good fucking god

I can't believe I read the following comment on Hugo Schwyzer's blog:

At second glance, after reading works about globalization like Amartya Sen’s Development as Freedom or Paul Krugman’s amazing piece “In Praise of Cheap Labor” http://www.slate.com/id/1918 or the more recent book “Travels of a T-Shirt” by Pietra Rivoli, I began to realize that sweatshops often give women in the developing world their first chance at economic independence. It puts them into the labor force which is a very important part of the development of gender rights. They earn money for themselves. Women who work tend to get married later in life and have fewer children.

UGH. Sure, sweatshops are great. They totally give women freedom! Someone should tell my mom that all those 12 hour days she worked made her more free!

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I enjoy reading SFist because it tells me stuff like 880 commute sucks the most - and why does it suck? People really don't know how to merge on very well. Also, the MacArthur Maze. Fucking death trap.

From Global Voices - pictures of Tai Hu, a freshwater lake in China that is pretty polluted. We went there on our tour, and I guess we got to see the non-polluted side. It sucks, because it's a gorgeous site.

NotCouture - new fashion blog. Drool over pretty things.

I totally WISH I could see this: Damon Albarn of Gorillaz fame collaborates with Chen Shi-Zheng to create a new version of the Monkey King. Animation, too!