{"id":12926,"date":"2011-03-20T23:57:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T06:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=12926"},"modified":"2011-03-20T23:57:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T06:57:42","slug":"open-thread-absolutely-fearless-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=12926","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread: Absolutely Fearless Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. A Smart Analysis Of The Sad Case of Baby Joseph<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. DC Comics closes comments on its blog<\/a> due to vicious flame war. The subject under dispute? Superman or Flash, who’s faster.<\/li>\n
  3. If climate scientists are in it for the money, they’re doing it wrong<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Due to a disease-altered brain, a woman is literally fearless<\/a>. See also<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  5. The Volokh Conspiracy \u00bb What if Liberals and Libertarians Agreed on Empirical Questions?<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Now that we have bulletproof cockpits, do airplanes really require all that extra security?<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Cup o’ Joel asks<\/a>: Do I vote for the party that favors an imperial presidency, or do I favor the party that favors an imperial presidency with somewhat less torture?<\/li>\n
  8. Wonder Woman’s costume from the forthcoming David Kelly TV show (no, really). Annotated<\/a>. (I agree with Maciej’s take here<\/a>.) The word I’ve most often seen used describing the costume is “cheap.” That can’t be good.<\/li>\n
  9. New climate study<\/a>, stacked with climate skeptics, finds that global warming is real.<\/li>\n
  10. “The key policy points (I think)<\/a> are that if rich countries want to help we should permit more immigration from poor countries, stop trying to impose destructive intellectual property rules on poor countries, stop offering military assistance to repressive regimes, and bolster morale about the fact that foreign aid has been successful at promoting public health in the past and can continue to make even more progress in the future.”<\/li>\n
  11. There’s Nothing Easy About War – The Libya Version<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. Pratchett and Gaiman’s Good Omens<\/em> to be made into a TV show<\/a>. But it’s a BBC show, so it might be good.<\/li>\n
  13. U.S. National Academy of Sciences labels as \u201csettled facts\u201d that \u201cthe Earth system is warming and that much of this warming is very likely due to human activities\u201d<\/a> I guess the N.A.S. is part of the Evil Climate Conspiracy.<\/li>\n
  14. Painting a Target on Fat Kids<\/a><\/li>\n
  15. The Plan To Stop Using Carbon-based Energy In Australia<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. Box Turtle Bulletin on “fag,” “faggot,” “queer,” “gay” and “homosexual”<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. Glenn Greenwald says this video of an ex-CIA man discussing foreign policy is a “Three-minute Cliffs Notes of U.S. foreign policy.<\/a>“<\/li>\n
  18. “I see no particular<\/a> reason to think that Libya will have any impact on malaria funding, but I do think the level of malaria funding is impacted over the long term by the existence of a substantial number of people who seem to advocate for humanitarian goals in Africa if and only if those goals can be advanced through the use of military force to kill other Africans.”<\/li>\n
  19. The six military options in Libya, boiled down to a two-minute read<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  20. More Questions on Libya; And Even Fewer Answers<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. Scocca : Would a No-Fly Zone Over America Save the Democracy Movement in Bahrain?<\/a><\/li>\n
  22. Is DOMA now a wedge issue that hurts Republicans<\/a>?<\/li>\n
  23. After Cleveland, Texas: Eight Ways Black Men Can Fight Rape – COLORLINES<\/a><\/li>\n
  24. This <\/a>person must be the world’s biggest fan of my blogging.<\/li>\n
  25. The most interesting map of China’s provinces (by population) I’ve seen:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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