{"id":444,"date":"2003-11-13T22:42:28","date_gmt":"2003-11-14T06:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/11\/13\/what-is-ampersand-reading-today-you-ask\/"},"modified":"2003-11-13T22:42:28","modified_gmt":"2003-11-14T06:42:28","slug":"what-is-ampersand-reading-today-you-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"What is Ampersand reading today, you ask?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ludicrosity.com\/archives\/2003_11_02_archive.htm#106823626838748137\">John at Ludicrosity<\/a>, unhappy with the pro-choice\/pro-life dichotomy, divides the abortion dispute into nine overlapping perspectives. There are little things I disagree with (particularly a slam on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/about\/thisispp\/sanger.html\">Margaret Sanger <\/a>which he doesn&#8217;t justify with links or evidence). On the whole, however, I think he does a good job.\n<li>Mark Kleiman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markarkleiman.com\/archives\/drug_policy_\/2003\/11\/prison_time_for_drug_users.php\">compares Rush Limbaugh to another drug user<\/a>, sentenced to thirteen years in prison after her child was stillborn:\n<div class=\"snip\">Of course, it&#8217;s obvious that homeless people with borderline mental retardation ought to be held strictly accountable for their actions, unlike multimillionaires with logorrhea and strong political connections.<\/div>\n<li>&#8220;MINNEAPOLIS, MN &#8211; In a turn of events the 30-year-old characterized as &#8216;horrifying,&#8217; Kevin Widmar announced Tuesday that his mother Lillian has discovered his weblog.&#8221; From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/3944\/news3.html\">The Onion<\/a>, of course, and via <a href=\"http:\/\/hotbuttereddeath.ubersportingpundit.com\/archives\/003739.html\">Hot Buttered Death<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/US\/West\/11\/12\/breastfeeding.apology.ap\/index.html\">Burgen King apologizes to a mom harassed for breast-feeding.<\/a>\n<li>Over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ospolitics.org\/legalwrites\/archives\/2003\/11\/07\/you_mean_j.php\">Open Source Politics<\/a>, Earl Dunovant &#8211; who at night puts on a cape and mask and fights crime as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prometheus6.org\/\">Prometheus 6<\/a> &#8211; gives the idea that what Democrats dislike about Justice Brown is her <i>race <\/i>a beating.\n<li>Someone in the Democratic party has a pretty good sense of humor &#8211; to see a child&#8217;s-book version of the judicial filibusters controversy, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/democrats.senate.gov\/bedtime_story.pdf\"><i>Republican Senators and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Night<\/i> (it&#8217;s a pdf file). <\/a>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prometheus6.org\/archives\/002302.html\">Prometheus 6<\/a>.\n<li>You should read this impressive <a href=\"http:\/\/38.144.96.23\/tacitus\/archives\/001122.html\">Tacitus<\/a> post about depression in the army. Definitely the best post I&#8217;ve read on any blog in a while.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"donaldnazi.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/images\/donaldnazi.jpg\" width=\"317\" height=\"234\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/ ><\/p>\n<li>Rotten.com presents a copiously-illustrated essay of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotten.com\/library\/culture\/banned-cartoons\/\">banned Warner Brothers and Disney cartoons<\/a>, many of them quite racist. Even if you don&#8217;t want to read the whole thing, it&#8217;s entertaining just skimming through the pictures. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrubbles.net\/mt-archive\/000148.html\">scrubbles.net<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theitem.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20031107\/OPED01\/111070006\">Marine with spotless 8-year record forced to leave intelligence.<\/a> Why? Because he&#8217;s a liberal. No, seriously. Is it just me, or do many Conservatives have an outright contempt for freedom of speech &#8211; not to mention for any soldier who actually served in the military? Via <a href=\"http:\/\/dneiwert.blogspot.com\/2003_11_09_dneiwert_archive.html#106873808557482314\">Orcinus<\/a>, who feels this is a harbinger of worse to come.\n<li>Drawing (to some degree) from her comments on this blog, Ms. Lauren at Feministe has written an excellent post discussing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministe.us\/blog\/archives\/000424.html\">censorship and rape pornography.<\/a> I don&#8217;t agree with Ms. Lauren entirely, but she makes a good case. She also links to an excellent <i>Sex Roles <\/i>article, providing an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findarticles.com\/cf_0\/m2294\/2002_June\/94775599\/p1\/article.jhtml?term=sexual+violence\">&#8220;meta-analytic review of research that relates masculine ideology to sexual aggression.&#8221; <\/a>(The link is down right now, but I&#8217;m posting it in the hope that it will recover.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cenedella.com\/stone\/archives\/000590.html\">Worster Album Covers Ever II.<\/a> In case round one wasn&#8217;t enough for you. My favorite is &#8220;The Reverend in Rhythm.&#8221;\n<li>Nathan Newman rightly demolishes the stupid whining of conservatives who claim to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathannewman.org\/log\/archives\/001339.shtml\">oppressed by &#8220;PC&#8221; liberals on campus<\/a>. Too many conservatives I met at PSU and UMASS were like this: whenever anyone criticized their views, they&#8217;d whine &#8220;I&#8217;ve been censored!&#8221; But conservatives who don&#8217;t speak because they fear criticism aren&#8217;t victims of PC thought police; they&#8217;re just cowards.\n<li>There&#8217;s something charming about this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A34329-2003Nov12.html\">obituary for Richard Pearson<\/a>, the Washington Post&#8217;s obituary editor, who once said &#8220;Everyone dies in the first graph of my stories, but I console myself with the thought that there are relatively few complaints from people I write about.&#8221; (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2003_11_01_archive.html#106874261389077806\">Boing Boing<\/a>.)\n<li>If that&#8217;s not enough death for you, then you should go explore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodbyemag.com\/\">GoodBye! The Journal of Contemporary Obituaries<\/a>. Or, if you prefer your obituary writing in blog form (complete with hyperlinks), check out <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.salon.com\/0001604\/\">GoogObits<\/a>. There&#8217;s hours of good browsing in them there death notices&#8230;\n<li>Thankfully, Merriam-Webster has announced that they have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/SHOWBIZ\/books\/11\/11\/offbeat.mcjob.ap\/index.html\">no intention of removing &#8220;McJob&#8221;<\/a> ( &#8220;a low-paying job that requires little skill and provides little opportunity for advancement&#8221;) from the print version of their dictionary &#8211; even though they already removed it from the online version. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2003_11_01_archive.html#106862378130514794\">Boing Boing<\/a>.\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/dnasty.blogspot.com\/2003_11_01_dnasty_archive.html#106865210665364750\">Eros and Thanatos in L&#8217;affair Hilton<\/a>.&#8221; A brilliant review of Paris Hilton&#8217;s sex tape, which is more of a cinematic masterpiece than you probably had imagined.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/trishwilson.typepad.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/who_was_the_fir.html\">Do you know the name of the first American servicewoman to die in Iraq?<\/a> Probably not, because she didn&#8217;t happen to be white, blonde, and middle class. Trish Wilson has the details.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defectiveyeti.com\/archives\/000759.html\">Urban Legends for the 21st Century<\/a>:\n<div class=\"snip\">&#8230;the babysitter was watching &#8220;Alias&#8221; when her cell phone played the first two verses of &#8220;Crazy In Love&#8221; by Beyonce Knowles. The babysitter dug the phone out of her bag to discover that she had received a text message reading:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>seria1_ki11a:<\/b> im upstairs w\/the chldrn youd betta come up MLOL*!!!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>You should go read the whole thing. (Well, it gave me a giggle.).<\/p>\n<li>I&#8217;m one of over three hundred bloggers currently compiled on the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au\/~lambert\/cgi-bin\/blog\/surveys\/compass.html\">Bloggers&#8217; Political Compass<\/a>&#8221; (I&#8217;m near the bottom left, unsurprisingly). Oddly, us lefties have arranged ourselves in a fairly tight line, while on the right they&#8217;re spread out quite a bit more &#8211; perhaps because of the split between conservatives and libertarians.\n<p>Still, we do all arrange ourselves more-or-less on a straight line, which suggests that the single-dimensional liberal\/conservative scale has more descriptive power than I want it to.<\/ul>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=purchase-deltasone-on-the-internet\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John at Ludicrosity, unhappy with the pro-choice\/pro-life dichotomy, divides the abortion dispute into nine overlapping perspectives. There are little things I disagree with (particularly a slam on Margaret Sanger which he doesn&#8217;t justify with links or evidence). On the whole, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=444\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights","category-link-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","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=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}