Via PZ Myers, some good news out of the Anoka-Hennepin School District in Minnesota, notorious for suicides caused by bullying of gender-nonconforming children: The district has pledged better treatment of gay and lesbian students as part of a settlement, and the lone school board member who objected to the settlement has resigned.

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Frank VanderSloot, an Idaho billionaire who runs the dietary supplement company pyramid scheme Melaleuca, is the national finance co-chair of and a massive donor to Mitt Romney's campaign. He's got a history of threatening "patently frivolous lawsuits" against critics of his far-right political activities, even extremely small-time bloggers. As his ( Read more... )

The Christmas standard It's a Wonderful Life is taking on more and more relevance these days. For the actress who played Zuzu, George Bailey's little girl, it wasn't such a wonderful life.

Early this fall, a new video game came out that challenges players to live on $8 an hour. It's called "Spent," it's mostly text-driven, and it forces players to ( Read more... )

view The Handmaid's Tale as an instruction manual?

They also view The Grapes of Wrath as a motivational tract.… what [the unemployed] ought to do is start brainstorming and start a business. If you are an unskilled laborer, it may seem like there are no opportunities. But, there are if you move to where the jobs are. In the 1930′s and 1940′s, ( Read more... )

Via PZ Myers: S/F author David Brin responds to the latest pus-streaked chunk of phlegm coughed up by Frank Miller: that Occupy Wall Street protestors are filthy anti-American criminals. (If you want to give Miller traffic, you can find his essay via either link. I'm not giving him hits ( Read more... )

Women online - not all of whom are feminists - are speaking up en masse about the astounding harassment they receive just for being women who post their opinions in public.

Alyssa Rosenberg noted more than a week ago that she'd been seeing an increase in violent threats. While men bloggers get those, too, women bloggers get sexualized violent ( Read more... )

It's hard to believe that, so far, nobody has Photoshopped the cover of Jerry Sandusky's autobiography.

Until now, anyway.

( SFW but large file )

I've been too busy to write much lately, but I do have a bunch of links to share.

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I, and probably most of you, knew about Christian Dominionism long before the CNN talking heads did.

Anyway, at that link, Chris Rodda (who wrote Liars for Jesus) breaks the movement down into four subgroups, providing at least one link for each if you need to read up on said group.

Unlocked.

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This just in:We know Philip Dick had mental problems and used hard drugs, obviously suffered, and it came out in his work. Perhaps [Joanna] Russ had Borderline Personality Disorder or something and [The Female Man] is just as porno as if it were told from from the male perspective. Years ago I learned that art produced by crazy people isn't ( Read more... )