January 2010
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Geekson Podcast with Gina Torres →
Somehow, the Geekson geeks got Gina Muthaeffin Torres into their “studio” (I think its a geek’s living room) for an interview. What proceeds is 78 minutes of total awesomeness.
Gina Torres used to be my girlfriend because I loved Zoe. Now she’s my girlfriend* because she is, in fact, the coolest woman on the planet.
*with apologies to my real life girlfriend
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How does the gender of parents matter? →
Sometimes, I just love science:
In fact, based strictly on the published science, one could argue that two women parent better on average than a woman and a man, or at least than a woman and man with a traditional division of family labor. Lesbian coparents seem to outperform comparable married heterosexual, biological parents on several measures, even while being denied the substantial...
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black →
Free short story by Holly Black.
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Research Shows Two Gay Parents Are Better Than A... →
Scholars, at USC and New York University, looked at a range of existing studies, including research on gay and lesbian parents, finding that it’s ideal if a child is raised by two parents who are “responsible, committed, stable,” but that the gender doesn’t cause radical differences.
Sociologist Timothy Biblarz of the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences says in a...
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THIS!
myyearofeverything:
I’m in the “Pray” portion of “Eat, Pray, Love,” and Gilbert has just arrived at her Indian ashram. It’s apparently a rugged place with extreme weather and whatnot, the kind of place where “you will discover who you really are.”
What if you’re really just awful?
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Book Review: My Lord and Spymaster
My Lord and Spymaster by Joanna Bourne My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Here’s the deal: for all that Joanna Bourne subverts genre conventions with her surprising character choices and action-filled plots, she also embraces some of the worst.
By the time I finished My Lord and Spymaster, I just wanted to throttle Jess Whitby. She is really, really, um, REALLY just almost too stupid too live. ...
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Story Review: Red-Headed League
I’m currently reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on my iPhone. Its my first time reading any Holmes at all.
And here is what I have to say about Mr. Holmes:
When he, and only he, knows the clue, its cheating. Sherlock Holmes is a big cheater face.
I actually got into an argument about this with Everything is the Worst. He said Holmesy is a genius detective and therefore knows...
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Sexist Beatdown: Guys Who Grab Butt Edition →
AMANDA: I, too, have noticed a big resistance to considering groping on the spectrum of sexual assault. Of course, I have all sorts of feminist conspiracy theories as to why that’s the case.
SADY: Ha. The BEST kind of conspiracy theories! But I honestly think it’s the same blanket denial of assault as reality that you find everywhere. Sexual assault is rare; therefore, if it’s common, it’s not...
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George Lopez does something kinda funny →
Lopez has been testing celebrities DNA to show racial make-up. Here he tests Snoop Dogg vs Charles Barkley for “Who is blacker”.
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“At the end of the day, whatever the motives of its Proponents, Proposition 8...”
– Testify: Historians Take Stand To Explain The Origins Of Marriage - Proposition 8 - Jezebel
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Link: Tell the FCC to Stand Up for Net Neutrality!... →
You have until Friday to sign the form telling the FCC that net neutrality is more important than corporate interests.
Want to improve broadband access in the US? Build better infrastructure, don’t charge for bandwidth.
ALSO - if you live in DC, you may need to use this form: http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/upload/display?z=88kgf
09-191 “In the Matter of Preserving the Open Internet...
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Why aren't you reading the Sexist?
Honestly, people.
With quotes like these?
AMANDA: …She basically limits the discussion to, “Why don’t women appreciate these classic male, heteronormative sexual narratives that treat women like cum dumpsters?” when the answer is … pretty obvious.
I mean, do I even need to tell you what this article is about? That woman just said “cum dumpster!”
SADY: Okay, and here we...
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To read: The Incendiary's Trail by James McCreet →
Arch Authorial Voices do grate on me (Neil Gaiman, anyone?) but this mini-review from the Guardian hits all the right notes.
Namely: historical setting, grotesquery (my new favorite word) and a bicephaloid!
Equally implausible and with almost as little regard for motive, James McCreet’s splendid debut novel owes much to Charles Dickens’s melodramatic style and subject matter....
ctcircusfreak-deactivated201203 asked: If I hit my head really hard, will I see stars and cukoo birds?
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My dream of being the Kathy Griffin of the Dear... →
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Trembling Before God
myyearofeverything:
It is a measure of the depth of Oprah Winfrey’s personal brand that Robyn Okrant can write, with no evident sarcasm, “Oprah is right: doing things for others makes me feel great.”
Remember that episode when Oprah invented altruism?
I think I remember that episode. She rode in on a golden chariot, with the sun god Apollo on her right and the Buddha on her left. Millions...
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What?! That book sucked!
Someone recently told me that my book reviews are too reasonable, too measured. There is nothing to contradict and no point to refute. That I am, in fact, perfect.
Ok, he didn’t say perfect but you get my gist.
And so, I give you,
Mfred’s First Totally Inappropriate Book Review:
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie.
Monza Murcatto is betrayed, brutally beaten, thrown off a...
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Link: Ask Judge Walker to televise Prop 8 trial! →
From the Courage Campaign:
The landmark federal lawsuit challenging Prop 8, Perry v. Schwarzenegger (also known as the Olson/Boies case) is about to go to trial starting Monday, January 11. The presiding judge, Chief Judge Vaughn Walker, is holding a hearing on whether the a pool television camera should be allowed to film the trial, given the unprecedented interest in the proceedings. Judge...
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le freak!
Want to read this issue of the Weekly World News? You can!
From io9.com:
The paper that uncovered Bigfoot’s love slaves, Bat Boy and Hillary Clinton’s alien affairs, is finally getting its place in journalism history. Weekly World News has been archived on Google Books.
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