Link Me Up, Scotty - The Past as Prologue Edition

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Professional historian David with some additional thoughts on the current political climate. 45 and his Russian-puppet, White Nationalist Administration are such easy targets, finding reprehensible behavior is like shooting fish in a barrel.
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My favorite Christian Pastor takes on the utter hypocrisy of a Christian Disney boycott. Remember back in November when I said this group had entered into the "no room for redemption" category? This is a fine example of what I was talking about. Like so:
The Christians who are weeping and gnashing their teeth right now aren’t winning any converts, they’re doing nothing to damage Disney, and everything to damage the image of the Church in the eyes of the world, as an out-of-touch, hateful, inconsistent horde—who apparently find gay people “icky” but misogyny perfectly Presidential.
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This is the subject of yesterday's missives to my Congressmen. Because who doesn't want to replace something that sorta kinda works with something that's more expensive, with less coverage, that doesn't protect the most vulnerable among us? Aside from the Party of Reprobates, that is.
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The 2017 Sony World Photography Awards
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Meet Friar Bigotón, a stray dog who joined the Franciscan Order in a monastery in Bolivia. This was a great pick-me-up this morning.

H/T Frankie
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For International Women's Day, the world's third largest asset manager placed a statue of a fearless girl on Wall Street to symbolize the problem of most Boards having an abysmal number of women. Mighty girls!
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The Chicago Field Museum's famous T-Rex Skeleton known as "Sue" is now running a D&D game. Because of course she is.
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Video of my Heart: FINALLY, someone who speaks for me, a white cisgender woman, on the subject of bathroom laws.


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Today's sources:
  • 4 Quarters, 2 Dimes: The personal blog of professional historian David. 
  • Stuff That Needs to be Said: The personal blog of Pastor John Pavlovitz.
  • The Washington Post: Mainstream media source with minimal partisan bias and highly factual reporting. 
  • The Atlantic: Skews left but still a reliable source of in-depth news. 
  • The DoDo: Digital media website for animal people.
  • Business Insider: Left-center bias and high degree of factual reporting.
  • Chicagoist: A website about Chicago.

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