Thank goodness it’s Friday. The crazy in life continues apace. There’s so much WTF-worthy stuff happening that I just can’t keep up with all the news.
Anyway, here are links to some of the interesting things I read on the web this week, sorted into various topic areas.
Links of the Week
The dirty secret of conservative journalism is that little of it constitutes journalism. Except it was a secret to no one who wasn’t a conservative “journalist” apparently.
Happy News!
Coffee Company Gives Ex-Cons a Lift Toward Law-Abiding Life.
This week in security
Lockpickers 3-D Print TSA Master Luggage Keys From Leaked Photos.
The $8 key that can open New York City to terrorists.
This week in I can’t believe people are arguing about this
Study finds that 3 laws could reduce firearm deaths by 90%. Three simple, non-draconian measures: 1) background checks to purchase firearms, 2) background checks to purchase ammunition, 3) individual firearm identification.
And other news:
The Numbers Are Shocking: Over a Third of Killings by Police Are of Disabled People.
Restaurant Manager Shoots Down A Customer Complaint With This Brilliant Logic. Wow.
Let’s make Twitter a better place by ridding it of trolls.
Customer shoots, kills hatchet-wielding man in Burien convenience store.
This Week in Diversity
LUMOS BLACK GIRL MAGIC: MY LETTER TO HERMIONE GRANGER.
All 142 Dead Lesbian and Bisexual Characters On TV, And How They Died.
J. K. Rowling and #MagicInNorthAmerica.
DIVERSITY WITHIN DIVERSITY: MOVING BEYOND OPPRESSION.
LGBT Women in scripted television are almost always killed off in deaths that serve no purpose.
News for queers and our allies:
What’s It Like To Be Young, Gay And Disabled In The Age Of Grindr? (Hint: It Can Be Awesome!).
Grandpa’s gay: Explaining my dad’s new husband to my kids.
Gay former officer in Royal Canadian Navy claims he was forced out.
Justin Trudeau Sends Bullied Gay Employee Heartwarming Message of Support.
Gay Cardinals Minor League player quit baseball when teammates said gays should be killed.
Kris Anka And Kevin Wada Help LGBTQ+ Superheroes Show Some Pride On Kickstarter.
Science!
Negative outcomes evoke cyclic irrational decisions in Rock, Paper, Scissors.
Orson Welles Hosted a NASA Documentary About Aliens in the ’70s and It Is Amazing.
Dinosaur find resolves T. rex mystery.
Report: LGBT Climate in Physics.
400,000-year-old fossils from Spain provide earliest genetic evidence of Neandertals.
Researchers turn carbon dioxide into sustainable concrete.
Pregnant T. rex Found, May Contain DNA.
Physics of ribbon curling unravelled.
Doctor’s Orders: Understand the Science of Weight Loss.
What Is The Most Beautiful Equation Known To Mankind?
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculation!
A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.
Unpicking a Pupspiracy: Part 1 [Updated].
Unpicking a Pupspiracy: Part 2.
Magic in North America Part 1: Ugh.
This week in Writing
Why We Shouldn’t Hunt The Trope To Extinction.
kindness is a virtue: why stories need happiness.
Amazon Takes Aim At Scammers But Hits Authors.
Deploying the monomyth in Space Opera.
Planet Of The Titans: the Star Trek movie that never was.
Forbidden Planet is Still Essential and Subversive Sci-Fi.
GAY COMIC GEEK: FALLING IN LOVE WITH COMICS AND COSPLAY.
Culture war news:
California Barber Cites Religious Beliefs to Refuse Transgender Army Veteran a Haircut.
Let’s Squash the Myth That the Irish Were Ever American Slaves.
Gay Wyoming Young Man Takes His Life After Relentless Bullying.
‘You guys got to go’: Milwaukee man kills 3 after complaining neighbor doesn’t speak English.
Sent Home From Middle School After Reporting A Rape.
Police: Man pours boiling water on gay Atlanta couple in bed.
This Week in the Clown Car
Trump Chickens Out of Rally at U of Illinois
Reminder: John Kasich Is Also Evil.
Marco Rubio neglected the basics.
Ted Cruz: Donald Trump is ‘scared to debate’.
What Are Trump Fans Really ‘Afraid’ to Say?
Noam Chomsky: “I have never seen such lunatics in the political system”.
White Students Keep Using Anti-Latino ‘Trump’ Chants at High School Basketball Games.
Muslim student at Wichita State reports attack by man shouting ‘Trump, Trump, Trump’.
This week in Other Politics:
Sorry, media: The GOP is not imploding.
Watch the Bernie Sanders Speech the Networks Won’t Show You.
Rallying To Ted Cruz To Lose The Election.
It’s not just Trump. Authoritarian populism is rising across the West. Here’s why.
North Carolina’s Voter ID Law Could Block 218,000 Registered Voters From the Polls.
Blackout Tuesday: The Bernie Sanders Speech Corporate Media Chose Not To Air.
On The President’s Ultra-Qualified Supreme Court Nominee: Merrick Garland.
Farewells:
Sylvia Anderson, Co-Creator of U.K. Kids Series ‘Thunderbirds,’ Dies at 88.
Things I wrote:
Weekend Update 3/12/2016 – there’s always silence.
The Incredibly Slowly Shrinking Writer.
Names, labels, deadnames, signs, and portents.
Videos!
This rendition of “By Myself” was slated to be the final number of the last episode of Judy Garland’s variety TV show in 1964. Producers are rumored to have nixed the song because they felt it was too dark. Personally, I think it explodes with affirmation in the second half. Judy Garland – By Myself [deleted] (The Judy Garland Show):
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Jean-Michel Jarre, Peaches – What You Want:
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Stephen Amell and John Barrowman sing/kiss at HVFF January 23 2016:
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Cruz 101 | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS:
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Marco Rubio: “GOP DROPOUT” – Song Parody by RANDY RAINBOW:
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X-Men: Apocalypse | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX:
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Marvel’s Daredevil Season 2 – Final Trailer – Netflix [HD]:
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John Oliver Never Thought He’d Have To Care About Trump:
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Lucy Rose – Nebraska:
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