It's Friday! The last Friday in July, and what a strange summer it has been thus far! But good news, a long running copyright dispute may finally be resolved!
Anyway, here is a collection of some of the things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared. Sorted into categories with headings so you can skip more easily:
What Walter Palmer Did Wasn’t Hunting. " Killing a single lion in 2015 is mathematically equivalent to murdering 400,000 of the planet’s roughly eight billion people."
(There were many, many more outrageous headlines regarding the clowns scrambling to out-bigot each over for the Republican nomination; but sometimes enough is enough.)
It's Friday! A Friday in which every source of news is almost certainly going to be giving wall-to-wall coverage of yet another horrific shooting in a public place. Which I'm not going to say anything more about just now.
Anyway, here is a collection of some of the things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared. Sorted into categories with headings so you can skip more easily:
Americans' Air Conditioning Habit Is Eco-Friendly. The European myth that we use more a/c is based on comparing American cities with average summer temps on 88F (31C) to European cities with average summer temps of 73F (23C).
(There were many, many more outrageous headlines regarding the clowns scrambling to out-bigot each over for the Republican nomination; but sometimes enough is enough.)
It's Friday! A glorious Friday that did not arrive a moment too soon. I should have more witty things to say, but I'm just soooo tired.
Anyway, here is a collection of some of the things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared. Sorted into categories with headings so you can skip more easily:
Santorum Calls For A Constitutional Amendment To Ban Same-Sex Marriage. Note that the other wingnut pesidential hopefuls decided it was slightly more reasonable to call for a constitutional amendment giving states the right to define marriage. Which is slightly less bigoted-sounding.
It's Friday! Because I took a vacation day Monday (therefore making the holiday weekend a four-day weekend) you would have expected this short week to be a bit of a romp. No, work was... well, one very disturbing thing and then a few more-than-usual chainsaws, plus the super hot weather and ongoing weirdness from a few homophobic relatives, leaving me exhausted and wrung out by the end. I am soooo glad the weekend is here. Even if I have activities scheduled both days.
Anyway, here is a collection of some of the things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared. Sorted into categories with headings so you can skip more easily:
Republicans Are Too Angry About Gay Marriage: If the GOP wants to stay relevant, it has to become less hateful. There's a big disagreement I have with the writer. He says that "fewer people are going to listen to those ideas if millions continue to believe that Republicans are intolerant of large swathes of Americans" which implies that Republicans aren't actually intolerant, it's merely a misperception. While I know some Republicans who aren't, they are by far the minority--and that's backed up by statistics, it isn't just anecdotal.
The plague of angry white men: How racism, gun culture & toxic masculinity are poisoning America. I grew up in a very redneck family in very redneck communities, and I was taught: Guns are for hunting. Guns are for target shooting (so you can be good at hunting). Guns are not for shooting people! The only time I ever saw my paternal grandmater raise his hand to anyone was to deliver a slap up-side-the-head to one of my cousins when he pointed an unloaded rifle at his little brother. "You never point a gun at a person! Not as a joke! Not because you think it's unloaded! Never!"
It's Friday! Although for some of us, yesterday was "virtual friday" since my office is closed today so I have a holiday. My husband doesn't get the holiday until Monday. So I'm taking a vacation day Monday.
For those of you who are reading this in the U.S., happy Independence Day! If you're in the UK you'd probably not like to talk about it any further. Everyone else: Happy Friday!
Anyway, here is a collection of some of the things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared. Sorted into categories with headings so you can skip more easily:
Bristol Palin and the failure of abstinence. This is also not snark - it's about the very serious issue of teaching kids in a way that give them the real tools they need to protect their health, not ruin their lives, and maybe have a happy sex life with the person they love.
