{"id":17777,"date":"2013-10-26T00:58:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T07:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=17777"},"modified":"2013-10-26T01:13:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T08:13:27","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-shoulder-angel-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=17777","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread And Link Farm: Shoulder Angel Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. Health is not an obligation | Fierce, Freethinking Fatties<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Who Would You Shoot?<\/a>. Testing shows that people hesitate less to shoot at Black people.<\/li>\n
  3. I’m Demanding Better Representation For Black Girl Nerds In Geek Culture<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Cockblocked by Redistribution: A Pick-up Artist in Denmark | Dissent Magazine<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. SC Grants \u2018Stand Your Ground\u2019 Immunity To Man Who Ran Out Of His House And Shot A Random Bystander To Death<\/a>. Well, I <\/em>certainly feel safer.<\/li>\n
  6. I’ve always liked The Order Of The Stick’s take<\/a> on the classic “one guard always lies, one always tells the truth” logic puzzle. XKCD’s take<\/a>, too. <\/li>\n
  7. 10 Incredible GIFs Showing How Aging Changes Our Appearance | Fstoppers<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. A DAY AT THE PARK.<\/a> Which is better to have, questions or answers? I’m not sure, but this short comic addressing the matter sure has lovely drawings.<\/li>\n
  9. Lucha Libro: Peruvian writers ‘duke it out’ for a book contract in masked competitions – CSMonitor.com<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. “If it were considered normal to get pregnant, birth babies, breastfeed, and actively engage in childrearing, then the assumption in the workplace would be that all adults would spend some time doing these things, and workplace policies would be designed around that assumption.”<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. \u201cI didn\u2019t know unborn children had lawyers… I said, “Where’s my lawyer?”<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. To Help The World’s Poorest, Give Them Cash<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. I really loved Danger!<\/a>, a short comic by my friend Becky Hawkins. Becky is doing a new take on journal comics by illustrating true stories from her own life with the addition of a less-than-helpful “Shoulder Angel,” who is sort of a combination inner child and id.<\/li>\n
  14. White Collar Criminals Don’t Appear to Do Worse Behind Bars Than Any Other Type of Prisoner – Mike Riggs – The Atlantic Cities<\/a>. Interesting, but the data’s a bit old.<\/li>\n
  15. Lessons of The Colorado \u201cTrans Bathroom Harassment\u201d Hoax | Ethics Alarms<\/a> As well as the post itself, which is mostly good (although not perfect), make sure to read Zoe Brain’s<\/a> excellent contributions in the comments.<\/li>\n
  16. Teach for America recommendations: I stopped writing them, and my colleague should, too.<\/a> (Hat tip to ClosetPuritan for the link.)<\/li>\n
  17. A Black intern for Marvel in the late \u201970s…<\/a> and Race In Comics<\/a>, two good autobiographical essays by a Black creator and editor who has worked for mainstream comics.<\/li>\n
  18. Economist’s View: Good News on Health Care Costs and the Budget<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. NOM’s Brian Brown Helped Export Homophobia To Russia | ThinkProgress<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. Analysis: Do Business-Friendly Tax Climates Yield The Most Jobs?<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. A List Of Must-Have Graphic Novels For Any School Library<\/a> by yours truly.<\/li>\n
  22. An Interview with Jesus and Mo<\/a><\/li>\n
  23. Not Taking it Anymore: One Woman Talks Back to Street Harassers<\/a> with her awesome artwork.<\/li>\n
  24. Epistemic Openness Watch \u00ab Why it’s good that lefty bloggers have reported the Healthcare.gov website as a disaster.<\/a><\/li>\n
  25. Fake lie-detector reveals that many women lie about how many sex partners they’ve had.<\/a><\/li>\n
  26. Permission To Play Devil’s Advocate Denied<\/a><\/li>\n
  27. The story behind the story: Thomas King on The Inconvenient Indian | National Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  28. Swiss try drive-in ‘sex boxes’ for safer prostitution<\/a><\/li>\n
  29. What Kind of Problem is the ACA Rollout for Liberalism? | Next New Deal<\/a><\/li>\n
  30. Zombies vs. animals? The living dead wouldn’t stand a chance – Boing Boing<\/a><\/li>\n
  31. Extraordinary episode three hundred<\/a>. Well worth looking at even if you haven’t read this webcomic before; extensive and beautiful. If you have the option, view this on a large monitor.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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