42 Magazine, Celebrating Life with Meaning

This link-collection thing is more time-consuming than it looks. I'm going to switch to only doing these on Mondays, and consolidate them in one post.

Justice:

Say it with me: Rape is committed by rapists

California Governor Schwarzenegger proposes doing away with textbooks (sort of)

Imagine a world where the Federal Government seeks its citizens' input

The crazy, it burns!

Welcome to the world, Chaz!

Why I'm ever suprised when FoxNews does something loathsome, I'll never know


Simplicity:

You can call, but I probably won't hear you, from autographedcat

Outrageously Ridiculously Easy oven-roasted corn on the cob from Susan V. at the Fatfree Vegan Kitchen


Economy:

Top 50 frugality blogs



Joy:

Steampunk raygun!

Geekiest pants ever? (thanks, mactavish!)



Ecology:

Invent Your World winners


Reason:

$2.5 billion spent, no alternative cures found (Thanks, mactavish!)

Swedish humanists and the "God probably doesn't exist" campaign (again with the mactavishy thanks)

[posted to serene and 42magazine]

There's some really wonderful stuff being posted now (and recently) about the stigmatizing language based on disability and gender that people (English-speaking people, that is, unless I've missed some discussion of other languages) often use in everyday speech.

(This is nowhere NEAR an exhaustive list. It's just the tabs I have open right now; I closed a few before I thought to make this post.)

bcholmes talks about how she felt when vito_excalibur used the word "tranny" in a panel, and Vito responds (note that there are lots more comments at their LJs, same handles)

sasha_feather talks about the Rethinking Disability Metaphors panel at Wiscon; so does sophy.

vito_excalibur talks some more (again, even more conversation at the LJ equivalent of the post) about ablist language and lots of people make smart points

My friends and friends-of-friends are such smart, thoughtful, loving, awesome people! I love it.