{"id":5775,"date":"2008-12-15T00:13:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T07:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5775"},"modified":"2008-12-15T00:13:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T07:33:13","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-number-of-the-yeast-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5775","title":{"rendered":"Open thread and link farm number of the yeast edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.panoramio.com\/photo\/1578881\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/sunset_tree1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tree at sunset\" width=\"78\" height=\"1000\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5835\" \/><\/a>Say what you will!<\/p>\n<p>Link you will!<\/p>\n<p>Self-link at will!<\/p>\n<p>Use short declarative sentences I will!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have I recommended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lindabacon.org\/LindaBaconHAES.html\">Linda Bacon&#8217;s Health at Every Size website<\/a>? If not, then I really should have. It includes passages from her book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Health-Every-Size-Surprising-Weight\/dp\/1933771585\">Health At Every Size<\/a><\/em>. Go! Read! Don&#8217;t diet!<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m late linking to this, but of the dozens of &#8220;Why are (some) black people homophobic&#8221; essays I&#8217;ve read, <a href=\"http:\/\/diaryofananxiousblackwoman.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/why-black-people-are-homophobic.html\">I think this is the most interesting and thoughtful<\/a>. There&#8217;s some good stuff in the comments, too.<\/li>\n<li>Remember that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/20\/i-drew-wonder-woman-for-charity-please-bid\/\">drawing<\/a> I did for Wonder Woman day? Well, it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wonderwomanmuseum.com\/WWDay3\/WWDay3.html\">raised over $26,000<\/a> for feminist charities. (Not my drawing in particular, alas, but the event as a whole.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lefarkins.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/obesity-apocalypse.html\">Paul Campos points out<\/a> that measured by mortality, it&#8217;s healthier to be &#8220;overweight&#8221; &#8212; or even mildly &#8220;obese&#8221; &#8212; than to be &#8220;normal&#8221; weight. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/fatfu.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/06\/paul-campos-you-rule-so-fucking-hard\/\">Fat Fu<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/12\/04\/photo-of-worlds-olde.html\">Check out this photo<\/a> of a tortoise named &#8220;Jonathan,&#8221; taken around 1900. Jonathan is still alive today and is believed to be the world&#8217;s oldest living animal.<\/li>\n<li>Really touching Ani song, &#8220;Present\/Infant,&#8221; about physical insecurity and motherhood. <a href=\"http:\/\/kateharding.net\/2008\/12\/05\/theres-nothing-wrong-with-your-face\/\">Kate has the lyrics<\/a>, and you can watch a video of <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122843555607281291.html#project%3DWSJ_CAFE%26articleTabs%3Dinteractive\">Ani singing the song here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>From Australia, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racismreview.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/06\/considering-reconciliation\/\">this is<\/a> what a real apology for racism looks like. I find it unimaginable that a US President would apologize to native Americans like that &#8212; but one ought to.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dsadevil.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/nothing-to-cheer-about.html\">Young women sometimes<\/a> have sex lives! They must be punished!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2008\/12\/by-eric-martin.html\">Very informative post<\/a> on the Taliban. I really, really hope that Obama reconsiders his commitment to more troops in Afghanistan, which seems foolhardy at best.<\/li>\n<li>I really can&#8217;t describe how much I hate <a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2008\/12\/pogrom.html\">the settler movement in Israel<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In Canada, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/ezraklein_archive?month=12&#038;year=2008&#038;base_name=via_kevin_drum_jonathan_zaslof\">50 years of card check union elections<\/a> and not a single complaint about union intimidation of employees.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dneiwert.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/latino-vote-can-democrats-lock-it-up.html\">Anti-Immigrant sentiment is killing the Republican Party.<\/a> I know you&#8217;re all weeping for them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dsadevil.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/opirg-snubs-hillel.html\">David at The Debate Link<\/a> and I had another round of our usual &#8220;what is anti-semitism&#8221; debate, this time over Hillel versus a Canadian PIRG.<\/li>\n<li>I find it commendable, but also off-putting, that Jim Davis and Paws, Inc. have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/garfieldminusgarfield\/2008\/12\/10\/\">thoroughly embraced<\/a> &#8220;Garfield without Garfield.&#8221; They&#8217;ve even put out a <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/ucomicscom\/detail\/0345513878\">book collection<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shakespearessister.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/kiss-is-kiss.html\">A Kiss is a Kiss<\/a>. Except when it&#8217;s two dudes kissing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kateharding.net\/2008\/12\/09\/dear-oprah\/\">Dear Oprah.<\/a> Kate Harding on what she should have said during her two-sentence chat with Oprah.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therotund.com\/?p=452\">The Invisible Fat Man<\/a>. Excellent guest post at The Rotund by Stefanie from <a href=\"http:\/\/men-in-full.livejournal.com\/\">Men In Full<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you will! Link you will! Self-link at will! Use short declarative sentences I will! Have I recommended Linda Bacon&#8217;s Health at Every Size website? If not, then I really should have. 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