Link Dump:

Threearticles on the mexican election, and it basically being too close to call (the last is a blog, from an observer in Mexico City itself, and has graphs)

also the offical ndi report (the ndi being an ngo who cordinates and reports on fair elections worldwide)
here

John Money who gave english phrases like gender identity and gender role died this week, at 84. Though beginning with radical ideas of inclusion, ambiguity and otherness, with his later work at johns hopkins, he viewed those who didnt correspond to the proper gender identity as dangerous enough to be corrected by surgery or other manic interventions. I dont want to get into the case of David Reimer, because the story is too sad, and has been too manipulated by everyone on everysaid, but his genitals were corrected by Money, and he considered this correction a tortue. Money's later work reminded people that intersex, transgendered, or other gender constructions should be given autonomy over their own desicions, and that it should not be considered a pyschological or physical abberation when those descions become impolitic. Butler writes about Money and Reimer in her book Undoing Gender, which is well worth reading. He is a man we should thank for new words, but should be worried about how those words are used.

ew interviews charolotte rampling

Bear Wrestling

Bear Wrestling

both via mefi

the big religion comparasion chart

1600 page African Bible Commentary decolonizes the holy script.

the american prospect says leftist xianity is dead. i think were just in a low end of a 30 year cycle

10 most powerful religous right org. in the US, according to Rob Boston, director of Americans for a Seperated Church and STate


Brendon Routh

The Blackeyed Peas Fergie apparently likes the Crank.

National Musuems"> Liverpool has agreed to give the skeltons they stole from the Maoris in the 19th century back. Isnt that nice of them. There is something ghoulish about how many corpses are festering in the back rooms of musuems, taken from colonial waves. Graverobbing it is.

speaking of grave robbing, this article about Ralph Reed in GQ is one of the best peices of political reporting ive read in ages. Stil doesnt answer the question: If he basically won it for Bush in Flordia for 2000 and 2004, why isnt he getting something better in the deal than a pissiant LG position in Georgia. Why is he running for election at all? His best work, has always been as a choirboy with a meat cleaver, those sort of back room bullying that has none of the subtlety to be called manipultion. he gets people elected, he doesnt get elected himself. (Read this!)

9 year olds talking in tounges and being slayed in the spirit, and other such pentecostal antics...this photo encompassses what you need to know What ever happened to kool aid and puppets

A DVD featuring popular character Elmo and his parents who are preparing for Elmo's dad to be deployed, will be handed out for free in August.story here i thot it was a noble thing, until Wal Mart was involved.


One of dozens examples of the stars and bars, in wildwood new jersey. more photos and commentary at the blog four four here
(i like the irony of this one, One Love Marley in the background, but the ones that say you have my x and i have mine, or I have a dream, over the captial flying the flag rampant are paticulary offensive.

"If we do not develop... Africa... if we do not make available the necessary resources to bring about this development, these people will flood the world..."
Jaques Chirac, on Bastille Day.
(Chirac is a national and racial chavuinsit, sun rises in the east)



link to Milton Rogovins hardscrabble documentary photographs of miners, store front churches, aborigonals, and others...great work, if a little cliched

TMZ footage of celebs leaving Marmount, a sort of warolian energy from it (esp Jerry O Connell's standup act midway thru)


India is blaming Pakistan on the Mumbai bombings. Its really frustrating, these bombings were the best cordianted, and the largest in terms of impact, with 7 in a row, of all the recent terrorist work, and it lasted one news cycle---russell simmons dida great peice of reportage in the globe and mail this week, but that was all. England, Spain, America, can get years out of their sucide bombers and i think its because of the whole isreal/hezbollah hissy fit.