{"id":7814,"date":"2009-06-01T00:55:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T08:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7814"},"modified":"2009-06-01T00:55:30","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T08:15:18","slug":"link-farm-and-open-thread-number-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7814","title":{"rendered":"Link Farm and Open Thread Number Six"},"content":{"rendered":"

You are not a number! You are a free person! So post whatever links or thoughts you like. And if you’d like to self-promote, go wild.<\/p>\n

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\nSame-sex marraige will inevitably lead to sex with ducks, and that’s an outcome Garfunkel and Oates are willing, even eager, to accept. (Via Pandagon<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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  1. Excellent series of posts<\/a> arguing that, despite the setbacks, pursuing equal marriage rights (aka gay marriage, aka same-sex marriage) through the courts as well as through other means has been an extremely successful strategy.<\/li>\n
  2. \u201cI didn\u2019t know what<\/a> homophobia was until I left the reserve.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. Interesting article<\/a> about Unitarian Universalism in Africa, which isn’t the same as UU in the West. (Via<\/a>.)<\/li>\n
  4. “If you are an<\/a> education reformer who believes teacher quality is the single biggest factor affecting student achievement, here is compelling evidence that you should also actively support existing desegregation programs.”<\/li>\n
  5. How far to the right has the Supreme Court gone? Very, very far<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  6. Sotomayer is no bleeding heart jurist<\/a>, alas.<\/li>\n
  7. Slavery 101: Clearing up misconceptions about African slavery<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. I like the anecdote<\/a> in the second half of this post.<\/li>\n
  9. Language Log examines<\/a> the study which Ross Douthat cites to imply that feminism has made women miserable: “the effect under discussion is a shift of a few percentage points, mostly accomplished by shifting the opinions of around 5 women in a hundred from ‘very happy’ to ‘pretty happy’.” (Via<\/a>.)<\/li>\n
  10. Well-done post discusses how anti-fat bigotry is different<\/a>, without devolving into oppression Olympics.<\/li>\n
  11. Poor people pay more<\/a> for daily necessities of life than rich people.<\/li>\n
  12. It turns out that laws protecting labor don’t lead to increased unemployment<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  13. If you’re a member of Threadless, please vote for this design<\/a> by my friend Jenn<\/a>, so I can buy it.<\/li>\n
  14. So which sex is “the sex class,”<\/a> men or women? An argument over terminology that actually has some interesting stuff underlying it.<\/li>\n
  15. Thank goodness <\/a>the Israeli Supreme Court is there. (Seriously.) More here<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  16. Obama hasn’t remembered a single promise he’s made to LGBT Americans (and he made eight<\/a>). We should remember that.<\/li>\n
  17. The Pervocracy discusses<\/a> the clothed female\/naked male sexual fetish. (Via<\/a>.)<\/li>\n
  18. If I was a coin collector, I’d really want one of the godless dollars<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  19. This article on health care costs<\/a> in The New Yorker examines why some places in the US (such as the Mayo clinic) provide excellent, relatively inexpensive health care. Where is the extra money going in areas of the US which spend much more money for care that’s not any better? He argues that the difference, frankly, comes down to how much the system in any town encourages doctors to make as much money as they possibly can.<\/li>\n
  20. Texas mayor resigns and leaves the country<\/a>, because homophobic US immigration & marriage laws don’t recognize his Mexican partner.<\/li>\n
  21. American voters are less white every election<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  22. How to be Mike Lester<\/a>, political cartoonist: 1) Find something that someone dislikes. 2) Compare it to abortion. 3) Repeat, repeat, repeat…<\/li>\n
  23. An argument in favor of Palestinians embracing nonviolent struggle<\/a> against Israeli oppression.<\/li>\n
  24. Sixth grader censored<\/a> for doing a school presentation about Harvey Milk.<\/li>\n
  25. On what is “normal” and what is “fetish.”<\/a><\/li>\n
  26. World’s most interesting bridges<\/a>. Great photos!<\/li>\n
  27. I lovelovelove So You Think You Can Dance<\/em>. But this homophobic garbage has got to go<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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