Selected Reading (25/07/10)

July 25, 2010 at 8:33 pm | Posted in Misc. | Leave a comment

Hopefully y’all haven’t seen many of these yet:

• These Tea Party activists might be for some kind of limited government, but just not the kind that limits the US’ nuclear arsenal to ‘just’ 700 weapons launchers.
• Heather Murdock meets the hyena whisperers of Ethiopia.
• Robert Wright has a sharp take on the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’.
• Conn Hallinan on the ‘great myth’ of counterinsurgency.
• In Cameron, you can iron a girl’s breasts if you want to prevent her from developing and attracting men’s advances. There is a video attached; I couldn’t watch it.
• At Autostraddle, riese explains why Taylor Swift is a feminist’s nightmare.
• And a lighter note, what happened when Westboro Baptist Church made the mistake of picketing a comic book convention. If there is a God, nerds are her avenging angels.

Finally, I think my reading list is getting stale. Is there anything I should be reading? Anything I should be writing about? All tips/requests are welcome below the fold.