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links for 2010-07-02

Post author:HFM
Post published:July 2, 2010
Post category:Recently Read

Mel Gibson's New RACIST RANT: N-Word Rape Threats

I can't imagine why Mel Gibson keeps marrying women when he clearly hates them so much.

(tags: misogyny abuse domesticViolence MelGibson)
Farmworkers Dare Americans to "Take Our Jobs" – GOOD Blog – GOOD

Think illegal immigrants are "stealing our jobs"? Check out what most of them actually do – back breaking, hot, dangerous work on farms and in slaughterhouses so you can have a cheap burger. Sign up for one of thee jobs and find out for yourself.

(tags: immigration food jobs reality)
Google to Add Pay to Cover a Tax for Same-Sex Benefits – NYTimes.com

Google is leveling the playing field for its LGBT employees by compensating for a tax benefit that married couples receive but domestic partners don't. That's really awesome!

(tags: lgbt awesome equality rights)

links for 2010-07-01

Post author:HFM
Post published:July 1, 2010
Post category:Recently Read

Sharron Angle: You Can't Have An Abortion Because It's God's Plan You Were Raped – Feministing

"ANGLE: You know, I'm a Christian, and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives…" Yes, I should carry a rape baby to term because your imaginary bearded friend in the sky said so. Sure thing!!

(tags: crazyshit Nevada misogyny forcedBirth christianity)
Survey of Recent Statistics on Domestic Violence

African-American women ages 15 to 34 die more from the violence of a current or former intimate partner than by anything else. Than By Anything Else. This throws BETs recent forgiveness of Chris Brown's criminal behavior into high relief, doesn't it? He doesn't deserve, not should he get a record career.

(tags: violence misogyny statistics feminism)
Doctor Treating Pregnant Women With Experimental Drug To Prevent Lesbianism | Slog | The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper

Lovely.

(tags: homophobia medicine science)

links for 2010-06-30

Post author:HFM
Post published:June 30, 2010
Post category:Recently Read

Wonder Woman, 69, Has Style and Mythos Makeover – NYTimes.com

"In the reimagining of her story, Wonder Woman, instead of growing up on Paradise Island with her mother, Queen Hippolyta, and her Amazon sisters, is smuggled out as a baby when unknown forces destroy her home and slaughter its inhabitants." – Basically, they kill off all the lesbians, in other words. Fuck you, DC Comics.

(tags: homophobia comics DC WonderWoman sucks)

links for 2010-06-28

Post author:HFM
Post published:June 28, 2010
Post category:Recently Read

Income Gaps Between Very Rich and Everyone Else More Than Tripled In Last Three Decades, New Data Show — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

The gap between the haves and the have-nots has increased by three between 1979 and 2007. More money in the hands of a tiny percentage of people than at any time since 1928, prior to the great depression.

(tags: economics money statistics income greed)

links for 2010-06-24

Post author:HFM
Post published:June 24, 2010
Post category:Recently Read

Berkeley tea party to protest tea cozy order

Rogue knitters in California create a giant T cozy for a public sculpture (awesome!) and Berkeley freaks out and decides to remove it (ridiculous!). So the knitters stage a protest (yay!). Please, people, it's just yarn. Nothing to wig out about.

(tags: knitting awesome protest yarnstorming funny publicArt)
Pop Art for ransom

Man threatens to burn a limited edition Andy Warhol print because Warhol's art with gay themes is systematically hidden from the public by major galleries, and his history is scrubbed of his sexual orientation.

(tags: warhol lgbt homophobia art protest)
I'm Comic Sans, Asshole.

Well, I guess that tells me then.

(tags: funny fonts typography design)

links for 2010-06-22

Post author:HFM
Post published:June 22, 2010
Post category:Recently Read

Stock and flow « Snarkmarket

(tags: blogging ideas inspiration)
You're either repetitive, bored, or urgent

Blogs do well when they appeal to repetitive now and bored now users, but the really effective ones target all three types at once. Somehow this is related to stock and flow.

(tags: blogging GUI iphone design behavior searching)

links for 2010-06-20

Post author:HFM
Post published:June 20, 2010
Post category:Recently Read

American Apparel Has a 'Full Body Head to Toe' Employment Policy

Fuck American Apparel.

(tags: misogyny bodyShaming fatPhobia)
Tea Partiers Have No Use For Emergency Services – The Awl

What? Tea baggers claim to never call 9-1-1? Oh, sure. Except for John mcCain's brother – who called because he was stuck in traffic.

(tags: teabaggers crazyshit)
Gov. Mitch Daniels record on Education – 2004 to present

Doghouse Riley covers the baloney being shined up about Gov. Daniels to get him ready for the presidential run that he swears he's not going to make (but really is). His record on education is abysmal, and Riley does great work in exposing it. This is one of your future Republican Presidential candidates folks, so it's not just local reading – you'll want to take this in no matter what state you live in.

(tags: election2012 Daniels presidency indiana)

Sex and The City 2 – more thoughts

Post author:HFM
Post published:June 18, 2010
Post category:Feminism & Women's Issues Movies

Garland Grey does an interesting dissection of the problems with Sex and The City 2. The trouble is, if they’d fixed the problems he described, I don’t know that the movie would be watchable. I don’t know that I’d go see it.

And I’m really glad he didn’t attend my wedding, because I’d hate to see what he’d say about it.

Perez Hilton – not skinny

Post author:HFM
Post published:June 18, 2010
Post category:Feminism & Women's Issues

Just for reference, this is a photo of Perez Hilton with my friend Jonathan (Jonathan is on the right) in Miami in 2007. Just to put this story about Perez Hilton’s skinny t-shirt in perspective. The fact that he has done some dieting in the past three years doesn’t entitle him to police other people’s body image.

links for 2010-06-18

Post author:HFM
Post published:June 18, 2010
Post category:Recently Read

Joe Barton Would Like To Apologize

He would like to. For lots of things he shouldn't, apparently. LMAO!

(tags: currentevents funny politics joebarton oilspill)