{"id":22681,"date":"2017-02-06T20:34:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T04:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22681"},"modified":"2017-02-07T00:25:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T08:25:13","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-dancing-in-the-wind-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22681","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread and Link Farm, Dancing In The Wind Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/CN3-4Z4ae_0?rel=0\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popehat.com\/tag\/ponies\/\">Ponies | Popehat<\/a><br \/>\nThe Ponies category at Popehat is awesome. You will learn more about the pony threat then you ever imagined. (Thanks Mandolin!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samefacts.com\/2017\/02\/political-science\/getting-rid-of-the-johnson-amendment\/\">Why Trump wants to get rid of the \u201cJohnson Amendment\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nIf Churches can become tax-free political campaigning organizations, that gives them an enormous advantage over orgs like Planned Parenthood. It&#8217;s also a way for political donors to hide their identities.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/hiltzik\/la-fi-hiltzik-aetna-obamacare-20170123-story.html\">U.S. judge finds that Aetna misled the public about its reasons for quitting Obamacare &#8211; LA Times<\/a><br \/>\nCalling them assholes seems so inadequate.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/25\/opinion\/anne-frank-today-is-a-syrian-girl.html\">Anne Frank Today Is a Syrian Girl &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/portland\/index.ssf\/2017\/02\/around_200_people_form_barrier.html\">At least 300 people form barrier to shield Portland churchgoers from harassment | OregonLive.com<\/a><br \/>\nThree &#8220;Alas&#8221; folks &#8211; Charles, Ben and myself &#8211; were there for this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/80497cfb5f054c9b8c9e0f8f5ca30a62\">AP: Trump&#8217;s voter fraud expert registered to vote in 3 states<\/a><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no indication that he&#8217;s ever double-voted, but this is still notable, since Trump has cited double-registrations as evidence of voter fraud.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/transgriot.blogspot.com\/2017\/01\/boy-scouts-to-allow-transmasculine-boys.html\">TransGriot: Boy Scouts To Allow Transmasculine Boys To Join<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/lgbt\/2017\/01\/20\/gop-pressure-texas-supreme-court-will-consider-undoing-gay-spousal-rights\">At GOP leaders&#8217; urging, Texas Supreme Court will consider undoing gay spousal rights | LGBT | Dallas News<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/140053\/white-nationalists-come-washington\">The White Nationalists Come to Washington | New Republic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/feral-bunnies-are-taking-over-las-vegas\">Feral Bunnies Are Taking Over Las Vegas | Atlas Obscura<\/a><br \/>\nI can&#8217;t understand why they don&#8217;t make trapping and eating the adorable little things legal.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2017\/01\/south-dakota-lawmakers-declare-state-of-emergency-to-force-repeal-of-voter-imposed-ethics-law\/\">South Dakota lawmakers declare state of \u2019emergency\u2019 to force repeal of voter-imposed ethics law<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;The bill guts all of the Act\u2019s provisions, including creation of an independent ethics commission, limits on lobbyists gifts to politicians, tougher penalties for bribery, stronger transparency, and a two-year ban on politicians becoming lobbyists when they leave office.&#8221; There are parts of the law which should be modified or clarified, but wholesale repeal? They just want to be corrupt.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/140065\/myth-well-behaved-womens-march\">The Myth of the Well-Behaved Women\u2019s March | New Republic<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Bad behavior is enough to lead to arrests, but good behavior isn\u2019t enough to avoid it. If the cops didn\u2019t arrest anyone, it\u2019s because they didn\u2019t want to.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2016\/may\/05\/hospitals-pregnancy-abortion-reproductive-healthcare-catholic-rules-report\">Report: hundreds of US hospitals follow Catholic rules on reproductive care | Society | The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\nWhich leads to cases like <a href=\"https:\/\/rewire.news\/multimedia\/podcast\/choiceless-mindy-swank-catholic-hospital-abortion\/\">what happened to Mindy Swank<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2017\/01\/23\/repealing-the-affordable-care-act-will-kill-more-than-43000-people-annually\/\">Repealing the Affordable Care Act will kill more than 43,000 people annually &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/senate-democrats-trump_us_588817f3e4b0b481c76be1e5\">Democrats Want To Pick Their Battles With Trump. Their Base Wants All-Out War. | The Huffington Post<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2016\/11\/29\/13764294\/illegal-vote-fraud-history\">President Trump\u2019s illegal-voter paranoia is a fantasy. But the consequences are real. &#8211; Vox<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/millman\/this-stat-will-make-your-epop\/\">This Stat Will Make Your EPOP | The American Conservative<\/a><br \/>\nThanks to Harlequin for this link, about the prime-age EPOP: &#8220;The employment-to-population ratio for adults between the ages of 25 and 54.&#8221; This is a good statistic to look at, not instead of but beside the unemployment rate. The EPOP has mostly recovered since the 2008 recession, but there&#8217;s still a ways to go.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/02\/why-donald-trump-bears-blame-for-making-america-less-safe\/515745\/?utm_source=feed\">Why Donald Trump Has Made American Less Safe From Terrorism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com\/2017\/02\/are-factory-jobs-good-jobs\">Are Factory Jobs Good Jobs? &#8211; Lawyers, Guns &amp; Money<\/a><br \/>\nNot if they&#8217;re not union jobs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sentencing.typepad.com\/sentencing_law_and_policy\/2017\/02\/the-hardest-of-cases-for-death-penalty-abolitionists-convicted-murderer-who-keeps-murdering-while-in.html\">Sentencing Law and Policy: The hardest of cases for death penalty abolitionists: convicted murderer who keeps murdering while in prison<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thingofthings.wordpress.com\/2017\/01\/26\/on-male-feminists\/\">On Male Feminists | Thing of Things<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2017\/01\/23\/montreals-car-free-street-network-gets-bigger-all-the-time\/\">Montreal\u2019s Car-Free Street Network Gets Bigger All the Time \u2013 Streetsblog USA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2017\/01\/trump-chance-iraqs.html\">Trump to CIA: We now have 2nd Chance to take Iraq&#8217;s Oil<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/world\/2017\/1\/13\/14268994\/synagogue-wuppertal-anti-semitism-anti-zionism-anti-israel\">German court rules that firebombing a synagogue is not anti-Semitic &#8211; Vox<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com\/2017\/01\/nafta-has-been-awesome-for-mexico\">NAFTA Has Been Awesome for Mexico???? &#8211; Lawyers, Guns &amp; Money<\/a><br \/>\nNot so much.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/heron61.dreamwidth.org\/722224.html\">heron61 | Thoughts on 2 Films &#8211; Passengers (2016) &amp; The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (1959)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2016\/12\/lesson-2016-rabid-congressional-investigations-work\">The Lesson of 2016: Rabid Congressional Investigations Work | Mother Jones<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/379938\/comic-trump-election-protest-civil-rights-movement-memphis\/\">Graphic essay: What the Civil Rights Movement can teach us about surviving Trump | Fusion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ufdvYrTeTuU\">How Louis CK Tells A Joke &#8211; YouTube<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebaffler.com\/blog\/youre-fired-featherstone\">You\u2019re Fired: Political discourse in the age of Trump | Liza Featherstone<\/a><br \/>I wish I could cut the final sentence &#8211; which is yet another iteration of the &#8220;it&#8217;s because of liberals I disagree with that Trump was elected!&#8221; cliche &#8211; but other than that, this essay criticizing the left for calling for people to be fired is spot-on, and by spot-on I mean it says things I agree with.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_slatest\/2017\/02\/02\/eli_whitney_inventor_of_the_cotton_gin_wasn_t_black_but_here_s_why_so_many.html\">Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, wasn&#8217;t black. But here&#8217;s why so many people think he was.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_slatest\/2017\/02\/05\/quebec_city_imam_s_profoundly_magnanimous_eulogy_includes_white_gunman_in.html\">Quebec City imam\u2019s profoundly magnanimous eulogy includes white gunman in list of victims.<\/a><br \/>Thanks to Closetpuritan for this and the previous two links.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/arkansas-abortion-law-that-will-let-rapists-sue-victims-husbands-second-trimester-a7561066.html\">Arkansas passes law allowing rapists to sue victims who want an abortion | The Independent<\/a><br \/>Specifically, the law allows a husband to sue his wife&#8217;s doctor to prevent her from getting an abortion, even in cases where the husband raped the wife. That headline-grabbing news is disgusting and noteworthy, but the broader principle in the law &#8211; that a husband has an ownership stake in his wife&#8217;s body &#8211; is also disgusting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/millman\/partisan-redistricting-goes-to-court\/\">Partisan Redistricting Goes To Court | The American Conservative<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/the-orbit.net\/greta\/2017\/02\/06\/resistance-sore-loser\/\">Resistance, and Being a &quot;Sore Loser&quot; &#8211; Greta Christina&#8217;s Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/milo-and-the-violent-well-funded-right-wing-attacks-on-academic-freedom-9bcf78e8059e#.z5p57a8mj\">Milo and the Violent, Well-Funded Right-Wing Attacks on Academic Freedom<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiagoldenblogs.com\/2017\/2\/2\/14482840\/anarchists-uc-berkeley-violence-protests-california-golden-bears\">Anarchists, NOT Cal students, responsible for violence in UC Berkeley protests &#8211; California Golden Blogs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dsadevil.blogspot.com\/2017\/02\/berkeleys-partially-pregnant-protests.html\">The Debate Link: Berkeley&#8217;s Partially Pregnant Protests<\/a><br \/>Very good points from David Schraub: &#8220;The fact of the matter is that there were three speeches scheduled at Berkeley last night.&#8221; Thanks to Harlequin for the link.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlbeijer.com\/2017\/02\/nazi-punching-probably-doesnt-matter.html\">Carl Beijer: Nazi punching probably doesn&#8217;t matter either way<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popehat.com\/2017\/01\/21\/on-punching-nazis\/\">On Punching Nazis | Popehat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2017\/01\/video-richard-spencer-punch-antifa-fascism\">The Long History of &quot;Nazi Punching&quot; | Mother Jones<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wave.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wave-590x396.jpg\" alt=\"wave\" width=\"590\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wave-590x396.jpg 590w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wave-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wave-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wave.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ponies | Popehat The Ponies category at Popehat is awesome. 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