{"id":21440,"date":"2016-03-30T15:05:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T22:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=21440"},"modified":"2016-03-30T15:05:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T22:05:04","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-dont-look-at-the-sky-mortals-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=21440","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread and Link Farm, Don&#8217;t Look At The Sky Mortals Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/gaFh71YwZ4Y?showinfo=0\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/the-orbit.net\/heinous\/2016\/03\/24\/hijab-feminist-statement\/#more-51221\">Is Wearing Hijab a Feminist Statement? &#8211; Heinous Dealings<\/a><br \/>\nInteresting debate.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dsadevil.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/how-gop-lost-jackie-robinson.html\">How the GOP Lost Jackie Robinson<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theestablishment.co\/2016\/03\/16\/why-its-ok-for-activists-to-be-all-talk\/\">The Virtues of Virtue Signaling<\/a><br \/>\nTalking the talk can lead to walking the walk. And actually, can itself be a form of walking the walk.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/the-orbit.net\/brutereason\/2016\/03\/24\/boundary-setting-vs-tone-policing\/?utm_content=buffer4e1d6&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">Boundary Setting vs Tone Policing &#8211; Brute Reason<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/moneybox\/2016\/03\/27\/california_lawmakers_agree_to_a_15_minimum_wage.html\">California lawmakers agree to a $15 minimum wage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/michelangelo-signorile\/how-human-rights-campaign-helping-the-gop_b_9545778.html\">How The Human Rights Campaign Is Helping the GOP to Retain the Senate<\/a><br \/>\nI have sympathy for HRC&#8217;s long-term goal of getting more elected Republicans who support LGBT rights, but I think they&#8217;re mistaken to thing that such long-term trends are significantly influenced by endorsements. The GOP will get less anti-gay once their base finds being anti-gay unacceptable.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/larison\/trumps-jumbled-deal-obsessed-foreign-policy\/\">Trump\u2019s Jumbled, Deal-Obsessed Foreign Policy | The American Conservative<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/juliaserano.blogspot.com\/2015\/04\/alice-dreger-and-making-evidence-fit.html\">Whipping Girl: Alice Dreger\u2019s disingenuous campaign against transgender activism<\/a><br \/>\nThis is a post from last year, but Dreger&#8217;s book has been in the news a bit lately, so the link is therefore magically transformed into a timely link. Right?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/mzs\/things-crashing-into-other-things-or-my-superhero-movie-problem\">Things crashing into other things: or, my superhero movie problem | MZS | Roger Ebert<\/a><br \/>\nActually, there are a bunch of links from last year on this link farm. At least for my tastes, Stolz is right that <em>relatively <\/em>human-scale fight scenes (Captain America in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jqIBGEcKhGs\">elevator<\/a>, Black Widow tied to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dB4__mvTyL0\">chair<\/a>, Quicksilver running around a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1NnyVc8r2SM\">room<\/a>) are a lot more fun to watch than the bigger scenes that dominate most superhero movies (helicarriers crashing, etc); and also, that most of the big fight scenes feel generic.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/3\/28\/11320542\/florida-planned-parenthood-defund\">Florida is the latest state to defund Planned Parenthood even though it&#8217;s probably illegal &#8211; Vox<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/06\/27\/cnn-isis-flag-gay-pride_n_7679298.html\">CNN Mistakes Sex Toy Flag For ISIS Flag At London Gay Pride<\/a><br \/>\nStory from last year that I just now came across and if there were milk it would be all over my keyboard.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/mar\/29\/antonin-scalia-america-transformed-unions-supreme-court?CMP=share_btn_tw\">Without Scalia, America&#8217;s political landscape is being transformed | Scott Lemieux<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;The ruling has the effect of thwarting a major judicial attack on public sector unions, and also shows how the unexpected death of Antonin Scalia is already beginning to transform the American legal and political landscape.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oligopsony.tumblr.com\/post\/134837553428\/left-skepticism\">Left Skepticism<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Left skepticism says: we have no idea what we\u2019re doing, so absent very strong reasons we should just do whatever results in less immediate suffering, a factor we can know with much greater regularity.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/american-elections-ranked-worst-among-western-democracies-heres-why-56485\">American elections ranked worst among Western democracies. Here\u2019s why.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-bernie-sanders-made-the-democratic-party-safe-for-liberals-56253\">How Bernie Sanders made the Democratic Party safe for liberals<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/what-emily-yoffe-left-out-of-her-polemic-on-the-hunting-1746175048\">What Emily Yoffe Left Out of Her Polemic on\u00a0The Hunting Ground\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/11\/5\/7163533\/peak-water-withdrawals-since-1970\">The US now uses less water than it did in 1970 &#8211; Vox<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/emory-students-trump-graffiti\/\">Emory Students Traumatized by Trump Graffiti? : snopes.com<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;A controversy at Emory University over graffiti promoting Donald Trump led to some predictably inaccurate media reports.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/grade-point\/wp\/2016\/03\/25\/emory-student-its-not-about-chalk-its-about-the-message-trump-sends-to-people-of-color\/\">Emory student: It\u2019s not about chalk. It\u2019s about the message Trump sends to people of color. &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/news\/336392\/campus-anti-semitism-prompts-new-york-lawmakers-to-slash-funds\/\">Campus Anti-Semitism Prompts New York Lawmakers To Slash Funds<\/a><br \/>\nWhatever we think of what the students said, the lawmakers are going against free speech here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fatheffalump.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/27\/a-tribute-to-nurse-kellye\/\">A Tribute to Nurse Kellye | Fat Heffalump<\/a><br \/>\nThe frankly awesome background character on M*A*S*H who appeared in almost every episode. I haven&#8217;t watched M*A*S*H since I was a kid, but I remember really having a crush on Kellye, and being so pleased in one episode when Hawkeye had a particularly difficult surgery to perform and told Margaret that he&#8217;d need Kellye to assist him.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bit-player.org\/2016\/wheres-my-petabyte-disk-drive\">Where\u2019s My Petabyte Disk Drive? | bit-player<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/03\/aclu-lambda-legal-sue-north-carolina-law-banning-lgbt-rights-ordinances\/\">ACLU, Lambda Legal to Sue North Carolina Over Law Banning LGBT Rights Ordinances<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/election.princeton.edu\/2016\/03\/26\/no-path-forward-for-sanders\/\">No path for Sanders\u2026 but it\u2019s a long one<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;For national opinion to come into line with what Sanders needs, there would have to be a change from Clinton +9.5% to Sanders +12%. That\u2019s a 22-point swing. To put that into perspective, that is about how much the Clinton-Sanders margin has moved over the last seven months, since the start of August. Going forward, opinion would have to start moving about three times faster.&#8221; (Thanks to Ben.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/131919\/retaking-house-democratic-pipe-dream\">Is Retaking the House a Democratic Pipe Dream? | New Republic<\/a><br \/>\nDemocrats are blowing their admittedly slim chance of retaking the House.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/binghsien.tumblr.com\/post\/141768295937\/political-contribution-time-for-me-10-each-to\">Four progressive female candidates worth donating to.<\/a><br \/>\nAll four are running for the Senate.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/OKOC3Ufpw6w?showinfo=0\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Wearing Hijab a Feminist Statement? &#8211; Heinous Dealings Interesting debate. 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