{"id":6599,"date":"2009-02-10T02:23:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T09:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6599"},"modified":"2009-02-10T02:23:38","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T09:43:26","slug":"tab-dump-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6599","title":{"rendered":"Tab Dump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Interesting discussion of Sandman<\/em><\/a>, focusing on the debate between “accept that change happens, adjust, and do your work” (Death), “accept that change happens and drop out” (Destruction), and “refuse to accept change, refuse to adjust” (Dream). Via Amberite<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. Louis Menand’s 2002 evisceration<\/a> of Stephen Pinker’s The Blank Slate<\/em>, and of evolutionary psychiatry <\/del> psychology in general.<\/li>\n
  3. Zuky on the Native American roots<\/a> of the Seneca Falls declaration of women’s rights.<\/li>\n
  4. Debate: Should Feminists Endorse The Basic Income?<\/a> (Via Crooked Timber<\/a>.)<\/li>\n
  5. Crooked Timber on the conservative case against equal opportunity<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  6. Bernard Avishai divides Israel into five broad groups<\/a>. I think his analysis is well worth reading. His conclusion, almost dadaesque when decontextualized: “ORDINARILY, THEN, TRIBE Three hates Four, condescends to Two, and doubts One; Two hates One, resents Three and (for different reasons) Four; One is afraid of Two, patronizes Three and hates Four; Four hates One, proselytizes Two, and is afraid of Three. All four are afraid of Five.”<\/li>\n
  7. Piny at Feministe<\/a> on Carol Lay’s new diet book (which I wrote about here<\/a>).<\/li>\n
  8. Jay Rosen on the “donut” of<\/a> acceptable thought in the US news media:
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    It\u2019s easily the most useful diagram I\u2019ve found for understanding the practice of journalism in the United States, and the hidden politics of that practice. You can draw it by hand right now. Take a sheet of paper and make a big circle in the middle. In the center of that circle draw a smaller one to create a doughnut shape. Label the doughnut hole \u201csphere of consensus.\u201d Call the middle region \u201csphere of legitimate debate,\u201d and the outer region \u201csphere of deviance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    I’d recommend also this interview with Rosen<\/a>, in which he argues that for most journalists, “savviness” is the single highest value to which they aspire.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Interesting discussion of Sandman, focusing on the debate between “accept that change happens, adjust, and do your work” (Death), “accept that change happens and drop out” (Destruction), and “refuse to accept change, refuse to adjust” (Dream). Via Amberite. Louis Menand’s … 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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6599","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\/6599","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=6599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}