{"id":22532,"date":"2016-12-14T21:24:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T05:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22532"},"modified":"2016-12-14T21:57:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T05:57:08","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-broken-mirror-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22532","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread and Link Farm, Broken Mirror Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sunday-in-the-park-redux\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. Former congressional staffers have written a practical how-to guide<\/a>, based on Tea Party tactics, for getting your members of Congress to resist Trump.<\/li>\n
  2. That viral graph about millennials\u2019 declining support for democracy? It\u2019s very misleading. – The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Radiant.<\/a>
    \nA 12-panel comic about women who painted radium onto watch faces.<\/li>\n
  4. Sometimes There Are More Important Goals Than Civility – The Atlantic<\/a>
    \nI like this article, but I disagree with the author implicitly accepting the right-wing framing that to speak about racism (etc) is inherently uncivil.<\/li>\n
  5. Prejudice, \u201cPolitical Correctness,\u201d and the Normalization of Donald Trump \u2013 Medium<\/a>
    \nReally excellent discussion of “political correctness” from Julia Serano.<\/li>\n
  6. The Myopic Empiricism of the Minimum Wage, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty<\/a>
    \nI think this is the best argument against the evidence from the “minimum wages do increase unemployment” camp I’ve seen. I’m not persuaded by it, but it was interesting.<\/li>\n
  7. The FBI Is Investigating Me Because I Tweeted A Joke About Fake News | The Huffington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Texas Publishes ‘Objective’ Abortion Informational Brochure That Cites False Cancer Link<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. The Next Battles Over Voting Rights – The Atlantic<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. Men do not enjoy debauchery of stag dos, study finds | Life and style | The Guardian<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. How Often Do Women Rape Men? – The Atlantic<\/a> And also, a collection of reader responses,<\/a> as readers tell their own stories.<\/li>\n
  12. A webpage<\/a> for providing help to male survivors of sexual assault.<\/li>\n
  13. Austerity policies are supported by the finance world, not by most mainstream economists.<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Congress has spent 15 months \u201cinvestigating\u201d Planned Parenthood using McCarthy-like tactics – Vox<\/a>
    \nAnd, very similarly:<\/li>\n
  15. The House science committee is worse than the Benghazi committee – Vox<\/a>
    \nRepublicans using Congress’ powers to harass climate scientists. And now that they have unfettered power, it’s likely this will get worse.<\/li>\n
  16. Student protestors call “Boys Don’t Cry” director a bitch.<\/a>
    \nThis is gross. Criticizing her work and process is fair; but meanness and harassment – and the use of misogynistic slurs – are not.<\/li>\n
  17. The Feminist Message of the Dudes in Force Awakens | The Mary Sue<\/a><\/li>\n
  18. Lawyer: Reno Boy Shot by School Cop Had Been Bullied, Beaten – ABC News<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. Giving poor people cash gets them to spend more on good stuff and less on tobacco and alcohol \u2014 Quartz<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. Donald Trump is right: Free trade is broken, but his “fix” would only make things worse. \u2014 Quartz<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. The awful history of the minimum wage.<\/a>
    \nI think the minimum wage is a good policy – but many of its original proponents were racists.<\/li>\n
  22. Ode to the Unsayable by Keith Leonard | Tupelo Quarterly<\/a>
    \nI liked this poem a lot.<\/li>\n
  23. The Defense of Liberty Can\u2019t Do Without Identity Politics – Niskanen Center<\/a><\/li>\n
  24. Hate\u2019s Insidious Face: UW-Milwaukee and the \u201cAlt-Right\u201d | Overpass Light Brigade<\/a>
    \nMilo took the time to single out a trans student for public sneering and mockery, and act that was not only cruel but dangerous. (The student happened to be in the auditorium at the time; anything could have happened if she’d been recognized.) Major content warning on that link for transphobia, obviously. There’s a movement to     revoke his speaking invitation<\/a> next month in Seattle; I hope they succeed.<\/li>\n
  25. I really like (and perhaps somewhat resemble) the “Wells For Boys” commercial from SNL.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n