It’s been a busy busy week, but I want to at least toss out the accumulated links over lunch:
- LGBT Stuff. Yesterday was Spirit Day on Facebook, and the notion of wearing purple to support gay rights was spreading. I have two LGBT related items. The first looks at the difficulties LA Unified is facing in integrating LGBT history into its curriculum. My thoughts: There’s not much you need to do, because we haven’t been specifically excluding history (to my knowledge) because of the sexual orientation of the historical figure — we just haven’t been talking about orientation. The only real change might be in a discussion of civil rights where you bring up the appropriate folks who made changes (how many schools will show “Milk”). Of course, some are resistant to change. A group of students a Connecticut high school walked out of a recent afternoon performance of the GLAAD Award-winning musical Zanna, Don’t! after two male cast members kissed on stage, according to CBS Connecticut. It appeared to be mostly football players.
- Barbie at OERM? Mattel is in talks to buy Hit Entertainment, owners of Thomas the Tank Engine, Bob the Builder, and Dora the Explorer.
- Dried Plums. The Muir Beauty is supposedly a better prune, but they can’t get anyone to buy it.
- Flight Attendants. You think deregulation of airlines just lowered the quality of service. It also lowered the “hotness” of flight attendants, according to the Atlantic.
- Tasty Food. Want to make tasty but healthy food. Hide protein power in it.
