{"id":878,"date":"2004-05-29T16:17:28","date_gmt":"2004-05-30T00:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/29\/we-got-your-links-right-here\/"},"modified":"2004-05-29T16:17:28","modified_gmt":"2004-05-30T00:17:28","slug":"we-got-your-links-right-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"We Got Your Links Right Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Everyone&#8217;s linking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pythonline.com\/plugs\/idle\/FCCSong.mp3\">Eric Idle&#8217;s The FCC Song<\/a>, and with good reason. Give it a listen. It might not be entirely work-safe, however.\n<li>Kevin Drum outlines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2004_05\/004018.php\">why it&#8217;s not possible for us to force Democracy on Iraq.<\/a>\n<li>Sara Butler describes <a href=\"http:\/\/home.uchicago.edu\/~snbutler\/2004_05_01_diotima_archive.html#108553980769076393\">sexist treatment of female interns in D.C<\/a>.\n<div class=\"snip\">I was pretty painfully aware of how female interns were taken less seriously than the guys were. I was the only &#8220;girl intern&#8221; working on my floor, and all the scholars on my floor (this was at a conservative think tank) were men, while the secret- er, administrative assistants were women. The guys got invited over to one of the scholar&#8217;s house for poker night; I got teased about dating another intern. But hey, at least at a conservative think tank, they don&#8217;t take you seriously because they think you&#8217;re just going to get married, start having kids and drop out of the workforce anyway; on the Hill, they don&#8217;t take you seriously because they assume you&#8217;re only there because you find &#8220;power&#8221; a huge turn-on.<\/div>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/la-me-chairs26may26,1,3639766.story\">The LA TImes describes <\/a>how immigrant Chinese garment workers, their daughters, academics and government agents combined to bring better ergonomics to garment workers. Very cool &#8211; a successful example of worker (and daughter) driven change. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/spewingforth.blogspot.com\/2004\/05\/i-blog-therefore-i-am.html\">Confined Space<\/a>.\n<li>Added two pro-choice blogs to the blogroll: <a href=\"http:\/\/abortionclinicdays.blogs.com\/\">Abortion Clinic Days <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saveroe.com\/blog\/index.php\">Now What?<\/a> (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/community\/ljforchoice\/491219.html\">Blog for Choice<\/a>).\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longstoryshortpier.com\/vaults\/2004\/05\/26\/a_falling_blossom_returns_to_branch_a_butterfly\">Kip <\/a>has good news for us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvtome.com\/tvtome\/servlet\/ShowMainServlet\/showid-18158\/\"><i>Wonderfalls<\/i><\/a> fans: there will be a DVD collection, not only of the 3 episodes FOX broadcasted but of the 10 episodes they didn&#8217;t.\n<li>I really enjoyed the comics on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/tim.html\">Secret Identity Comics<\/a>, especially the work-in-progress <a href=\"http:\/\/si.arrr.net\/home\/home00.html\">home<\/a>. (Warning: serious comics, by and large, not ha-ha-funny comics.)\n<li>Democrats looking for reasons to be optimistic about the upcoming Presidential vote-off should check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ospolitics.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/25\/electoral_.php\">Open Source Politics post about the state-by-state polls<\/a>.\n<li>One of my favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmag.org\/weluser.htm\"><i>Z Magazine <\/i><\/a>writers, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zmag.org\/wordwise\/\">Tim Wise, now has a blog<\/a> of his own. Huzzah! Tim is an especially valuable writer about race and racism.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/patriotboy.blogspot.com\/2004_05_01_patriotboy_archive.html#108571597228126023\">Oh, those horrible goths &#8211; who will protect us from them?<\/a> Via <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/\">Atrios<\/a>.\n<li>There&#8217;s been some discussion in the comments about the genocide in Sudan. I don&#8217;t know enough to blog intelligently about it, but I highly recommend that readers check out a new blog focused on Sudan, <a href=\"http:\/\/passionofthepresent.org\/\">The Passion of the Present<\/a>. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedtimber.org\/archives\/001925.html\">Crooked Timber<\/a>.\n<li>Same-sex marriage opponants have a well-established habit of suggesting ridiculous links between marriage equality and some social problem &#8211; increased abortion, say, or single parenthood. But this may be the silliest one of all.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gay.com\/news\/article.html?2004\/05\/28\/4\">UK Lord links gay marriage, obesity.<\/a><\/p>\n<li>An excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story.html?StoryID=18796\">Summer Wood essay on &#8220;Choice,&#8221; <\/a>discussing how the word was politicized &#8211; and has been, in some cases, co-opted and depoliticized. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/archives\/000144.html\">Vanessa at Feministing<\/a>, who has some good comments on the essay). From Wood&#8217;s essay:\n<div class=\"snip\">Substituting &#8220;choice&#8221; for &#8220;rights&#8221; as both a legal framework and a common language indeed proved successful in attracting some libertarians and conservatives to vote for the &#8220;pro-choice&#8221; position in numerous state-level abortion contests during the &#8217;80s. Because &#8220;choice&#8221; is, in essence, an empty word, people with vastly divergent political viewpoints can be united under its banner. In retrospect, this is both the word&#8217;s greatest strength and its ultimate weakness. As various constituencies brought their own political prerogatives and definitions of &#8220;choice&#8221; to the negotiating table, parents, physicians, husbands, boyfriends, and religious leaders all came to be included as rightful participants in decision-making process, significantly weakening the idea that women have a right to make this decision on their own.<\/p>\n<p>Solinger identifies the linguistic shift from abortion rights to &#8220;the individualistic, marketplace term &#8216;choice'&#8221; as deeply problematic, on both a philosophical and a practical level. The word&#8217;s primacy in the arena of reproductive rights has slowly made the phrase &#8220;It&#8217;s my choice&#8221; synonymous with &#8220;It&#8217;s a feminist thing to do&#8221; ? or, perhaps more precisely, &#8220;It is antifeminist to criticize my decision.&#8221; The result has been a rapid depoliticizing of the term and an often misguided application of feminist ideology to consumer imperatives, invoked not only for the right to decide whether to terminate a pregnancy, but also for the &#8220;right&#8221; to buy all manner of products marketed to women, from cigarettes to antidepressants to diet frozen pizzas.<\/p><\/div>\n<li>A surefire nominee for &#8220;best specialist blog&#8221; next year: <a href=\"http:\/\/thewelltimedperiod.blogspot.com\/\">The Well-Timed Period<\/a> (it&#8217;s not about punctuation). Really wonderful converage of Plan B going on this week. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/trishwilson.typepad.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/more_on_emergen.html\">Trish Wilson<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/respectfulofotters.blogspot.com\/2004_05_01_respectfulofotters_archive.html#108577713562735265\">Rivka at Respectful of Otters <\/a>contemplates yet another post about how women just aren&#8217;t as interested in politics.\n<div class=\"snip\">It seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewyglesias.com\/archives\/week_2004_05_23.html#003444\">Matthew <\/a>is taking women&#8217;s lesser involvement in a particular kind of political activity &#8211; vigorous engagement in political argument &#8211; as evidence of lesser interest. Certainly there&#8217;s more to political participation than rhetoric, although you wouldn&#8217;t know it from reading a lot of blogs. I put more stock in women&#8217;s equal involvement in campaign activity, and our greater voting rates.<\/div>\n<li>The right-wingers want to take over South Carolina! I mean, even more so. <a href=\"http:\/\/gratefuldread.net\/archives\/002581.html#more\">All Facts And Opinions<\/a> has the details.<\/ul>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=viagra-online-debit-card\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone&#8217;s linking Eric Idle&#8217;s The FCC Song, and with good reason. Give it a listen. It might not be entirely work-safe, however. Kevin Drum outlines why it&#8217;s not possible for us to force Democracy on Iraq. 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