Lizzy Hill at The Coast: Conservative cuts affect local health providers Saskatchewan’s Conservative candidate Brad Trost said last week that he felt “proud” of denying funding to the International Planned Parenthood Federation, an organization promoting safe access to abortion worldwide. Samantha Power at Vue: Let’s make a deal “Harper wants to suggest that there’s something …
Tag Archives: I link to myself sometimes
Sunny Rowboats
Jonathan Curiel at SF Weekly: Muslim Photographer Surveils His Own Life in a Post-9/11 World For the last seven years, he has taken photos of nearly everything he’s encountered (including stagnant urinal water) and created an art project that lets others view his life — toilet by toilet, transaction by transaction. Lauren Rosenfeld at San …
Patient Dictionaries
Judith Scherr at East Bay Express: Berkeley Free Clinic Faces Tough Times The venerable institution, which provides health care for the poor, the underinsured, and the undocumented, recently saw a substantial portion of its funding slashed. Matt Smith at SF Weekly: Erosion at Ocean Beach could send sewage into the sea But no local facility …
Impatient Pianofortes
More places to find me! I’ve just started a weekly television column at Global Comment. You can read the first, discussing the new Shonda Rhimes show Off the Map, right this very minute! Future columns will be going up on Thursdays and sometimes Fridays, depending on what show I am frothing about that particular week. …
Strategic Ferns
Fantastic news for those of you who love my dulcet tones and my Glee ranting! They’re happening in the same place, at the same time, this Wednesday on WBAI at 9:00 PM Eastern. A fantastic panel of disability rights advocates and disabled performers talking about Glee and the problems with depictions of disability in pop …
Multihued Yoghurt
Scott Carrier at Salt Lake City Weekly: The One Mighty and Strong (Content note: Contains discussions of kidnapping and rape) Then, on June 5, 2002, they abducted their first virgin, Elizabeth Smart, and took her, on foot, up into the hills above her home in Federal Heights, where they had a camp in some scrub …
Contentious Xylophones
Hank Sims at The Journal: The Vote in the Hills Time moves more slowly up in the hills around northern and eastern Humboldt County, and political campaigns run more quietly. s.e. smith at The Sydney Morning Herald: Body blows to self-esteem The discussion about body image is dominated by two ideas; first, that all people …
Trilling Crullers
Matt Smith at SF Weekly: The city needs to call 911 on emergency dispatchers “Jane Doe” is the pseudonym of a 911 dispatch employee who claims she was punished for acting as a whistle-blower, purportedly seeking to expose alleged time-card fraud, workplace bullying, cyber-snooping, goldbricking, and other misconduct where timely emergency response might have been …
Pioneering Oranges
I’ve joined a new blogging project! Socialism and… is a collection of excellent folks writing about economic justice, class issues, and related matters. The rest of them are all much smarter than me, so there’s lots of good reading! Joe Eskenazi at SF Weekly: Democratic Candidate Portrays San Francisco as Haven of Dirty Hippies It’s …
Special Edition Link Roundup: Mental Illness, Speculation, Social Attitudes, and the Giffords Shooting
As I think most of us are aware at this point, a tragic incident occurred in Arizona this weekend; a shooter opened fire on a crowd of people attending a ‘Congress on Your Corner’ event in Tucson hosted by Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Six people were killed, numerous people were injured, and the Congresswoman was gravely …