- Chronicling the abuses
- [Pandagon - Amanda Marcotte]
Ta-Nehisi has a good post up about the lack of female editors on Wikipedia… He doesn’t blame women for being weak, but instead looks at environment…
He then references the many online situations where racism runs rampant, [which] makes him not want to go in those spaces. …Women spend huge chunks of our lives trying to get our voices heard. Why go into a space [like Wikipedia] where men can actually erase you?
…Which is why I was glad to see…a new website called Fat, Ugly or Slutty, which is dedicated to chronicling the abuse female gamers receive… FUS is just the latest in a number of sites I’m seeing that…put the bullshit up for all to see, [giving the privileged] reader a small taste of what it’s like to be on the receiving end…
- A day that will live in infamy
- [Hullabaloo - digby]
This is a big week-end. Obviously, it's the Super Bowl. And Ronnie Reagan's birthday has the entire political class in an orgasmic swoon. But one anniversary was strangely overlooked.
Jonathan at A Tiny Revolution remembered:
"Colin Powell made his Iraq presentation at the UN five years ago, on February 5, 2003."
…Read on for the list of lies he told that day.
I don't think it can be overstated just how significant this UN speech was. I happened to watch the speech with a group of people I worked with and the reaction was electric. People who had been skeptical were converted instantly. Every bit of the man's reputation and stature was put in service of these lies and he was very, very convincing.
- Played
- [Hullabaloo - digby]
I think there's a fairly good chance that the House will pass a bill that quite a few Democratic Senators will jump to vote for since all the "bad things" have been taken out. All it will say is that "no federal funds will pay for abortion" — effectively ending abortion as an insurable procedure. But hey, why not? Everyone agrees on that apparently.
- Sleeping offense
- [Hullabaloo - digby]
Last week an Oregon jury found that tasering a sleeping person is an abusive use of force…
…there are plenty who use their tasers inappropriately nonetheless. They have gotten the idea that if it doesn't leave any marks that it isn't brutal. And that's the problem. Until the police agencies take this seriously it's going to keep happening.
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- Transparency: Paying the Same Amount for Smaller Products
- A recent investigation by Consumer Reports found that many of the everyday items you buy have been suspiciously shrinking, despite no similar reduction in cost. Does that orange juice feel a little lighter? That's because it is, even though you paid the same amount. Here's a look at some of these products and how much they've shrunk.
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[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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