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  1. Noah Berlatsky on “Virtue Signaling.”<\/a>
    \n“The most insular tribalism is the tribalism that forswears tribalism. Heaven and neoliberalism forbid we admit that we actually need other people for love, approval, and guidance.”<\/li>\n
  2. Believing Your Own Lies<\/a>
    \nSo-called “Crisis Pregnancy Centers” claim to prevent tens of thousands of abortions – but, unsurprisingly, they’re lying.<\/li>\n
  3. The Free-Trade Consensus Is Dead | New Republic<\/a>
    \nThe Obama Administration claims that they’re fighting to protect labor and the environment when they negotiate trade deals – but, unsurprisingly, they’re lying. (Link via Nobody.)<\/li>\n
  4. Ironic effects of anti-prejudice messages | EurekAlert! Science News<\/a>
    \nFrom     a pdf<\/a> of the study itself: “Ironically, motivating people to reduce prejudice by emphasizing external control produced more explicit and implicit prejudice than did not intervening at all. Conversely, participants in whom autonomous motivation to regulate prejudice was induced displayed less explicit and implicit prejudice compared with no-treatment control participants.”<\/li>\n
  5. Anti-fat bias shows up in really little kids – Futurity<\/a>
    \n\u201cThe preference for average versus obese figures was strongly related to maternal anti-fat prejudice. Other potential factors such as parental BMI, education, and even children\u2019s television viewing were not related to what sort of figure the child preferred to look at.\u201d<\/li>\n
  6. Getting a photo ID so you can vote is easy. Unless you\u2019re poor, black, Latino or elderly. – The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. A Comprehensive Guide To The Debunked \u201cBathroom Predator\u201d Myth<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. North Carolina Lawmakers Are Trying To Take Away The Only ID Undocumented Immigrants Can Get | ThinkProgress<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. Doctors remove nurse from patient’s arm.<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. See how Mount Rushmore was SUPPOSED to look | Roadtrippers<\/a>
    \nThey ran out of money.<\/li>\n
  11. Side-By-Side: The Good Wife’s First And Last Scenes – YouTube<\/a>
    \nThis is really neat if you’re a fan of The Good Wife<\/em> (and I am), but probably not of interest otherwise.<\/li>\n
  12. Yale\u2019s World-Famous Ethics Professor Accused Of Sexual Harassment – BuzzFeed News<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. What Cultural Appropriation is NOT<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. A point-counterpoint: Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women | FiveThirtyEight<\/a> versus Cathy Young’s critique of same.<\/a> I think Cathy makes some <\/em>decent points, although the headline and subheadline are silly. (Update: Cathy comments further<\/a>, and says that the headline was “obviously” a joke.)<\/li>\n
  15. Court to Hear Appeal From Purvi Patel, Convicted of Feticide – NBC News<\/a>
    \nSo much for that “pro-life isn’t about putting women in jail” claim.<\/li>\n
  16. Ayn Rand’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – The Toast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n