Sunday Reading

by zunguzungu

• The First Black Disney Princess Loves Watermelon
• Gay marriage and birth control: Why not? and The questionability of the traditional family
• Margaret Atwood in the Twittersphere
• The Scourge of Overemployment
• The Journey of Everywoman
• The 1% Had a Fantastic 2010
• Exotic Dancers in 1890 and the Plump Body Ideal » Sociological Images
• Weaponizing the Body Politic
• Professional Boredom
• The unpalatable Manto, More on the unpalatable Manto, Naya Qanoon censored, and History and the textbook board
• Ludic Despair: HBO in Dixie
• Mining the Grid in San Francisco
• Johnny Depp as Cultural Appropriation Jack Sparrow…I mean Tonto.
• Raising Taxes on Rich does not Slow Jobs Growth (video)
• Fight Birth Control Battle Over the Counter
• GROUPTHINK: The brainstorming myth.
• People Who Think Carl Weathers Is Joseph Kony
• Jadaliyya Roundtable on Targeted Killing
• The politics of bread in Egypt
• Doug Henwood with Vijay Prashad and Sean Jacobs.
• Graeber Cycles and the Wicksellian Judgment Day
• Taschen’s “100 Contemporary Houses” Shows World’s Most Experimental Homes
• Berkeley Police Chief sends sergeant to reporter’s home to “request” story changes- at 12:45 AM.
• White House Helped Fund NYPD Muslim Surveillance
• “We’re More Unequal Than You Think“
• Dennis Kucinich and Wackiness
• Lavatory and Liberty: The Secret History of the Bathroom Break
• When They Say “It’s Not About Birth Control,” You Know… It’s About Birth Control
• The Curious History of Dutch Wax Prints
• Paula Broadwell, the daily show, and the active forgetting of domicide

Some #StopKony stuff:

• African Voices Respond to Kony Hype
• #Kony2012 and Understanding Networked Symbolic Action (hint: “Slacktivism” is Conceptually Misleading)
• “Can I Tell You The Bad Guy’s Name?”: A Virtual Read-In and Comment On #Kony2012 and Badvocacy
• Kony 2012 and The Choir of Saviors: You got a song you wanna sing for me?

Waggish reads Lucan:

• Lucan’s Civil War: Introduction,
• Lucan’s Civil War: About That Dedication to Nero,
• Lucan’s Civil War: Fortune, Fate, and Caesar, and
• Lucan’s Civil War: Dissolution of the Body at Massilia
• Killing Kenyans: One Strike at a Time
• How Many More Dead Patients?
• Fukushima’s Nuclear Disaster Foretold In 1976
• How anything can get past the TSA’s nude scanners
• Unpacking Kony 2012
• The cost of America’s police state
• Go to Trial: Crash the Justice System
• Occupied Studies
• No Saudi Spring
• OPD’s “Less than Lethal” Lessons from Military Forces
• Threshold of the Bolivarian revolution
• The Curious History of “Tribal” Prints: How the Dutch peddle Indonesian-inspired designs to West Africa.
• Terrifying Robot Update
• Living with Linsanity
• Abolish the Unpaid Internship
• Knights in Shining Armour: Men who Rescue Sex Workers and Slaves
• Great Dads
• People Who Eat People
• In Defense of the Tramps
• Not Kidding: Rush Limbaugh Supports Joseph Kony
• Wes Anderson sells cars
• A Majority of Americans Opposed Funding Moon Trips—During Apollo
• Pinterest and the acquisitive gaze
• City Releases Costs to Suppress Occupy Oakland
• “A dozen earthquakes in northeastern Ohio were almost certainly induced by injection of gas-drilling wastewater into the earth,” Ohio oil and gas regulators said today.
• Larry Summers Is Wrong About Languages
• The NYPD Tapes Confirmed
• Kitchen Wisdom