Linking while I watch time-travel movies

An EPA win at the Supreme Court level.
•Central College gives an accused rapist the choice of punishment: Explusion or just not walking to graduation.
•Echidne gives another example of how scientific studies look at sex. Here she writes about some evo-psych studies that didn’t pan out.
•When the co-signer on a student loan dies or goes bankrupt, some lenders can call the loan due. A proposed new bill would prevent that.
•Al Jazeera looks at Christianity’s persecution complex (“who can resist the deliciousness of having both the upper hand of power and the righteousness of the oppressed?”), something I’ve written about before.
•Having guns is the most important freedom, according to the head of the NRA.
•Ta-Nehisi Coates says one problem with racists like Donald Stirling and Cliven Bundy is that their open bigotry distracts from the subtle kind. A Salon article argues that the debate shows the limits of American anti-racism: Yes, what Sterling said was bad, but not something he should suffer for. And alicublog quotes a tweet that “30 billionaires self-governing an unregulated organization is literally a libertarian utopia.”
•Slacktivist takes a shot at conservatives who insist birth control is bad, but “natural family planning” is Godly.
•Right-wingers stand up for the right of students to use the word “redskins.”
•Erik Loomis says something I’ve often thought about, that opposition to solar power and clean energy is about “the politics of resentment”—it’s a left-wing thing and therefore bad. Case in point, Human Achievement Hour, in which the goal is to use as much electricity as possible.
•Right-wingers continue to beat the drum about the evils of Benghazi.
•Polio is spreading through the Third World.
•Washington’s religious faith didn’t stop him from owning slaves and describing them as “servants.” Not news, but worth remembering.

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