Linkspam two days in a row! Alert the press!

[cofax7]

Wow: after CEOs have daughters, their female employees' salaries go up.

Huh, today is Richard Farina's birthday. He would have been 74 today.

There is no better way to start the day than with Kate Beaton commenting on the Charlie Sheen mess, via Fargo. So awesome.

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So apparently there's an ongoing meltdown over at Slacktivist, because Fred

Comments

[counteragent]

Thanks for these links! I'm reading the Atlantic one now, and also want to come back to some you posted earlier (I guess yesterday?).

Sady Doyle's essay was interesting, and I appreciated her pointing out the double standard in how female celebrities are treated versus male ones, and I thought her evalaution of the "faces" of Charlie Sheen rang true.

IMO, she bent the character of Parks and Recreations's Ron Swanson out of whack to make her point, however, which I thought was a bit clumsy.

[fengi]

Isn't Patrick Nielsen Hayden kind of legendary for screwing up on LiveJournal during that big race discussion? No wonder he doesn't like threaded comments.