(Click to embiggen)Thank goodness it’s Friday. Wait… is it really the first Friday in December? The year is nearly over? Oh, wow!
Anyway, Decorating Season is in full swing, and we’re counting down days until Christmas and I spent a gazillion hours working on two novels last month, and no time working on my annual Christmas Ghost Story, so I’m just in another world of panic, here. But, meanwhile here are links to some of the interesting things I read on the web this week.
(Click to embiggen)Thank goodness it’s Friday. It is the final Friday in November. That means, at least here in the states, that yesterday was Thanksgiving. Which means that here at our house, we are finally officially into Christmas season. I can list to Christmas music! I can start decorating! Yay!
The last few weeks the links list has been a bit shorter than usual because of how much time I’m spending on NaNoWriMo. Then this week with the holiday, traveling, and family time, my news reading time was even more restricted. Anyway, here is a collection of some of the things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared. Sorted into categories with headings so you can skip more easily:
CDC: Marriage Rates Up in 2014, Divorce Rates Down. “Remember how religious conservatives insisted that allowing same-sex couples to marry would destroy the institution of marriage? Yeah, no: The CDC says more Americans married in last year and fewer married couples divorced. The numbers are small—tiny uptick in the marriage rate (reversing a 15 year trend), tiny downtick in the divorce rate—and this CDC report covers 2014, the year before the Supreme Court made marriage equality the law of the land. But same-sex couples were already marrying in a majority of states in 2014.”
International Transgender Day of Remembrance http://tdor.info/ (Click to embiggen)Thank goodness it’s Friday. November is moving along! It’s already the 20th, which means that today is the International Transgender Day of Remembrance
NaNoWriMo is taking up a lot of my time, so I’m not doing as much online news reading as usual. Anyway, here is a collection of some of the things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared. Sorted into categories with headings so you can skip more easily:
Moschino Barbie Boys. “It’s wonderful that we live in a world where conventionally masculine pro basketball players and soccer players can be out, as well as Olympic skiers and ass-kicking/porn-making boxers. But little boys who play with barbies—and grow up to be iconic fashion-house-reviving designers—aren’t a “harmful stereotype.” Those boys exist and there’s nothing wrong with them. And those boys came out first (because they couldn’t hide) and they came out swinging. It was little girly boys who made it safe for masculine gay dudes to come out and not the other way around.”
Newly Discovered Bacteria Can Resist All Antibiotics. It’s a slightly misleading headline. This bacteria can resist the so-called “last resort” antibiotic. It does NOT have the mutations necessary to resist other antibiotics. However, as the article points out, it is only a matter of time.
(Click to embiggen)Thank goodness it’s Friday. November is moving along!
NaNoWriMo is taking up a lot of my time, so I’m not doing as much online news reading as usual. Anyway, here is a collection of some of the things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared. Sorted into categories with headings so you can skip more easily:
H.P. Lovecraft was always a terrible choice for the World Fantasy Awards. “Lovecraft wrote stories where books could usher in the end of the world. H.P. Lovecraft wrote stories where imagination would lead you to death and insanity. H.P. Lovecraft wrote stories where curiosity didn’t only kill the cat, but made the cat pray for death to a cold and uncaring universe. H.P. Lovecraft wrote stories where the only thing you’d find through the looking glass, at the back of the wardrobe, or out beyond the stars was madness, depravity, and despair.”
Mormon Church Nostalgic for Days When Homophobia Just Hurt Homos. “I’ve seen lots of painful things, but nothing so widespread, in terms of the devastation and heartbreak. I personally talked to dozens of people who are walking away. And these aren’t people with LGBT ties. These are ardent, faithful, in-the-box believing Mormons who can’t abide this,”
The Most Basic Rule Of Journalism. “Hillary Clinton and Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina and the rest will argue that Who/What/When/Where/Why/How are all “gotcha” questions, but holding them (or anyone) accountable for their assertions — by demanding proof — isn’t a “gotcha” game.”
NaNoWriMo is taking up a lot of my time, so I’m not doing as much online news readying as usual. Anyway, here is a collection of some of the things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared. Sorted into categories with headings so you can skip more easily:
People were linking to some cool author maps this week. They’re generated via crowdsource. You can improve the author maps and get some recommendations by going here: the global network of discovery.
Dear Ben Carson: Actually, You Are a ‘Homophobe’ If You’re Opposed to Marriage Equality Now. “…if you’re opposed to something that is now a right of every American and has been proven in court — in the federal trial over California’s Proposition 8 — to harm no one, including children, then you do have an irrational fear of homosexuality. And certainly if you’re a medical doctor yourself and you’re opposed to something that the American Medical Association, American Psychological Association and American Psychiatric Association deem normal, natural and healthy and not harmful at all to anyone, then you have an irrational fear of homosexuality. And that is the essence of homophobia – a fear of homosexuality.”
Once again, I’m really, really, really glad that the weekend is upon us! Between throwing my back out last weekend and crazy deadlines converging at work, I’m wrung out!
Anyway, here is a collection of some of the things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared. Sorted into categories with headings so you can skip more easily:
No, there is no constitutional problem with an all-Florida presidential ticket. The headline isn’t exactly accurate. There will be issues, but the article is correct that it isn’t technically unconstitutional. Given how bitchy Rubio and Bush got with each other at the debate, I suspect it isn’t going to be an issue.
It’s already the fourth Friday October!? It’s the month of pumpkins and falling leaves and spooks and costumes! It is also Gay History Month
Once again, I’m really, really, really glad that the weekend is upon us! Between throwing my back out last weekend and crazy deadlines converging at work, I’m wrung out!
Anyway, here is a collection of some of the things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared. Sorted into categories with headings so you can skip more easily:
Link of the Week
Let’s listen to each other on the topic of guns. We have to stop being irrational at each other and actually work on the parts of the situation that are indisputably a problem, and also happen not to be impossible to solve.
Bruce Hyde (1941-2015). Hyde was absolutely sensational during the first season of Star Trek, in two major guest starring turns as Lieutenant Kevin Riley in “The Naked Time” and “The Conscience of the King.”
The Rocky Horror Picture Show Reunion (Today Show) [Barry Bostwick, Susan Sarandan, Tim Curry, Meatloaf and Patricia Quinn were interviewed earlier this month]:
A duplicate of China’s Jade Rabbit lunar probe photographed during tests before launch (Image: CNSA)It’s already the third Friday October!? It’s the month of pumpkins and falling leaves and spooks and costumes! It is also Gay History Month
Once again, I’m really, really, really glad that the weekend is upon us!
Anyway, here is a collection of some of the things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared. Sorted into categories with headings so you can skip more easily:
Beauties and Beasts by Amelia Vaughn. “Because he should know that true love is still for him, even though he’s not interested in pretty girls. He deserves that. All kids do. Because true love is for everyone.”
The Inside Story of Apple’s New iMacs. To me the heart is the effort they went to in order to make the sound the new mouse makes as if moves “right.” It is all about the details!
Independent review board says NSA phone data program is illegal and should end. Bad headline, because the real story is: “We have not identified a single instance involving a threat to the United States in which the telephone records program made a concrete difference in the outcome of a counterterrorism investigation,” said the report, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post. “Moreover, we are aware of no instance in which the program directly contributed to the discovery of a previously unknown terrorist plot or the disruption of a terrorist attack.”
A graphic trying to depict commerce as arteries and organs, published in 1889 by the Land & River Improvement Company of Superior, Wisconsin.It’s already the second Friday of October, the month of pumpkins and falling leaves and spooks and costumes! It is also Gay History Month
Once again, I’m really, really, really glad that the weekend is upon us!
Anyway, here is a collection of some of the things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared. Sorted into categories with headings so you can skip more easily:
Michael Milo, 16, a student at Kingsville District High in the dress he wore for photo day at the school. Link to full story below. (DAN JANISSE/The Windsor Star)We have exited September, that most blessèd month and now we’ve begun October, the month of pumpkins and falling leaves and spooks and costumes!
It is Friday, and normally I would write something silly about the end of the week and the joy of the weekend. But there was some horrible news yesterday (which I’m sure you’ve heard about, and if not, there are links below) that happened in a small community that is in my region, and through which I’ve driven a few times, and many decades ago occasionally competed against students from the school in question. So I’m having trouble coming up with anything terribly fun to say.
Anyway, here is a collection of some of the things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared. Sorted into categories with headings so you can skip more easily:
Writing Better Trans Characters. “I reject the idea that trans characters should only be written by trans people because cis folk are bound to get it wrong. While there are some really fine trans writers, there simply aren’t enough of us in the world to do what is needed.”
What Pope Francis Really Said About (Gay) Marriage — and What He Did Not. “lso sitting right before Francis during his address to Congress were three of the five Supreme Court justices – a majority of the majority – who ruled for marriage equality in June: Justices Sotomayor, Ginsburg and Kennedy. The pope had his big chance to be clear and emphatic about the terrible thing they’d supposedly done and he blew it? Maybe he just didn’t care all that much.”
I wasn’t going to do any more of these, but then a friend (@jayblanc) posted this on twitter: “We made all the sad puppies cry, and then we discover salt water on Mars? This can’t be coincidence!”
Font Folly 