Link Me Up,Scotty - Badass Women Edition

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

For the first time ever, Dartmouth graduates more women than men from their engineering program. This news brings a smile to my face and a song to my heart.
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A woman wins the Longsword Competition at the World Invitationals. Samantha Swords has mad skillz.
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Nate Silver, whose prognostication in elections is nearing legendary status, has his national predictions on-line. He'll be updating regularly, so it'll be interesting to see how how his predictions change between now and November.
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The Trumpsicle is being sued in federal court by a Jane Doe accusing him of raping her when she was thirteen. I don't know if this is true or not, but I will say the accusation appears credible rather than otherwise. We'll see how it shakes out, not that true believers will change their mind about the Trumpsicle even if he freely admitted to the crime.
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Two trans women are running for Congress, including one right here in Colorado. I don't know if they'll win, but they're making history.
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The Bloggess provides Facebook categorization we can actually use. For my personal fave I'm torn between "Contains blatantly wrong information that I should have googled first" and "I AM OUTRAGED ABOUT SOMETHING EVERYONE ELSE IS OUTRAGED ABOUT TOO BUT I FOUND A WAY TO MAKE IT ALL ABOUT ME EVEN THOUGH IT’S NOT AT ALL."
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The FEC is investigating the Trumpsicle's campaign for sending fundraising e:mails to foreign elected officials. Proving once again that obeying the law is for "losers."
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A Muslim gets to the damn point when it comes to Isis and the goals of these psychopaths. Seriously - demographically, a Muslim is far more likely to be killed by another Muslim terrorist than they are by followers of other religious faiths, just as Americans are far more likely to be killed by a Christian terrorist than by a Muslim one. The common denominator here is the crazy, not the faith. Alternatively, it may be helpful to look at the emergence of Isis as Islam being at war with itself. The money quote:
If a self-proclaimed Catholic group bombed the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Basilica and constantly killed scores of innocent Catholics, then we would deem such an entity, in various degrees, as an anti-Catholic terrorist group.

Likewise, ISIS is not a radical Islamist movement as much as it is an active anti-Muslim, terror movement.
Facts. Let's all be intellectually honest and allow them to crowd out our bigotry, shall we?
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The Library Cat of the White Settlement, Texas public library is no longer banished from the stacks. I'm not a huge fan of cats, but seriously - pets improve our lives. Remove that stick from your ass and join the human race.
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How castration and opera changed the skeleton of a 19th century castrato. Form follows function, y'all, for good or for ill.

H/T Steve
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The military and other federal employees finally get a raise, in spite of Republican obstructionism. yeah, SURE you support our military, you hypocritical fucksticks.
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A fascinating look at globalization through maps. In some ways, the world is getting smaller. In others, larger.

H/T BrainDoc
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From the Mighty Girl files: Space Pioneer Susan G. Finley is tracking Juno for NASA after working for NASA since its inception.
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Video of my Heart: John Cena talks about love, and what it really means to be an American.


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