{"id":8577,"date":"2009-08-24T09:09:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T16:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8577"},"modified":"2009-08-24T09:09:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T16:09:27","slug":"link-farm-replacement-tongue-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8577","title":{"rendered":"Link Farm, Replacement Tongue Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. Check out these photos<\/a> of 210 lb Savannah Sanitoa running the 100 meter sprint at the world championships in Berlin. Yes, she ran three seconds slower than the world champion — but damn, is she cool.<\/li>\n
  2. Good Immigrant-Bad Immigrant: codifying a caste system<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Andrea Dworkin on Transgender<\/a> Not perfect (she wrote this in the 70s), but hugely more trans positive than you might expect.<\/li>\n
  4. Create your own assisted suicide debate! Arguing in favor of legalizing doctor-assisted suicide, novelist Terry Pratchett,<\/a> who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. (ignore the Daily Mail’s opening paragraphs and skip to the part written by Pratchett).<\/li>\n
  5. For the rebuttal, read this lengthy essay by medical ethicist Ezekiel Emanuel <\/a>(brother of Raul<\/span> Rahm). This is the same Ezekiel Emanuel who has lately been accused of plotting “death panels.”<\/li>\n
  6. TransGriot on the gender policing of successful black female athletes<\/a>. (Via<\/a>.)<\/li>\n
  7. On the same subject, see this post at the Gender Sociology Blog<\/a>. “Maybe, at some point, these institutions could have a discussion pertaining to accepting the fact that there may be more than two genders or that the gender categories themselves have to be reconsidered.”<\/li>\n
  8. Quote<\/a>: “By now many readers are wondering why I am so concerned about the plague of graffiti in our cities. I am concerned because there is a close parallel between graffiti and same sex marriage. Both are warning signs that our society is very sick indeed, and may be entering its final crisis.” – Mike Heath, Maine Family Policy Council<\/em><\/li>\n
  9. Dana Gioia pays tribute<\/a> to fat male actors in classic movies, and in particular Sidney Greenstreet (1875-1954) and Eugene Pallette (1889-1954).<\/li>\n
  10. The song “Total Eclipse Of The Heart” in convenient flowchart form<\/a>. And be sure to watch the literal version of the video<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  11. The first commercial for marriage equality (aka gay marriage) in Maine is out, and it’s good<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  12. John C. Wright is recoiling in craven fear and trembling, and I don\u2019t feel so good myself<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  13. On “fairness,” free markets and history.<\/a> “The Verizons and AT&Ts of the world don’t get to start the analysis on a blank slate where the status quo magically transforms into a perfectly free market.”<\/li>\n
  14. Free markets require government intervention to exist<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  15. The Obama Adminstration’s broken promise<\/a> to make immigration reform a priority in the first year.<\/li>\n
  16. French Muslim woman wearing ‘burkini’ banned from Paris swimming pool<\/a> (via<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  17. I love historic photos. Case in point: filing clerks in The US Patent Office, 1925<\/a>. Makes the huge filing room in “How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back<\/a>” look small.<\/li>\n
  18. Gender Conformity and “Gaydar”<\/a> (Porn-sounding URL, although it’s not porn.) <\/li>\n
  19. Anti-trans bigotry on the Conan O’Brien Show<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. Bike dancing<\/a> — or is it bike gymnastics? Anyhow, it’s cool.<\/li>\n
  21. What has the world been like for the class of 2013? Women have always<\/a> outnumbered men in college; \u201cWomyn\u201d and \u201cwaitperson\u201d have always been in the dictionary. (Those two examples completely swiped from Ann Bartow<\/a>.)<\/li>\n
  22. \u201c…being classified by others as White<\/a> is associated with large and statistically significant advantages in health status, no matter how one self-identifies.\u201d<\/li>\n
  23. Heron61 discovers unconscious racism in his novel collection<\/a>. (And he’s working to change that.)<\/li>\n
  24. Curt Smith of Tears for Fears on “the value of musical sharing<\/a>” (via<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  25. On white people who display “cute” little racist brik-a-brak<\/a><\/li>\n
  26. The Risks Afghan Women Take to Vote<\/a> (via<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  27. A great story about reducing the gender gap in higher ed<\/a><\/li>\n
  28. The Best Way to Insure Worker Safety Probably Isn’t to Deport Workers<\/a>. (Porn-sounding URL, although it’s not porn.) <\/li>\n
  29. Senator Grassley takes a moment away from trying to destroy health care reform to do something genuinely useful: fight corporate ghostwriting of medical studies<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  30. Aging is not unnatural<\/a>. Good post, great photos. (Nudity warning, might be nsfw.)<\/li>\n
  31. Material Girls: Talking about Gender and Consumerism at the Islamic Society of North America<\/a><\/li>\n
  32. Traffic laws, street markings, etc, don’t make the streets any safer. They just allow cars to go faster<\/a>. And do watch the video.<\/li>\n
  33. One woman takes on King Coal. And wins.<\/a><\/li>\n
  34. “If people over<\/a> 65 in each state made the laws, zero states would have gay marriage; if people under 30 made the laws, 38 states would have gay marriage.” (via<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  35. No, American does not have<\/a> “the best health care in the world.”<\/li>\n
  36. Three months in jail for possession of breath mints<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  37. Labor Department To Begin Enforcing Own Regulations<\/a>. (Note to MRAs: This will do more genuine good for men, by preventing workplace injuries and death, than anything any MRA has done, ever. Maybe you folks should think of that before you overwhelmingly support Republican politicians.)<\/li>\n
  38. 40 years ago today, Hiram Fong became the first Asian-American ever elected to the US Senate<\/a>. (via<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  39. So what’s “replacement tongue” a reference to? To Cymothoa Exigua<\/a>, a parasite that kills the tongues of fish — and then replaces the tongue.\u00a0Here’s a photo<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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