{"id":14759,"date":"2012-01-04T05:50:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T13:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14759"},"modified":"2012-01-04T05:56:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T13:56:54","slug":"open-thead-and-link-farm-and-thats-how-you-make-iced-tea-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14759","title":{"rendered":"Open Thead And Link Farm: And That’s How You Make Iced Tea Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. At the Atlantic<\/em>, <\/a>45 entries from the National Geographic<\/em> 2011 photo contest. A follow-post<\/a> showed the fifteen winning entries (with only one overlap!).<\/li>\n
  2. Siobhan Reynolds, RIP<\/a>. One of the nation’s most prominent pain management activists died in a plane crash.<\/li>\n
  3. No Seriously, What About the Other Sexists?<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. A 1978 “60 minutes” report on female fat activists<\/a>. It’s very entertaining, but also sad to see how little has changed in the three decades since.<\/li>\n
  5. DEA head: A thousand dead children means we’re winning war on drugs – Drugs – Salon.com<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. New fencing doesn\u2019t stop illegal crossings<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. The Dumbest Republican Quotes Of 2011<\/a> and, likewise, The Dumbest Democratic Quotes Of 2011<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  8. Catholic Bishops versus Tolerance<\/a> “…Religious freedom does not mean freedom to do whatever you want with the government’s money.<\/em>“<\/li>\n
  9. “Called ExpressPark, the 6,000-meter array<\/a> will be installed on [LA’s] downtown streets and lots, along with sensors buried in the pavement of every parking spot to detect the presence of cars and price accordingly, from as little as 50 cents an hour to $6. Street parking, like pork bellies, will be open to market forces. As blocks fill, prices will rise; when occupancy drops, so will rates.”<\/li>\n
  10. In effect, drug-sniffing dogs don’t detect drugs; they’re a pretense cops use to get around probable cause, possibly without knowing it themselves.<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. Massachusetts cops target family-owned motel for forfeiture.<\/a> “…The Motel Caswell was seen as an easier candidate for forfeiture because it is not part of a large chain. It\u2019s also family-owned and mortgage-free […] Civil forfeiture allows prosecutors to take properties without convicting anyone.”<\/li>\n
  12. Sunday marks a decade of No Child Left Behind. Did the law do any good?<\/a> Short answer: No. But the kids most harmed were poor and non-white, so probably the government won’t worry about it much.<\/li>\n
  13. Progressives and the Ron Paul fallacies<\/a>. Glenn Greenwald post here was much-reviled by many liberals, but — typically for me — I think Greenwald makes some solid points.<\/li>\n
  14. What Rick Perry (and the GOP) should learn from his trouble in Virginia<\/a>. It’s funny how rules that could theoretically be followed, but in practice form a substantial barrier, are a horrible affront to democracy OR essential to democracy, depending on if the people hurt are wealthy, mostly white GOP members, or poor, mostly non-white American citizens.<\/li>\n
  15. “The Department of Justice announced late Friday afternoon that it was rejecting South Carolina’s new voter photo identification law because it discriminates against minority voters.”<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. “In El Mirage alone, where Arpaio’s<\/a> office was providing contract police services, officials discovered at least 32 reported child molestations \u2013 with victims as young as 2 years old \u2013 where the sheriff’s office failed to follow through, even though suspects were known in all but six cases. Many of the victims, said a retired El Mirage police official who reviewed the files, were children of illegal immigrants.”<\/li>\n
  17. How 2008 Radicalized Me<\/a>: How the US government saved the banks and let ordinary Americans sink.<\/li>\n
  18. P:R Approved: Cliff Chiang\u2019s Justice League of Japan!<\/a> The Wonder Woman artist imagines “a band of Japanese superheroes inspired by the heroes of the Justice League.” I love Project Rooftop.<\/li>\n
  19. “The smaller spread just didn’t have enough details.”<\/a> Excuse me while I go hang my head in shame.<\/li>\n
  20. “Immigration offenses were the fastest growing federal arrest offenses between 2005 and 2009, increasing at an average rate of 23 percent a year…”<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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