{"id":9829,"date":"2010-03-30T08:54:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T15:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9829"},"modified":"2010-03-30T08:54:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T15:54:24","slug":"open-thread-metal-men-sprinting-with-thor-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9829","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread, Metal Men Sprinting With Thor Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an open thread. Use it to post whatever the heck you want. Linking to your own awesome posts would be, well, awesome.<\/p>\n

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Happy Passover, folks!<\/p>\n

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  1. Last week, I posted about Steve Perry<\/a>, former “Thundercats” and “Timespirits” writer, who is in pretty dire need of help. This week, cartoonist Walt Simonson<\/a> (whose 1980s Thor run<\/a> is widely considered the best that character has ever been done) is ebaying the above drawing<\/a> to help Steve Perry out. At this moment, the high bid is $2000 (!), and there’s still six days to go. Sometimes it must be really, really cool to be Walt Simonson. Plus, no one draws big-ass capes the way Walt Simonson draws big-ass capes.<\/li>\n
  2. A long-delayed missive on \u201cchildhood obesity\u201d, from a onetime obese child.<\/a> If only Michelle Obama would read this…<\/li>\n
  3. Predator Theory<\/a>. “…of the 120 rapists in the sample, 44 reported only one assault. The remaining 76 were repeat offenders. These 76 men, 63% of the rapists, committed 439 rapes or attempted rapes, an average of 5.8 each (median of 3, so there were some super-repeat offenders in this group). […] Lisak & Miller also found that the repeat rapists in their survey were responsible for a broad array of violent acts, including intimate partner violence and child abuse.”<\/li>\n
  4. Fugitivis comments on<\/a> the above-linked Predator Theory post.<\/li>\n
  5. The Kaiser Foundation has a two-page, pdf summary of the Affordable Care Act<\/a> that’s pretty good.<\/li>\n
  6. This is great<\/a>. “When Salinger was 7 she became plagued with nightmares about the film \u2018Monster House\u2019. Strangely, through a friend, I knew the screenwriter Dan Harmon (@danharmon, Creator of \u2018Community\u2019 on NBC). So one day, in early 2008, I wrote to him….”<\/li>\n
  7. Nothing whatsoever of any importance happened to Social Security this week<\/a>. And at Dollars and Sense<\/a>, learn how to fix the entire Social Security “shortfall” in one simple step.<\/li>\n
  8. If someone would pay you<\/a> the same money (and the same benefits) as your current job to be chased by a bear for 10 minutes a day (workdays only), would you do it?<\/li>\n
  9. How Might We Measure Race Without Reifying It?<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. We Hate the Government But Want More Government Jobs<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. In West Bank Palestinian Childhood Is Cut Short \u2013 It\u2019s the Law<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. Outrageous Treaty Nonsense, or The Copyright Tail Wagging the Internet Dog<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. White Backlash: Yes, It\u2019s Real<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. I Died in a Law & Order: SVU Bus Wreck and Lived to Tell the Tale [Law And Order: Svu]<\/a><\/li>\n
  15. Abra-Cadabra: NBC\u2019s Community Makes Burqa Jokes<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. Revisiting the Paradox of the Chess Queen<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. Broken down by race<\/a>, the trends for education achievement scores in the US look pretty good. \"\"<\/li>\n
  18. Recruitment and the Underrepresentation of Women in Political Offices<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. 11 predictions for the health-care reform bill<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. Citizens United doesn’t treat corporations like people. It treats them better than people<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  21. I haven’t yet listened to this Douglas Adams lecture<\/a>, but I want to.<\/li>\n
  22. J.D. Shapiro, screenwriter of Battlefield Earth (which just won a Razzie Award for the worst movie of the decade), discusses his participation<\/a>. “No one sets out to make a train wreck. Actually, comparing it to a train wreck isn’t really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to watch those.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This is an open thread. Use it to post whatever the heck you want. Linking to your own awesome posts would be, well, awesome. Happy Passover, folks! Last week, I posted about Steve Perry, former “Thundercats” and “Timespirits” writer, who … Continue reading →<\/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-9829","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\/9829","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=9829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}