{"id":23725,"date":"2018-02-18T00:44:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T08:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=23725"},"modified":"2018-02-18T00:59:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T08:59:56","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-abe-lincoln-disguised-as-a-beggar-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=23725","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread and Link Farm, Abe Lincoln Disguised As A Beggar Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. Trans Women Face Extreme Levels of Abuse in Men\u2019s Prisons.<\/a>
    \n“For trans women in prison, it\u2019s often the abuse by the guards that is the most abhorrent, and that abuse doesn\u2019t stop at misgendering or inappropriate strip searches. According to a 2012 Department of Justice survey, 16.7% of trans inmates have experienced sexual misconduct at the hands of a prison staff member.”<\/li>\n
  2. Let’s Stop Comparing Campus Sexual Assault Proceedings to Criminal Trials \u2014 Konidaris Law<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. #Me Too is about more than stopping rape. We demand more | Jessica Valenti | Opinion | The Guardian<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. (89) Dinner Discussion – SNL – YouTube<\/a>
    \nSketch about some friends at dinner being scared to discuss Aziz Ansari. I think there’s something to this – people are too scared of messing up.<\/li>\n
  5. Gallery removes naked nymphs painting to ‘prompt conversation’ | Art and design | The Guardian<\/a>
    \nThe article explains that this artificially created controversy is intended to be a conceptual art piece, and that the gallery intends to resume displaying the painting at some point. I’m skeptical of the value of this exercise at all; critically examining the painting is fine, but doing it this way seems designed to generate more heat than light.<\/li>\n
  6. Give all immigrants the right to vote<\/a>
    \n“Between 1776 and 1926, Hayduk’s research shows, up to 40 states permitted immigrants to vote in local, state and federal elections.”<\/li>\n
  7. Turning a Unicorn into a Bat: the Post in Which We Announce the End of our Marriage | The Weed<\/a>
    \nA Mormon couple, one of whom came out as gay five years ago, reaches a turning point.<\/li>\n
  8. Achtung Baby by Sara Zaske, reviewed.<\/a>
    \n“…contemporary German parents give their children a great deal of freedom\u2014to do dangerous stuff; to go places alone; to make their own mistakes, most of which involve nudity, fire, or both.”<\/li>\n
  9. But see also Jane Yager’s comments<\/a> on that German parenting article.<\/li>\n
  10. This four minute video by<\/a> a Palestinian Israeli, of his encounter with a Jewish family, is very striking.<\/li>\n
  11. The Weaponization of Nostalgia: How Afghan Miniskirts Became the Latest Salvo in the War on Terror – Ajam Media Collective<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. The Dark Art of Stealing from Self-Checkouts – The Atlantic<\/a>
    \nIn my twenties, I definitely would have     shoplifted <\/a>something via the self-checkout, because I was poor, and just because I could. But now, it honestly didn’t occur to me… until I read this article. (Still won’t do it, though.)<\/li>\n
  13. Kansas Scrambles To Change Rules After 6 Teens Enter Governor’s Race : The Two-Way : NPR<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Single Mothers Are Not the Problem – The New York Times<\/a>
    \n“Ultimately, there simply aren\u2019t enough single mothers to explain our high poverty. Even if they all married or never had children, poverty would not be substantially lower.”<\/li>\n
  15. All of Groundhog Day<\/em> shown as a single Groundhog day<\/a>.
    \n“I wanted to see what it would be like if the events of the movie Groundhog Day<\/em> all took place simultaneously. The film shows 37 separate days from Phil’s thousands of Groundhog Days in Punxsutawney.” The video is a half-hour long, and is oddly compelling… or at least, it is to met I’ve seen that movie a kazillion times.<\/li>\n
  16. Nigel, the world’s loneliest bird, dies next to the concrete decoy he loved – The Washington Post<\/a>
    \nHe built it a nest.<\/li>\n
  17. A new Vox poll reveals surprising nuance in public opinion on abortion<\/a>
    “…18 percent of Americans, like King, pick \u201cboth\u201d when you ask them to choose between pro-life and pro-choice. Another 21 percent choose neither. Taken together, about four in 10 Americans are eschewing the labels that we typically see as defining the abortion policy debate.”<\/li>\n
  18. I’m sort of obsessed with this The Invisible Man<\/a> poster by Jonathan Burton. I tried to buy one, but it sold out in two minutes. I can still get it on Ebay for four times the price….<\/li>\n
  19. What no politician wants to admit about gun control – Vox<\/a>
    \nThe very mild measures that Democrats have proposed, would probably have only mild effects on the gun death rate.<\/li>\n
  20. She killed 115 people before the last Korean Olympics. Now she wonders: \u2018Can my sins be pardoned?\u2019 – The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. GOP lawmakers take aim at WHO agency over Roundup ingredient<\/a><\/li>\n
  22. First modern Britons had ‘dark to black’ skin, Cheddar Man DNA analysis reveals | Science | The Guardian<\/a><\/li>\n
  23. North Korea: what war with the US would look like – Vox<\/a>
    \n“A full-blown war with North Korea wouldn\u2019t be as bad as you think. It would be much, much worse.”<\/li>\n
  24. N.Y. landlord obliterated dozens of graffiti murals. Now he owes the artists $6.75 million. – The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  25. I Spent Two Years Trying to Fix the Gender Imbalance in My Stories – The Atlantic<\/a><\/li>\n
  26. This Mutant Crayfish Clones Itself, and It\u2019s Taking Over Europe – The New York Times<\/a>
    \n“Before about 25 years ago, the species simply did not exist. A single drastic mutation in a single crayfish produced the marbled crayfish in an instant.”<\/li>\n
  27. The Minimum Wage And The Price of Comics.<\/a>
    \nThe real cost of buying a comic book has been going up much faster than the minimum wage – or the cost of going to a movie. No wonder sales have plummeted.<\/li>\n
  28. Speaking of which, I wrote a thread on Twitter<\/a> arguing that it’s ridiculous to think that the sales problems of comics are due to more diverse characters and a few pros being rude on Twitter. This is in response to #ComicsGate, which is an attempt to take the failures of GamerGate and the Rabid\/Sad Puppies and make them happen for comics, too.<\/li>\n
  29. Why this economist thinks public education is mostly pointless – Vox<\/a><\/li>\n
  30. Former Slaves’ Folklore of Abraham Lincoln in the South – The Atlantic<\/a>
    \n“They said he came in disguise as a beggar or a peddler, bummed free meals off his unsuspecting white hosts, snooped around to find out what slavery was like, and told the slaves they would soon be free.”<\/li>\n
  31. Trump slump? Remington files for bankruptcy amid declining gun sales. – The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  32. What’s the difference between sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment and rape?<\/a><\/li>\n
  33. And another twitter rant from me: A thread about the misuse of trans suicide statistics by Ryan Anderson<\/a>. Anderson just wrote a book about (well, against) trans issues, called “When Harry Became Sally,” so it would have been nice if he’d at least read the studies he cites.<\/li>\n
  34. Woman Adopts Senior Dog, Who Turns Out To Be Her Childhood Pet – The Dodo<\/a><\/li>\n
  35. Trump concocted a story about a border agent\u2019s death. The truth won\u2019t catch up. – The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  36. We had a great day at the park with our autistic son, until someone called the police – The Washington Post<\/a>
    \nHis hair wasn’t brushed and someone was worried that his parents weren’t taking good care of him.<\/li>\n
  37. You Can Call Yourself Fat \u2013 Kiva Bay \u2013 Medium<\/a>
    \n“I worry that fat activism has begun to build a new version of the Good Fatty, that within fat activism there is a certain excessive pushback against fat people who don\u2019t perform their fatness with as much purity as we would prefer.”<\/li>\n
  38. Artist creates bizarre characters by getting models to bend over and drawing faces on them<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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