{"id":13393,"date":"2010-11-05T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/11\/05\/13393.html"},"modified":"2010-11-05T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T16:24:00","slug":"links-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/11\/05\/links-political\/","title":{"rendered":"Links: political"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some political and quasi-political items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Interesting discussion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/03\/us\/politics\/03repubs.html\">tensions within the Tea Party<\/a> as they settle in to become part of the government.<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluecorncomics.com\/\">Blue Corn Comics<\/a>: \"A multicultural comic book featuring Native Americans.\"<\/li>\n  <li>Exposing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2261552\/pagenum\/all\/\">Andrew Breitbart's lies about Shirley Sherrod and the NAACP<\/a>. (I know this was months ago, but I didn't see a lot of coverage at the time debunking this aspect of what Breitbart said, so I figured it can't hurt to link to it even though belatedly.)<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2010\/10\/why-did-so-many-women-run-in-2010\/65456\/\">More women than ever before<\/a> filed to run for US Congress this year. However, if current projections hold, this election has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/story.jsp?id=37562\">reduced the number of women in Congress<\/a>, for the first time in thirty years. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/OPINION\/11\/03\/lawless.women.election\/\">Details at CNN<\/a>.) And Women's Campaign Forum President Siobhan Bennett notes that the US is ranked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipu.org\/wmn-e\/classif.htm\">90th in the world<\/a> (or 73rd if you don't count ties) by percentage of women in national parliaments.<\/li>\n  <li>Jeffrey Goldberg experiences one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2010\/10\/for-the-first-time-the-tsa-meets-resistance\/65390\/\">new TSA patdowns<\/a>. Entertaining, with serious\/scary undercurrent. (Back in 2008, Goldberg reported on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2008\/11\/the-things-he-carried\/7057\/\">stuff he's taken through airport security<\/a>; another entertaining but sobering piece.)<\/li>\n  <li>Another attempt to debunk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,2002382,00.html\">myths about only children<\/a>.<\/li>\n  <li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2261249\/\">[O]verall, working-class husbands actually wind up doing more housework than middle- and upper-class men.<\/a>\"<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some political and quasi-political items: Interesting discussion of tensions within the Tea Party as they settle in to become part&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,53,45,95,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender","category-links","category-politics","category-race-ethnicity","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}