This exhibit is, perhaps, something every voter should take a look at: Faces of the Fallen From washingtonpost.com.

Margaret Cho is on FIRE and fearless in her editorial, Presidential Cockfight, in In These Times. To give you just a taste, here’s how she starts out:

This presidential race has become the biggest dick contest in history. “Your dick is indecisive!” “Your dick started an unnecessary war!” “Your dick didn’t get injured enough in Vietnam!” “Your dick didn’t even go to Vietnam!” “Your dick is soft on terrorism!” Has this kind of dick waggling happened before outside of a pro-wrestling context?

And she does not let up on even the most touchy of subjects:

And I’m very worried about the troops, but I’m also worried that my reproductive rights might be taken away from me. And I’m as scared of terrorism as every one else, but I’m also scared that people over here are getting arrested by the F.B.I. and the I.N.S. for having the wrong last name. And I’m so, so sorry that there’s so much starvation in Iraq and so much starvation all over the world, but I am also so, so sorry that there are young girls here starving themselves to death so that they can look like the actresses on TV.

Go, Cho, GO!

She’s touring swing states in the State of Emergency Tour–so keep your eye out for a chance to see her live.

Cement Guitar

Michael Carlson

FRiGG, one of the most gorgeous (inside and out)literary ezines in operation is live with a brand new issue, featuring such writers as: Gwendolyn Joyce-Mintz, Kay Sexton and Terri Brown-Davidson–amoung others. I’ve just begun to make my through this issue and am excited to read each and every piece.

Red Sox 10, Yankees 3

From truthout.org: The 9/11 Secret in the CIA’s Back Pocket . Here’s a snippet:

“It is infuriating that a report which shows that high-level people were not doing their jobs in a satisfactory manner before 9/11 is being suppressed,” an intelligence official who has read the report told me, adding that “the report is potentially very embarrassing for the administration, because it makes it look like they weren’t interested in terrorism before 9/11, or in holding people in the government responsible afterward.”

A wonderful web site:

“Bush Relatives for Kerry” grew out of a series of conversations that took place between a group of people that have two things in common: they are all related to George Walker Bush, and they are all voting for John Kerry. As the election approaches, we feel it is our responsibility to speak out about why we are voting for John Kerry, and to do our small part to help America heal from the sickness it has suffered since George Bush was appointed President in 2000. We invite you to read our stories, and please, don’t vote for our cousin!

I especially like their tagline: “Because blood is thinner than oil!”

The amazing Kathy Fish has a new flash in Salome. Read it (you won’t regret it): Whitby’s Psychiatric.

I like this one: Election Scorecard

Memorial Day for the War Dead

Yehuda Amichai

A friend of mine just gave me one of the Eloisa Cartonera books from Argentina. Fantastic! I love what people are doing, which is essentially taking their short stories, poems, literary ramblings, photo-copying them and fitting them in recycled cardboard covers. Thus, they provide inexpensive literature for the masses (in a country where books are only one item too expensive for most people).

So you might say, as I did, how’s this different from an old school zine?

The answer is partly that the people involved in this venture have created a working business in which even the people who collect the cardboard make some money. And even though they are just cardboard covered copied pages–these books look cool with their brightly painted titles.

These writers are inspired, getting their words out to people who might not otherwise be able to afford them.

How cool! My auntie just sent me this link about my cousin and his wife traveling the world. It’s an interesting read:Traveling Out of the Comfort Zone