{"id":16929,"date":"2013-03-14T05:31:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T12:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16929"},"modified":"2013-03-14T05:31:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T12:31:23","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-i-hate-being-sick-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16929","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread And Link Farm: I Hate Being Sick Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. “It strikes me that the best way to understand the distinctive characteristics of US voting patterns is to to treat “Southern White” as an ethnicity.”<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. In Defense of Disney<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Gay Marriage Convinced Me To Support Pot Legalization<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. John Corvino’s Definitive Rebuttal Of The “If We Accept Gays, Don’t We Have To Accept Polygamy, Incest and Bestiality” Argument<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Why Scalia’s ‘Racial Entitlement’ Quote Is Even Scarier Than You Think | ThinkProgress<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Frustrations of an Asian American Whedonite<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. What Paul Ryan\u2019s Budget Means for Women | The Nation<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Breakfast Epiphanies: Encounters With Notorious Homophobes – Kevin Mims<\/a> (on personal encounters with both Maggie Gallagher and Orson Scott Card).<\/li>\n
  9. “Uncle Sam had a much older and classier sister named Columbia, the feminine historic personification of the United States of America, who has since the 1920s largely fallen out of view.”<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. Study: Women\u2019s wages are falling even further behind men\u2019s<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor?<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. A Note on Sentimentality<\/a>: Is sentimentality allowed in (respected) literature?<\/li>\n
  13. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act tests the integrity of the pro-life movement<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Lara Croft Is Dead, Long Live Lara Croft: Reflections On Tomb Raider<\/a><\/li>\n
  15. Undocumented Farmworkers Make “Perfect Victims” for Sexual Harassers and Abusers | RH Reality Check<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. Does Free Speech Protect the Right to Panhandle? – Reason.com<\/a> I disagree with the writer about banners, though.<\/li>\n
  17. The Tolkien Family Refuses to Let An Unauthorized Biography Pass<\/a>. Another example of how copyright laws are used to censor material that should be publishable.<\/li>\n
  18. Firing Bad Teachers Has Surprisingly Meager Effects<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. Telling the Truth About Education\u2014 American schools aren’t in terminal decline<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. Study: Gas taxes are six times as effective as stricter fuel-economy standards<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. Sneezing, in slow motion:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n