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Weekend Reads

Patricide: Two Mommies
That Colored Fella: Demanding Reparations from the Lefty Blogosphere
Half-Changed World: Why I Oppose Private Social Security Accounts, subtitled, “Holy Shit, A Woman Writes About Social Security”
How To Turn Your Red State Blue
Frogs and Ravens: The Threat of the Willful Child
Army Of Mom: Old Flames
SistersTalk: Racist Chicago Firefighters Exam (in response to LaShawn Barber)
Unimpressed: You Mean It Really *Was* All About Oil?! and The Ridiculousness of the “Consent” Defense To Rape
Burningbird: I Murdered My Father
Rad Geek: El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido!
Unscrewing the Inscrutable: Ve Didn’t Stot Der Fier
Language Log: Saying More With Less and Tidy-Whiteys
The Everlasting Phelps: The Down and Dirty On Skidmarks (see the part on “farticles”)

I don’t know about the “magical” bit, but:

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You are Lisa (from Weird Science)! Sexy and magical, you either charm the pants off everyone, or make them crap their pants in fear. Either way, you rule.

Which John Hughes Character Are You?
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This blog, where I got the quiz above, may very well be the cutest blog layout ever.

UPDATE: Language Log revisits “tidy-whities” in Underwear Sociolinguistics.

Thwarted

Plans for the day were thwarted when I decided to slice my left hand open in myraid ways: knife, tin can, nail clippers. Too many band-aids to knit, clean, or type.

Maybe I’ll nap –can’t hurt myself too badly while sleeping.

Big & Beautiful

Intro: I’m Trish and I’m normally at Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman. Thanks Lauren for giving us all the chance to guest-blog! I thought I’d take this opportunity to share a link.

Leonard Nimoy has taken a series of beautiful photographs of large nude women. Note that this link will lead you to photographs of naked women. They’re artistic, but use your best judgement as to whether or not that’s work-safe.

Nimoy’s second book of photography will focus on the women of the Fat Bottom Revue. He says: “They are interested in fat liberation. Their self-esteem is strong. They will tell you that too many people suffer because the body they live in is not the body you find in the fashion magazines.”

via Big Fat Blog

Tangled Bank and Stuff

Tangled BankTangled Bank #24 is up and I am a part of it. Who knew that I could write on science?

This week’s host is Syaffolee, a blog with a rather interesting creature featured as a background image. Do I want to eat it, hug it, or step on it? This is to be seen.

Don’t forget — today is

Open Blog

Another exercise in trust. Don’t forget to plug your blog, and if you don’t have one, leave an email address. If you lurk here and never comment, this is a way to out yourself in style! Don’t be intimidated by WordPress — it is incredibly easy to use.

Prove me right: I can trust the universe (to take up for me when I don’t feel like writing).

Even More On Schiavo

Majikthise:

Morally and legally, the Terri Schiavo case is about a patient’s right to refuse medical treatment. …there is an overwhelming consensus any adult has the right to refuse any medical treatment. Disabled and incapacitated patients retain this right. The only difference is that these patients must be represented by guardians charged to speak on their behalf.

The Schindlers and their supporters have no principled objections to the system by which guardians are appointed. They aren’t arguing that parents are more appropriate guardians than spouses in general, or that the Federal courts should arbitrate all guardianship cases, or even that the withdrawal of feeding tubes is unethical. All they care about is reversing a decision on a case in which they have a personal stake.

This post should be read in its entirety. Another is promised soon.

Christian Science Monitor:

Should a bill on Schiavo pass the Congress and be signed by the president, as expected, the case still faces judicial review – and a ticking clock. Last week, the Supreme Court rejected without comment a House committee’s emergency request to order the feeding tube reinserted while appeals were pending.

“It would appear to be the kind of legislative grandstanding that Chief Justice Rehnquist, if he were up to speed and in good health, would swat away in an instant,” says Patrick Gudridge, a law professor at the University of Miami.

Emphasis mine.

Subvert The Dominant Link Paradigm

Yes, I’m the loser sitting around on a Saturday night compiling links for the blog.

One Man’s Opinion: Fiona Apple is to Wilco as…?
Turn the music industry over to people who actually enjoy music.

Factesque: StDLH Friday. “Women Bloggers Don’t Interest Me For the Following Reasons” Version which led me to
Culture Kitchen: Raping the Dead
A Catholic church decides to “rescue” aborted fetuses from cremation and turn it into a public memorial. No, this is indeed real.

Alley Rat: Teacher Student Scandals, Parts One and Two
Something that we teachers and pre-service teachers rarely talk about is the presence of attraction in the classroom. Many of us student teachers, for example, spend a great deal of time fending off (usually harmless) advances from students.

To Be Determined: Gay Marriage and Terri Schiavo
An interesting spin on the case for the executors of wills.

A Bad Christian Blog: Airing My Dirty Laundry (via Alas)
Put down your beverage or it will make its way through your sinuses and onto the keyboard.

Google Scholar: From sexual objectification to sexual subjectification: The resexualisation of women’s bodies in the media (I have no idea where I got this – JC?)

That Colored Fella: Waiting to Exhale
Exposing the Ecosystem, in this case, when it related to LaShawn Barber’s website.

Susan Ohanian: The Wal-Martization of Education
“Walton has been an active supporter of the national voucher movement, spending millions on voucher initiatives and pro-voucher organizations. He is intimately allied with the ultra-right Bradley Foundation of Milwaukee, which used its political and economic clout in that city to launch the nation’s first publicly funded voucher program in 1990. Bradley is also a major funding source for the national voucher effort. It’s important to “follow the money,” as then-Attorney General John Mitchell advised the Watergate investigators, because Walton’s money is now at the center of voucher politics in New Jersey.”
Next, Wal-Mart Academy?

Feeling angry? No? Start here. The picture on the right will get the blood a-pumpin’ and the eyes a-rollin’.

And finally, NASA researchers believe there may be life on Mars.

Weekend Reads

UnSpecified Chatter: The Truth About Men
SistersTalk: No Gay Bishops Means No Bishops at All
Frogs and Ravens: Trying Again
Pharyngula: Subversion and Evolution of the X Chromosome (related: X Marks The Chromosome)
Whirled View: Look In The Mirror, Karen
Folkbum: Disclaimer Time (from a high school English teacher to his students)
Bitch Ph.D.: Argumentative Women
Pesky Apostrophe: You Can Go Your Own Way
Black Feminism: Porn & Prejudice

Also, I’m overwhemingly tempted to sprout my own sod couch in the backyard.