{"id":22879,"date":"2017-04-15T12:08:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T19:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22879"},"modified":"2017-04-16T10:43:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T17:43:37","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-spiders-will-eat-us-all-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22879","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread and Link Farm, Spiders Will Eat Us All Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. LSE Business Review \u2013 Gender quotas and the crisis of the mediocre man<\/a>
    \n“Quotas aren’t anathema to meritocracy: they increase competence levels by displacing mediocre men.”<\/li>\n
  2. White Women Are Less Likely to Protect Black Women From Sexual Assault, Study Finds | Teen Vogue<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Minority Neighborhoods Pay Higher Car Insurance Premiums Than White Areas With the Same Risk – ProPublica<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Women Supreme Court Justices Are Interrupted More Often During Oral Arguments, Despite Talking Less<\/a>
    \nGender is far more influential a factor than seniority.<\/li>\n
  5. Spiders could theoretically eat every human on Earth in one year – The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Opioid Deaths Plummeting in States with Legal Weed<\/a>
    \nJeff Sessions, of course, doesn’t give a shit. The willingness to have more people die in order to preserve the moral purity of one’s anti-drug stance is, to me, perhaps the most bewildering conservative position. (Think also of the needle exchange issue.)<\/li>\n
  7. Toxic masculinity is bad for the Jews<\/a>
    \n“It\u2019s not an accident that the JDL is trying for a comeback in the US now. Fascism, white nationalism, Trumpism, are ascendent, and so is antisemitism.”<\/li>\n
  8. Complaint Alleges Immigration Detention Center Sexual Assaults Are Ignored | Teen Vogue<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. KY law would allow student groups to discriminate against LGBT people | TheHill<\/a>
    \nThis is what “religious freedom” means to the Christian right – the right of a (taxpayer-funded) Frisbee Club<\/del> student club to exclude queers. (In theory     the law is limited<\/a> to “religious or political” student groups. Sincere thanks to Michael for the correction.)<\/li>\n
  10. Election 2016: Did New Voting Laws Tip the Balance?<\/a>
    \nThe answer: No, it didn’t, according to this study. In fact, voter suppression laws may have hurt Trump more, because – in a reverse of what typically happens – in 2016 Republicans had more first-time voters, who are more likely to be deterred; and perhaps also because Democrats mitigated voter suppression laws through get out the vote efforts.<\/li>\n
  11. Few Democratic voters back Syria bombings. So why do so many Democrats in Congress? – Vox<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. The Debate Link: What We Now Know About Sex Discrimination<\/a>
    \n“In a landmark decision, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has concluded that discrimination on basis of sexual orientation is a form of sex discrimination, prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.”<\/li>\n
  13. My Third April Fools\u2019 Confession | Thing of Things<\/a>“In Patria, it is generally agreed upon that every man a woman has sex with the month before she conceives a child is that child\u2019s father. … Most children have five to ten fathers. Of course, few women have five to ten lovers at any given time; it is usual, when a woman decides to try to conceive, for her to choose a small number of beloved friends to have sex with once or twice.”<\/li>\n
  14. Doctor Who’s Bill Potts to be show’s first openly gay companion | Television & radio | The Guardian<\/a>
    \nCaptain Jack was openly bi, I thought? Although he was more of an occasional guest star than a companion.<\/li>\n
  15. GOP lawmaker: The Bible says \u2018if a man will not work, he shall not eat\u2019 – The Washington Post<\/a>
    \nThis was said to justify cutting SNAP (aka food stamps).<\/li>\n
  16. Economic growth in the US: A tale of two countries | VOX, CEPR\u2019s Policy Portal<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. FBI Arrests Hacker Who Hacked No One – The Daily Beast<\/a>
    \nHe wrote software that hackers (and also, legit users) have used.<\/li>\n
  18. Mike Pence\u2019s Marriage and the Beliefs That Keep Women from Power – The New Yorker<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. The American economy isn\u2019t actually becoming more concentrated – Vox<\/a>
    \nIn short: In the past, a lot of people moved to areas where economic growth was concentrated, and this was good. Today, economic growth is concentrated in coastal cities like San Francisco; but people don’t move there, because the rent is too damn high, because we have too many single-family houses and not enough apartment buildings.<\/li>\n
  20. If I Ran The Zoo: 16 recommendations for Fixing Obamacare<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. Kansas’ Governor Brownback Stops 150,000 Poor People From Getting Health Care<\/a><\/li>\n
  22. No, Diversity Didn’t Kill Marvel’s Comic Sales – CBR<\/a>
    \nBut it’s frightening to see how much their sales have collapsed – including in their best-selling comics about white men. If they don’t find a way to stop that trend it’s hard to see how they stay in business as a comics publisher.<\/li>\n
  23. No, millennial men don’t want to keep women in the kitchen.<\/a>
    \nHow bad statistics leads to a clickbaity headline about sexist millennials.<\/li>\n
  24. Joss Whedon\u2019s \u2018Batgirl\u2019 movie reveals a weakness in a key argument for diversity – The Washington Post<\/a>
    \nI think a more compelling argument for diverse creators is, we’re leaving talent lying on the table. (See link #1).<\/li>\n
  25. The Death of the White Working Class Has Been Greatly Exaggerated<\/a><\/li>\n
  26. And also: Is white mortality rising? Not really.<\/a><\/li>\n
  27. Why It\u2019s Time to Legalize Prostitution – The Daily Beast<\/a><\/li>\n
  28. New poll shows what Americans really think about taxes: the rich should pay more – Vox<\/a><\/li>\n
  29. Even among lower-income Republicans. But the poll could have asked more nuanced questions, imo.<\/li>\n
  30. Settling the birth-order debate once and for\u00a0all – The Globe and Mail<\/a>
    \nBirth order has no effect on personality, according to the largest study yet done. First born children are <\/em>smarter on average – but only by a single IQ point.<\/li>\n
  31. Speaking of legalizing prostitution, I had an argument about that over at A Moment of Cerebus, which took place first on this thread<\/a>, and then on this thread<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  32. Lies, damned lies and sex work statistics – The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  33. Students Blockade Athenaeum to Protest Conservative Speaker<\/a>
    \nNot only is this behavior wrong morally (because censorship), the speaker – Heather MacDonald – will only have her profile raised by this. I would be surprised if she doesn’t get more bookings because of the publicity this brought her.<\/li>\n
  34. I’m kinda in love with this cover of We Will Rock You<\/a> by Max Raabe.<\/li>\n
  35. The voting rights issue no one talks about: Ending the disenfranchisement of felons will strengthen democracy – Salon.com<\/a>
    \nThis is an issue that swings some congressional elections.<\/li>\n
  36. Nation\u2019s largest Jewish denomination encourages congregations to protect undocumented immigrants<\/a>
    \nAlthough the way ICE been acting lately, I’m not sure they wouldn’t enter a synagogue to arrest someone.<\/li>\n
  37. Creationist \u2018teach the controversy\u2019 bill presented in Iowa Legislature<\/a>
    \nThe bill also requires schools that teach students about climate change to also teach them climate denialism. This is what conservatism stands for – anti-science, pro-lying to students.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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