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		<title>Political cartoon: See Sue Run</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Script for this comic SelectShow PANEL 1 See Sue (Illustration of small white girl in pigtails running. This is Sue.) See Sue run. PANEL 2 See Sue run to public school. (Illustration of Sue running towards brick building.) Go, Sue, &#8230; <a href="http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2012/02/08/political-cartoon-see-sue-run/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2012/02/08/political-cartoon-see-sue-run/</link>
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		<title>Sinister Marriage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over here on Earth-Alpha, you may have heard of today&#8217;s big appellate court decision. No, not the one on regular Earth about same-sex marriage; we&#8217;ve had that on our parallel timeline pretty much forever. No, in our alternate reality, the &#8230; <a href="http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2012/02/08/sinister-marriage/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2012/02/08/sinister-marriage/</link>
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		<title>9th Circuit Rules Prop 8 Unconstitutional</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially re-classify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples.&#8221; -Judge &#8230; <a href="http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2012/02/08/9th-circuit-rules-prop-8-unconstitutional/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2012/02/08/9th-circuit-rules-prop-8-unconstitutional/</link>
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		<title>9th Circuit Court Rules That California&#8217;s Proposition 8 Is Unconstitutional on narrow grounds that won&#8217;t apply outside California</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[I know Myca also posted about this, but I think my post provides some additional information, justifying the overlap. --Amp] You can read the ruling (in pdf form) here. On a first glance, I think there&#8217;s an aspect to this &#8230; <a href="http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2012/02/07/9th-circuit-court-rules-that-californias-proposition-8-is-unconstitutional-on-narrow-grounds-that-wont-apply-outside-california/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2012/02/07/9th-circuit-court-rules-that-californias-proposition-8-is-unconstitutional-on-narrow-grounds-that-wont-apply-outside-california/</link>
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		<title>9th Circuit Court Rules Prop 8 Unconstitutional</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The PDF is here. Selected excerpts: Proposition 8 therefore could not have been enacted to advance California&#8217;s interest in childrearing or responsible procreation, for for it had no effect on the rights of same-sex couples to raise children or on &#8230; <a href="http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2012/02/07/9th-circuit-court-rules-prop-8-unconstitutional/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2012/02/07/9th-circuit-court-rules-prop-8-unconstitutional/</link>
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		<title>from &#8220;Ruminations/Reflections,&#8221; by Sonia Sanchez (1984)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The poet is a creator of social values. /// [P]oetry is a subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it as those who make it. /// The power that the poet has to create, preserve, &#8230; <a href="http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2012/02/06/from-ruminationsreflections-by-sonia-sanchez-1984/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2012/02/06/from-ruminationsreflections-by-sonia-sanchez-1984/</link>
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		<title>9th Circuit: Prop 8 Tapes to Remain Sealed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Prop 8 saga continues! Yesterday, the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit held (PDF) that a lower court abused its discretion in ordering the unsealing of tapes of the Prop 8 trial. I&#8217;m not happy with the &#8230; <a href="http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2012/02/03/9th-circuit-prop-8-tapes-to-remain-sealed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2012/02/03/9th-circuit-prop-8-tapes-to-remain-sealed/</link>
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		<title>Marginalized Gender Identity Category? Possibly Transphobic.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trigger warning for me possibly being a clueless, transphobic douche. I&#8217;m trying to work something out and generally throwing out some ideas for people who are cooler than me to react to. But they may be stupid, stupid ideas, and &#8230; <a href="http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2012/02/02/marginalized-gender-identity-category-possibly-transphobic/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2012/02/02/marginalized-gender-identity-category-possibly-transphobic/</link>
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		<title>Rachel Swirsky&#8217;s Novella Recommendations from 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I always end up reading far fewer novellas than I do things of any other category. This year, I read 13. In addition to the sources I used for the other short fiction, I went to the SFWA forums and &#8230; <a href="http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2012/02/02/rachel-swirskys-novella-recommendations-from-2011/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2012/02/02/rachel-swirskys-novella-recommendations-from-2011/</link>
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		<title>Rachel Swirsky&#8217;s Novelette Recommendations from 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Repeating the notes from my previous post: this year, I read about 260 short stories and novelettes. I compiled my list using a combination of reading magazines and anthologies, querying authors about their yearly work, asking for recommendations from critics &#8230; <a href="http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2012/02/01/rachel-swirskys-novelette-recommendations-from-2011/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2012/02/01/rachel-swirskys-novelette-recommendations-from-2011/</link>
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