{"id":20961,"date":"2016-02-02T21:33:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T05:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20961"},"modified":"2016-02-02T21:36:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T05:36:49","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-tba-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20961","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread and Link Farm, Pretty Taxi Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/10261394\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/2\/2\/10892724\/bernie-sanders-wake-up-call\">The surprising success of Bernie Sanders&#8217;s insurgency should be a wake-up call to the Democratic establishment &#8211; Vox<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;But trying to foreclose any kind of meaningful contact with the voters or debate about party priorities, strategy, and direction was arrogant and based on a level of self-confidence about Democratic leaders&#8217; political judgment that does not seem borne out by the evidence.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/transgender\/2016\/1\/31\/hhs-rules-trans-woman-entitled-surgery-under-medicare?utm_content=bufferb7849&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">Federal Government Rules That Trans Woman are Entitled to Surgery Under Medicare | Advocate.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/balkin.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/the-limits-of-bernie-sanders-imagination.html\">Balkinization: The Limits of Bernie Sanders&#8217; Imagination<\/a><br \/>\nFor a real revolution, Sanders should be talking about amending the Constitution.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rhrealitycheck.org\/article\/2016\/01\/29\/report-raids-central-american-women-children-unconstitutional\/\">Report: INS Raids on Central American Women and Children &#8216;Unconstitutional&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2016\/02\/conservative-culture-and-fear-reverse-racism\">Conservative Culture and the Fear of Reverse Racism | Mother Jones<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;But among whites, a majority believe that racism against blacks has improved so much\u2014and reverse racism against whites has intensified so much\u2014that today there&#8217;s literally more bias against whites than against blacks.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/the-iowa-primaries-lessons-on-gender.html\">ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES: The Iowa Primaries. Lessons on Gender Politics and Gender in Politics.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/teen-died-in-jail-after-guards-restrained-her-with-martial-arts-move-report-finds_us_56acdd1de4b00b033aaf4f9e\">Gynnya McMillen, 16, Dies In Juvenile Detention After She Refused To Remove Her Hoodie<\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s impossible to tell from the report if this was a freak accident after the use of appropriate force (I do believe that it is reasonable for guards to search all prisoners) or if the force used was inappropriate. Nonetheless, clearly procedures for making sure she remained healthy in the hours after the violence had ended were either not followed or completely inadequate.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/gender\/study-proves-physics-teachers-tend-give-girls-lower-grades-boys-exact-same-questions\">Study Proves That Physics Teachers Tend to Give Girls Lower Grades Than Boys for the Exact Same Questions | Alternet<\/a><br \/>\nHowever, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/09500693.2015.1114190\">the same study <\/a>found that experience changes things; teachers with more than 10 years of experience graded without bias. Also, male teachers in Germany were unbiased (unlike female German teachers), and there was no bias detected against students in language rather than science majors.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/second-opinion\/2016\/01\/obese-women-experience-much-more-negative-social-stigma-previously-thought-st\">Obese women experience much more negative social stigma than previously thought, study finds | MinnPost<\/a><br \/>\nRather than asking fat women to recall instances of past incidents, the researchers asked them to keep contemporaneous diaries. &#8220;The 50 women cited a total of 1,077 stigmatizing experiences during that single week \u2014 an average of three a day for each woman.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/27\/business\/a-woman-on-the-10-bill-and-everyone-has-2-cents-to-put-in.html?emc=edit_th_20160127&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;nlid=26751733&amp;_r=0\">A Woman on the $10 Bill, and Everyone Has 2 Cents to Put In &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\nIf the NY Times doesn&#8217;t let you read their articles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=A+Woman+on+the+%2410+Bill%2C+and+Everyone+Has+2+Cents+to+Put+In&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8\">click on the link at google instead<\/a>, and then you should be able to read it. Personally, I like the plan of getting fucking Andrew Jackson off the twenty and replacing him with Harriet Tubman.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/the-toast.net\/2016\/02\/01\/ayn-rands-firefly\/\">Ayn Rand&#8217;s Firefly &#8211; The Toast<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Do not hide behind such superficialities as whether you should or should not rescue your sister from torture school. That is not the issue. The issue is whether you do or do not have the right to exist without rescuing her from torture school.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/133745\/barbie-debuts-curvy-tall-and-petite-dolls-for-body-positive-makeover?utm_source=policymicTBLR&amp;utm_medium=main&amp;utm_campaign=social#.boPAhHPCW\">Barbie Debuts Curvy, Tall and Petite Dolls for Body-Positive Makeover<\/a><br \/>\nDiversity is relative &#8211; real life bodies are a lot more diverse than these new Barbies are &#8211; but it&#8217;s still a significant step.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kameronhurley.com\/traditional-publishing-non-compete-clauses-rights-grabs-oh-my\/\">Traditional Publishing, Non-Compete Clauses &amp; Rights Grabs | Kameron Hurley<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2016\/02\/compassionate-bigotry-and-the-future-of-anti-gay-rhetoric.html\">Compassionate Bigotry and the Future of Anti-Gay Rhetoric<\/a><br \/>Anti-gay rhetoric has gotten kinder, but the reality hasn&#8217;t changed enough.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/politics\/feminism\/2016\/01\/after-cologne-we-cant-let-bigots-steal-feminism\">After Cologne, we can&#8217;t let the bigots steal feminism &#8211; Laurie Penny<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/masked-men-beat-immigrants-stockholm-distribute-anti-refugee-pamphlets-1541039\">Masked men beat up immigrants in Stockholm, distribute anti-refugee pamphlets<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/12\/04\/liberals_are_not_soft_on_sympathetic_towards_or_defensive_about_islamic_terrorism\/\">Liberals are not soft on, sympathetic towards, or defensive about Islamic terrorism &#8211; Amanda Marcotte<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2016\/01\/sanders-clinton-iran-debate\/427065\/\">What&#8217;s Behind the Clinton-Sanders Debate About Iran? &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><br \/>\nClinton makes an attack that covers up her own hawkishness; if Clinton had beaten Obama eight years ago, the Iran deal might not have happened.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/01\/why-isnt-hillarys-hawkishness-a-dealbreaker\/433887\/\">Bernie Sanders&#8217;s Superior Foreign-Policy Judgement &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><br \/>Thanks to ClosetPuritan for this link.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2015\/11\/06\/hillary-clinton-doctrine-obama-interventionist-tough-minded-president\/\">The Hillary Clinton Doctrine | Foreign Phttps:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/edit-comments.phpolicy<\/a><br \/>\nA much more nuanced and in-depth look at Clinton&#8217;s foreign policy perspective. But it&#8217;s a longread. The author, James Traub (who definitely favors Clinton), seems to me to be oversure about some of his conclusions, but the article on the whole is excellent and I recommend reading it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jerome-karabel\/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-electability_b_9077520.html\">Is Hillary Clinton More Electable Than Bernie Sanders?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2016\/02\/also-ran-trump-urges-thugs-to-knock-the-crap-out-of-protesters-will-cover-legal-fees.html\">Trump Urges his Followers to Knock \u2018the Crap\u2019 out of Protesters, and Promises to Cover Legal Fees<\/a><br \/>\nWhether or not he was joking (although he literally said he was serious), this is a dangerously irresponsible thing to say in front of a crowd.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/1\/27\/10845114\/arab-spring-failure\">The unsexy truth about why the Arab Spring failed &#8211; Vox<\/a><br \/>\nSave you a click (although it&#8217;s worth reading): Because dictators tend to hollow out governing and civil institutions, leaving a completely unstable situation for anyone who takes over.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GfpQScqgaQs&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Bonnie Milligan &amp; Laura Osnes &#8211; &#8220;Disney Princess Medley&#8221; &#8211; YouTube<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2016\/01\/27\/the-real-hero-of-hamilton-is-aaron-burr\/\">The Real Hero Of \u2018Hamilton\u2019 Is Aaron Burr<\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s never too late to redeem a reputation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2016\/02\/taxi-fabric\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20989\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20989\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/taxi-3-590x394.jpg\" alt=\"taxi-3\" width=\"590\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/taxi-3-590x394.jpg 590w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/taxi-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/taxi-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/taxi-3-940x627.jpg 940w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/taxi-3.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surprising success of Bernie Sanders&#8217;s insurgency should be a wake-up call to the Democratic establishment &#8211; Vox &#8220;But trying to foreclose any kind of meaningful contact with the voters or debate about party priorities, strategy, and direction was arrogant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20961\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-20961","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\/20961","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=20961"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20993,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20961\/revisions\/20993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}