Creaking Soapboxes

It’s Carnival of Feminists time again! Go check it out, lots of really good stuff. (And thanks for all the work, RMJ.) I would specifically recommend the excellent Fatshionista post taking down colonialism.

This documentary on how editors of respectable news outlets (and not so respectable) fall for hoaxes looks quite interesting. I hope it makes it to the States.

A small brewer in Vermont is going up against the man, and he could use your help.

Who likes pasta? I like pasta!

Even government employees agree that offshore drilling and oil exploration in California are a bad idea.

So, uhm, who decided that it would be a good idea to start busting out blackface left and right in 2009?

Nate Silver, who is ordinarily a pretty sharp guy, has apparently abandoned science in the face of ZOMGFATTIES. Really disappointing, because Silver is usually pretty on it when it comes to, you know, actually being rigorous.