Saturday Link Love: Amphibious Love, Voter IDs, and House of Cards

Hey guys! It’s Saturday, and that means you get my weekly collection of interesting links! You probably noticed that there was no Anonymous Tip post yesterday. I am extremely sorry about that. Life hit, and with it a series of unfortunate events that prevented me from writing the post. I was going to give it to you late today, but now the book has disappeared! I’m hopeful that I’ll find it, and if I find it while it is still this weekend, I’ll write up an installment and post it. Otherwise I’ll order a new (used) copy and you’ll get your next post this Friday, or the next if it takes longer to arrive.

Anyway, here are some links! Share yours too!

Walmart Shopper Assaults Father Who Brought His 5-Year-Old Daughter Into the Men’s Room, on Friendly Atheist—“Adams said his kids locked themselves in a stall until the fight was over and were uninjured, albeit shaken up.”

“Frog and Toad”: An Amphibious Celebration of Same-Sex Love, on The New Yorker—“Lobel died in 1987, an early victim of the aids crisis.”

Baylor University’s culture of sexual assault is real and it doesn’t surprise me, on Gradient—“I graduated from Baylor in 2010 with a master’s in English literature.”

The 4 Most Damning Revelations In Wisconsin’s Voter ID Trial, on ThinkProgress—“Throughout the trial, former and current state officials, election law experts and individual voters offered damning testimony about both the purpose and impact of the laws.”

Politics, Power, and Queerness in “House of Cards” Season 4, on Feministing—“In a presidential election year, popular culture representations of politicians – real and fictional – reach new heights of significance as viewers and commentators assign them meaning.”

If fetal pain is a thing then all deliveries should require general anesthesia, on Dr. Jen Gunter—“If fetal pain really exists in the way that anti-choice lawmakers think then why stop at abortion?”

Let the World Change You: A Commencement Address Do-Over, on Rachel Held Evans—“The world, it turns out, is not all weeds.”