{"id":5771,"date":"2008-12-09T19:17:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5771"},"modified":"2008-12-09T19:17:12","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T02:37:00","slug":"link-farm-and-open-thread-number-umpity-dumpity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5771","title":{"rendered":"Link Farm and Open Thread Number Umpity-Dumpity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2008\/11\/the_next_president_of_the_unit.html#photo2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/obama_crowd.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"obama_crowd\" width=\"200\" height=\"945\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5772\" \/><\/a>Please use this thread to post what you like, for as long as you like, with whomever you like. Self-linking is grand.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When they think they&#8217;re talking in private, that&#8217;s when they <em>really<\/em> speak their minds about &#8220;homos.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gossip-boy.com\/Cornett_and_Library.html\">Influential Oklahoma fundamentalist Steve Kern says<\/a>: &#8220;Courts can force drug offenders into treatment centers and violent people into anger management. There\u2019s no reason our courts can\u2019t do that with homos.&#8221; Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/2008\/12\/08\/7138\">Box Turtle Bulletin<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>It worries me that even smart, accomplished, nationally known right-wingers seem like <a href=\"http:\/\/shakespearessister.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/you-can-all-relax-shakers_09.html\">paranoid loons with no reality in their grasp.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Although I&#8217;ll be disappointed soon enough, for now I&#8217;m enjoying my Obama fanboyosity. So, via Stephen at <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenfrug.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/i-surf-therefore-i-link.html\">Attempts<\/a>, check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2008\/11\/the_next_president_of_the_unit.html\">cool photo gallery<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And as <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenfrug.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/i-surf-therefore-i-link.html\">Stephen <\/a>says, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinfest.net\/archive_page.php?comicID=2973\">worth it for the opening panel alone<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministe.us\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/05\/really-the-last\/\">This cover<\/a> for &#8220;The Advocate&#8221; (&#8220;gay is the new black&#8221;) really is disgusting. Plus, it brings up the &#8220;evil or stupid?&#8221; problem. <a href=\"http:\/\/shakespearessister.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/perfect-example-unfortunately.html\">See Melissa<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/shakespearessister.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/emulating-liss-i-write-letters.html\">Portlydyke&#8217;s<\/a> posts, too.<\/li>\n<li>Hey, wouldn&#8217;t it be great if we got government out of the business of inspecting claims of safety and soundness, and just let the private market handle it? <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/matthewyglesias\/~3\/479531313\/credit_agencies.php\">I can&#8217;t imagine that going wrong<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And now, some genuinely important news:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn16222-malaria-vaccine-halves-infections-in-trials.html\"> A malaria vaccine looks good in testing<\/a>. This could save millions of lives.<\/li>\n<li>From <a href=\"http:\/\/flipfloppingjoy.com\/2008\/12\/07\/your-cervix-through-the-month\/\">Flip Flopping Joy<\/a>, and I&#8217;m quoting: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/beautifulcervix.com\/photos-of-cervix\/\">this link to<\/a> a website where a young woman took pictures of her cervix every single day from the day menstruation starts all the way through the day before her next menstrual cycle starts. It\u2019s pretty fascinating&#8230;.&#8221; The photos are explicit and probably NSFW.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/defending-company-by-digby-theres-been.html\">Great Digby post<\/a> on the odd relationship between the left, the right, and CIA.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/ezraklein_archive?month=12&#038;year=2008&#038;base_name=obamas_theory_of_change_in_act\">Ezra argues<\/a> that Obama may be cannily moving the &#8220;mainstream&#8221; to the left.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/glennsacks\/~3\/478722280\/\">Even Jessica Abel isn&#8217;t<\/a> thin enough to appear in magazines without photoshopping. UPDATE: Er, Alba. Not Abel.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gocomics.typepad.com\/tomthedancingbugblog\/2008\/12\/tremendous-news-from-the-world-of-tv-comedy.html\">Good news<\/a>: &#8220;The Kids In The Hall Are Making A New TV Miniseries!&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chortle.co.uk\/news\/2008\/12\/02\/7905\/kids_are_back_in_the_hall\">Great news<\/a>: Rather than sketch comedy, the new show&#8217;s format will be inspired by &#8220;The League of Gentlemen.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>It looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenfrug.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/shame-on-new-york-state-senate.html\">a handful of Democratic party anti-gay bigots<\/a> have succeeded in keeping marriage equality off the New York legislature&#8217;s agenda. Fuck.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/modernmitzvot.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/05\/finally-black-people-can-experience-prejudice\/\">School ties up black schoolchildren as pretend slaves<\/a>, but then can&#8217;t comprehend why what they did was wrong. Aaaargh. White people.<\/li>\n<li>That depressing report on the shrinking job market? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/beat_the_press_archive?month=12&#038;year=2008&#038;base_name=november_jobs_report_its_worse\">It&#8217;s seriously understating how bad things are<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Yes, Favreau is a sexist asshat, but <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/blogspot\/kUZa\/~3\/476589056\/nice-try-campbell-brown-but-you-are.html\">Hilary Clinton is right<\/a> to downplay it in public.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please use this thread to post what you like, for as long as you like, with whomever you like. Self-linking is grand. When they think they&#8217;re talking in private, that&#8217;s when they really speak their minds about &#8220;homos.&#8221; Influential Oklahoma &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5771\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771","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=5771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}