Judaism.com offers a bag with cute plushies of all ten plauges you can buy it here

This story is mildy interesting, its about a cardinal that died in some nefarious drug dealing What is fascinating is the poltical implications of the phrase "martyr for the war on drugs"--it might be a (neo)conserative renewal of boffo's recasting martyr as not only a religious context but social context (Romeo is a Martyr for the Poor not his Faith)

The Smithsonian has revamped their African Art site, with more sensitivity towards lingustic and cultural contexts, excellent work.


/>nytimes story of el slavador and abortion. It is totally illegal there, so the rich fly to Miami, and the poor shove pesticides or coat hangers up there uteruses, when they go to the hopsitals because of posioning, reneal failure, septic shock, distended uterses, infections of the vagina and labia, or unstoppable bleeding, foresenic vagina inspectors become involved. Men who run programs in the US who are against the autonomousness of womens bodies, view this as a positive thing.

1964 footage of the first cut peice--see the last few minutes, with the man removing Ono's bra, its chilling watch it here