{"id":800,"date":"2004-04-20T11:15:01","date_gmt":"2004-04-20T19:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/20\/she-links-me-she-links-me-not\/"},"modified":"2004-04-20T11:15:01","modified_gmt":"2004-04-20T19:15:01","slug":"she-links-me-she-links-me-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=800","title":{"rendered":"She links me, she links me not&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Long Story: Short Pier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longstoryshortpier.com\/vaults\/2004\/04\/12\/braiding\">critiques Paul Erd&#337;s<\/a>. Well, sort of. Not really. Anyway, it&#8217;s a terrific post, and I&#8217;ve been meaning to link to it for ages now, so you should go read it. Especially if you&#8217;re interested in gender and household labor. Or mathematicians.\n<li>Jack Bog provides an entertaining analysis of <a href=\"http:\/\/bojack.org\/mt-arc\/001187.html\">John Kerry&#8217;s tax return<\/a>, and also at <a href=\"http:\/\/bojack.org\/mt-arc\/001180.html\">Bush&#8217;s and Cheney&#8217;s tax returns<\/a>. Cheney&#8217;s is the most fun.\n<li>Also via <a href=\"http:\/\/bojack.org\/mt-arc\/001190.html\">Jack Bog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirktipton.com\/NineReasons.html\">Nine Reasons Not To Get Drunk<\/a>. (Probably not utterly work-safe).\n<li>An &#8220;Alas&#8221; reader emailed to ask me to link to <a href=\"http:\/\/wildfirejo.blogspot.com\/\">Wildfire Jo<\/a>, a blog by an English human rights activist living in Iraq. I&#8217;m doing so, not only because I mindlessly obey every whim of my readers, but because it&#8217;s a pretty amazing blog. Not good reading if you want to feel good about America&#8217;s foreign policy, though. Here&#8217;s a sample:\n<div class=\"snip\">This time we walk away from the hospital towards the marines, just us and the loudspeaker, no ambulance, to try and talk to them properly. Slowly, slowly, we take steps, shouting that we\u2019re unarmed, that we\u2019re a relief team, that we\u2019re trying to get supplies to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Another two shots dissuade us. I\u2019m furious. From behind the wall I inform them that their actions are in breach of the Geneva Conventions. \u201cHow would you feel if it was your sister in that hospital unable to get treated because some man with a gun wouldn\u2019t let the medical supplies through.\u201d David takes me away as I\u2019m about to call down a plague of warts on their trigger fingers.<\/p><\/div>\n<li>Although it&#8217;s a little bit dated (i.e., 1996), there&#8217;s a lot of fascinating reading in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webcom.com\/~pinknoiz\/right\/bacorr.html\">collection of essays about the most extreme pro-life activists<\/a>. Frightening stuff.\n<li>You know, before Bean told me about it, I was totally unfamiliar with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illwillpress.com\/vault.html\">Neurotically Yours<\/a>, an animated series about a squirrel with an irritating high-pitched voice. So far my favorite is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illwillpress.com\/freemind.html\">the Matrix parody<\/a>.\n<li>The Decembrist rips apart the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/markschmitt.typepad.com\/decembrist\/2004\/04\/sex_and_the_cit.html\">&#8220;Sex and the City Voters.&#8221; <\/a>A sample:\n<div class=\"snip\">This term is the most misleading phony-demographic since &#8220;NASCAR Dads,&#8221; for a very simple reason: The median income of never-married women 18-64 is <i>$15,872<\/i>. And that&#8217;s not $15,000 as in, an editorial assistant at a publishing house living with three roommates in a one-bedroom apartment in the West 80s, accumulating zany dating stories that they&#8217;ll all laugh about in five years. That&#8217;s $15,000 as in working two jobs that pay $6.50 an hour and driving a ten-year-old car. I never watched much of &#8220;Sex and the City&#8221; because we don&#8217;t have HBO, but I recall one episode where Carrie figured out how much she spent on shoes, and I believe it was that very same $15,000.<\/div>\n<li>While you&#8217;re visiting The Decembrist, be sure to read his explanation of why <a href=\"http:\/\/markschmitt.typepad.com\/decembrist\/2004\/04\/welfare_as_we_k.html\">welfare policy is no longer very relevant<\/a>. (Still damn useful for my friends on welfare, though.)\n<li>As my friend Rob says, you think you got geek chops? You don&#8217;t have geek chops. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jmaynard\/TRONcostume\/\">This guy <\/a>&#8211; <i>he <\/i>has geek chops.\n<li>The Head Heeb argues, persuasively, that <a href=\"http:\/\/headheeb.blogmosis.com\/archives\/024274.html\">Bush&#8217;s support of Sharon shouldn&#8217;t be seen as that big a deal<\/a>; it really does not represent any major change in US policy. Furthermore, given the choice between a Sharon-centrist coalition and a Sharon-far right coalition, we should prefer the former to win, and that&#8217;s what Bush&#8217;s support helped bring about.<\/ul>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=buy-cialis-oral-jelly-safely-online\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Story: Short Pier critiques Paul Erd&#337;s. Well, sort of. Not really. Anyway, it&#8217;s a terrific post, and I&#8217;ve been meaning to link to it for ages now, so you should go read it. Especially if you&#8217;re interested in gender &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=800\">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-800","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\/800","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=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}