{"id":14097,"date":"2011-09-06T04:35:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T11:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14097"},"modified":"2011-09-06T08:27:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T15:27:18","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-your-heart-is-thrashing-like-that-all-the-time-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14097","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread and Link Farm: Your Heart Is Thrashing Like That All The Time Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;all remember how this works, right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalbusstop.com\/scary-good-face-painting\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digitalbusstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/The-Mona-Lisa.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/matthewyglesias\/~3\/k2L_nAoV70g\/\">Man Dies Of Toothache<\/a>. &#8220;A no-longer-living, no-longer-breathing example of the &#8216;push the patient to the edge of financial desperation&#8217; theory of health care cost controls. It turns out that the quality of a frightened, pain-wracked young man asked to make technical medical decisions under severe financial constraints is not very high. The social cost of 24 year-old fathers dying of eminently treatable tooth infections, by contrast, is gigantic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/romm\/2011\/09\/01\/310147\/gops-dirty-air-hit-list\/\">Polluting the Air and Poisoning Our Kids Doesn\u2019t Help the Economy or Create Jobs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themonkeycage.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/04\/fourteen-magic-words-that-can-increase-voter-turnout-by-over-10-percentage-points\/\">Fourteen magic words that can increase voter turnout by over 10 percentage points?? \u2014 The Monkey Cage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/?tab=mX#118233019308203333391\/posts\">I have a Google Plus feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2011\/09\/01\/309647\/florida-republicans-fight-to-keep-cohabitation-of-unmarried-couples-illegal\/\">Florida Republicans Fight To Keep \u2018Cohabitation\u2019 Of Unmarried Couples Illegal | ThinkProgress<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/2011\/09\/02\/39495.htm\">Cop breaks man&#8217;s leg. Judge then throws man into jail for contempt of court, because he was unable to stand for the judge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dharbin.com\/blog\/fifteen-thoughts-on-digital-comics\/\">Fifteen Thoughts on Digital Comics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pandagon.net\/index.php\/site\/how_to_fix_social_inequalities_on_campus#When:21:21:40Z\">Amanda argues that writers should stop using revealing clothing as the go-to example of inequality between women and men on campus.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/matthewyglesias\/~3\/sy9DJusJIC4\/\">Martin Luther King, Jr.\u2019s sexist, offensive advice to women is a good example of how much feminism has accomplished.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.washingtonpost.com\/click.phdo?i=e21331f81ecf3ea4f0242550fcd3e743\">Did the White House double-cross its supporters on the smog rule?<\/a> Short answer: Yes, it really did. Obama is such a <del datetime=\"2011-09-06T15:24:35+00:00\">fucktard<\/del> asshat. Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/balkin.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/this-had-nothing-to-do-with-politics.html\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/healthateverysizeblog.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/26\/the-haes-files-jama-proposes-a-medical-mugging\/\">JAMA editorial calls for taking fat kids away from their parents. No, really.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A good question to ask: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unequally-yoked.com\/2011\/08\/can-i-have-this-fight-productively.html\">Can I have this fight productively?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2011\/09\/01\/ten-things-everyone-should-know-about-time\/\">Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time | Discover Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/noseriouslywhatabouttehmenz.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/25\/fat-is-a-masculist-issue\/\">Fat Is A Masculist Issue<\/a> Good post, but don&#8217;t bother reading the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Check out these wonderful photos of <a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/bHLym.jpg\">a dog with its head stuck out the car window<\/a> at various speeds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/2011\/jay-z-and-alan-lomax\/\">So that\u2019s how <\/a>a folk song collector wound up as the legal co-author of a Jay-Z diss track. I can\u2019t think of a better illustration of the copyright system\u2019s dysfunction than that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/obesitytimebomb.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/stereotyping-fat-in-visual-language-of.html\">Stereotyping fat in the visual language of the Left<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.washingtonpost.com\/click.phdo?i=c1cd2953444edbd4731e35ff34f2db78\">Huntsman\u2019s economic plan is to raise taxes on ordinary people so he can give tax cuts to the wealthy.<\/a> As Ezra points out, this is pure &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/the-recoverydeficit-reduction-deal-the-two-parties-should-but-wont-strike\/2011\/05\/19\/AGxljgOH_blog.html\">Now-more-than-everism<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ScvdFeh1aOw\">Spray-on clothing<\/a>. (Video).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/alyssa\/2011\/08\/05\/288521\/bert-and-ernie-shouldnt-get-married\/\">Bert And Ernie Shouldn\u2019t Get Married<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blaghag.com\/2011\/08\/atheists-no-longer-most-unpopular-group.html\">Atheists no longer the most unpopular group in America!<\/a> Congrats, Tea Partiers!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/comic.naver.com\/webtoon\/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&#038;no=20&#038;weekday=tue\">This webcomic<\/a> (which only takes a minute or two to read) scared the crap out of me. Seriously, you&#8217;ve been warned. Don&#8217;t worry if you don&#8217;t read Korean, it&#8217;s still good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticalscience.com\/news.php?n=963\">CO2 is just a trace gas<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes commercials are great:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/7JxfgId3XTs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes so is medicine:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"575\" height=\"353\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Fwd32Xa3uwc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unequally-yoked.com\/2011\/09\/7-quick-vid-takes-9211.html\">Unequally Yoked<\/a>, who says, &#8220;How amazing is it to remember that, inside your chest, your heart is thrashing like that all the time?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;all remember how this works, right? Man Dies Of Toothache. &#8220;A no-longer-living, no-longer-breathing example of the &#8216;push the patient to the edge of financial desperation&#8217; theory of health care cost controls. 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