Friday Linkdump is feeling much better, really

I had so many good blogging intentions this week, and then promptly got nailed by the Space Virus. Oof.

Still, I'm making progress digging myself out of this hole. My write up of "The Daleks" will go up over at Not Broadcast Safe either tonight or tomorrow, and I've got some other stuff in the works. This makes me happy. Not as happy as I'd be if I'd done everything I'd intended to this week, but...

And now, linkery-pokery:

- More than Half of Mississippi GOP Primary Voters Believe the President is Muslim. I think it's telling that something like this, which was more than debunked back in 2008, is still going around, and is more prevalent among Evangelicals.

- Go Away, I’m Reading. As if I needed a reason to reaffirm my long-term relationship with various office supply stores, somebody has designed book covers that say exactly what I'm thinking when somebody invades my reading time. <3

- So. Invisible Children. It's a thing. But wow, there are problems with 'Stop Kony'. According to some folks, very big problems. Also, let's not forget that this is Uganda, where the government -- aided and abetted by white American Evangelicals -- keeps trying to give LGBTQ people the death penalty. So. Still, problematic though the thing itself is, how amazing is it that this is actually a conversation?

- The Reproduction of Privilege. As someone with a lot of love for higher ed, and strong feelings about the benefits that access to college has had for me as a person, this whole article depresses me beyond words.

- Sherlock: the Case of the Invisible Women. This and Cat Valente's post about the focused erasure of women from stories in modern literature have me thinking really seriously about some of the long fiction I'm working on, and how not to fall into this trap, even if I happen to be writing a male protagonist.

- Church Puts Legal Pressure on Abuse Victims’ Group. Obviously this isn't all sides of the story, but it looks bad. Catholic friends: I love you, but your leadership genuinely frightens and enrages me.

- One-Way Wantonness. That misogyny is rampant even in the liberal media is a thing is worth talking about because misogyny is wrong. If we take our values seriously, we must also look to our discourse. Still, Limbaugh strikes me as a special case in that, unlike Maher and Olbermann, he pointedly used language in the literal sense in support of an actual political movement to strip women of their rights in terms of access to health care. While bad behavior on the Left is a problem, it's a different problem. So.

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