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Cognitive Distortions - A Primer with Asian American Stereotypes | Hyphen magazine - Asian American arts, culture, and politics

• asian
• asianamerican
• psychology
• stereotypes
• toread

Main Page - TheKolWiki

• kingdomofloathing
• kol
• wiki

Likewise, more Kingdom of Loathing.

Kingdom of Loathing Spoilers

• kingdomofloathing
• kol
• quests

I may have become ridiculously addicted to Kingdom of Loathing over the last few weeks.

How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) - Austin Kleon

• advice
• creativity
• design
• inspiration
• writing

Your job is to collect ideas. The best way to collect ideas is to read. Read, read, read, read, read. Read the newspaper. Read the weather. Read the signs on the road. Read the faces of strangers. The more you read, the more you can choose to be influenced by.

Welcome to the McJobs Recovery | Mother Jones

• economy
• jobs

A pull quote for the ages: "On April 19th, McDonald's launched its first-ever national hiring day, signing up 62,000 new workers at stores throughout the country. For some context, that's more jobs created by one company in a single day than the net job creation of the entire US economy in 2009. And if that boggles the mind, consider how many workers applied to local McDonald's franchises that day and left empty-handed: 938,000 of them. With a 6.2% acceptance rate in its spring hiring blitz, McDonald's was more selective than the Princeton, Stanford, or Yale University admission offices."

R.A. Dickey's Well-Named Arsenal - NYTimes.com

• baseball
• geekery

One bat is called Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver and the other is Hrunting. Dickey, an avid reader, said that Orcrist came from “The Hobbit.” [It is the sword used by the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield.] Hrunting — the H is silent, Dickey said — came from the epic poem “Beowulf”; it is the sword Beowulf uses to slay Grendel’s mother.

Feminism FOR REAL | Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• books
• feminism
• gender
• queer
• race

When feminism itself becomes its own form of oppression, what do we have to say about it? Western notions of polite discourse are not the norm for all of us, and just because we’ve got some new and hot language lately in equity-seeking movements like feminism — such as “intersectionality” — to use in our talk, it doesn’t necessarily make things change in our walk (i.e. actually being anti-racist). Against a backdrop exposing a 500+ year legacy of colonization and oppression, Feminism FOR REAL explores what has led us to the existence of “feminism”, who gets to decide what it is, and why. With stories that make the walls of academia come tumbling down, it deals head-on with the conflicts of what feminism means in theory as opposed to real life, the frustrations of trying to relate to definitions of feminism that never fit no matter how much you try to change yourself to fit them, and the anger of changing a system while being in the system yourself.

Counting Colored Cash « Ars Marginal

• media
• racism
• whitewashing

There are those out there who will swear on a stack of Bibles that there’s been no successful POC franchise or characters of color haven’t played a pivotal role in the success of a franchise. Don’t buy it for a moment. There has been precedent: The Cosby Show, A Different World, In Living Color, Ugly Betty, Vanishing Son, Rush Hour, Blade, The Wire, Batgirl: The Cassandra Cain run, Romeo Must Die, Cradle to the Grave, Lincoln Heights, the Black Panther DVD, Proud Family, That’s So Raven, Spy Kids, The Famous Jett Jackson, New York Undercover, Living Single, Martin, Spawn, Soul Food, The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Static Shock, the LXD, just to name a few. How soon we forget that the Cosby Show and A Different World was Must-See TV Thursday long before Friends or Seinfeld.

Massachusetts Grown...and Fresher!

• farmersmarkets
• locavores
• markets
• massachusetts
• meat
• produce

Farmers' markets in Massachusetts. Countdown to May 18!

Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns ... - Google Books

• biscuits
• desserts
• recipes

Forget where I saw this recced, but it sounds like a good base.

Sophia’s Greek yogurt - Belmont, MA - Belmont Citizen-Herald

• greekyogurt
• recipes
• yogurt

Recipe for the hands-down best yogurt I've ever had in my entire life. No exaggeration whatsoever.

Greek Yogurt - Cooks Illustrated

• greekyogurt
• recs
• yogurt

Protein content is key to the texture. Olympus gets highest ratings for nonfat; Fage sounds best for 2% (Olympus too sour, others too runny); Olympus or Fage for full-fat (which is 4%, IIRC). But better than all these, IMO? Sophia's, which can only be had local-to-me (and is made of goat and sheep's milk).

ribboned asparagus salad with lemon | smitten kitchen

• asparagus
• lemon
• parmesan
• recipes

Johann Hari: Donald Trump's lunacy reveals core truth about the Republicans - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent

• politics
• republicans
• taxes
• trump

Yet for the Republican Party, the accumulation of money is proof in itself of virtue, however it was acquired. The richest 1 per cent pay for the party's campaigns, and the party in turn serves their interests entirely. The most glaring example is that they have simply exempted many of the rich from taxes. Johnston studied four of Trump's recent tax returns, and found he legally paid no taxes in two of them. In America today, a janitor can pay more income tax than Donald Trump – and the Republicans regard that not as a source of shame, but of pride.

Google can't be trusted with our books | Simon Barron | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

• archives
• corporations
• culture
• google
• preservation

"Google announced last week that it would be deleting the content of the Google Videos archive. After a public outcry, it said it would work on saving all the video content and making it available elsewhere. In this instance, the public managed to change Google's mind and stopped the mass deletion of a unique digital archive but the situation raises concerns about data under Google's control, including the unique archive of Google Books. ... on the basis of refocusing its business priorities, its first impulse was to delete the gigabytes of content given to it by users. This situation has disturbing implications for Google Videos' sister project, Google Books, and the approximately 15 million scanned documents in the archive. In partnership with some of the greatest research libraries in the world – the Bodleian Library in Oxford, Harvard University Library, the New York Public Library – Google Books has built up a huge digital library containing thousands of unique documents." And this happens, not just in Google, but elsewhere.

Sparkly Kotex Pads for Tweens » Sociological Images

• adolescents
• marketing
• menstruation
• puberty
• teenagers
• tweenagers

The age of menarche is going down, no question. Kotex is addressing this by making smaller pads with decoration meant to appeal to younger users. I would have much preferred these to what I did have access to!

How to Predict the Weather Without a Forecast - wikiHow

• clouds
• meteorology
• predictions
• weather

"Circle around the moon, rain or snow soon." "Mares' tails and mackerel scales, tall ships carry short sails." "Red sky at morning, sailors take warning; red sky at night, sailors delight."

The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science | Mother Jones

• evolution
• psychology
• religion
• science
• toread

To read.

Red Cross Study Finds 60 Percent of Young People Support Torture - The Daily Beast

• ethics
• torture

In a time of war, is it ever OK to torture an enemy? For decades, the answer was an automatic no. The often-cruel conditions endured by prisoners of war during World War Two spurred the Geneva Conventions, which stipulated an agreed-upon set of standards for handling war victims. By the late 1960s, when any young man could have been drafted to go to Vietnam, the humane treatment of soldiers was at the forefront of many Americans’ concerns. A new study by the American Red Cross obtained exclusively by The Daily Beast found that a surprising majority—almost 60 percent—of American teenagers thought things like water-boarding or sleep deprivation are sometimes acceptable. More than half also approved of killing captured enemies in cases where the enemy had killed Americans. When asked about the reverse, 41 percent thought it was permissible for American troops to be tortured overseas. In all cases, young people showed themselves to be significantly more in favor of torture than older adults.