I share a lot of links on Twitter and Facebook that I don’t blog about because I don’t have much to add. The reading list is a periodic feature where I share those links with my blog audience too. Of course, you’re still welcome to follow me on Twitter.
Around FtB
- The rise and fall of the nerd Eich –“But has the pendulum swung too far in the opposite direction? Have gay rights activists stepped over a line, and become guilty of ‘witch hunts’ themselves?”
- The “Battle of the Billboards” has Begun!–“So, upon finding out that the other side of this historically inaccurate billboard was vacant, I worked up a MRFF version, correcting the historical inaccuracy of the one on the flip side.”
- Teachers who save students from shootings “are not” heroes–“The wingnut brigade has a big problem with public schools.”
- Psychics and Mediums: Where’s the Harm? Guest Post by Rebecca Hensler–“It wasn’t until I began grieving myself that I started seeing how psychics and mediums manipulate and profit from the bereaved.”
- Kpatinga: Another ‘Witch’ Village in Ghana–“The major challenge to anyone visiting the ‘witch’ camp is access.”
- Iran Is Changing Some of Its Policies for the Worse–“Last year, the regime officially changed course. The Supreme Leader apologized for the family planning program and said that he was wrong.”
The Wider Web
- I Am Not a “None”–“All in all, it was a pretty service put together by good people (some of whom I know well, all of whom I respect) whose values and beliefs I probably, in great measure, share. But it wasn’t me.”
- Introducing ‘Sexism Ed’–“The students assured me that no, all of their professors weren’t white men; that’s just what they tended to imagine all professors looking like.”
- Useful links and resources from the #SkepTech 2 security panel–“Today in Minneapolis I was on a panel with Neil Wehneman of Secular Student Alliance and Jason Thibeault of Freethought Blogs.”
- NSFW Balloon Animals–“For reasons too complex and bizarre to explain in full, I found myself needing to learn the craft of ballooning such that I could create sculptures of genitalia to support a lecture series at a museum.”
- Glenn Beck Sued for Defamation Over His ‘212 3B’ Boston Marathon Bombing Conspiracy Theory–“Beck infamously gave the US government three days to come clean about the cover-up before he exposed it on his network.”
- Special Needs in Strange Worlds: Elizabeth Bear on Writing Disabilities–“I have written more than my share of characters with post-traumatic stress disorder. That last, frankly, is because I don’t know how to write people who don’t have PTSD.”
- Women in Secularism: Interview with Susan Jacoby–“If you could eradicate one misconception about that history from the minds of all Americans, which would it be?”
- Senate passes criminal charges for pregnant drug use–“After a legislative defeat a year ago, the proposal passed the state Senate without debate on Monday and remains under consideration in the House.”
- Fuck “Passion”–“It’s probably because when ‘passion’ is brought up*, it implies some extra song and dance that graduate students and postdocs are supposed to do.”
- Sworn in Steel (Excerpt)–“It’s been three months since Drothe killed a legend, burned down a portion of the imperial capital, and found himself unexpectedly elevated into the ranks of the criminal elite.”