{"id":376,"date":"2003-09-18T06:28:11","date_gmt":"2003-09-18T14:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/09\/18\/some-stuff-ampersand-has-recently-read\/"},"modified":"2003-09-18T06:28:11","modified_gmt":"2003-09-18T14:28:11","slug":"some-stuff-ampersand-has-recently-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"Some stuff Ampersand has recently read"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><b>Quote:<\/b> &#8220;Nanny and Me: For your caregiver and child\u2014courses in Spanish that lovingly teach your Latina nanny the customs and daily practices of Jewish culture.&#8221; &#8211; Found on a Gymboree bulliten board in L.A., quoted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/issues\/2003\/10\/tsingloh.htm\">The Atlantic Monthly<\/a>.\n<li>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobodydied.com\/\">&#8220;Nobody Died When Clinton Lied,&#8221; <\/a>a website of anti-Bush signs an anonymous &#8220;freewayblogger&#8221; has been displaying on the I-5 in California. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobodydied.com\/images\/dulce-wide-450x302.jpg\">My favorite<\/a>: &#8220;Dulce et Decorum est por Haliburton Mori,&#8221; which translated means &#8220;It is sweet and proper to die for Haliburton.&#8221;\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/imagepages\/2003\/09\/16\/arts\/20030916_POPLIFE_IMAGE.html?8hpib\">Pretty good comic strip <\/a>(is it still a strip if it&#8217;s a page long?) in the <i>New York Times <\/i>making fun of the RIAA lawsuits. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2003_09_01_archive.html#106377580024433880\">Boing Boing<\/a>.\n<li>Mudron of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/community\/pantsketch\">Pants Press Sketchblog <\/a>posts a nice (if gory) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/community\/pantsketch\/21019.html#cutid1\">illustration <\/a>s\/he has drawn of a scene from <i>Peter Pan<\/i>.\n<li>Emma at <a href=\"http:\/\/webfeet.blogspot.com\/2003_09_01_webfeet_archive.html#106375457866053193\">The Oregon Blog <\/a>has a good, multi-part interview up with Phil Busse, progressive candidate for mayor of Portland.\n<li>Quote: &#8220;We&#8217;re not only dismantling our schools and services, we&#8217;re doing it before a fascinated nation. Oregon is now on the narrow edge between being a state and being a Fox-TV reality show.&#8221; &#8211; David Sarasohn (quoted on <a href=\"http:\/\/webfeet.blogspot.com\/\">The Oregon Blog<\/a>).\n<li>Jeremy at Refference has posted the first two parts of a discussion of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/refference.blogspot.com\/2003_09_01_refference_archive.html#106364124336665542\">Why Aesthetics Matter&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; and more specifically, why we should use aesthetic reasoning in politics. It&#8217;s interesting stuff, although I find the discussion of abortion politics in <a href=\"http:\/\/refference.blogspot.com\/2003_09_01_refference_archive.html#106370813256450167\">part II <\/a>unconvincing. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/baude.blogspot.com\/2003_09_01_baude_archive.html#106366282377148903\">Crescat Sententia<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/billmon.org\/archives\/000557.html\">Whisky Bar <\/a>(which I&#8217;ve just added to the moderately right-wing section of my blogroll) links to a good New York Times op-ed on Israel\/Palestine, and has an even better discussion of the op-ed. If Israel doesn&#8217;t find an acceptable way to disentangle itself from Palestine quickly, the issue will switch from &#8220;Palestinian independence&#8221; to &#8220;one vote per citizen for everyone Israel rules over.&#8221; And Israel will like that debate even less than it likes the current debate.\n<p>Frankly, I&#8217;d prefer advocating for Israel extending citizenship to everyone in the occupied territories. Lefty advocacy for a Palestinian state sometimes seems counterproductive; I understand advocating for Palestinian freedom, and yet it seems unlikely that a Palestinian state would be one with many freedoms for women or homosexuals.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/trishwilson.typepad.com\/blog\/\">Trish Wilson <\/a>has a new home for her blog. Update your bookmarks and sidebars!\n<li>I think I&#8217;m done posting about the Record Industry for now. But go ahead and check out this excellent post on the subject at <a href=\"http:\/\/examinedlife.typepad.com\/johnbelle\/2003\/09\/i_saw_this_tyle.html\">John &#038; Belle Have a Blog<\/a>, as well as this equally good <a href=\"http:\/\/examinedlife.typepad.com\/johnbelle\/2003\/09\/sympathy_for_th.html\">followup<\/a>. S\/he is arguing &#8211; and I agree &#8211; that the current industry is very inefficient at delivering music to consumers.\n<li>Y&#8217;all remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/000674.html\">the Nike case <\/a>&#8211; in which Nike was sued for false advertising over their claims that their third-world workers are treated well? Nike has now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/09\/13\/national\/13NIKE.html?pagewanted=print&#038;position=\">settled out of court<\/a>, agreeing to pay $1.5 million to the Fair Labor Association to make the lawsuit go away.\n<li>It&#8217;s tempting to respond to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewyglesias.com\/archives\/001473.html#001473\">Matt Yglesias&#8217;<\/a> criticism of NOW for (gasp!) endorsing Carol Moseley-Braun for president, but Matt&#8217;s post so lacks any reasoning or argument that there\u2019s nothing to rebut. Perhaps Matt just considers his own views self-evident?\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/000817.html\">I blogged earlier<\/a> why I thought the NOW endorsement makes sense. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/news\/archive\/2003\/09\/17\/national1538EDT0669.DTL\">NOW&#8217;s Kim Gandy <\/a>points out two additional reasons I hadn&#8217;t considered; first, that Moseley-Braun&#8217;s presence may help with getting out the black female vote, which helps all democrats (I&#8217;m not sure this will work, but I guess it&#8217;s worth a shot); and second, that having Moseley-Braun in the campaign and the debates forces the other candidates to address NOW&#8217;s issues more than they would otherwise.<\/p>\n<li>Kieran at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedtimber.org\/archives\/000525.html\">Crooked Timber <\/a>has a brilliant response to the &#8220;Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn\u2019t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae.&#8221; thing that&#8217;s been floating around.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/spewingforth.blogspot.com\/2003_09_14_spewingforth_archive.html#106377298705730408\">Confined Space <\/a>has a good post about the amendment to the Texas constitution limiting medical malpractice awards, or as Molly Ivans calls it, th e&#8221;Polluters and Predators Protection Act.&#8221; Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathannewman.org\/log\/archives\/001186.shtml#001186\">Nathan Newman<\/a>.\n<li>Would you like to be able to see through even the smoothest fallaciloquence? Would you like to know if your pigritude is overdone, or if you&#8217;re merely mitescent these days? Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/phrontistery.50megs.com\/clw.html\">the Compendium of Lost Words<\/a>, a list of over 400 rarely-used English words. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfairy.com\/\">Green Fairy<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/features\/articles\/2003\/030903_mfe_falling_1.html\">This <i>Esquire <\/i>article<\/a>, about the media and public reaction to the folks who jumped from the World Trade Center on 9\/11 &#8211; and, in particular, about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/features\/articles\/2003\/img\/030901_mfe_falling_a.jpg\">one famous photo <\/a>of a jumper &#8211; was absolutely fascinating. I read it a few days ago, and it keeps coming back to my thoughts. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baude.blogspot.com\/2003_09_01_baude_archive.html#106332476085023452\">Crescat Sententia<\/a>.\n<li>Another quote from that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/issues\/2003\/10\/tsingloh.htm\"><i>Atlantic <\/i>review <\/a>of Arlie Hochchild&#8217;s new book:\n<div class=\"snip\"> In a capitalist society work dictates the schedules, the deadlines, the urgency; product life cycles supersede family life cycles at every turn. &#8230; In a study Hochschild did at Amerco, a Fortune 500 company, she found that many employees with twenty or more years at the company were on their second or third marriages. &#8220;To these employed,&#8221; she wrote, &#8220;work was their rock, their major source of security. They were getting their pink slips at home.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=price-of-viagra-with-insurance\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quote: &#8220;Nanny and Me: For your caregiver and child\u2014courses in Spanish that lovingly teach your Latina nanny the customs and daily practices of Jewish culture.&#8221; &#8211; Found on a Gymboree bulliten board in L.A., quoted in The Atlantic Monthly. 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