{"id":1497,"date":"2005-04-24T02:46:01","date_gmt":"2005-04-24T09:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/24\/heres-some-quick-links-for-all-you-dinks-2\/"},"modified":"2005-04-24T02:46:01","modified_gmt":"2005-04-24T09:46:01","slug":"heres-some-quick-links-for-all-you-dinks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1497","title":{"rendered":"Here&#039;s some quick links for all you dinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, sorry to call you all &#8220;dinks,&#8221; but hey, it rhymed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Guardian<\/em> has printed an <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/news\/articles\/0,6109,1468336,00.html\">essay by Andrea Dworkin<\/a> about her bone disease and resulting disability, which is billed as &#8220;the last piece written by Andrea Dworkin.&#8221; As usual, Dwokin&#8217;s prose voice is clear and engrossing. Thanks to &#8220;Alas&#8221; reader &#8220;Maureen&#8221; for emailing the tip.<\/li>\n<li>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radgeek.com\/gt\/2005\/04\/23\/news_from\">Geekery Today<\/a>: A man sentenced to just four months in prison for killing his wife, after a jury concluded he acted in a blind fury, drew a 15-year term for wounding her boyfriend.<\/li>\n<li>No matter how many times you clean the toilet, you&#8217;re gonna have to clean it again and again. Which brings us to that stupid shit Paul Cameron, king of the homo-hating liars. <a href=\"http:\/\/dailytroll.com\/?p=191\">I See Invisible People<\/a> is on hand with the toilet brush.<\/li>\n<li>I couldn&#8217;t write prose this bad if you paid me: &#8220;The walls had fallen down and the Windows had opened, making the world much flatter than it had ever been&#8230;but the age of seamless global communication had not yet dawned.&#8221; It really is awesome &#8211; Thomas Friedman is no ordinary bad writer. Read the post and comments at <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2005\/04\/21\/i-am-in-awe\/\">Crooked Timber<\/a> for more.<\/li>\n<li>Republicans, conceding that the private sector is unable to win a fair competition with the public sector, have proposed that taxpayers subsidize uncompetitive private-sector weather report services. <a href=\"http:\/\/majikthise.typepad.com\/majikthise_\/2005\/04\/santorum_vs_nat.html\">Majikthise has more<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft has apparently been pressured to stop supporting gay-rights bills by the threat of a right-wing Christian boycott. Daddy, Papa and Me has more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lathefamily.org\/warren3\/blogs\/001529.shtml\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lathefamily.org\/warren3\/blogs\/001531.shtml\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Interesting WomensEnews article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensenews.org\/article.cfm\/dyn\/aid\/2242\/context\/jounalistofthemonth\">Angela Bonavoglia<\/a>, a Catholic, feminist, Roman Catholic writer working to reform the Catholic Church. &#8220;Angela is exposing in her book that we have great women that the church is determined to turn into good girls.&#8221; Bonavoglia&#8217;s own website is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodcatholicgirls.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/04\/19\/health\/19divo.html?\">This <em>New York Times<\/em> article<\/a> reports that the divorce rate is not only falling, it was never as high as we&#8217;ve all seen claimed; the &#8220;50% of marriages end in divorce&#8221; claim is a myth.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/community\/scans_daily\/499954.html\">Seder-Masochism<\/a>. A comic book about Passover (well, sort of) made from photos of action figures. So sue me, it totally cracked me up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, sorry to call you all &#8220;dinks,&#8221; but hey, it rhymed. The Guardian has printed an essay by Andrea Dworkin about her bone disease and resulting disability, which is billed as &#8220;the last piece written by Andrea Dworkin.&#8221; As usual, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1497\">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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","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=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}