Monthly Archives: January 2010

Shark (a story for Haiti)

“Shark” is an excerpt from the novel-in-progress Cold, posted online for free as part of Crossed Genres’ Post a Story for Haiti project. Please donate to Haiti earthquake relief. Continue reading

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The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-15: Haiti relief efforts

Devil’s Logic: explanation of Robertson’s “pact w/ the devil” language about Haiti. http://bit.ly/7YzzyL # RT: @crossedgenres: New blog post: A Festival of Skeletons serialization has begun! http://bit.ly/6fhgSL # RT: @alydenisof: It occurred to me this morning, as I was pumping … Continue reading

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Haiti: Disaster profiteering v. helping Haiti rebuild for Haitians

“We have to be absolutely clear that this tragedy — which is part natural, part unnatural — must, under no circumstances, be used to, one, further indebt Haiti and, two, to push through unpopular corporatist policies in the interest of our corporations” (Naomi Klein). How can we help rebuild Haiti for Haitians?

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The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-14

RT @elizadushku RT @latimes Charity of @Wyclef Jean raises more than $400,000 via text message for Haiti in first day http://bit.ly/4RLfjz # @jansonjones Just call yourself "Papabot." in reply to jansonjones # Donate: LGBT org Rainbow World Fund working w/ … Continue reading

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The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-13: Haiti earthquake

Today’s tweets were dominated by news of yesterday’s magnitude 7 earthquake in Haiti, the idiotic statement about the earthquake by Christianist Pat Robertson, & the Prop 8 trial in California.

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Helping Haiti (& telling Pat Robertson to STFU)

How can we help the people of Haiti in the aftermath of yesterday’s devastating earthquake? By sending them assistance — not by blaming them, as Christianist lackwit Pat Robertson so predictably does.

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The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-12: Faux Palin, Prop 8, DADT, & fresh produce

RT: @shannynmoore: Palin is to journalism what Dahmer was to cooking. // She should fit in quite well with Faux News. # Mainstream media coverage of Cheney & Palin: stenography & “regurgitating press releases.” http://tiny.cc/zDHkY (h/t @celticdiva) #fb # Bent … Continue reading

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Battlestar Rhapsody

This brilliant parody of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” retells the tale of “Battlestar Galactica.”

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The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-11: Crazy like a Faux News correspondent

Game Change: McCain liked Palin’s “willingness to piss all over her party.” No kidding, John, she does do that! http://bit.ly/7r51tb #fb # RT: @celticdiva: Interesting–C4P website is down–did Steve Schmidt on 60 Minutes make the Palinista’s hive-mind explode? #p2 # … Continue reading

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Job 42.13

A poem based upon a verse in the Book of Job, with an account by a Kansas farmer who saw the inside of a tornado in 1928.

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