Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please add interesting links of your own in the comments.

• The Johns Sex For Sale And The Men Who Buy It

– Quote: “Harm elimination, not harm reduction.”

• Officer Jack Sparrow?

– this story has been on my wtf? radar for a few days now

• Shaming Miss California: Stop fighting homophobia with misogyny

– Quote: “fighting homophobia with misogyny pretty much reeks of hypocrisy itself, no?”

• The Far Right's First 100 Days: Shifting Into Overdrive

– sobering reading

• Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Truth?

– Analysis of how Obama’s acknowledgements that the USA is not infallible has outraged the bellicose jingoists of the posturing right. And why, of course, they are wrong.

• (title unknown)

– Digby links to a post pointing out that all these high-paid US execs threatening to leave the country if they don’t continue to receive huge salary packages – where else can they go that actually pays equivalent or better executive packages? Nowhere – they are an aberration that the free market is about to correct.

• oh dear

– how paying attention to Austen ruins women

• To your health, ladies

– For those of us living in countries with “socialised medicine” an eye-opener to the US clusterfuck as you read these “concessions” from the health insurance industry

• The Right to Discriminate

– Neat clarifications on discrimination from Jill

• Quick Hit: Films for the Feminist Classroom

– Bookmark this great link from Courtney

• Save Samantha Orobator

– Liss asks a pertinent question – would we have all heard about Orobator months ago if she wasn’t black?

• Great Books by Smart People

– three book recommendations

Categories: linkfest

Tags: blogging, Read-ems