{"id":6933,"date":"2009-03-03T22:57:43","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T06:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6933"},"modified":"2009-03-03T22:57:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T06:17:31","slug":"open-thread-link-farm-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6933","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &amp; Link Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Use this thread to post whatever you want. It&#8217;s anarchy, I tell you, anarchy!<\/p>\n<p>Self-linking is just blogging with someone you love, so go for it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A post about a study of the way <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asian-nation.org\/headlines\/2009\/03\/identity-formation-among-multiracial-americans\/\">multiracial people put together their own identities<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2009\/03\/how-went-2008-election-looking-only-at.html\">If only rich people had voted<\/a>, McCain would have won the election overwhelmingly. If only poor people voted, Obama would have won even more overwhelmingly.<\/li>\n<li>You can now watch all of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirteen.org\/sites\/reel13\/indies\/indie-sita-sings-the-blues\/241\/\">Sita Sings The Blues<\/a> online! Thank you, PBS. (Just to warn folks: Not a good choice if you can&#8217;t stand works that veer into cultural appropriation, however.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womanist-musings.com\/2009\/03\/melissa-of-shakesville-shares-some.html\">Womanist Musings interviews Melissa of Shakesville<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/junkfoodscience.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/pudge-police-coming.html\">The Pudge Police are Coming!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/coilhouse.net\/2008\/07\/05\/the-tarnished-beauties-of-blackwell-oklahoma\/\">The Tarnished Beauties of Blackwell, Oklahoma<\/a>. Do you like old portrait photos? &#8216;Cause I do.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bearmccreary.com\/blog\/?p=1597\">Bear McCreary<\/a>, who composes the music for &#8220;Battlestar Galactica,&#8221; has written a long and enjoyable description of everything he did for the episode &#8220;Someone To Watch Over Me.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kateharding.net\/2009\/02\/18\/how-many-grams-of-fat-in-a-gallinule\/\">Comparing old and new editions of &#8220;The Joy of Cooking&#8221;<\/a> <em>Much <\/em>more interesting than I would have guessed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flipfloppingjoy.com\/2009\/03\/03\/teen-beaten-by-police-speaks-out\/\">Teen Beaten By Police Speaks Out<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/index.php?page=3725\">FAIR has a good piece<\/a> arguing that the way the media talks about Obama&#8217;s race, mainly reveals a lot about how people in the media think of race.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2009\/03\/netanyahu_refuses_to_accept_palestines_right_to_exist.php\">Netanyahu refuses to accept Palestine&#8217;s right to exist<\/a>. And, relatedly, <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2009\/03\/israel_changes_its_mind_palestinians_now_allowed_to_eat_pasta.php\">Palestinians Now Allowed To Eat Pasta<\/a>. Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/ezraklein_archive?month=03&amp;year=2009&amp;base_name=no_pasta_just_rice\">Hamas got everything Hamas wanted<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dsadevil.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/another-bit-of-texas-mayham.html\">Man executed<\/a> because of a stubborn, horrible judge and a computer crash.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/aboriginalnewsgroup.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aboriginal News Group<\/a> is a new &#8220;international grassroots collaboration of First Nations blog-journalists.&#8221; Link via <span class=\"entry-author-name\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ojibwaymigisibineshii.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/aboriginal-news-group-launched.html\">Ojibway Migisi Bineshii<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ruddsoundbites.typepad.com\/rudd_sound_bites\/2009\/02\/change4life-more-like-scared2eat.html\">Brits use fataphobic, ineffective<\/a> scare tactics to try and frighten children into being thin.<\/li>\n<li>Whoops! I just had a positive link to the Rudd Center. So, to make up for it, <a href=\"http:\/\/fatchicksrule.blogs.com\/fat_chicks_rule\/2009\/02\/i-was-going-to-wash-my-hands-of-it.html\">read this post at Fat Chicks Rule!<\/a>, because the Rudd Center likes to counterbalance its good points with suckiness.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/laurietobyedison.com\/discuss\/?p=694\">More on disability phobia and the BBC children show host<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use this thread to post whatever you want. It&#8217;s anarchy, I tell you, anarchy! Self-linking is just blogging with someone you love, so go for it. * * * A post about a study of the way multiracial people put &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6933\">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-6933","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\/6933","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=6933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}