some links:

byu
fires a part time, non tenure prof, in philosophy, because he opposes the churches position on same gendered marriage and a story on Juan Cole not even being hired

thousands of examples of english being spoken all over the world, the same phrase over and over again, thinking of using garage band to fuck with it.

heatherm ills is in the middle of a shit storm of publicity, calling her a gold digger and a whore, the soft core shots and what she did in germany decades ago is biting her ass...rock star misogyny

the university of iowa is offering 100s of card catalog cards, to artists so that they can do projects wiht them--i will send off for my set tomorrow or the day after but no idea what to do aobut it ( i think that i am going to look for the copies of the books in the local libaries around town, photocopy the colophon, and then find a way to play with transperancies)

a brilliant la times article on how all history being revisionist

some magazine interventions by robert heinkien, from la in the 70s...

john derbyshire shits all over the far right fetus worshipping polemic party of death--a brilliant peice of gutting.

speaking
of that crowd, they are now bombing porn shops in fla.

a marines wife whos husband killed women and children in haditha comes out and talks of him in not very nice terms

the war tapes is a documentary made from dv that was shot by war ventrans in iraq, that digital, viral, documentary work by citizen soilders and citizen journalists, away from professional ethics--its something ive mentioned on this blog for a couple of years, w. the rise of sites like you tube and veoth, added to the usual cheap cameras, memory sticks, and fast, regular internet access, means that not only are we seeing stills, but video, and well edited video as well--i havent seen this doc, but add it as fuel to the fire



saltz on koons from a year or so ago, one of the better examantions of the ambguity most of his fans feel about his paintings, though this image:

is as powerful as almost anything else.