{"id":14555,"date":"2011-11-28T05:01:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T13:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14555"},"modified":"2011-12-06T03:16:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T11:16:45","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-that-awkward-moment-between-thanksgiving-and-december-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14555","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread And Link Farm: That Awkward Moment Between Thanksgiving And December Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/11\/23\/watch-starfish-flee-an-icy-fin.html\">Brinicles<\/a>: Horrifying, but very cool to watch in a sped-up nature video.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/LMhBuSBemRk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"575\" height=\"322\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Congrats to my friend Jake Richmond (colorist of Hereville) for winning the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drunkduck.com\/Drunk_Duck_Awards_2011\/5367063\/\">Drunk Duck 2011 Best Overall Strip Award<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modestmedusa.com\/\">Modest Medusa<\/a>. That would be impressive at any time &#8212; but the first year of the strip? Awesome!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thephoenix.com\/Boston\/life\/128668-voices-carry\/?page=1#TOPCONTENT\">Voices Carry.<\/a> Excellent in-depth article by a friend of mine, about people who hear voices and are forming Hearing Voices self-help groups. Apparently these groups have been pretty common in the UK but are just beginning to establish a toehold in the USA.<\/li>\n<li>Yesterday, I fantasized about buying a Roomba. Then I realized that I have cats who sometimes vomit and poop outside the litter box. Gross enough on its own, but add a Roomba and it gets much, MUCH grosser. Just sayin&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Krugman argues that we could raise revenue by <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/26\/money-at-the-top\/\">$78 billion per year<\/a> by raising taxes on the wealthy. In contrast, raising the Medicare eligibility age &#8212; a favorite suggestion of many conservatives and some Democrats &#8212; would save <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/25\/where-the-money-is\/\">$42 billion a year<\/a>. In another post, he cites a study suggesting that a <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/22\/taxing-job-creators\/\">top rate of 70%<\/a> would maximize revenue.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2011\/11\/german-bund-action-goes-badly-bank-of-america-cds-spread-hit-new-high-eurosovereign-and-us-bank-spreads-widen-more-will-the-germans-finally-break-glass.html\">Europe&#8217;s economy looks likely<\/a> to take a major hit &#8212; and it&#8217;ll <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2011\/11\/how-deleveraging-europe-might-doom-us\">take the US down with it<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/11\/21\/drug-war-incentives-police-violent-crime_n_1105701.html?page=1\">Driven By Drug War Incentives, Cops Target Pot Smokers, Brush Off Victims Of Violent Crime<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/11\/23\/what-the-evidence-says-about-p.html\">What the evidence says about pepper spray safety &#8211; Boing Boing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/25300?page=all\">The War on Drugs Is Reducing Marriage Rates.<\/a> &#8220;&#8230;this paper finds that about 13% of the decline in marriage since 1990 can be explained by male incarceration. &#8230;about 18% percent of the decline in marriage rates among black women can be explained by incarceration.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_19549_5-old-timey-prejudices-that-still-show-up-in-every-movie.html\">5 Old-Timey Prejudices That Still Show Up in Every Movie | Cracked.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/41238\">In Defense of Divorce | Dollars and Sex | Big Think<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/ratings-roundup-five-reasons-community-could-see-s,65685\/\">Five reasons Community could see season four. | TV | Newswire | The A.V. Club<\/a>. &#8220;Community&#8221; is my second-favorite sit-com right now, after &#8220;Parks and Recreation.&#8221; I&#8217;ve just started watching &#8220;Raising Hope,&#8221; which I&#8217;m enjoying, and I&#8217;m giving up on &#8220;Big Bang Theory&#8221; and &#8220;2 Broke Girls.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danagoldstein.net\/dana_goldstein\/2011\/11\/the-parenting-problem-is-a-poverty-problem.html\">The &#8220;Parenting Problem&#8221; is a &#8220;Poverty Problem&#8221; &#8211; Dana Goldstein<\/a><\/li>\n<li>If I were to spend $250 on a horrifying mask to wear, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regretsy.com\/2011\/06\/20\/baby-face\/\">this would be the one<\/a> .<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prop8trialtracker.com\/2011\/11\/18\/guest-post-california-supreme-court-decision-makes-the-initiative-process-more-dangerous-for-minorities-but-the-prop-8-case-is-back-on-track\/\">A couple of lawyers from the National Center For Lesbian Rights<\/a> argue that the CA Supreme Court was wrong to allow prop 8 sponsors to have standing to appeal. I don&#8217;t agree with them, but I think this is the most persuasive argument I&#8217;ve yet read on their side of this issue.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hoodedutilitarian.com\/2011\/10\/can-the-subaltern-draw-the-spectre-of-orientalism-in-craig-thompsons-habibi\/\">Nadim Damluji&#8217;s critique of Orientalism in Craig Thompson\u2019s <em>Habibi<\/em>.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blabbeando.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/year-ago-argentina-became-first-country.html\">Blabbeando: Stunning LGBT campaign ads from Argentina<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Last but not least:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"575\" height=\"420\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/RLVPbeEaxGM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brinicles: Horrifying, but very cool to watch in a sped-up nature video. Congrats to my friend Jake Richmond (colorist of Hereville) for winning the Drunk Duck 2011 Best Overall Strip Award for Modest Medusa. That would be impressive at any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14555\">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":[135,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crossposted-on-tada","category-link-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14555","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=14555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14592,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14555\/revisions\/14592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}