{"id":17335,"date":"2013-06-20T04:08:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T11:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=17335"},"modified":"2013-06-20T04:58:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T11:58:49","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-the-fat-foreigner-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=17335","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread and Link Farm: The Fat Foreigner Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. The Joys and Sorrows of Being a Fat Foreign Girl in China | xoJane<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Scott Alexander writes<\/a>: “Bad Catholic<\/a> has responded to my post on contraception and abortion rates, defending his position that contraception increases or at least doesn\u2019t decrease abortions. See his Part One<\/a> and Part Two<\/a>, with my replies buried in the comments.”<\/li>\n
  3. All Leaks Are Illegal, but Some Leaks Are More Illegal Than Others – Conor Friedersdorf<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Safety Tips For Ladies.<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. On Being an Octopus | Boston Review<\/a> What does it feel like to be an Octopus?<\/li>\n
  6. Study: The Earned Income Tax Credit is a Very Good Investment in Infant Health<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Marriage is Over: Live With It<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Consciousness science and ethics: Abortion, animal rights, and vegetative-state debates.<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. A Response to Objections on My Pro-Life Movement Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. The Assault on Abortion Rights Undermines All Our Liberties<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. Skinny White Girls are Exhausting My Eyes | Bitter Gertrude<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. Defending the Purely Instrumental Account of Democratic Legitimacy<\/a> (pdf file)<\/li>\n
  13. Why I Ultimately Have Rejected Modesty Teachings<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Oh, let\u2019s pile on a little more \u00bb Pharyngula<\/a><\/li>\n
  15. David Brooks: The last Stalinist<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. Edward Snowden and the selective targeting of leaks<\/a>. Somehow, when the administration illegally leaks classified information, that’s not a crime.<\/li>\n
  17. Official Recognition for Australians who identify as neither sex<\/a><\/li>\n
  18. Richard O’Brien: \u2018I’m 70% man’<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. Russian Parliament Passes Bills to Punish Those Who Offend \u2018Religious Feelings\u2019 or Promote Homosexuality<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. Fundimentalist Christians in Georgia (the country, not the state) attack gay rights marchers<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. Cholesterol-lowering drug may reduce exercise benefits for obese adults<\/a>. Hmmm… maybe I should stop taking statin?<\/li>\n
  22. Maggie Gallagher’s arguments regarding infertile heterosexuals and marriage fail yet again<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  23. Judging the Case Against Same-Sex Marriage by Andrew Koppelman<\/a>. Long, but really excellent and thorough.<\/li>\n
  24. Life’s More Complicated than the Non-Aggression Principle | Libertarianism.org<\/a><\/li>\n
  25. A Priorism in Libertarianism<\/a><\/li>\n
  26. Coming Up Aces<\/a> A smart autobiographical comic about being asexual. I like the way she draws facial expressions.<\/li>\n
  27. The Ketchup Conundrum by ~Shira-chan on deviantART<\/a> Brilliant large-format comic about all the possibilities that arise if you squirt ketchup on your friend.<\/li>\n
  28. How Texas Made Ezekiel Gilbert\u2019s Aquittal Possible<\/a><\/li>\n
  29. Barely In Time: Confessions of a SIT Extra<\/a> The head of the “Somewhere In Time” society explains, at length, how she stumbled into being an extra in the 1980 movie, and how it changed her life. Charming and surprisingly entertaining.<\/li>\n
  30. Vintage Safety Posters<\/a><\/li>\n
  31. On \u201cGeek\u201d Versus \u201cNerd\u201d | Slackpropagation<\/a><\/li>\n
  32. This Game Of Thrones<\/em> poster by Richey Beckett is waaaay too expensive for me to ever get a copy, but wow is it gorgeous. (Click on it to see it bigger.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    This is an open thread. Post what you want, when you want to. Self-linking pleases the powers that be. The Joys and Sorrows of Being a Fat Foreign Girl in China | xoJane Scott Alexander writes: “Bad Catholic has responded … Continue reading →<\/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-17335","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\/17335","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=17335"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17350,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17335\/revisions\/17350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}