{"id":1706,"date":"2005-07-14T10:56:06","date_gmt":"2005-07-14T17:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/14\/interesting-links-from-here-and-there\/"},"modified":"2005-07-14T10:56:06","modified_gmt":"2005-07-14T17:56:06","slug":"interesting-links-from-here-and-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1706","title":{"rendered":"Interesting links from here and there"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Hermit shells face a housing shortage. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabinetmagazine.org\/issues\/13\/demaray.php\">A proposed solution<\/a>: artificial shells for Hermit crabs. I can&#8217;t decide if this is parody or not. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/majikthise.typepad.com\/majikthise_\/2005\/07\/hermitages_for_.html\">Majikthise<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/overpoliticized.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/yet-more-manufactured-crisis.html\">Excellent letter to Paul Krugman<\/a> regarding his recent anti-fat editorial. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigfatblog.com\/archives\/001646.php\">Big Fat Blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Federal Immigration Officers think up <a href=\"http:\/\/spewingforth.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/stupid-and-deadly-undocumented-workers.html\">a policy guaranteed to kill immigrants<\/a> &#8211; a sting operation disguised as an OSHA (occupational safety and health administration) meeting, putting the lie to decades of effort by OSHA to convince illegal immigrants that they can talk to OSHA without fear. These racist, evil fucks deserve to be shot &#8211; no, to be buried alive in an industrial accident &#8211; but since the Bush administration is in charge, probably they&#8217;ll be given raises.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/us.cnn.com\/2005\/HEALTH\/07\/13\/contradictory.studies.ap\/index.html\">Reseach study ironically shows<\/a> that one-third of all research studies are wrong. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thegimpparade.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/excuse-of-architecture.html\">&#8220;I understand that you&#8217;re upset,&#8221; one officer said<\/a>, &#8220;but there&#8217;s no ramp, so you shouldn&#8217;t be in here, and the restaurant has the right not to serve you.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/majikthise.typepad.com\/majikthise_\/2005\/07\/nice_guys_.html\">Often, the self-proclaimed nice guy<\/a> wants special credit for just for being nice. It&#8217;s as if he wants you to exclaim, &#8220;Oh, you poor fellow. What a burden it must be to treat women as you&#8217;d like to be treated. Above and beyond, old chap. Above and beyond!&#8221; I&#8217;m all for niceness, but I consider it a basic moral requirement for all humans, not a special bonus feature.<\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twistyfaster.typepad.com\/i_blame_the_patriarchy\/2005\/07\/two_things.html\"><em>A propos<\/em> of<\/a> yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/twistyfaster.typepad.com\/i_blame_the_patriarchy\/2005\/07\/patriarchy_kick.html#comments\">female genital mutilation vs. plastic surgery thread<\/a>, I bring you, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/knickersknot.blogspot.com\/\">Knotted Knickers<\/a>, the jaw-droppingly sadistic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvri-ny.com\/dvl.html\">Designer Laser Vaginoplasty<\/a>. I invite you to scrutinize the countenance of the gynecologist\/pyschopath who performs these mutilations, and ask yourself, &#8220;is this the face of a man who should be anywhere near my pussy with a laser?&#8221;\u009d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandagon.net\/archives\/2005\/07\/no_party_like_t.html\">I remember being young and naive and<\/a> truly shocked at how girls who were just harassing me with a tenacity that would get them promoted in the SS could turn around and demure and flutter around popular boys like they were born to toady. And you find yourself thinking, &#8220;Man, if those guys only knew&#8230;&#8221; And from that moment, you can see how sexism perpetuates itself. Because if the boys didn&#8217;t know consciously, they knew subconsciously. Girls who show immense ruthlessness and power to the nerds and geeks and then toady to the jocks are reinforcing the power of the jocks. That they can expect their lessers to enforce the status quo for them is the jock privilege. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/the-reaction.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/fighting-liberals.html\">Should a temporary majority of 50.7 percent<\/a> have control over the entire United States government? Should 49.3 percent of Americans have no influence over the nation&#8217;s trajectory for the next generation? Those are the stakes in the coming fight over the next Supreme Court justice. The much-maligned &#8220;outside groups&#8221; preparing for battle over President Bush&#8217;s choice deserve credit for openly acknowledging this struggle for power.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/brutalwomen.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/raising-children-or-lack-thereof.html\">The trouble with being stuck with the<\/a> whole &#8220;women want to be equal&#8221; instead of &#8220;let&#8217;s revolutionize this society so it&#8217;s better for everybody,&#8221; is that you get stuck, again, with &#8220;male&#8221; being the norm. So instead of revolutionizing the workplace so we&#8217;ve got onsite childcare, or better, can have kids hanging out acting as interns at the workplace and functioning as members of society instead of subordinates, we just figure, hey, the parents will work and just hire somebody to take care of the kid, like a wife.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danieldrezner.com\/archives\/000736.html\">In contrast to the existing explanations<\/a>, this study shows that suicide terrorism follows a strategic logic, one specifically designed to coerce modern liberal democracies to make significant territorial concessions. Moreover, over the past two decades, suicide terrorism has been rising largely because terrorists have learned that it pays.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hermit shells face a housing shortage. A proposed solution: artificial shells for Hermit crabs. I can&#8217;t decide if this is parody or not. Via Majikthise. Excellent letter to Paul Krugman regarding his recent anti-fat editorial. Via Big Fat Blog. 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