Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Miss Cellania's Links

Sex in Aladdin: Anatomy of a Rumor.

Was ending the draft a mistake? Conscription caused everyone in the country to have a stake in which wars we fight.

The Resurrectionist.

2001: A Space Odyssey in a Kid's Comic Book. (via Metafilter)

65 Books You Need To Read In Your 20s. I've read a few of these, but most weren't written until I was way past my twenties.


The murder conviction of abortion provider Kermit Gosnell highlights the need for safe, legal abortions. Before Roe, these horrors were common for women desperate to end a pregnancy.

26 coffee mugs for your inner nerd. For the office, you've got to have a cup that's distinctly yours.

10 vintage how-to tutorials for perfect etiquette. Educational films from the '40s and '50s showed us what was expected, even if it wasn't what was done.

The mother in How I Met Your Mother was finally revealed last night. After eight years, the story is about to get going now.

How to Reinvent College. You shouldn't have to pay so much to get so little return on your education.

4 comments:

John the Lawyer said...

Sex in Aladdin article. It's persistent, not persistant

Miss Cellania said...

Well, I didn't type the article, but I read the whole thing through again to find that typo. I found the word once, and it was spelled right.

Anonymous said...

"The murder conviction of abortion provider Kermit Gosnell highlights the need for safe, legal abortions"

That's like saying that the horror stories about divorces highlight the need for safe, legal ways to kill your wife.

Miss Cellania said...

Your analogy has the number of people killed backward, though. Women die from illegal abortions, but rarely by divorce.