Weekend link dump for May 29

How to deal with “Your issue is trivial, you should spend more time on what I find most important” arguments.

Can changing birth certificates change the bathroom access debate?

Maybe get a second opinion before you decide whether or not to have surgery.

“Three and a half billion years ago, a mega asteroid slammed into Earth, triggering massive tsunamis and leaving craters bigger than many U.S. states. […] Now, for the first time, remnants of that impact have been uncovered in ancient sediments in Australia, and they’re revealing more intriguing details about the Earth at that time.

Spider silk is some amazing stuff.

RIP, Nick Menza, former drummer for the rock group Megadeth.

Florence + The Machine are mensches. Have some Kleenex handy, you may need them.

I had no idea horse racing was so deadly.

Oh, Florida. I don’t even know what to say.

“Two decades ago, [Ken] Starr spent millions in taxpayer money to figure out if a consensual blowjob between adults took place.[1] Today he runs an institution that, from what journalists have uncovered, turned a blind eye repeatedly to sexual assault and domestic abuse allegations.”

RIP, Burt Kwouk, actor best known for playing Cato on the Pink Panther movies.

What Jon Ralston says.

Why robocalls are such a problem again.

RIP, Beth Howland, best known as Vera on the sitcom Alice.

“What Trump did was the equivalent of promising five bucks to a veteran’s charity and then trying to weasel out of it. What kind of person would do that?”

RIP, Mell Lazarus, creator of the Miss Peach and Momma comic strips.

“I’d love to trumpet hypocrisy in the recent scandal around the possible ouster of the Baylor University president, but the gravitational pull toward hypocrisy is more than a salacious twist; it’s a distraction from the critical conversation we need to be having on sexual assault and the institutions that cover it up.”

How an indie rock band’s well-intentioned homage became a $50,000 mistake.

Get to know Phyllis Randolph Frye, the grandmother of the transgender rights movement.

“So, there’s a long record here that spans a half a century at this point, and it tells a clear story. The story is that Democratic presidents and Democratic congresses have created the regime and the standards that are being used to judge Hillary Clinton harshly, and that those rules and regulations wouldn’t even exist if the Republicans had had their way.”

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One Response to Weekend link dump for May 29

  1. Joel says:

    ““So, there’s a long record here that spans a half a century at this point, and it tells a clear story. The story is that Democratic presidents and Democratic congresses have created the regime and the standards that are being used to judge Hillary Clinton harshly, and that those rules and regulations wouldn’t even exist if the Republicans had had their way.””

    so she’s better than a republican but doesn’t live up to the standards of past democrats?

    tell me something i don’t know, washington monthly.

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