Life and Linketies
May. 10th, 2012 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moominmuppet*sigh* The past two days have sucked mightily. Migraine started Monday, and Tues/Wed were nasty despite meds. Today's a lot better; still feeling a touch wonky, but nothing dramatic. Got a lot done on a really tough puzzle over the past few days, though (progress pics over at my FB). Really looking forward to getting home and finishing it tonight. And started rewatching Game of Thrones last night, catching up on the new season, so my head's full of that. Today I can't get Facebook to load properly, so if I haven't responded to someone over there, that's why. On to linketies.
Discover: What does it mean to say that something causes 16% of cancers?
ThinkProgress: MONTANA COURT STRIKES DOWN BAN ON BIRTH CONTROL FUNDING FOR LOW-INCOME TEENS
ABC: A delegation of female Canadian soldiers is in Australia to advise the Defence Force on moves to allow Australian women to serve on the frontline.
Australian women will be eligible to serve in combat by the end of next year, but Canadian female soldiers have been able to do so since 1989.
Feministing: For the past 12 years, Ai-jen Poo has been fighting for the workers “that make all other work possible.” Co-director of Caring Across Generations and director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), she was recently named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2012. And we’ve been fans of hers here at Feministing for awhile now.
Alternet: The Unbelievable Brutality Unleashed on Kids in For-Profit Prisons
ONTD_Political: During New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s first year in office, the New York Police Department stopped and interrogated 97,296 people on the streets. By 2007, with the Bloomberg administration pushing the a stop-and-frisk strategy, police made more than a half a million stops. Last year, the figure rose to a record 685,724 people. And according to a New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) report, the vast majorities of stops — about 87 percent — were of blacks and Latinos. Despite robust defenses of the tactics, they appear to be less effective than the Bloomberg administration and NYPD claim.
Most troubling, the NYCLU report seemed to bear out charges of racial profiling in stop-and-frisk situations. In precincts where blacks and Latinos are least represented among the population (14 percent or less), blacks and Latinos were nonetheless the target of 70 percent of stops. Perhaps most staggeringly, the the Wall Street Journal highlighted that the number of stops of black men between the ages of 14 and 24 (168,126 ) exceeded the total city population of black men in that age range (158,406).
Alternet: Birthing Behind Bars: Fighting for Reproductive Justice for Women in Prison
TruthOut: Why Isn't Closing 40 Philadelphia Public Schools National News?
Feministing: The Washington Post has a rather lengthy report up today on Mitt Romney’s time at the prestigious prep school Cranbrook. The report details Romney’s years as a high school senior in 1965 and his reaction to a new student, John Lauber, who Romney felt looked too gay.
More: ONTD_Political: Romney’s Childhood Classmates Detail His Chilling Anti-Gay Bullying
TruthOut: Women Artists Still Face Discrimination (and they talk about the Guerrilla Girls!)
TruthOut: Finally, the President Says "I Do"
Colorlines: 5 Wildly Destructive Myths About Crime and Race
Alternet: Jail for Sending Their Kid to School? How America Treats Black Women and Children Like Criminals
Alternet: Police-Occupy Stand Off at the Gill Tract Farmland in SF Bay Area
Alternet: 5 Ways Law Enforcement Has Bungled Drug War Raids
The drug war would be comical if it weren't so tragic.
Alternet: Ten More European Countries Approve Pharmaceutical Weed - But What About the Real Thing?
Alternet: Mamas Day: A Campaign to Honor All the Moms and Caregivers Forgotten by the Mainstream
Alternet: Christian Conservatives vs. Sex: The Long War Over Reproductive Freedom
Alternet: 7 Foreclosure Horror Stories (And One Possible Win)
Alternet: 11 Strange, Horrific, or Just Plain Weird Ways Societies Have Policed Sex Throughout History
ONTD_Political: Marissa Alexander Faces Mandatory 20 Years In Prison After Failed Stand-Your-Ground Defense
CTV: Couple with cerebral palsy wins fight to keep son at home
ONTD_Political: A Colorado teen is upset with screeners at Salt Lake City International Airport. The type one diabetic says TSA agents were abrupt, rude and were responsible for breaking her $10,000 insulin pump. A pump she has to have to survive.
ONTD_Political: Biden torpedoed WH plan to endorse gay marriage before the Democratic convention
ONTD_Political: Justice Dept. plans to sue Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- About damned time!
OurBodiesOurBlog: New CDC Report Finds Trends Toward More, Better Contraceptive Use Among Sexually Active Teen Girls
Fuckity fuck. The office has been badly overheated all day, and it's apparently distressing some part of my system enough to have brought back the migraine again. It's been getting worse for a few hours, and I'm now just waiting on a ride home before I leave early. Time to call the boss and let him know. Blarg.
Discover: What does it mean to say that something causes 16% of cancers?
ThinkProgress: MONTANA COURT STRIKES DOWN BAN ON BIRTH CONTROL FUNDING FOR LOW-INCOME TEENS
ABC: A delegation of female Canadian soldiers is in Australia to advise the Defence Force on moves to allow Australian women to serve on the frontline.
Australian women will be eligible to serve in combat by the end of next year, but Canadian female soldiers have been able to do so since 1989.
Feministing: For the past 12 years, Ai-jen Poo has been fighting for the workers “that make all other work possible.” Co-director of Caring Across Generations and director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), she was recently named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2012. And we’ve been fans of hers here at Feministing for awhile now.
Alternet: The Unbelievable Brutality Unleashed on Kids in For-Profit Prisons
ONTD_Political: During New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s first year in office, the New York Police Department stopped and interrogated 97,296 people on the streets. By 2007, with the Bloomberg administration pushing the a stop-and-frisk strategy, police made more than a half a million stops. Last year, the figure rose to a record 685,724 people. And according to a New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) report, the vast majorities of stops — about 87 percent — were of blacks and Latinos. Despite robust defenses of the tactics, they appear to be less effective than the Bloomberg administration and NYPD claim.
Most troubling, the NYCLU report seemed to bear out charges of racial profiling in stop-and-frisk situations. In precincts where blacks and Latinos are least represented among the population (14 percent or less), blacks and Latinos were nonetheless the target of 70 percent of stops. Perhaps most staggeringly, the the Wall Street Journal highlighted that the number of stops of black men between the ages of 14 and 24 (168,126 ) exceeded the total city population of black men in that age range (158,406).
Alternet: Birthing Behind Bars: Fighting for Reproductive Justice for Women in Prison
TruthOut: Why Isn't Closing 40 Philadelphia Public Schools National News?
Feministing: The Washington Post has a rather lengthy report up today on Mitt Romney’s time at the prestigious prep school Cranbrook. The report details Romney’s years as a high school senior in 1965 and his reaction to a new student, John Lauber, who Romney felt looked too gay.
More: ONTD_Political: Romney’s Childhood Classmates Detail His Chilling Anti-Gay Bullying
TruthOut: Women Artists Still Face Discrimination (and they talk about the Guerrilla Girls!)
TruthOut: Finally, the President Says "I Do"
Colorlines: 5 Wildly Destructive Myths About Crime and Race
Alternet: Jail for Sending Their Kid to School? How America Treats Black Women and Children Like Criminals
Alternet: Police-Occupy Stand Off at the Gill Tract Farmland in SF Bay Area
Alternet: 5 Ways Law Enforcement Has Bungled Drug War Raids
The drug war would be comical if it weren't so tragic.
Alternet: Ten More European Countries Approve Pharmaceutical Weed - But What About the Real Thing?
Alternet: Mamas Day: A Campaign to Honor All the Moms and Caregivers Forgotten by the Mainstream
Alternet: Christian Conservatives vs. Sex: The Long War Over Reproductive Freedom
Alternet: 7 Foreclosure Horror Stories (And One Possible Win)
Alternet: 11 Strange, Horrific, or Just Plain Weird Ways Societies Have Policed Sex Throughout History
ONTD_Political: Marissa Alexander Faces Mandatory 20 Years In Prison After Failed Stand-Your-Ground Defense
CTV: Couple with cerebral palsy wins fight to keep son at home
ONTD_Political: A Colorado teen is upset with screeners at Salt Lake City International Airport. The type one diabetic says TSA agents were abrupt, rude and were responsible for breaking her $10,000 insulin pump. A pump she has to have to survive.
ONTD_Political: Biden torpedoed WH plan to endorse gay marriage before the Democratic convention
ONTD_Political: Justice Dept. plans to sue Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- About damned time!
OurBodiesOurBlog: New CDC Report Finds Trends Toward More, Better Contraceptive Use Among Sexually Active Teen Girls
Fuckity fuck. The office has been badly overheated all day, and it's apparently distressing some part of my system enough to have brought back the migraine again. It's been getting worse for a few hours, and I'm now just waiting on a ride home before I leave early. Time to call the boss and let him know. Blarg.
