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  1. The Armed Protests Outside Brock Turner\u2019s Home Are Dangerously Counterproductive<\/a>
    \n“The protest outside Turner\u2019s home is the latest example of a weird sort of cognitive dissonance that has recently emerged among progressives around issues of criminal justice.”<\/li>\n
  2. Lauer\u2019s Pathetic Interview Made Me Think Trump Can Win<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Strange Horizons Articles: Boucher, Backbone and Blake \u2013 the legacy of Blakes 7<\/em>, by Erin Hor\u00e1kov\u00e1<\/a>
    \nThis made me really want to rewatch Blakes 7<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  4. Slate Star Scratchpad \u2014 Everything in Medicine Is Like This<\/a>
    \nWhy perfectly safe patients have to be declared dangerous so they can have an ambulance ride they don’t want or need.<\/li>\n
  5. Gawker, Money, Speech, And Justice | Popehat<\/a>
    \nThe problem isn’t just <\/em>vengeful billionaires.<\/li>\n
  6. Why Scandinavian Prisons Are Superior – The Atlantic<\/a>
    \n“‘Open’ prisons, in which detainees are allowed to live like regular citizens, should be a model for the U.S.”<\/li>\n
  7. No, it’s not the fans’ responsibility when Marvel cancels a comic book, geez.<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. In Defense of Melissa Click, Now at Gonzaga University<\/a>
    \nPeople should be able to recover from one relatively harmless mistake. (Note the word “relatively.”)<\/li>\n
  9. When tech firms judge on skills alone, women land more job interviews – CBS News<\/a>
    \nThe increase was reportedly enormous, from 5% to 54%. I can’t find the actual study online, however, so I’m not certain it’s valid.<\/li>\n
  10. Corso Zundert 2016 is a Dutch flower parade that features floats made from millions of dahlias.<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. U of Oregon Removes Name of Klan Leader From Dorm<\/a>
    \nBut Dunn was the low-hanging fruit; there will be much more resistance to     renaming Deady Hall<\/a>, named after the founder of U of O, an outspoken proslavery racist who later was an important figure fighting anti-Chinese racism.<\/li>\n
  12. Rebecca Sugar, Cartoon Network’s first female creator, on writing LGBTQ stories for kids | PBS NewsHour<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. Unpaid Labor in Texas Prisons Is Modern-Day Slavery<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. The the Standard European Paper Size System is a beautiful thing<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  15. Phyllis Schlafly in her own words: Her many opinions about women, sex and equality – Salon.com<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. U.S. politicians love to attack China and Mexico for stealing jobs. Germany could be next.<\/a>
    \nGermany’s trade surplus comes not just from great products, but also from undervalued currency and low wages.<\/li>\n
  17. Film studio Warner Brothers has asked Google to remove its own website from search results, saying it violates copyright laws.<\/a>
    \n“It also asked the search giant to remove links to legitimate movie streaming websites run by Amazon and Sky, as well as the film database IMDB.”<\/li>\n
  18. Blind people gesture (and why that\u2019s kind of a big deal)<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. Report: Amazon To Open 100 Pop-Up Stores In Next Year \u2013 Consumerist<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. For the first time ever, America\u2019s uninsured rate has fallen below 9 percent – Vox<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. Fannie’s Room: Another Men’s Issue for MRAs to Solve*: Workplace Feedback!<\/a><\/li>\n
  22. Phyllis Schlafly is doomed to represent the feminism she hated.<\/a><\/li>\n
  23. Did Democrats Unfairly “Demonize” Republicans Like John McCain and Mitt Romney? (SPOILER: No.) – Lawyers, Guns & Money : Lawyers, Guns & Money<\/a><\/li>\n
  24. Reframing the Minimum-Wage Debate<\/a>
    \nLong but interesting article from a pro-MW perspective. Pour yourself a cup of coffee first.<\/li>\n
  25. Advice Goddess Blog<\/a><\/li>\n
  26. Examining the Missing Anti-Abortion Footnote<\/a><\/li>\n
  27. The Politics of Hair \u2014 Crooked Timber<\/a>
    \n“I recently learned something that I had been totally ignorant about: black and Creole women pre-Emancipation were required by law in many places to wear a headwrap in public….”<\/li>\n
  28. Undocumented Immigrants Pay Billions in State and Local Taxes : Immigration Impact<\/a><\/li>\n
  29. How Horses Think<\/a>
    \n\u201cTo be concise: all horses, even the most chill horses, on some level believe they are living in a survival horror.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n