What you should read since I’m not writing:
- Five Reasons Why “Teach Women Self-Defense” Isn’t a Comprehensive Solution to Rape – “the rape culture, with all its manifestations and narratives and accoutrements, is vast and varied, necessarily making rape prevention more complex than any one solution. There’s no silver bullet. By all means, support women learning self-defense. Just don’t let your thoughts about rape prevention end there.”
- The Supreme Court looks closely at Indiana’s voter-ID law. – “If you’re too poor or marginalized to track down your birth certificate, is filing a federal class-action suit really the faster, cheaper alternative?” (a.k.a. Why I Love Dahlia Lithwick)
- TPMmuckraker — Today’s Must Read – Indiana voting laws and the voter fraud poltergeist.
- Personalized Plate Slips by North Carolina DMV – Best plate idea ever.
- What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire? – By the Freakonomics guy who spent several years studying gang life.
- Really gross pop-up ad – Amputated borg women!
- TSA searches, detains 5 year old because his name was on no-fly list – “When his mother went to pick him up and hug him and comfort him during the proceedings, she was told not to touch him because he was a national security risk.”
- Arabic Lessons – “The dilemma for the US government is that the only way people become really good at a language is by spending a lot of time in contact with the culture and its people, and this is incompatible with the foreign policy view of the peoples of the Middle East as objects to be manipulated to suit US interests.”
- And when you leave, go quietly – “The federal government would like to forcibly sedate and deport an immigrant-restaurateur who resisted his removal last August with repeated screams because of fears he’d be murdered back in his native Albania.”
- Teen Moms Say: Too Little, Too Late – The phrase “teen pregnancy” exists in a time warp.
- I Has A Hotdog! – Somebody had to make a LOLdog
- Rustic Cabbage Soup Recipe – 101 Cookbooks – Mmmmmmmm… I heart cabbage soup.
- Flower Kits – Paper Source – I tried to copy these paper flower kit patterns and made the cutest table centerpiece.
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