Don't Forget: VOTE TODAY!! (all election-related linketies)

Ohio Vote 2011 - Find Your Polling Place -- Site provided by AFL-CIO No on 2 campaign. There is also an Election Protection phone support line: voter information hotline at 1-866-687-8683 (866-OUR-VOTE)

The polls are open from 6:30am to 7:30pm. If you are in line by 7:30pm, you MUST be allowed to vote. If you encounter any problems at your polling place or need voting information, please contact the voter information hotline at 1-866-687-8683 (866-OUR-VOTE).

Judge4Yourself (Judge listings and information -- Northern Ohio)

Project VoteSmart list of Ballot Measures (National)

Redistricting, a Devil’s Dictionary

4 Reasons Why Ohio Isn't Wisconsin

Occupy the Polls: Tuesday's Critical Tests of Political Power (run-down of important issues in various states today)
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Linketies (everything else)

Occupy Wall Street Protesters Occupy Harlem Boiler Room, Get Tenants Heat And Hot Water

OccupySupply Raises $83,583.58; Supplies On Their Way to 40 Occupations

Practicing generosity at the Oakland General Strike

Bishop Gene Robinson: It Is Actually Wall Street That Has Become Anti-Capitalist

"If we don't take a stand, who will?" Diona Murray, a neighbor of Tawanna Rorey, who, with her law enforcement officer husband and their children, was scheduled to be evicted from their foreclosed-upon suburban Atlanta home by the sheriff's department, until Occupy Atlanta showed up to protest.
More: Occupy Atlanta Encamps In Neighborhood To Save Police Officer’s Home From Foreclosure

Bloods and Crips Find Common Cause in Occupy Atlanta
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Yet More Linketies

Issue 2 defeated: A million votes are in and 63 percent say "No" -- AP calls the race -- WHOOOOOO-HOOOOO!!!!!

Latest Cuyahoga County election results - 9:35 p.m.

2011 Election Day Roundup

A Guide to Protesting for the 99 Percent

Two Pakistani Muslims in Brooklyn are now running the oldest bialy store in the city, and keeping it kosher.

Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People's Movement Gains Steam with Upcoming Conference

13 Peaceful Protests and Whether They Worked

November is Transgender Awareness Month

Occupy Everywhere & Economic News Round-Up

Linketies, continued...

Trying to find what obscure little command is causing LJ to crap out on posting my megalist as usual. While I figure it out, you'll be getting a bunch of little lists instead.

Some tumors are too slow-growing to ever threaten your life. Some are so aggressive that finding them early doesn't make much difference. And today's treatments are much better for those somewhere in the middle.
Those complexities are changing the longtime mantra that cancer screening will save your life. In reality, it depends on the type of cancer, the test and who gets checked when.

Study Says College is Broken Not Teaching Critical Thinking

Colleges with the Best Sex Ed., from Columbia to University of Florida
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And more Linketies

My First Love: Star Trek

Looking back at Joss Whedon's Serenity

The United State's Last "Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb" Is Being Disassembled

Web Shows Trek Past Sci-Fi’s Color Line

Girl, 9, Facing Four Felonies For Wild School Bus Tantrum, Battering Sheriff's Deputy -- What the hell is wrong with this country? Pressing felony charges on a 9-year-old?

Sunday Late Night: The German Bishops’ Porn Publisher

Study Suggests That Antigay Discrimination Hurts Property Values

Jamie Clayton is an actor appearing in the popular HBO drama series "Hung." The show is about a male prostitute, and Clayton, who is openly trans, plays the role of a transsexual woman in the show seeking the main character's services. There are so many ways for this to go wrong, as I nervously opined over the summer when I first heard about Ms. Clayton's upcoming role.
But in her recent interview with The Insider about her role (h/t TransGriot), she shows that she is not only a pretty face, but understands how to position herself as an actor who happens to be trans to a wider community that often sees us in stereotypes.

Two Penn State university officials who are accused of misleading a grand jury in its investigation into child sexual abuse allegations against former coach Jerry Sandusky have stepped down, the university said early Monday morning.

6 Most Badass Self-Inflicted Medical Experiments

Why more parents are rejecting vaccinations: 4 theories

The incidence of cervical cancer in women in their 20s has risen by over 40 per cent between 1992 and 2006 in England, despite the overall incidence of cervical cancer dropping by 30 per cent, according to research* that will be presented at the annual National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference in Liverpool which starts tomorrow (Sunday).

Still goin' (Linketies)

Life's Journey: 5 Tiny Organisms Hitch a Ride on Mission to a Martian Moon [Slide Show]
The Russian sample-return spacecraft will carry a zoo of microbes to Phobos and back to test whether life can survive the interplanetary journey

NARAL Pro-Choice NC releases undercover investigation of CPCs
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And more linketies

Life Under Occupation (Occupy Austin Flash Mob)

The BBC is running an interview with Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, and it's very good. Bell-Burnell is the woman who discovered pulsars, and until I heard this interview, I hadn't realized how it was done. (goes into a lot about being a female scientist and the sexism she encountered)

Omikuji Project On the Bubble (Mars Needs Subscribers)

Sex, Society, and Spatial Ability
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The last of tonight's Linketies, I think.

Bill Gates Changes The World Again
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has gone through 25 billion dollars to not only get vaccines to children who need them, but to change the way that vaccines are developed, manufactured, and distributed globally.

Unintentionally funny moments in horror cinema

Video: ‘There Is Diversity At Occupy Wall Street’

Transforming Harm & Building Safety: Confronting Sexual Violence At Occupy Wall Street & Beyond
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