It’s all over the news today that the number of American soldiers dead in Iraq has reached 4,000 after five years. This is certainly tragic in the sense that any needless deaths in violent conflict are tragic.
Forgive me, however, please, for being more concerned with the 80,000 civilian deaths which have occurred thus far in the war. Funny how we don’t like to talk about that on the news.
Check out Submission and Coffee! They discuss my post I am not damaged: the intersection of queer and kinky on the latest episode, #126.
When Strippers Take Over The Club
A Search For Survivors - a blog by a victim of “attachment therapy”
Woman Left In Cell for 4 Days Without Food or Water
AP Study Find Drugs in Drinking Water
Chemical Link Found to Gulf War Syndrome (No, ya think??)
Bird Long Believed Extinct Spotted
16 Maneuvers to Avoid Really Dealing With Racism
NYT Reports on McCain’s Melanoma
Vatican Releases List of New Sins
An Article on the Unrecognized Problem of “Birth-Rape”
Athiest Soldier Claims Military Punished Him By Denying Promotion
Controversy Over Web Filters at Denver International Airport
The History of International Women’s Day
Southwest Airlines and the “Souls of White Folk”
Men prefer their women dependent and financially unstable! Except not really.
Women Were Designed to Multitask: Bra-Burning and Blowjobs for a Better Tomorrow
David and Goliath Tees Being Assholes as Usual (If you aren’t aware of what a nasty guy Todd Goldman is, basically he is a massive plagiarist.)
Today the Washington Post ran pretty much one of the worst articles ever. Shakesville and Pandagon tackle the article so you don’t have to read it.
Jill on men’s “right” to anonymously threaten women.
School Takes Away White Privilege For A Day For Black History Month, Parents Outraged
Guatemalan Worry Dolls (I was reminded when I ran across the set I inherited from my grandfather a moment ago. They’re neat.)
Casting Director Fired from “Shelter” Flick
Just ’cause I love this story and it has cheered me up immensely today: Hereville
Inmate Awaiting Sex Change Says State Has Stopped Treatment (Plus, an interesting LiveJournal discussion on the article.)
GOP To Americans: Take Your Government Transparency And Shove It
Navy Sonar Harms Whales (video)
Pondering a Post-Bullshit America
McCain Repudiates Comments of Introductory Speaker at Rally
PLUS: NPR interview with Cunningham re: McCain Flap (Can’t you smell the bullshit through the speakers? Hilarious.)
Anti-War Movement Wrestles with 1968 (The article isn’t great. The comments are interesting. What’s pertinent here is how fucking scary everyone finds the prospect of civil disobedience. OMG. ANARCHY!! Recreate68 rocks my socks.)
In case you haven’t seen it yet, because it is hilarious - Stuff White People Like
NPR: Hair Samples Used to Trace Geographic Moment
Microsoft Slapped by EU With $1.35B Fine
Mexican Border Wall Will Not Be Built On The Land of the Wealthy and Well-Connected
Feminists are “Language Rapists”
Hollywood Casting Call for that “Inbred” Look
Dead Baby Found In Basket at Denver Hospital (Safe haven laws I’m sure have some interesting feminist implications, but I’m sleepy right now.)
Some kickass poetry to start your day (yes I’m biased, and no reason, just ’cause) and audio!
Scandal-ridden homophobic D.A. in ‘Lawrence v. Texas’ case resigns
Gay Man Beaten for Saying “Hello”
Immigrants Commit Far Less Crimes Than “Native” Citizens in California
National Eating Disorder Awareness Week
Just because I am trying to learn how to do this: 5 Ingredient Crockpot Recipes
First, a little humor to start off your day - Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results of the 2008 Election Early (video)
Huckabee Supports Proposed CO “Egg As Person” Amendment
Chavez Government Fights English “Linguistic Imperialism”
Interesting Guardian Article on Wikileaks: Online Anonymous Whistleblowing
Proposed Florida Confederate Heritage License Plate
Screw the Voters, Let the Superdelegates Decide!
Pakistan Blocks Access to YouTube
Gay Iranian Refugee Risks Deportation From UK (Not sure what can be done about this one at this point?)
Terrorist Watch List Contains Almost 1 Million Names, Most of them Americans
Google Claims IP Addresses Are Not Personally Identifiable Information
Banks Unable to Foreclose On Homes Due to Lost Paperwork
Lawmaker Proposes Stripping USDA of Safety Oversight
Rape: Pretty Real When It’s Happening
Gang Rape Video Posted to YouTube Viewed 600 Times Before Being Removed
So what I am going to do here is supply a list of assorted interesting links, in no particular order, on a daily or semi-daily basis without a lot of comment. They may have to do with pretty much anything. Because it’s easier than all the link-sending I do all over the place every day anyway.
Fragile Masculinity and Murder
A Few Other Responses to the Murder of Larry King
Health Net ordered to pay $9 million after canceling cancer patient’s policy
ACLU Sues To Protect Marriages Threatened By Recent Court Decision
Conservative doctors to unmarried women: If you’re having sex, you *should* die of cervical cancer
Latest Anti-Pot Quack Science: ‘Marijuana Makes Your Teeth Fall Out’
The Growing Battle for the Right to Water
Gay man bequeaths $65 million to LGBT groups
Feminist Bloggers Unite! (Facebook)
A History of Evil (video)
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