{"id":8861,"date":"2009-10-06T00:20:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T07:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8861"},"modified":"2009-10-06T00:20:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T07:20:26","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-bull-fart-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8861","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread and Link Farm (bull fart edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Say what you want, link what you want. Self-linking is the stuff.<\/p>\n

By the way, the bad news is I’ve been posting less often because I’m working hard on the Hereville <\/em>graphic novel. The good news is, I’m working hard on the Hereville <\/em>graphic novel.<\/p>\n

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Via LL<\/a>, Eugene on My Modern Met<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n

The sculpture \u201cWhat You see Might Not Be Real,\u201d by Chen Wenling, was displayed at a Beijing gallery Sunday. A bull, meant to represent Wall Street, is seen ramming the biggest con man of all time, Bernie Madoff, into a wall. Totally deserving, if you ask me.<\/p>\n

The huge cloud coming out of the bull’s rear not only refers to the end of a greedy era, but also symbolizes the danger of virtual bubbles in international financial markets. In a society based on desire and money, some people choose to create many false impressions, while others sadly fall for them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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  1. A defense of gender-neutrality in early childhood<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. Tiger Beat Down on Polanski excusers<\/a>. (Via<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  3. Reading about this case of a couple kept apart as one of them died<\/a> reminds me: People who are against same sex marriage are hateful and cruel. That’s all they are, that’s all they’ve ever been.<\/li>\n
  4. Oh, and they’re insincere<\/a> about not being bigots, too.<\/li>\n
  5. $41,000 to $470,000.<\/a> That’s the lifetime financial cost of being a same-sex, rather than opposite-sex, couple.<\/li>\n
  6. Controversial All Black School Opens in Ontario<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. CBS Feeling the Pressure to drop Lou Dobbs<\/a>. (This alternet story on the same subject<\/a> is interesting, as well.)<\/li>\n
  8. The Right’s Smear Campaign Against Kevin Jennings<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  9. Life In Four Bottles<\/a> Bint quotes a correspondent, who says “Damn! I’m already on the third one!” Sometimes I feel like I’m not even at bottle two yet.<\/li>\n
  10. Racism or Free Speech?<\/a> Maybe both. An Asian student puts up a racist flyer full of “funny” racist jokes about Asians.<\/li>\n
  11. Is mandating that Americans buy health insurance Constitutional?<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. Looking at this chart<\/a> of job loss in this recession, compared to past recessions, may make you weep. And if you’re an elected Democrat, it should definitely <\/em>make you weep, and perhaps panic.<\/li>\n
  13. Disclosure is not information<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  14. Texas prepares to cover up<\/a> the execution of an innocent man.<\/li>\n
  15. Rabbi Brant on the Goldstone Report<\/a>, and why he finds it trustworthy.<\/li>\n
  16. Why women have sex, why men have sex<\/a>, and why the hell is the media so determined to pretend that the reasons are vastly different?<\/li>\n
  17. How “paper sons” were<\/a> part of the Chinese American immigration experience. (And by the way, go welcome back Reappropriate <\/a>to active blogging!)<\/li>\n
  18. Glenn Sacks, the least horrible MRA, is hosting a debate on his blog<\/a> between two scholars, one from a feminist perspective, one from an MRA perspective, about domestic violence.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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