Fontfolly: March 2016

Friday, March 25, 2016

Friday Links (doppelgängers and drug lies edition)

Thank goodness it's Friday. Except I'm queuing this post up earlier than usual because once I left the office Wednesday night, I was on vacation. When this posts, I will be in the middle of my second day at NorWesCon 39. I had attended this convention faithfully for 26 years, until we decided to give it a pass a couple of years ago for various reasons. Then we skipped it again last year. It was kind of traumatic skipping the con, even though we had good reasons. I met my husband 20 years ago at a NorWesCon! Anyway, we're going again this year, and I hope to spend a lot of quality time with some of my nerdiest friends!

Meanwhile, here are links to some of the interesting things I read on the web this week, sorted into various topic areas.

Links of the Week

33 And Never Been Kissed.

Ted Cruz and heavy metal rocker: Separated at birth?

This week in Privacy

Michael Wolff on Hulk Hogan's $115M Verdict and Why Gawker Should Settle the Case.

Report: Apple developing at least 6 cloud infrastructure projects incl. servers to prevent snooping. “Apple has long suspected that servers it ordered from the traditional supply chain were intercepted during shipping, with additional chips and firmware added to them by unknown third parties in order to make them vulnerable to infiltration, according to a person familiar with the matter. At one point, Apple even assigned people to take photographs of motherboards and annotate the function of each chip, explaining why it was supposed to be there. Building its own servers with motherboards it designed would be the most surefire way for Apple to prevent unauthorized snooping via extra chips.”

FBI Vacates Today’s Apple Hearing.

Apple wasn't 'flouting' iPhone order, judge says.

Apple's Security Debate is Everyone's Problem (Including Yours).

Videos!

Time Travel Subway Car:

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GoGo Penguin - All Res (Official):

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Federico Albanese - Stellify {live from The Blue Hour}:

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Friday, March 18, 2016

Friday Links (this is not great edition)

Thank goodness it's Friday. The crazy in life continues apace. There's so much WTF-worthy stuff happening that I just can't keep up with all the news.

Anyway, here are links to some of the interesting things I read on the web this week, sorted into various topic areas.

Links of the Week

The dirty secret of conservative journalism is that little of it constitutes journalism. Except it was a secret to no one who wasn't a conservative "journalist" apparently.

Happy News!

Coffee Company Gives Ex-Cons a Lift Toward Law-Abiding Life.

This week in security

Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again? The iPhone Crisis reignited a conflict that should have been settled in the 90s. The loser is our national security.

Lockpickers 3-D Print TSA Master Luggage Keys From Leaked Photos.

The $8 key that can open New York City to terrorists.

This week in I can't believe people are arguing about this

Study finds that 3 laws could reduce firearm deaths by 90%. Three simple, non-draconian measures: 1) background checks to purchase firearms, 2) background checks to purchase ammunition, 3) individual firearm identification.

And other news:

The Numbers Are Shocking: Over a Third of Killings by Police Are of Disabled People.

Restaurant Manager Shoots Down A Customer Complaint With This Brilliant Logic. Wow.

Let’s make Twitter a better place by ridding it of trolls.

Customer shoots, kills hatchet-wielding man in Burien convenience store.

This Week in Diversity

LUMOS BLACK GIRL MAGIC: MY LETTER TO HERMIONE GRANGER.

All 142 Dead Lesbian and Bisexual Characters On TV, And How They Died.

J. K. Rowling and #MagicInNorthAmerica.

DIVERSITY WITHIN DIVERSITY: MOVING BEYOND OPPRESSION.

LGBT Women in scripted television are almost always killed off in deaths that serve no purpose.

News for queers and our allies:

What’s It Like To Be Young, Gay And Disabled In The Age Of Grindr? (Hint: It Can Be Awesome!).

Grandpa’s gay: Explaining my dad’s new husband to my kids.

Gay former officer in Royal Canadian Navy claims he was forced out.

Justin Trudeau Sends Bullied Gay Employee Heartwarming Message of Support.

Gay Cardinals Minor League player quit baseball when teammates said gays should be killed.

Kris Anka And Kevin Wada Help LGBTQ+ Superheroes Show Some Pride On Kickstarter.

Science!

Negative outcomes evoke cyclic irrational decisions in Rock, Paper, Scissors.

Orson Welles Hosted a NASA Documentary About Aliens in the '70s and It Is Amazing.

Dinosaur find resolves T. rex mystery.

Report: LGBT Climate in Physics.

400,000-year-old fossils from Spain provide earliest genetic evidence of Neandertals.

Researchers turn carbon dioxide into sustainable concrete.

Pregnant T. rex Found, May Contain DNA.

Physics of ribbon curling unravelled.

Doctor’s Orders: Understand the Science of Weight Loss.

What Is The Most Beautiful Equation Known To Mankind?

Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculation!

A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.

Unpicking a Pupspiracy: Part 1 [Updated].

Unpicking a Pupspiracy: Part 2.

How to make “Indiana Jones 5″ the best of the series: Kill off the racist, sexist tropes the series is steeped in.

Magic in North America Part 1: Ugh.

This week in Writing

Why We Shouldn’t Hunt The Trope To Extinction.

kindness is a virtue: why stories need happiness.

Amazon Takes Aim At Scammers But Hits Authors.

Indigenous People Aren't A Fantasy Race: On #MagicInNorthAmerica and Writing Other Cultures in Fantasy Fiction.

Why Publishing Is So White.

Deploying the monomyth in Space Opera.

Planet Of The Titans: the Star Trek movie that never was.

Forbidden Planet is Still Essential and Subversive Sci-Fi.

GAY COMIC GEEK: FALLING IN LOVE WITH COMICS AND COSPLAY.

Culture war news:

California Barber Cites Religious Beliefs to Refuse Transgender Army Veteran a Haircut.

How Trump Happened - It’s not just anger over jobs and immigration. White voters hope Trump will restore the racial hierarchy upended by Barack Obama.

Let's Squash the Myth That the Irish Were Ever American Slaves.

Gay Wyoming Young Man Takes His Life After Relentless Bullying.

While America is distracted by the Trump freakshow, Indiana just passed one of the most restrictive abortion bills in the nation.

‘You guys got to go’: Milwaukee man kills 3 after complaining neighbor doesn’t speak English.

Sent Home From Middle School After Reporting A Rape.

Breitbart’s meltdown wasn’t shocking at all: Why we shouldn’t be surprised by this dumpster fire of a scandal.

Police: Man pours boiling water on gay Atlanta couple in bed.

This Week in the Clown Car

Trump Chickens Out of Rally at U of Illinois

Reminder: John Kasich Is Also Evil.

Marco Rubio neglected the basics.

Ted Cruz: Donald Trump is ‘scared to debate’.

What Are Trump Fans Really ‘Afraid’ to Say?

Noam Chomsky: “I have never seen such lunatics in the political system”.

White Students Keep Using Anti-Latino ‘Trump’ Chants at High School Basketball Games.

Muslim student at Wichita State reports attack by man shouting ‘Trump, Trump, Trump’.

Northwestern University students charged with hate crime, vandalizing chapel chapel with racist, homophobic, and pro-trump messages.

This week in Other Politics:

Sorry, media: The GOP is not imploding.

Watch the Bernie Sanders Speech the Networks Won't Show You.

Rallying To Ted Cruz To Lose The Election.

The First Time Party Bigwigs Tried to Stop a Front-Runner From Becoming President It Backfired—Big-time - What the GOP can learn from the story of Andrew Jackson in 1824.

It’s not just Trump. Authoritarian populism is rising across the West. Here’s why.

North Carolina’s Voter ID Law Could Block 218,000 Registered Voters From the Polls.

Blackout Tuesday: The Bernie Sanders Speech Corporate Media Chose Not To Air.

On The President’s Ultra-Qualified Supreme Court Nominee: Merrick Garland.

Farewells:

Illuminating the Legacy of the Late, Great Ernestine Anderson, Seattle Jazz Singer, Who Died Last Friday at 87.

Sylvia Anderson, Co-Creator of U.K. Kids Series 'Thunderbirds,' Dies at 88.

Things I wrote:

Blood stains on their hands.

Weekend Update 3/12/2016 – there’s always silence.

Sunday Funnies, part 16.

The Incredibly Slowly Shrinking Writer.

Names, labels, deadnames, signs, and portents.

Videos!

This rendition of “By Myself” was slated to be the final number of the last episode of Judy Garland’s variety TV show in 1964. Producers are rumored to have nixed the song because they felt it was too dark. Personally, I think it explodes with affirmation in the second half. Judy Garland - By Myself [deleted] (The Judy Garland Show):

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Jean-Michel Jarre, Peaches - What You Want:

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Stephen Amell and John Barrowman sing/kiss at HVFF January 23 2016:

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Cruz 101 | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS:

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Marco Rubio: "GOP DROPOUT" - Song Parody by RANDY RAINBOW:

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X-Men: Apocalypse | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX:

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Marvel's Daredevil Season 2 - Final Trailer - Netflix [HD]:

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John Oliver Never Thought He'd Have To Care About Trump:

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Lucy Rose - Nebraska:

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Friday, March 11, 2016

Friday Links (repurposed fence edition)

Thank goodness it's Friday. Both my husband and I are still on antibiotics. I'm starting to feel less miserable. I'm really hoping we both feel actually well, soon.

Anyway, here are links to some of the interesting things I read on the web this week, sorted into various topic areas.

Links of the Week

You may remember a link from a couple of weeks ago where a writer lamented that a publication's call for submissions didn't want any stories from a native american or indigenous point of view. The editor responded, but not by being defensive:

Just Wait Until Twitter Comes For You: Addressing and Fixing Unintended Privilege and Bigotry.

“TL;DR: When a social justice criticism was brought to us, we acknowledged the mistake, engaged with those criticizing, and fixed the problem instead of doubling down or protesting that wasn't what we meant. It worked to resolve the problem and helped us clarify the message we meant to send.”

This week in Typography

More about the legendary Dove's type: How The World’s Most Beautiful Typeface Was Nearly Lost Forever.

This Week in Diversity

We need more queer characters outside of LGBTI-specific stories.

Why The 100's showrunner just lost 15k followers, and why it matters.

No, Vanity Fair’s photo of Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler is not the mainstream’s attempt to effeminize black men.

This week in Government Overreach

Surprise! NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing that has nothing to do with terrorism.

News for queers and our allies:

Last Men Standing - They had the remarkable luck to survive AIDS, and the brutal misfortune to live on.. "In the darkest years of the epidemic in the 1980s and ’90s, AIDS was almost always fatal; the prognosis was a few years, maybe a few months. These men, then in their 20s and 30s, weren’t supposed to make it to 40. Now some are 60 years old, even 70, still alive but wounded physically, psychologically and economically."

What the EEOC's lawsuit against Scott Medical Center could mean for Pa. state law.

Lambda Legal Wins Lawsuit Against Feds For Social Security Benefits For Lesbian Widow.

200 years of LGBT rights in 1 map.

Lack of a singular vision for LGBT rights isn’t a cause for despair, especially when competing visions drive innovation.

Bisexuals, Passing, and Straight Privilege: A Deeper Look.

NYC Guarantees the Right to Enter a Bathroom Matching One’s Gender Identity.

Kenmore Jr High improves bathroom access for transgender students.

Irish TV show to feature first-ever same-sex marriage.

Federal Court Says That Title VII Does Not Prohibit Anti Gay Bias — Yet.

EXTRAORDINARY PHOTOS OF A GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUB IN THE 1960S.

Happy News!

President Jimmy Carter announces end of cancer treatments.

Science!

Huge Population of Rare Whales Found off Madagascar. Video of the rarely seen Omura's whales (sort of a dwarf fin whale)

With Seattle Aquarium’s help, stranded sea turtle makes dramatic comeback.

Factoring of numbers achieved through scalable quantum computer.

This Scientist Crunched The Numbers And Discovered The Monetary Cost Of Not Being A Straight Man.

Scientists Say Some Birds Are Just as Smart as Apes.

Chew On This: Slicing Meat Helped Shape Modern Humans.

99 million year old fossil found in amber in South East Asia.

New micro-CT scanner allows inside view of even the tiniest fossils.

Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculation!

Men of Their Times.

It’s HERE! Get over a million words of fiction from this year’s Campbell-eligible authors!

THE WRITER WHO MADE ME LOVE COMICS TAUGHT ME TO HATE THEM.

'The Expanse:' Best Science-Fiction Show In A Decade.

This week in Writing

“You can teach craft but you can’t teach talent.” The most useless creative writing cliché?

Idra Novey Recommends....

Fargo turns 20 today. Its fans are still arguing about this scene.

Culture war news:

Christian Activist Theodore Shoebat Supports Violent Vigilante Attacks Against Gay Rights Activists.

US Supreme Court overturns Alabama court ruling against same-sex adoption.

When Falling In Love Can Put Your Life In Danger.

Supreme Court to Shitty Hate States: Get Over It Already.

The War On Cars: Pedestrian Deaths Skyrocketing.

NFL still in closet about anti-gay culture.

Federal Judge Rules Marriage Ban Still Good Law In Puerto Rico, Governor Disagrees.

Missouri Religious Protection Bill Passes After 37 Hour Filibuster.

Rafael Cruz: ‘Gay marriage shall destroy society’.

Bisexual Man Convicted Of Hate Crime In Killing Of Gay Man. People don't understand hate crime laws. His sole defense was that since he's bisexual, it couldn't be hate...

This Week in the Clown Car

Debate Recap: Cruz, Trump and Kasich Double Down on Anti-LGBT Rhetoric.

Money Pours In as Move to Stop Donald Trump Expands.

Ted Cruz’s Michigan Campaign Co-Chair Wants to Criminalize Homosexuality.

A Final Attempt to Understand Ben Carson's Deeply Weird Presidential Campaign.

Donald Trump says everybody loves him. This chart proves him very wrong.

Defending Islam Isn't Political Correctness, Marco Rubio Tells Donald Trump.

Cruz balks at campaign-loan disclosure.

John Kasich’s (not so) secret extremism: How the “moderate” alternative to Trump led a Planned Parenthood witchhunt in Ohio.

This week in Other Politics:

In Response to Question about Republican Claims that Obama is to Blame for Trump and Extremeist, President says GOP leaders to blame for party 'crackup'. In other news, water is wet...

Inside the first-ever summit calling for an end to the “suicidal death pact between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia”.

The Obama Doctrine - The U.S. president talks through his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world..

Farewells:

Gary Hutzel, Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica VFX artist, dies at 60.

Ray Tomlinson, email inventor who picked the @ sign for addresses, dies.

Rev. Robert Palladino, Scribe Who Shaped Apple’s Fonts, Dies at 83.

And Another Departure:

Nancy Reagan dies aged 94, LGBT community remembers her shitty history on AIDS crisis.

Nancy Reagan Turned Down Rock Hudson’s Plea For Help Nine Weeks Before He Died.

Cat’s Story: Straight, Inc. and Why I Despise Nancy Reagan.

Things I wrote:

Weekend Update 3/4/2016 – When a dog whistle becomes a bullhorn.

Trigger Warning: misogyny, racism, Frank Miller (but I repeat myself).

Is it worth the outrage? – part three.

Confessions of a cluttering packrat.

Uniques and Reborns, Computers and Telepaths – more of why I love sf/f.

Videos!

Years & Years - Desire ft. Tove Lo:

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Menow - Baby You're Like A Drug:

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Ben Carson: GOP DROPOUT - Song Parody by Randy Rainbow:

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BAND-MAID / Don’t let me down:

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Orkestra Obselete Blue Monday 1933:

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‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Gives Us The Bi Anthem We’ve Been Waiting For:

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R.I.P. GOP (Part 1) | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS:

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R.I.P. GOP (Part 2) | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS:

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[Eng Sub] McCafé's Gay Ads in Taiwan:

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Marvel's Captain America: Civil War - Trailer 2:

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Friday, March 4, 2016

Friday Links (March Forth on March Fourth)

I've written before about an acquaintance in college who was shocked that I'd never heard the pun about this day: March Forth! It's a date and a command!

For the last few years I've been observing my own March Forth tradition. I urge you all on this March Forth, to go please donate to The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans.

Meanwhile, thank goodness Friday. I'm seeing my doctor again today, because the last round of antibiotics didn't knock out the infection.

Here are links to some of the interesting things I read on the web this week.

Links of the Week

Bad Ass Miss America, Yolande Betbeze Fox, Dies at 87. She was a singer, refused to model bathing suits after winning the 1951 Miss America pagent, and campaigned for civil rights from the late 1950s on. Yeah, I think bad ass is right.

This Week in Diversity

MEET THE WOMAN WHO FOUNDED “BHARAT BABIES,” A CHILDREN’S BOOK COMPANY CENTERED ON INDIAN CULTURE.

TOP TEN RESPONSES TO THE DIVERSITY BASELINE SURVEY.

Decolonise, not Diversify.

Dear White Writers,.

What It’s Really Like to Work in Hollywood - What It’s Really Like to Work in Hollywood - If you’re not a straight white man.

This week in Difficult to Classify

Ottawa man wakes to find contents of someone's home on his driveway.

Kicked Out in America!

News for queers and our allies:

Sam Smith’s Oscar Gaffe Shows Why Teaching LGBTQ History Is So Important.

South Dakota Governor Vetoes Bad Transgender Bathroom Bill .

Gov. Nathan Deal makes a forceful, biblical case against Georgia’s ‘religious liberty’ bill.

Despite being inadvertently outed, one gay college athlete in Virginia is finding acceptance.

Science!

Fresh confusion over origins of enigmatic radio-wave blasts.

As of Tuesday, it's the wettest winter in Seattle history.

Anchorage is so warm this year it has to import snow for the Iditarod.

Drumming Can Largely Improve Your Mental Health, Science Says.

Neandertal Chemistry: Archaic humans used manganese dioxide to start fires, not—as thought—just for body paint.

How killing wolves to protect livestock may backfire.

This device turns plastic waste into safe, edible mushrooms.

T. rex Was Likely an Invasive Species.

Why the heck does it hurt so bad to step on a Lego? Science explains.

515-Million-Year-Old Fossils Contain Exquisitely Preserved Nervous System.

A blind woman has regained sight following a controversial stem cell treatment.

New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function in mice.

Complaining Rewires Your Brain for Negativity, Science Says.

Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculation!

It’s a Steampunk Universe … Unless You’re an Indigenous American.

How Long ’til Black Future Month?

Gods of Egypt is a Racist, Whitewashed Failure of a Movie.

NORWESCON: 39 YEARS OF FANDOM AND COUNTING. After missing the convention for a few years, I'm really looking forward to going again. This year will be my 27th NorWesCon!

7 ways Deadpool did right in getting Negasonic Teenage Warhead wrong.

WHAT MOVIE STUDIOS WILL ULTIMATELY GET WRONG ABOUT DEADPOOL’S SUCCESS.

Theodore Beale is the Donald Trump of Science Fiction.

The Strange Saga of a Sci-Fi Author Who Became a Prolific Pornographer.

How 'The X-Files' Was Accidentally Reborn as Right Wing Propaganda.

J.J. Abrams says Star Wars without gay characters is 'insanely narrow-minded and counterintuitive'.

Fandom issue of the week

Disney made furry fandom, in a very real and direct way.

This week in Writing

Cory Doctorow: In Praise of Fanfic. An oldie, but a goodie!

Finish your Sh*t: Secrets of an Evolving Writing Process.

These Journalists Dedicated Their Lives to Telling Other People’s Stories. What Happens When No One Wants to Print Their Words Anymore?

Culture war news:

Kiddle: Child-friendly, Google-powered search site bans words including 'bisexual' and 'transgender'.

80 Religious Leaders Stand Up To Say Anti-Choicers Don’t ‘Have A Monopoly On Faith’.

Booted Anti-Gay Michigan Teabagger Legislators To Face Felony Perjury Charges For Lying About Their Affair. It's not really for lying about the affair, it's for falsely reporting a blackmail, and then lying under oath about a bunch of things related to it.

Pat Robertson: Homosexuals Are Incapable Of Knowing Love, That Only Comes From White Jesus.

Author banned from discussing his book at speaking engagements after coming out as gay.

Who Still Opposes Gay Marriage, and Why.

Georgia “Religious Freedom” Bills and the Real Problem Nobody is Talking About.

Raising Awareness About the Dangers of “Conversion Therapy”.

Anti-Gay Georgia Senator Greg Kirk’s Elusive ‘Gay Friends’ Are Nowhere to be Found. Another anti-gay pol claims to have gay friends. Finally a reporter asks obvious followup Q: "Can I talk to them?"

This Week in the Clown Car

Why Republican criticism of Trump fails. "For half a century Republicans have been trying to recruit white nationalists without stating our intentions out loud. During election seasons we issue coded assurances to nervous racists that we support them. Concealed beneath rhetoric about constitutionalism, or religious freedom, “conservative values,” or government dependence is a promise to put the genie back in the bottle. Brown folk and women and foreigners will all be nudged back into their rightful place, properly subjugated and presumably happy. We will “take our country back.” We will “make America great again.” America will once again be a white Christian nation."

Ben Carson, Who Felt God’s Fingers Pushing Him to Run for President, Hints at Suspending Campaign.

Trump is the GOP’s Frankenstein monster. Now he’s strong enough to destroy the party. The author of this piece is, by the way, a conservative republican. He's right about several things, but wrong about two important bits: 1) President Obama's foreign policy is actually a lot different than the liberals the author claims they are indistinguishable from--Obama's foreign policies are almost exactly the same as George W. Bush's were in his second term. 2) The majority of Republicans are bigots; most are the kind of bigot who say, "I'm not a bigot, but..." and then spout something racist, Islamophobic, homophobic, or misogynist.

Harry Reid Savages Republicans For Making Trump.

How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable: He's no ordinary con man. He's way above average — and the American political system is his easiest mark ever.

To survive, Marco Rubio descends into the gutter with Donald Trump.

Ted Cruz Blames Left-Wing Policy For Detroit's Destruction.

John Kasich Backtracks on LGBT Rights While Others Trade Insults.

This week in Other Politics:

Researchers have found strong evidence that racism helps the GOP win. "...79 percent of Republicans agree with negative statements about blacks..." A more accurate headline would be, "Study confirms majority of Republican part is racist."

Federal Law Criminalizes Protesting Trump Now That He’s Guarded by the Secret Service.

Scalia Communicates Through Clarence Thomas from the Grave.

Torpy at Large: Are senator’s gay friends like Jan Brady’s boyfriend?

1905 Precedent Lets Obama Appoint SCOTUS Judge without Consent.

Things I wrote:

Weekend Update 2/27/2016 – On a hero, and on silence.

We have always been here, part 2.

Confessions of a keyboard addict.

Videos!

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Whitewashing (HBO):

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The Daily Show - Ben Carson and the Black Experience:

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Finding Dory Official US Trailer:

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Donald Trump (HBO):

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Friday, March 25, 2016

Friday Links (doppelgängers and drug lies edition)

Links of the Week

This week in Privacy

This Week in Diversity

This week in awful news

This week in Difficult to Classify

This week in Evil People

News for queers and our allies:

Science!

Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculation!

This week in Writing

Culture war news:

This Week in the Clown Car

This week in Other Politics:

Farewells:

Things I wrote:

Videos!

Friday, March 18, 2016

Friday Links (this is not great edition)

Links of the Week

Happy News!

This week in security

This week in I can't believe people are arguing about this

And other news:

This Week in Diversity

News for queers and our allies:

Science!

Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculation!

This week in Writing

Culture war news:

This Week in the Clown Car

This week in Other Politics:

Farewells:

Things I wrote:

Videos!

Friday, March 11, 2016

Friday Links (repurposed fence edition)

Links of the Week

This week in Typography

This Week in Diversity

This week in Government Overreach

News for queers and our allies:

Happy News!

Science!

Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculation!

This week in Writing

Culture war news:

This Week in the Clown Car

This week in Other Politics:

Farewells:

And Another Departure:

Things I wrote:

Videos!

Friday, March 4, 2016

Friday Links (March Forth on March Fourth)

Links of the Week

This Week in Diversity

This week in Difficult to Classify

News for queers and our allies:

Science!

Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculation!

Fandom issue of the week

This week in Writing

Culture war news:

This Week in the Clown Car

This week in Other Politics:

Things I wrote:

Videos!