Not enough face-palm in the world:
Gender essentialism at Nature. And people think we're in a post-feminism universe?
Charlie Pierce,
where have you been all my life? (Okay, okay, yeah, but until a few weeks ago I only knew him from WWDTM.)
Interesting breakdown at Graphjam of
the demographics of OWS. I would point out that it's based on self-reported surveys compiled at occupywallstreet.org, so the data is unreliable. Certainly the protestors around here are more than 1.6% black.
New video blog from
the set of The Hobbit! Coolness!
Link by way of the Buffistas:
Stratford on Hellmouth. Hah!
Found a cool recs LJ here:
Epic Recs, includes stories tagged by length.
In other news, it's a little late in the season, but it's time to make the seasonal fruitcake. Off to purchase the ingredients (which will include none of that awful fake "candied fruit" they sell in the plastic packages).
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DW, where there are
comments; comment here or
there.