{"id":13614,"date":"2011-07-01T02:44:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T09:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13614"},"modified":"2011-07-01T04:40:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T11:40:03","slug":"open-thread-worlds-best-reaper-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13614","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread: World’s Best Reaper Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Post what you want, when you want. Self-link with abandon.<\/p>\n

Some things I’ve read lately:<\/p>\n

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  1. I really <\/em>enjoyed “The Prince And The Sea<\/a>,” a short and lovely online comic by Emily Carroll, about a romance between a prince and a mermaid. Parents: read through to the end before <\/em>showing it to your kids.<\/li>\n
  2. The Health Care Mandate\u2019s Big Win in the Sixth Circuit<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Sixth Circuit Upholds Constitutionality Of Affordable Care Act<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Victim of racist shooting<\/a> works to save his attacker from the death penalty.<\/li>\n
  5. Nate Silver prognosticates The Future of Same-Sex Marriage Ballot Measures.<\/a> In the near future, marriage equality might win by a narrow margin in Minnesota, lose in North Carolina, and NOM’s quest to overturn marriage equality in NY seems hopeless.<\/li>\n
  6. Former Bush official David Frum says he was wrong to oppose gay marriage<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  7. Poll<\/a>: “New York State voters support 54 – 40 percent a law allowing same-sex couples to marry, with voters under 35 supporting the measure 70 – 26 percent.”<\/li>\n
  8. Highlights of Christopher Hitchen’s best bits <\/a>from an atheist versus theist debate. He is very <\/em>good.<\/li>\n
  9. “In a decision<\/a> that could have far-reaching effects on immigration cases involving same-sex couples, federal officials have canceled the deportation of a Venezuelan man in New Jersey who is married to an American man.”<\/li>\n
  10. Barbara MacEwen, Religious Liberty, and Special Rights<\/a>: A New York city clerk refuses to process paperwork for same-sex marriages.<\/li>\n
  11. The 10 Scariest States to Be an Atheist<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. Outcry in America as pregnant women who lose babies face murder charges.<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. No, Seriously, What About Teh Menz?<\/a>is an interesting new blog; it’s a site about men’s rights that’s not <\/em>anti-feminist. My favorite post so far is this one by Noah Brand<\/a>, about how society constructs male and female libidos.<\/li>\n
  14. The Obama Administration has decided to go all-out against medical marijuana<\/a>, reversing it’s own 2009 memo. Despicable.<\/li>\n
  15. The Peculiar Logic of Robbie George<\/a>: A Catholic writer (who I think is anti-SSM, but not passionately against it) criticizes Robert George’s anti-SSM arguments and right-wing economic views. Obviously I have a lot of disagreements with the writer, but it’s interesting stuff, and very different from the other Robert George critiques I’ve read. Thanks to Peter H. for emailing me this link.<\/li>\n
  16. Why one NY Senator<\/a> changed his vote on SSM to “yes”: “The gay nephew of the woman he lives with, Dorothy Turano, was so furious at Mr. Kruger for opposing same-sex marriage two years ago that he had cut off contact with both of them, devastating Ms. Turano.”<\/li>\n
  17. “If you can\u2019t use statistical and anecdotal evidence to prove gender discrimination… then there really isn\u2019t a law against gender discrimination at all.” Notes on the recent<\/a> Wal-Mart v. Dukes<\/em> Supreme Court decision.<\/li>\n
  18. “Suppose that the<\/a> New York State Senate operated according to the rules of the United States Senate and a bill failed unless it secured a 60 percent supermajority. What would people be saying about Andrew Cuomo now?”<\/li>\n
  19. Court Blocks Anti-Choice Legislation in South Dakota<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. A Jewish eyewitness account<\/a> of the protests in Wisconsin.<\/li>\n
  21. Male models do incredibly unhealthy things<\/a> to make their muscles look photogenic.<\/li>\n
  22. “Think it\u2019s hard for<\/a> Republicans to vote for taxes now? Wait till Fox News and the Tea Party spend two months defining this as the definitional vote for both the Republican Party and its leadership. Think it\u2019s hard for President Obama to give up revenues now? Give him two months to sell his base on the idea that it\u2019d be immoral to make a deal that doesn\u2019t include revenues. And the more the two sides lock into their positions, the worse the consequences will have to be before one side or the other buckles and takes a deal.”<\/li>\n
  23. The coming explosion in heath inequality<\/a><\/li>\n
  24. Washington State has passed<\/a> a law give donor-conceived kids some rights to know about their donor parent. The donor parent can still choose to keep their identity hidden — but they have to do so affirmatively, rather than being a default.<\/li>\n
  25. Obama Has Finally Become Dick Cheney<\/a>: His administration wants to jail James Risen, a reporter who exposed Bush-era wrongdoing, if he doesn’t reveal one of his sources.<\/li>\n
  26. \u201cWomen, Be Safe!\u201d vs \u201cRapists, Don\u2019t Rape!\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n
  27. Ron Paul\/Barney Frank Bill Would End Federal War on Marijuana<\/a><\/li>\n
  28. “The Liberty To Do What We Ought”<\/a>: A very prominent SSM opponent displays an incredibly Orwellian idea of freedom.<\/li>\n
  29. Yet another example<\/a> of cops inventing a pretext to arrest a citizen for recording a video of cops at work.<\/li>\n
  30. New York legislature says “I do” to same-sex marriage (big photo gallery)<\/a><\/li>\n
  31. The true definition of “Terrorist”<\/a>: “In what conceivable sense can it be called “Terrorism” for a citizen of a country to fight against foreign invading troops by attacking purely military targets?”<\/li>\n
  32. Texting on shabbos becoming more common<\/a><\/li>\n
  33. Is a Correlation Between Teen Sex and Divorce a Bad Thing? | Girl with Pen<\/a><\/li>\n
  34. Apple invents technology<\/a> allowing a third party to kill the video on your phone.<\/li>\n
  35. Tax rates and economic growth in one graph<\/a><\/li>\n
  36. Mel Gibson might<\/a> be both antisemitic and not antisemitic; human brains are complex.<\/li>\n
  37. A violent revolution isn’t likely to do much good<\/a>. As usual at Crooked Timber, the disagreements in the comments are often as worth reading as the post itself.<\/li>\n
  38. Javier Colon’s cover of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” is awesome: <\/embed><\/object><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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