Looks like I'm here 'til dawn... (more linketies)

[moominmuppet]

So it turns out that one of the third shift folks is on PTO, and the other... Well, she just didn't show up, and the phone number they have for her is disconnected. Fun. Luckily, I'm actually feeling better than I have in days, so staying over shouldn't wreck me too badly. Also, since my weekend begins on Wednesday, this just means it'll start tomorrow morning instead of tomorrow night. Not all bad, and plenty of recuperation time. And she did get here, and had a good excuse. I'm still staying through this shift rather than spending 2 hours bussing it home at 3am just to come back for a few hours in the afternoon, though (I sent my coworker/carpool home a bit after midnight).

At Your Cervix [Video TRAILER] -- I'm really excited about this; I've been watching the development of the project for a long time now. The description on the Care2 site is more than a bit misleading, though. Women have been working as pelvic models/GTAs/patient-instructors for more than 30 years, at least (our own program is almost that old, and I've been teaching for 10 myself). The practice has broadened, and correspondingly, examples of nonconsensual exams on anesthetized patients have declined, but the latter problem is not entirely in the past yet, and the GTAs are certainly not a new idea in the least.

LGBT kids in foster care universally bullied, most foster families won't take LGBT kids

The Assassination of Dr. Tiller

Voters Turn On Anti-Choice Extremism

High Winds, Power Outages Aim for Nearly a Dozen States -- Well, this may be an interesting week around here.

Online TV spats mean fewer free shows on Web

Patton Oswalt: So this is my version of an, “It Gets Better” video. Only I’m not addressing it to the bullied. And I’m not addressing it to the bullies, either. I’m addressing it to the bully’s little friends.

Fatties Have Sex; In Which I Fumble Around Trying To Initiate Frank Conversation. Oh, The Irony.

Massive Elizabeth Moon/Wiscon link roundup

Woman Stomped by Rand Paul Supporter (+ VIDEO)

Afghan president confirms large cash payments by Iranian officials

Kinksters: Our sexy allies -- I agree with the first comment -- that this is oversimplifying -- but I also think there's a decent amount of truth to the overall idea, and have generally found kink environments much more likely to be truly welcoming of queer folk than most mainstream environments.

Campaign Cash: How Citizens United Will Change Elections Forever

More possible LJ ethics violations

Rachael Leigh Cook 'Up In Arms' Over Photo Editing

Oops! Ginni Thomas Voicemail Opens Can of Worms: Fetishes, Tea Party Ties and More

Automated Polls Show Consistent Support For California’s Prop. 19

Media Does Hit Job on WikiLeaks Founder After Iraq War Leak

Another Black gay man cut down

Alabama Oyster Restoration Project Resumes After Oil Spill

Help support RM's production, Dogboy and Justine

Omar Khadr pleads guilty to war crimes

Immigrant Vets Face Deportation

Pili puppet show studio destroyed in blaze

Tea Party Candidate on Salmonella: "It's Our Job To Protect Ourselves"

Before You Vote, Everything You Know Is Wrong

Polling Places Removed From Native Reservation

Rove Answers Critics with Debunked Arguments on Face The Nation

More human rights abuses in China

Man charged with threatening to kill Bush, Cheney

The Rumble on Sesame Street

Employers looking at health insurance options

Taste receptors in our lungs sense bitterness and respond with opened airways -- Holy crap, that's amazingly cool! (and has a lot of potential for medical treatments)

The Distorted Rules Of “Manhood”

Tale of gay woman forced to marry to protect 'honour'

Early Voting Information Center

CountMeOut was caught out this week amid uncertainty about whether Catholics can still defect from their church, writes KITTY HOLLAND

Wooden Ferrari engine -- Really, it's just beautiful.

Robotic hand attains sensitivity and strength with coffee grounds and balloons -- Ooh, that's smart!

France: 25,000 families a day at risk of losing Internet access

So much for political discourse...

Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language from Matthew Rogers on Vimeo.

Comments

[jajy1979.livejournal.com]

The tea partiers, particularly the mama grizzlies, are white washed (pun intended) to make them palatable to the masses, but they're not very good at hiding their nutty views. The result has been a lot of GOP maneuvering to cover up or down play their behavior and comments. You saw this a lot of with Angle.

I suspect that, in the end, LJ's continued decline (and that's massive, massive ethics problems) will result in the failure of the site. One of these days I'll have to look into porting all of my entries over to either a PDF or alternate journal site. I will say, however, that once posted, things are never really "gone", and an a good forensic person can and will recover it.

Tea Party Candidate = Idiot. Enough said.

Knew that stuff politically, and it's one of many variations I've seen like that going around the net the last couple days. Too bad voters are so bought into ideas. You should ask mom about her friend who really "wants to believe" in the tea party crap.

I think that discussion of the Rules of Manhood missed a whole lot, and spends too much time dealing with one facet of the problem rather than the entire problem as created by a multi-level, almost caste system, that exists in the American Male subculture.