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* Melissa Harris-Perry addresses the double standard in a law designed to starve children, shame single parents, and create a permanent underclass in Tennessee:

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* "Thousands of Medicare cancer patients lose chemo because of sequester:" http://americablog.com/2013/04/medicare-cancer-patients-sequester.html

* You know how I keep saying that white supremacist terrorists are by far a bigger threat in the US than the other types? The Republicans are pitching a fit over a report that points out that is quantitatively true: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/08/07/645421/right-wing-extremism/

* Honoring Jackie Robinson:

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* Melissa Harris-Perry Addresses some fucked up things going on in the NCAA lately:

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* The AP style book has just changed their guide to talking about immigrants. They have banned calling human beings "Illegal" or "Illegals." People may be "undocumented." Activities can be illegal, but not people. This may seem like a small thing, but it removes a pejorative used to harm people from a major news source. It may seem like a small thing, but it's progress.

* "Kelly Young Killed In Baltimore:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/04/kelly-young-killed-in-baltimore.html

* "Instigator Of CeCe McDonald Case Sentenced:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/04/instigator-of-cece-mcdonald-case.html

That's right. She got 180 days for what is clearly a hate crime and felony assault. the woman she attacked got 41 months in jail for the crime of self defense.

* This Esquire piece from 2010 had me in tears towards the end, "Roger Ebert: The Essential Man:" http://www.esquire.com/features/roger-ebert-0310

* My table top is official for 782 CE. This will somewhat overlap the old campaign, but I don't think it'll be a problem, given what the players were up to the last couple years it ran.

* I have a huge stack of stuff to read, both for my game and from the reader suggestions y'all made. I'm reading the ILL's first, even though they arrived later, as ILL is often nonrenewable. The reader suggestions were for books with same sex romantic leads that are both alive at the end of the book. The first one I finished was The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin, a swashbuckling Sapphic Pirate romance. This is not a profound book, nor is it intend to be. Instead it's a straightforward adventure/romance novel with strong female leads. You get pirate battles, you get the rescuing of damsels, you get seduction, you get sex scenes, you get a pretty satisfying character arc for the view point character. I think this would be terribly fun beach reading. There is a place in the world for well written fluff with likeable characters and as that was what I was expecting, I wasn't disappointed. The only real problem is the way the black characters are portrayed and that the only named black character is a villain. It's something that bothered me all the way through.

* Big Wired interviews Dennis Upkins at Norwestcon! He's got two novellas coming out: http://big-wired.livejournal.com/321740.html

* This gets at a particular sort of assholery going on in complaints about this years Hugo nominations: http://corabuhlert.com/2013/04/04/hugo-nomination-reactions-or-why-the-fuck-is-this-controversial/#more-6413

* "All Our Heroes Are Bastards:" http://jaylake.livejournal.com/3131870.html

* "The 25 Best Photobombs of All Time in the Universe Ever:" http://www.funnyist.com/the-25-best-photobombs-of-all-time-in-the-universe-ever/

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