Friday Links (23-Nov-12)

Friday Links (23-Nov-12)

Zinnia Jones on talking about Hormone Replacement Therapy in a world that’s both sexist and clueless about what people go through. How the Catholic League (headed by world-class asshole Bill Donohue) is essentially a large-scale, highly-driven organisation whose aim...
Friday Links (16-Nov-12)

Friday Links (16-Nov-12)

Leslie Chang on The voices of Chinese workers. In short, by making all discussion about Chinese factories about our conception of the horrible working conditions without actually speaking to Chinese workers and listening to them, we condescend, miss the point and make...
Friday Links (9-Nov-12)

Friday Links (9-Nov-12)

They may belong to a wacko part of the political landscape but when they’re right, they’re right. Reason.TV smacks down Samuel L Jackson’s Wake the Fuck Up video by looking at Obama’s record on military drones, civil liberties and so forth. First there was the...
Friday Links (2-Nov-12)

Friday Links (2-Nov-12)

Sarah Silverman’s awesome video about recent changes to voter ID laws. If you can use your gun license to vote but not a veterans card, why not give people gun licenses to overcome these laws? What happens when Obama supporters are told about some of his policies (the...
Friday Links (26-Oct-12)

Friday Links (26-Oct-12)

I can’t believe I haven’t posted yet about one of the best YouTube channels I know. Crash Course is a weekly animated education series run by the quirky Green brothers. This year it’s biology and world history (with some fascinating takes). Next year, the world. One...
Friday Links (19-Oct-12)

Friday Links (19-Oct-12)

While the US contraception “debate” (and especially Sandra Fluke’s Democratic Convention speech) has provoked a storm of batshit crazy and ludicrously offensive replies, this one might take the cake Amusing look at a man who’s on the conservative public lecture...