Tuesday Tidbits

Jezebel reports on an iPhone application that helps men score (and we’re not talking football). And then brag about it on Twitter.

A thoughtful analysis by Barbara Ehrenreich of the happiness study I wrote about in a former post.

Press release about Michelle Obama becoming the Honorary President of the Girls Scouts of America.

A Christian Science Monitor article about freedom of religion for a teen who accuses her father of threatening to kill her if she converts from Islam to Christianity. Was she believed because of the stereotypes we hold about Islam’s treatment of women?

A Louisiana justice of the peace refuses to marry a white woman and a black man out of “concern” for the “plight” of interracial children.

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