Over the last couple of days, I’ve posted several little things in several places.  I put several links on Twitter, including these:

• http://tinyurl.com/4eskj4j A fun list of counterfactual history novels from abebooks.  [Here’s another link to the same page]
• A lot of guys who make movies have “issues” with women; also with men: http://kellimarshall.net/unmuzzledthoughts/film/lehman-luhr-men/ [In this one, Professor Kelli Marshall lays out a set of criteria inspired by “Bechdel’s Rule” to test the images of masculinity that the movies portray.  By the way, here’s an online database inspired by Bechdel’s Rule,and here’s a blog post about it that Rule non-inventor Alison Bechdel put up the other day, as well as one she put up tonight.]
• The naivete of pro-war liberals seems to be an infinitely renewable resource: http://www.thenation.com/article/159449/innocence-liberal-hawk
• “Disordered environments promote stereotypes and discrimination,” and some researchers can tell you by how much: http://tinyurl.com/62fqmtu [This one is from Ed Yong’s Not Exactly Rocket Science]
• Tenure for teachers = savings for taxpayers: http://statisticsforum.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/tenure-for-teachers-how-much-is-it-worth/ [If you don’t believe it, don’t flame in the comments here- read the statistical analysis there, and rebut it.]
• Ukulele-fish http://ukulele.fr/dc/index.php/2011/04/01/962-ukulele-poisson-davril [Also linked by Al Wood at Ukulele Hunt]
• Even if the war in #Libya were “legal,” would it be right? http://www.amconmag.com/blog/the-follies-of-legalism/

A post on Secular Right complaining about an Episcopalian bishop who wrote an essay called “Budgets, Leadership, and Public Service” led me to post two comments.  In this one, I expressed the opinion that one of the great advantages is that its founder’s political opinions are unknowable.  The bishop seemed to be throwing that advantage away by attributing an extremely detailed set of political opinions to Jesus.   In this one, I replied to a commenter who pointed out that Jesus seems to have been convinced that the end of the world was coming soon by saying that any number of political positions are compatible with that conviction.  Another immense number of positions are incompatible with it, of course, but by itself the idea that Jesus was an apocalyptic thinker doesn’t tell us what his political opinions might have been.

Also, here’s a nice cool jazz number by Jane Ira Bloom, called “Freud’s Convertible.”