{"id":7894,"date":"2009-06-29T00:47:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T07:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7894"},"modified":"2009-06-29T00:47:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T07:47:14","slug":"link-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7894","title":{"rendered":"Link Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, use this thread to post or link whatever you&#8217;d like. Self-linking is entirely welcome.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/20232\/20090623\/\">Raising a child to be<\/a> neither girl nor boy, just &#8220;Pop.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/unapologeticallyfemale.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/pop-fabulous-childs-story.html\">Unapologetically Female<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministing.com\/archives\/016366.html\">Feministing <\/a>both comment.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s like a sick Onion headline come to life: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasvoice.com\/artman\/publish\/article_11499.php\">Texas police raid gay bar<\/a> on 40th anniversary of Stonewall. One bar patron is seriously injured.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pamshouseblend.com\/diary\/11770\/stonewall-commemoration-at-fort-worth-tx-gay-club-turns-into-police-raid\">Via<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theczech.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/22\/sarkozy-eliminate-the-burqa\/\">Ten things wrong with <\/a>the President of France&#8217;s wanting to eliminate the burqa.<\/li>\n<li>And at <a href=\"http:\/\/globalcomment.com\/2009\/frances-burqa-ban-in-the-name-of-freedom\/\">Global Comment<\/a>: &#8220;Banning women from wearing the burqa is not about freedom, it is about the normalization of the Western performance of femininity.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.womanist-musings.com\/2009\/06\/frances-burqa-ban-in-name-of-freedom.html\">Via<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>Like a dictionary, but better, and crowdsourced: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordnik.com\/\">Wordnic<\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=1541\">Via<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ezra-klein\/2009\/06\/the_question_of_taxes.html\">Ezra <\/a>on Obama, taxes, and giving in to the Republican framing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/modernmitzvot.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/24\/why-i-want-a-wife\/\">My God, who wouldn\u2019t want a wife?<\/a> (I wish she had posted this on &#8220;Alas.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/BradDelongsSemi-dailyJournal\/~3\/OIMu6WGSXx0\/martin-wolf-on-the-reform-of-incentives-as-part-of-financial-regulation.html\">If we wipe out<\/a> the financial managers, that would solve many problems.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5299054\/its-buffys-fault-that-vampires-are-weak-now\">How Spike ruined <em>Buffy<\/em><\/a>, and <em>Buffy<\/em> ruined vampires. (<a href=\"http:\/\/scificonfessions.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/buffys-stalker-revenge.html\">Via<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dsadevil.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/not-time-to-back-down.html\">Israel has made some<\/a> improvements in response to Obama.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cathyyoung.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/05\/barack-and-the-women\/\">How Obama&#8217;s big speech in Egypt<\/a> gets a &#8220;C&#8221; at best on women&#8217;s rights. Although unlike Cathy, I&#8217;m not against mentioning that America has problems too; I don&#8217;t believe that Obama makes an equivalence just because he mentions them both in the same speech. (It&#8217;s a matter of contextual analysis, however, not a hard-and-fast rule.) In the end, the real question is: How could Obama have put it that would have been more likely to make a positive difference? I&#8217;m not sure what the answer is.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womanist-musings.com\/2009\/06\/rape-in-prison-should-not-be-part-of.html\">Womanist Musings on prison rape<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Unexpected allies department: The Corner <a href=\"http:\/\/dsadevil.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/cornering-prison-rape.html\">gets it right on prison rape<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Posted because it&#8217;s of interest, not because I agree with all of it: Does it make sense to &#8220;ally&#8221; with Iranians when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willwilkinson.net\/flybottle\/2009\/06\/23\/further-meditations-on-the-objective-meaning-of-green-twitter-avatars\/\">I have no idea what I&#8217;m talking about?<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.theatlantic.com\/2009\/06\/on_iran_solidarity_and_known_unknowns.php\">Via<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/heron61.livejournal.com\/619177.html\">Evolutionary psychology is still nonsense<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/moremusingson.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/synchroblog-day-bridging-gap-and.html\">On being a Christian<\/a> who wants to treat lesbian and gay people justly.<\/li>\n<li>No, the financial crash was <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/felix-salmon\/2009\/06\/25\/john-carneys-bizarre-crusade-against-the-cra\/\">not caused<\/a> by the Community Reinvestment Act. It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ritholtz.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/cra-thought-experiment\/\">really wasn&#8217;t<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/fastgames\/little-wheel\">Little Wheel<\/a>. You&#8217;re a robot trying to wake up a dozing robot city. &#8220;Nothin&#8217; too complicated, not really what I&#8217;d call a &#8220;game&#8221;, more like an animated story with a bit of interactivity, but nevertheless, beautiful and enjoyable.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, use this thread to post or link whatever you&#8217;d like. Self-linking is entirely welcome. Raising a child to be neither girl nor boy, just &#8220;Pop.&#8221; Unapologetically Female and Feministing both comment. 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