Hello my lovelies!  Here are some links for you, since I haven’t been writing.  I started a new job on the 2nd, and it’s currently sapping nearly all of my energy.  Here’s hoping that changes once I adjust to the new schedule.

• Wolfrum at Shakesville points out that Bush declared June to be National Homeownership Month: “During National Homeownership Month, we highlight the benefits of owning a home and encourage our fellow citizens to be responsible homeowners.”  Recent events in The Realm make this proclamation a bit akin to a nice paper cut with lemon juice poured on it, but even if that weren’t the case this would be infuriating.  “Hey, folks, sorry ’bout your forclosure, but don’t forget the benefits of owning a home!”
• Jennifer Podkul guests posts at Feministing to explain the problems behind defining all commercial sex as human trafficking, with further discussion in this post by Juhu Thukral, Esq.
• Via Our Bodies Ourselves, which was linked in Feministing’s Weekly Feminist Reader (lots of other good reading there, naturally), comes a great post at Shapely Prose: 28 Days to A Bikini Mind.  The workouts sound difficult, but worthwhile.
• Cara has a good roundup, with additional thoughts, on “Protest the Pill Day ‘08: The Pill Kills Babies.”  With LOLPILLS! 
• Shark-fu takes down the idea of mere tolerance and the phrase “I don’t see color.”  It was only a little over a year ago when I first encountered resistance to the idea of tolerance.  Having reached adulthood in the late 90s (the 80s and 90s being a time when “tolerance” was quite the buzzword), it took me a bit to get it: “But isn’t tolerance a good thing?”  Once it was linked to the root word “tolerate,” it clicked for me, but it certainly doesn’t hurt to have Shark-fu in my blog reader to reinforce the idea.
• Hey, Boston Herald: partners =/= “galpals.”  Thx.
• A guest poster on Shakesville, Annaham, does some myth-busting on the topic of Fibromyalgia.  I’ve known several people with the condition, one of whom is very dear to me and was just diagnosed last year, and I can assure you that their pain is very real.
• Gina at the Pet Connection discusses pit bulls, PETA, the Human Society of the United States, and stereotypes.

Happy reading!