{"id":20050,"date":"2015-07-01T08:22:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T15:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20050"},"modified":"2015-07-01T08:22:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T15:22:44","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-talk-to-the-hand-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20050","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread and Link Farm, Talk To The Hand Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. 12 charts and maps that explain the Greek crisis – Vox<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. These 25 Examples of Male Privilege from a Trans Guy’s Perspective Really Prove the Point \u2014 Everyday Feminism<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Environmental activism works, study shows | EurekAlert! Science News<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Eight Books You Need To Know About To Understand The Hugo Awards Snafu<\/a>. This article compares what various reviewers and Puppies have said about eight books.<\/li>\n
  5. Girl Scouts choose transgender girls over $100,000 donation – The Washington Post<\/a>. But then online social fundraising came to the rescue! An interesting story shows how individual wealthy donors, in some cases, have less leverage than they once did.<\/li>\n
  6. White America\u2019s racial illiteracy: Why our national conversation is poisoned from the start – Salon.com<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. The Genderbread Person v3<\/a> An attempt to visualize the various elements of gender and sex.<\/li>\n
  8. Officer Pupke<\/a> Johnathan Edelstein has been contributing some delightful rewritten songs to the File770 comments, and I think this one is my favorite so far. Here’s a verse, click through for the whole thing: “TORGERSEN: Dear kindly judge, your Honor \/ My buddies need a chance \/ They\u2019ve not been nominated \/ And asked to join the dance. \/ Minorities and women \/ Have got this thing sewn up \/ Leapin\u2019 lizards, that\u2019s why I\u2019m a Pup!”<\/em><\/li>\n
  9. These pages from a graphic-novel-in-progres0s, by Thomke Meyer<\/a>, are OMG beautiful. This isn’t the only way to do science fiction or fantasy comics well, but it’s an extremely fruitful one, that takes advantages of comics’ strength as a medium.<\/li>\n
  10. Queen Bees are Stinging Mad . Stonewall Uprising . WGBH American Experience | PBS<\/a> A 1969 article from the New York Daily News. Among many things of interest is a discussion of a same-sex marriage, which again shows that same-sex marriage isn’t an idea created by the Massachusetts court system 11 years ago.<\/li>\n
  11. Bristol Reminds Us: Shaming Women and Policing Their Bodies Doesn’t Work<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. Tennessee Hardware Store Posts ‘No Gays Allowed’ Sign In Response To SCOTUS Marriage Ruling – Towleroad<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. Kentucky Clerks Refuse Marriage Licenses To All Couples, Cite ‘Religious Beliefs’- Towleroad<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Last laugh for Republicans in the SCOTUS session that was | xpostfactoid<\/a> The Supreme Court has accepted two cases that will allow it to do further major damage to unions and to affirmative action.<\/li>\n
  15. How Do You Make a Safe Abortion Any Safer?<\/a> As usual, pro-life arguments are being made in bad faith.<\/li>\n
  16. Today we gain a leap second. Why? – Boing Boing<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. Yeah, baby\u2013new Overtime pay rule is out and it\u2019s strong! | Jared Bernstein | On the Economy<\/a><\/li>\n
  18. Who can write stories about Trans characters?<\/a> Contains criticism of Hedwig<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  19. The Debate Link: Seventy Years Later<\/a>. The global Jewish population level has almost <\/em>reached pre-Holocaust levels.<\/li>\n
  20. “A pessimism trap is where<\/a> something good has happened, but it\u2019s not cool to be excited that something good happened, so everyone starts trying to temper their joy with cynical comments about how it doesn\u2019t mean much anyway and how it\u2019ll really make things worse.”<\/li>\n
  21. Why Are SSM Rights Doing Better Than Reproductive Rights – Lawyers, Guns & Money<\/a> The answer is named Justice Kennedy.<\/li>\n
  22. Growing mold is not sign that food is good for you, and not growing mold does not mean food is fake.<\/a><\/li>\n
  23. Veronica Straszheim \u2014 thoughts on the friendzone<\/a><\/li>\n
  24. Balkinization: Obergefell and Equality<\/a><\/li>\n
  25. “Just” Joking? Sexist Talk in Science<\/a><\/li>\n
  26. Valdenia Winn, Kansas state representative: Facing a disciplinary hearing for calling her colleagues “racist.”<\/a> The complaint was eventually dismissed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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