Friday, November 30, 2007

EVEL, ARCH KNIEVEL-IST

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a beer-kegger's b@ll@d by Bill Costley                “He taught by example.”                --Kelly Knievel, Evel’s oldest son Dubya po...

EVEL KNIEVEL

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after e e cummings by Earl J. Wilcox wrecked who used to ride a hardracing bike fasterthanaspeeding                       bullet and jump o...

VAJAYJAY

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by Donna Hilbert Everyone calls it vajayjay now, you know, down there. I read this in the New York Times. Oprah says it. Steinem has weighed...

GRIM FAIRY TALES FOR MODERN TIMES

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by Nancy Caronia If, at the beginning of the 21st century, Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger on the spinning wheel—a cursed act that anesth...
Wednesday, November 28, 2007

SEATS OF POWER

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Visual by Jeff Crouch Text by Christopher Woods Christopher Woods is the author of a prose collection, Under a Riverbed Sky , and a colle...

TO DIE IN JERUSALEM

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A Documentary by Sondra Zeidenstein Make the smallest distinction… And heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. --The Faith Mind Sutra ...

UNTIL THE PHOTO WAS DEVELOPED

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by B.E. Kahn In the Judean wilderness, Israeli farmers— growers of grapes, dates—invite Arab shepherds there to graze their sheep. ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007

IN DARFUR

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by Yolanda Coulaz little girls don't wear lace or play with dolls. They are taken, taken by the janjaweed, taken with the women with the...
Monday, November 26, 2007

THE NEWS AT 11

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by Howie Good The world is a rifle butt smashed in your face, a panting hand reaching for your only child. And now the weather. What if our ...

ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA

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for Upton Sinclair by David LaBounty there were anarchists and socialists just as there was blood in the hearts and in the streets and the p...
Sunday, November 25, 2007

POSTMODERNISM'S RITUALS

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by Marcus Bales (after W.S. Gilbert) Postmodernist: I am the very model of postmodernism’s rituals My world is made of language reinforced b...
Friday, November 23, 2007

IN DEFENSE OF SENATOR CLINTON

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by Anne G. Davies When candidates look for a victim to pillory Donkey or elephant—they all point at Hillary Giuliani says she’s slippery and...
Thursday, November 22, 2007

22 AND 44

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by George Held Our age is numerical—lists of numbers, Numbers crunchers, statistics, numerical Compilations and projections— And this is the...

DELOVERLY

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PoeArtry by Charles Frederickson DEbate dangling from rusty hook     Squirming worms champing sound bytes         Big fish eat small fry    ...