Link Time:


Giant Sloth by wildlife illustrater Carl Burell, who is doing some interesting things w. evoultion, here among other work

hard right jesus cataloge historically minded and attempting towards some weird gender thing with adventures for boys and beauty for girls...a really good shortcut to the nostalgia, history, heritage, racism and misogyny that underlies the american theocratic tendecies...

Cthullu Carols


Brooklyn Designer, thru hydrolauics makes dress inflate and deflate.

Conneticut returned a huge chunk of federal money for sex ed, b/c it was tied to abseteince education...


Willow Creek, amongst other mega churches, are closed for Xmas--sort of defeating the point, this qoute from the flak was useful though:
"If our target and our mission is to reach the unchurched, basically the people who don't go to church, how likely is it that they'll be going to church on Christmas morning?"
How do you think the community of belivers feed being ignored for the sexy possible covert, and if you have thousands coming to yr churche every week, how unchurched is it?



very nice, well constructed, mini prefab house, all that fit on a flat bed truck, and well designed only in australia though



Michelle Goldberg underlines the history of anti semitism in the war on christmas rhetoric.

Canadian connections to the CIA mystery flights, which Condi Rice gave a non denial denial to in germany this year...

CIA Terrorist training manual from Nicaruaga in the mid 80s, also comes in spanish. (maybe a fraud?)

Bull Dozer uncovering a mass grave in Beraka, Lebanon

Hartford Public Schools should stick dynamite up its cunt, fuck it, until it shits bullets...that would have cost me 309 bucks in Fines. story here

a huge R Crumb comic on Charlie Patton I have liked Crumb's polite stuff less and less, I miss his anti social taboo breaking, but this was tender and beautiful--i really like Patton too, and am glad for his revival.

Annie Prolux Interview Pick up this weeks new yorker for a reprint of her story Brokeback Mountain.

a bunch of streaming audio of English Poetry from BEauwolf to Walcott from Norton. and a whole bunch of Xmas Mashups...

Frontline Does Abortion talks largely about how abortion has become defacto illegal, with restricted access, and how Roe vs Wade, making it a states issues has basically condemed it, matched by a New Yorker story this week saying this stuff...

U.S. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, a California Republican, resigned on Monday after pleading guilty to taking $2.4 million in bribes in exchange for help in securing Defense Department contracts. from here The Christian Sci. Monitor writes about it in larger context

a female GI writes about female GIs for an article in the US Miltary NEwspaper, pretty fucking trechant...should i be reading Stars and Stripes?

a take down of freaknomics suppostion that abortion reduces crime rate