{"id":243,"date":"2003-07-01T10:25:45","date_gmt":"2003-07-01T18:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/07\/01\/some-stuff-ampersand-is-reading-today\/"},"modified":"2003-07-01T10:25:45","modified_gmt":"2003-07-01T18:25:45","slug":"some-stuff-ampersand-is-reading-today-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Some stuff Ampersand is reading today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four Color Hell <\/a>likes a challenge<\/b>
\nTodd at Four Color Hell, a group comics-blog, mentions in passing that he’ll be posting a defense of Dave Sim later this week. For those of you who don’t know who Sim is, trust me; casually mentioning you’re going to defend Sim is a bit like saying “and later this week, I’m going to pop over to the Atlantic and swim it.”<\/p>\n

Digby <\/a>on Affirmative Action<\/b>
\nDigby states well something I was attempting to say in comments earlier this week:<\/p>\n

[The liberal] assumption is that if you might need help in getting into college, you surely aren’t going to be able to graduate and succeed in the world beyond that if you can’t deliver. In fact, I would argue that most liberals believe that women and racial minorities have to be better than others in order to achieve the same things — they are cut much less slack, overall.<\/p>\n

We don’t hate Thomas because he’s black or because he was a recipient of affirmative action. We hate him because he’s an extreme right wing radical who nonetheless claims the mantle of racial victimhood and uses it dishonestly in the service of bigotry.<\/p><\/div>\n

The difference between Dean and Kucinich<\/b>
\nKevin Moore <\/a>says he sees “little daylight” between Dean and Kucinich’s positions on the issues. I wonder if Kevin has seen this handy table <\/a>prepared by Bob Harris, comparing the two issue by issue. (Via Red Onion<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Long story; short pier <\/a>on Why You Don’t Read Comics<\/b>
\nIf you’re at all interested in comic books, this essay by Kip – about everything that keeps comics and readers apart – is a must-read.<\/p>\n

Pedantry <\/a>on replacing Affirmative Action<\/b>
\nScott M. argues that we should replace Affirmative Action with a peerlessly fair and unbiased system: admission to college by lottery.<\/p>\n

Fatshadow <\/a>on fat politics as entitlement politics<\/b>
\nJust a cool post taking on an ignorant editorial.<\/p>\n

Half the Sins of Mankind <\/a>on Incest<\/b>
\nAn interesting attempt to distinguish between incest and homosexuality for legal\/moral purposes. An argument that I found interesting, and haven’t heard before, is that incest laws cause much less of a burden than anti-gay laws do.<\/p>\n

Not Geniuses <\/a>on the politics of mediocrity<\/b>
\nAn excellent post on what’s wrong with our electoral system. Our system is, in effect, designed to reward candidates for being the best fundraisers and the best soundbiters. If we assume that the best fundraiser\/soundbiters are always the best leaders, then great; otherwise, we’re in trouble..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four Color Hell likes a challenge Todd at Four Color Hell, a group comics-blog, mentions in passing that he’ll be posting a defense of Dave Sim later this week. For those of you who don’t know who Sim is, trust … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics","category-link-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}