Linketies (including lots on Reason Rally)
Disability Right Now Blog
We will be bringing you coverage of the national vigils for George Hodgins a 22-year-old autistic man who was murdered by his mother this month, plus essays on all kinds of topics related to violence against people with disabilities over the next 13 or so days as all our staff weigh in. Following that, we will be a weekly blog. Go. Subscribe (find the follow button on the lower right somewhere). Join us. -- This is a project that a friend of mine has been working her ass off to get started. Check it out.
Feministing: Adrienne Rich: groundbreaking, author, poet and feminist dies at 82
Happening this weekend:
Rock Beyond Belief: Fort Bragg, NC March 31st, Noon-8:30pm. Free Admission. (an atheist response to evangelical christian music festivals that have been held with military cooperation)
Last Weekend's Reason Rally Updates:
MentalFloss: Adam Savage’s Impassioned Speech on Reason
GretaChristina: The Reason Rally, and Why It’s Good to Keep Hammering On About Diversity
BlagHag: This hilariously awkward run-in made my Reason Rally trip worthwhile
BlagHag: This Reason Rally sign is not funny (transphobia -- I'm very glad to see her calling it out)
BlagHag: My friend Phil Ferguson of Skeptic Money has an exhibitor table set up at the American Atheist conference…right next to a secular pro-life group. Yeah, apparently they exist. They’re claiming life begins at conception and showing a little box full of babies while asking for money. And what was Phil’s response?
To put out a box taking donations for Planned Parenthood.
TokenSkeptic: AlJazeera English On The Reason Rally
TokenSkeptic: Atheism In The Public Sphere And The Reason Rally - Richard Dawkins On Up With Chris Hayes
TokenSkeptic: Tim Minchin At The Reason Rally - Video
TokenSkeptic: Greta Christina And Taslima Nasrin At The Reason Rally Video
TokenSkeptic: Penn Jillette And Tim Minchin At The Reason Rally Video
TokenSkeptic: Richard Dawkins At Reason Rally (And Other Interviews)
NYTimes: Earl Scruggs, Bluegrass Pioneer, Dies at 88
ThoughtCatalog: An Imagined Girls Night With Katniss Everdeen, Hermione Granger, Bella Swan And Buffy Summers *snerk*
TARDIS Phone Skins!
ScienceDaily: New More-Sensitive Blood Test Catches Recurring Breast Cancer a Year Earlier
OurBodiesOurBlog: Concerns About the FDA’s Review of the Safety of Yasmin and Similar Contraceptives
IO9: The 4 Biggest Myths About the Human Brain (included mostly for the nifty image partway down the article of various species' brains.)
Alternet/HuffingtonPost: How The Right Wing "ALEC" Teamed Up With The NRA To Get Copycat, "Stand Your Ground" Laws In 21 States
Alternet/DissentMagazine: How Ronald Reagan Broke the Air Traffic Controllers Union--And Why That Fight Still Matters
Alternet: Wisconsin Lawmaker to Spousal Abuse Victims: If You Are Being Beaten, Just Remember the Things You Love About Your Husband
Alternet: Fired for a Short Skirt? The Realities of Anti-Worker Laws in Wisconsin and Ohio
Alternet/Salon: How My Four-Year-Old Son Came Out to Me: As Straight
Alternet: Ending Discriminatory Voter ID: Let’s Affirm The Right To Vote
Alternet: 7 Ways Citizens Are Using Humor and Creativity to Protest Injustice
Alternet: Racist Smear Campaign Against Trayvon Martin: White Supremacist Allegedly Hacks, Circulates Martin's Private Information
Alternet: Captive Virgins, Polygamy, Sex Slaves: What Marriage Would Look Like if We Actually Followed the Bible
Alternet/DemocracyNow: Racially-Motivated Killing the Media Missed? NY Police Called Out on Medical Alert Shoot Dead 68 Year Old Black Veteran
Alternet/Guardian: The New Legal Theory That Enables Homophobic Evangelizing in Public Schools
Alternet/Nation: Horizontal Meets Vertical: 3 Ways Occupy, Community Groups and Unions Can Work Together to Change Society
We will be bringing you coverage of the national vigils for George Hodgins a 22-year-old autistic man who was murdered by his mother this month, plus essays on all kinds of topics related to violence against people with disabilities over the next 13 or so days as all our staff weigh in. Following that, we will be a weekly blog. Go. Subscribe (find the follow button on the lower right somewhere). Join us. -- This is a project that a friend of mine has been working her ass off to get started. Check it out.
Feministing: Adrienne Rich: groundbreaking, author, poet and feminist dies at 82
Happening this weekend:
Rock Beyond Belief: Fort Bragg, NC March 31st, Noon-8:30pm. Free Admission. (an atheist response to evangelical christian music festivals that have been held with military cooperation)
Last Weekend's Reason Rally Updates:
MentalFloss: Adam Savage’s Impassioned Speech on Reason
GretaChristina: The Reason Rally, and Why It’s Good to Keep Hammering On About Diversity
BlagHag: This hilariously awkward run-in made my Reason Rally trip worthwhile
BlagHag: This Reason Rally sign is not funny (transphobia -- I'm very glad to see her calling it out)
BlagHag: My friend Phil Ferguson of Skeptic Money has an exhibitor table set up at the American Atheist conference…right next to a secular pro-life group. Yeah, apparently they exist. They’re claiming life begins at conception and showing a little box full of babies while asking for money. And what was Phil’s response?
To put out a box taking donations for Planned Parenthood.
TokenSkeptic: AlJazeera English On The Reason Rally
TokenSkeptic: Atheism In The Public Sphere And The Reason Rally - Richard Dawkins On Up With Chris Hayes
TokenSkeptic: Tim Minchin At The Reason Rally - Video
TokenSkeptic: Greta Christina And Taslima Nasrin At The Reason Rally Video
TokenSkeptic: Penn Jillette And Tim Minchin At The Reason Rally Video
TokenSkeptic: Richard Dawkins At Reason Rally (And Other Interviews)
NYTimes: Earl Scruggs, Bluegrass Pioneer, Dies at 88
ThoughtCatalog: An Imagined Girls Night With Katniss Everdeen, Hermione Granger, Bella Swan And Buffy Summers *snerk*
TARDIS Phone Skins!
ScienceDaily: New More-Sensitive Blood Test Catches Recurring Breast Cancer a Year Earlier
OurBodiesOurBlog: Concerns About the FDA’s Review of the Safety of Yasmin and Similar Contraceptives
IO9: The 4 Biggest Myths About the Human Brain (included mostly for the nifty image partway down the article of various species' brains.)
Alternet/HuffingtonPost: How The Right Wing "ALEC" Teamed Up With The NRA To Get Copycat, "Stand Your Ground" Laws In 21 States
Alternet/DissentMagazine: How Ronald Reagan Broke the Air Traffic Controllers Union--And Why That Fight Still Matters
Alternet: Wisconsin Lawmaker to Spousal Abuse Victims: If You Are Being Beaten, Just Remember the Things You Love About Your Husband
Alternet: Fired for a Short Skirt? The Realities of Anti-Worker Laws in Wisconsin and Ohio
Alternet/Salon: How My Four-Year-Old Son Came Out to Me: As Straight
Alternet: Ending Discriminatory Voter ID: Let’s Affirm The Right To Vote
Alternet: 7 Ways Citizens Are Using Humor and Creativity to Protest Injustice
Alternet: Racist Smear Campaign Against Trayvon Martin: White Supremacist Allegedly Hacks, Circulates Martin's Private Information
Alternet: Captive Virgins, Polygamy, Sex Slaves: What Marriage Would Look Like if We Actually Followed the Bible
Alternet/DemocracyNow: Racially-Motivated Killing the Media Missed? NY Police Called Out on Medical Alert Shoot Dead 68 Year Old Black Veteran
Alternet/Guardian: The New Legal Theory That Enables Homophobic Evangelizing in Public Schools
Alternet/Nation: Horizontal Meets Vertical: 3 Ways Occupy, Community Groups and Unions Can Work Together to Change Society