Friday Linky

Before I run out of Friday, here is some quick linky.
A Connecticut high-school teacher resigns after parents of a 13-year-old girl complain that he gave her a pornographic comic. “It’s not even like a gray area,” the father said. “It’s clearly over the line… I personally don’t ever want him teaching again.” The comic in question? Eightball #22 by Dan Clowes. Say what? Simon Jones gets sarcastic: “You know, for once I’d like to see a supposed controversy over porno comics to actually involve porno comics.” Much more info at Journalista (where I saw the Simon Jones quote) and This Modern World. (Eightball #22, later collected as “Ice Haven”, is fantastic by the way.)
Rules to live by: James McM gives outlines his principles of Jamesism (see the comments).
On Wednesday in Wellington I ran into Anita who gave me a postcard to send calling for the removal of disgraced police commissioner Clint Rickards; today she has guest-blogged in detail on the subject at No Right Turn.
Making Light’s sublime Jim MacDonald retraces the 1961 route of Betty and Barney Hill, fisking the account as he goes. (This was the journey in which the Hills were supposedly abducted by aliens, the first such claim ever recorded. The fictional events of Close Encounters of the Third Kind were directly influenced by the story of the Hills.)
Andrew Rilstone has the final word on Talk Like A Pirate Day.
And last but not least, Rumpus photos.