Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.

• Penny for Your Thoughtfulness

– Melissa examines the extraordinary conservative panic over the concept of “empathy” in a judge.

• Why, No—I'm Not an Idiot, But Thanks for Assuming

– How many women who are voluntarily sterilised actually do regret it?

• Inventive New Arguments Against Gay Marriage!

– hugely entertaining smackdown

• Justifying domestic violence

– The mild mannered grandfather supposedly had a good excuse

• Slavery 101: Clearing up some misconceptions.

– Read and bookmark

• Update on Gender Knot Post Due Today

– Some gender matters links from Zuska prior to the promised Gender Knot post

• Snatching defeat from the jaws of the MDC

– An account of yet another self-claimed psychic rationalising why she failed the Randi Foundation’s Million Dollar Challenge

• The anti-vaccine movement: Is it too late for scientists to bridge the gap between evidence and fear?

– a great summary of the history of the current antivax scares, full of links

• Won't Somebody Listen to the Generals (and Admirals and Majors)?

– because Dick Cheney didn’t and won’t.

Categories: linkfest

Tags: blogging, Read-ems