, to keep those darn conservatives out of the academy.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A56433-2004Dec10.html\">Michael Kinsley writes<\/a>:\n<div class=\"snip\">Today&#8217;s near-universal and minimally respectable attitude &#8212; the rock-bottom, non-negotiable price of admission to polite society and the political debate &#8212; is an acceptance of gay people and of open, unapologetic homosexuality as part of American life that would have shocked, if not offended, great liberals of a few decades ago such as Hubert Humphrey. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>This is also scary, of course, because there is no reason to think that gay rights are the end of the line. And it&#8217;s even scarier because these are all revolutions of perception, as well as politics. That means that all of us who consider ourselves good-hearted, well-meaning, empathetic Americans &#8212; but don&#8217;t claim to be great visionaries &#8212; are probably staring right now at an injustice that will soon seem obvious &#8212; and we just don&#8217;t see it.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My guess is that either animal rights or transsexual rights will be the next big movement.<\/p>\n<li>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinchronicle.com\/issues\/dispatch\/2004-12-10\/pols_feature.html\">really interesting article <\/a>explains why the meidcal marijuana case before the Supreme Court is, first of all, the most interesting case they&#8217;re now looking at; and, second of all, is far, far more broad-ranging than the issue of medical pot.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thurgood.blogspot.com\/2004_12_01_thurgood_archive.html#110295203838008172\">C.S. Lewis on religious vs. civil marriage<\/a>. &#8220;A great many people seem to think that if you are a Christian yourself you should try to make divorce difficult for every one. I do not think that. At least I know I should be very angry if the Mohammedans tried to prevent the rest of us from drinking wine&#8230;&#8221;\n<li>An interesting article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bendbulletin.com\/news\/story.cfm?story_no=15110\">The Bend Bullitin <\/a>about the legal limbo the thousands of lesbian and gay Oregonians who got married <i>before <\/i>the gay-bashers amended the Oregon constitution are in. Since Oregon&#8217;s anti-SSM amendment wasn&#8217;t retroactive, the Oregon Supreme Court still has to decide what happens to the already-existing marriages &#8211; and perhaps, about the civil unions issue as well.\n<li>I really enjoyed this <i>comixpedia <\/i>article about how geek women are presented in comics: <a href=\"http:\/\/comixpedia.com\/modules.php?op=modload&#038;name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=1693&#038;mode=thread&#038;order=0&#038;thold=0\">Geek Women &#8211; Your Little Standards-Compliant Fantasy<\/a>.\n<li>In order to teach kids about World War 2, the correct thing to do is to present both the Nazi side and the anti-Nazi side, and then let the kids make their own decision. <a href=\"http:\/\/manda1poo.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/two-sides-of-slavery.html\">Right<\/a>?\n<li>Right now, I&#8217;m listening to an interesting, powerful cover of John Lennon&#8217;s &#8220;Imagine&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aperfectcircle.com\/\">A Perfect Circle <\/a>(click on &#8220;music&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s one of the iconic links near the top, you&#8217;ll find it &#8211; and then on &#8220;listen&#8221;). Via <a href=\"http:\/\/brutalwomen.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/remix.html\">Brutal Women<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/culturecat.net\/?q=node\/view\/611\">CultureCat <\/a>looks at some very sexist responses to a female student&#8217;s critique conteroversial article in the student paper.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gotta clear the build-up off my desktop&#8230;. Not really new material, but a post on Left2Right nicely sums up some of the ways Republicans made the 2004 election about masculinity. And another post on Left2Right brings up the &#8220;shouldn&#8217;t we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1260\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","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=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}