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  1. Skin Feeling, by Sofia Samatar<\/a>, is an exquisite essay about how being a “diverse” faculty member at a mostly white institution makes one both very visible and no longer visible as an individual; and Charlie Parker; and various acts of public nudity. Sit down in a comfy chair with a cup of coffee and read it.<\/li>\n
  2. Sofia Samatar is also a fantasy and sf writer<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. 50 Years After the Moynihan Report, Examining the Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration – The Atlantic<\/a> This long article by Ta-Nehisi Coates is REALLY worth reading.<\/li>\n
  4. The Police Told Her To Report Her Rape, Then Arrested Her For Lying – BuzzFeed News<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. \u201cOh so I can\u2019t say ANYTHING anymore\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. This Is So Gay: When Death Threats Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Make Death Threats<\/a> Duncan comments on a thread here at “Alas.”<\/li>\n
  7. Hillary Clinton and the Dangers of Political Ruthlessness – The Atlantic<\/a> Conor F. makes the case against voting for Clinton in the primaries.<\/li>\n
  8. How to Stop Mass Shootings – Why Mass Shootings Keep Happening<\/a> Contains some very interesting first-person musings from someone who almost <\/em>committed a mass shooting.<\/li>\n
  9. Toxic masculinity is tearing us apart: Christopher Harper-Mercer, 4chan and the fragility of America\u2019s alpha male – Salon.com<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. The case against equality of opportunity – Vox<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. Enough is Enough: Dark Horse\u2019s Scott Allie\u2019s Assaulting Behavior | Graphic Policy<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. Revisiting The Effect Of Teachers’ Unions On Student Test Scores | Shanker Institute<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. Ant Man and the Problem of Marvel\u2019s Necessary Women | Feminist Fiction<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Want More Teachers? Pay More | Al Jazeera America<\/a><\/li>\n
  15. The Comic Pusher: The Unexpected Delights of Wine and Comics in Etienne Davodeau’s The Initiates<\/em><\/a>. I recently read The Initiates<\/em>, a graphic novel about a winemaker teaching a cartoonist about his craft, and vice-versa, and I really enjoyed it.<\/li>\n
  16. Study: White people react to evidence of white privilege by claiming greater personal hardships<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. Beauty and the feast: Examining the effect of beauty on earnings using restaurant tipping data<\/a>. More attractive waitresses get tipped more by women, but not men; and to a lesser degree, more attractive waiters get tipped more by men, but not women. I have no idea what that means.<\/li>\n
  18. Speeding in Finland Can Cost a Fortune, if You Already Have One.<\/a> This seems like a very sensible idea – speeding tickets, rather than being a flat rate, are proportionate to income. The article talks about one millionaire whose speeding ticket was enough money to buy a Mercedes.<\/li>\n
  19. Wonder Woman Lunch Box Banned From School for being “too violent”<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. The official poverty measure is garbage. The census has found a better way. – Vox<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. My Temple, My Mountain | Popular Science<\/a> A well-done short comic about science and colonialism and building a telescope on the tallest mountain on Earth. ((As measured from the sea floor.)) Thanks to Harlequin for the link.<\/li>\n
  22. Wired magazine’s Absurb Creature Of The Week archive<\/a> is a great way to make a lot of time when you should be working, pleasurably disappear.<\/li>\n
  23. Why police could seize a college student’s life savings without charging him for a crime – Vox<\/a> The answer, of course, is civil forfeiture laws (and, unsurprisingly, the student is Black). The extent to which this completely indefensible program seems invulnerable makes me despair; many (most?) Americans seem content to live in a police state, as long as they aren’t among the likely targets. (See also, no-knock raids.)<\/li>\n
  24. Republicans Who Voted Against Sandy Aid Now Demand Help for South Carolina Flooding Victims<\/a>. I still hope that they get their emergency relief, but man, what assholes.<\/li>\n
  25. Today in the Systemic Persecution of Sex Offenders – Lawyers, Guns & Money : Lawyers, Guns & Money<\/a><\/li>\n
  26. How to play Strip Iterated Prisoner\u2019s Dilemma – Exploring the Interesting<\/a><\/li>\n
  27. The remarkable thing that happens to poor kids when you give their parents a little money – The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  28. Locked Out Of The Sixth Amendment By Proprietary Forensic Software | Techdirt<\/a><\/li>\n
  29. Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters: Fox News caught pushing another false story about the transgender community, bathrooms<\/a><\/li>\n
  30. The Republican Party stands alone in climate denial<\/a><\/li>\n
  31. What people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like – The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  32. Planned Parenthood\u2019s \u201cGovernment Funding\u201d: The Same Kind Your Doctor Receives<\/a><\/li>\n
  33. Those folks who were kids in the early 1970s – do you remember a kid’s TV show called Candle Cove?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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