{"id":18850,"date":"2014-07-11T00:27:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T07:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18850"},"modified":"2014-07-11T02:21:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T09:21:35","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-how-to-locate-bruce-willis-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18850","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread And Link Farm, How To Locate Bruce Willis edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Post what you like, when you like, dressed however you like. Self-linking turns caterpillars into butterflies, and who doesn’t want that?<\/p>\n

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  1. Children in Danger: A Guide to the Humanitarian Challenge at the Border | Immigration Policy Center<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Federal Government Sued for Failure to Provide Legal Representation for Children<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Haughty eyes in Murietta<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Atheist\/Humanist Statement Condemning US Border Crisis & Nativist Attacks on Undocumented Immigrants<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Seven Reasons Police Brutality Is Systemic, Not Anecdotal<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Obama should say no to a religion-based exemption on hiring discrimination\u00a0–\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Getting beyond how the \u2018Factual Feminist\u2019 is wrong about the prevalence of rape | Family Inequality<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. “It\u2019s not like he claims to be some great humanitarian, but you would think that Americans would understand the first amendment at this point.<\/a>” Ironically, this sentence itself is a good illustration of someone not understanding the first amendment.<\/em><\/li>\n
  9. First Woman Arrested Under Tennessee Pregnancy Criminalization Law, for a Drug Not Covered Under the Law<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. Whatever happened to the clobber texts for slavery?<\/a> Wonderful post comparing the way that “clobber text” Biblical defenses of slavery – and the responses to them – are virtually identical to arguments we hear today over women’s place in the church and homosexuality.<\/em><\/li>\n
  11. Here’s what the world would look like if we took global warming seriously – Vox<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. Global climate change solution still possible … but barely, says report – CSMonitor.com<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. Health Insurance Is Not a Favor Your Boss Does For You<\/a> That virtually 100% of Conservatives seem to view employer-provided health insurance as some sort of gift given to workers – rather than payment owed workers in exchange for labor – is stunning. “Why don’t you pay for your birth control yourself” is one of the most ignorant political cliches ever.<\/em><\/li>\n
  14. The 19th-century health scare that told women to worry about “bicycle face.”<\/a> As a friend of mine pointed out, the association between suffragettes, being “unfeminine,” and bikes may be why the nasty neighbor in “The Wizard of Oz” is depicted as a bike rider.<\/em><\/li>\n
  15. Colorado offered free birth control\u2013and teen births fell by 40 percent<\/a>. Also, teen abortions fell by 35%. But all the so-called pro-lifers are going to passionately oppose this and similar measures, because they think it’s worth baby after baby after baby being murdered (in their view) so long as sluts are forced to “take responsibility” for having sex. I sort of hope that they are insincere about thinking fetuses are babies, because if they’re sincere, then opposition to birth control is a genuinely horrifying stance.<\/em><\/li>\n
  16. Unveiled: A Support Group For Ex-Hijabis<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. The Summer’s Most Unread Book Is\u2026 – WSJ<\/a> If you don’t want to click through, the answer is Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century.” Although it’s only three months old at the time the data was collected – I wonder if it’ll do better once it’s a year or two old. Via Althouse<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n
  18. Speaking of butterflies, this Radio Lab episode<\/a> includes information about how caterpillars become butterflies that I thought was really neat.<\/li>\n
  19. Cathy Meyer: Dispelling The Myth Of Gender Bias In The Family Court System<\/a> The anecdotal account here is worth reading. Be cautious, though – some of the statistics she quotes, when I tracked them down, turned out to be from “Dividing The Child,” which was an excellent study of California custody outcomes published in 1993<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n
  20. A response to some MRA statistics.<\/a> I don’t agree with every word of this, but still found it worth reading. Generally, I agree with the critique of MRAs as not actually seeming interested in solving these problems, but disagreed with many details, such as the implication that workplace deaths are about machismo when elements like class, lack of labor union power, and lack of negotiating power are much more important.<\/em><\/li>\n
  21. Mirror of Justice: Brendan Eich was only the beginning . . .<\/a> An inappropriate survey at a major bank has conservatives worried about workplace discrimination. The survey was stupid, but I’m skeptical that it was meant as a threat or the start of\u00a0 purge. Let’s not attribute to malice what’s probably caused by incompetence.<\/em><\/li>\n
  22. \u2018I\u2019m a Survivor of Rape and Intimate Partner Violence\u2013And I\u2019m a Man\u2019 | TIME<\/a> I hate the headline, but the article is good.<\/em><\/li>\n
  23. Who Gets Custody Now? Dramatic Changes in Children\u2019s Living Arrangements After Divorce – Online First – Springer<\/a> In a nutshell, mothers sole custody is heading down, joint custody is heading up. We need more studies to know what “joint custody” means in practice, though. If it means more equal parenting arrangements, great. If it means “mothers do nearly all the work but have less support and legal rights” then not great.<\/em><\/li>\n
  24. Breaking the Science: Misrepresentation of Gender Bias in the 1989 Report of the Gender Bias Committee of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court<\/a> This writer seems likely to be an anti-feminist, but his argument here is persuasive. I’ve used this 1989 report as a reference in the past, but I won’t do that again.<\/em><\/li>\n
  25. Trigger Warning: Breakfast \u2014 The Nib\u00a0 \u2014 Medium<\/a> Extremely well-done cartoon about the kind of rape that George Will would claim isn’t a rape. Thanks for the link, Ruchama.<\/em><\/li>\n
  26. Manassas sexting case: If the erect penis photo story is true, prosecutors have lost it.<\/a><\/li>\n
  27. Fireworks filmed from a drone are seriously cool (via<\/a>):<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n