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
- Keeping Up With the Creationists Vol. I Issue 6: Cross About Cosmos–“Make yourselves comfy: it’s going to be an awesome journey into the worlds of those who are really very upset that broadcast television had the audacity to feature real, unabashed science.”
- I Support the SSA, MRFF and MAAF. So Can You, So Easy to Do!–“I give small amounts like this to a large number of organizations, because every little bit helps.”
- You too can be a creep with this handy device–“What weirdos, amirite? Sheesh! All you want to do is take advantage of their current state, record it and do gods-know-what with your image of this stranger.”
- FL Purge Declared Illegal. Again.–“Purging the voter rolls is necessary and required, but it’s absolutely vital that it be done in a legal and timely manner.”
- In (Moderate) Praise of Not Being Yourself–“If I was going to do the thing that was most deeply in my nature — writing — and devote myself to it full-time, I had to be willing to do something that was entirely antithetical to that nature. And I had to get good at it. Or at least competent.”
- To The People Who Love to Opinionate on Not Medicating a Mental Illness–“Because I’d still have a mother if she’d listened to her first and best psychiatrists, rather than the assholes who told her she could and should do without the drugs.”
- Camp Quest Texas needs YOU–“Camp Quest Texas really appreciates all the generous donations they’ve received over the years, and those are still welcome. However, what they need from supporters more than anything is their time.”
The Wider Web
- How the actions of the Ted Hughes estate will change my biography–“The publication of the letters and the sale of the second archive by the poet’s widow Carol suggested that she might be relaxing the position made clear by Hughes’s publisher, Faber, soon after his death: that there would never be an ‘authorised biography’ of this most controversial poet.”
- No, Rats Are Not Exonerated From The Black Death–“The Guardian article and those that followed are not talking about new peer-reviewed science. Instead, the stories sprung from a press conference for the documentary Secret History: Return of the Black Death, which will air on Channel 4 in the UK this Sunday.”
- New SF Signal blog post – “LGBT SFF in the 1980s”–“The latest in my series on LGBT Science Fiction and Fantasy continues, this time with the 1980s when things really start to pick up steam, as it twere”
- Common Ground–“Mr. Pro-Life speaker, you want to have a conversation on limiting abortion access and ultimately ending abortion. I do not. We have no common ground.”
- Spring 2014 viewpoints analysis–“With reproductive rights and challenges to the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate now dominating the church-state sphere in media and government, we were curious how registrants’ viewpoints might have shifted during this period.”
- Atheists can’t preside over weddings in MN, but two lawmakers hope to change that–“The statute currently requires ‘ministers of any denomination’ to file a copy of their credentials or authority from their spiritual group with the local county clerk.”
- Washington State Case Study: A Difficult Miscarriage Made Worse by Hospital’s Religious Restrictions on Care–“The transfusion raised her iron levels, but she still wound up in the hospital 12 hours later, as the bleeding continued. She knew she needed a D&C. Unfortunately for her, things did not move quickly in the emergency room.”
- After Pando shows clear evidence of fraud, Indiegogo responds by… deleting anti-fraud guarantee–“If you answered ‘suspend the fraudulent campaign,’ you’re right. If you answered ‘quietly delete the no fraud guarantee from our website,’ you’re Indiegogo.”
- Teaching Consent to Small Children–“Honey, can you listen to me for a moment? I’m glad you’ve found a new friend, but you need to make sure to look at her face to see if she likes it when you hug her.”