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The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

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What I'm Reading - Online

There are so many great writers putting their work out there through online literary journals.  Here is what I am reading now or have read recently online.

Take Care, Ayrn Kyle (up at Five Chapters)

An Insurrection, Necessary Fiction

decompE, March 2010

Hobart, March 2010

FRiGG, Winter 2010, Law & Order Issue

...and catching up on the (very) shorts over on Wigleaf

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Friday
13Nov2009

Something (Political) I Read This Week and Loved...

...is from Katha Pollitt, on the horrible Stupack-Pitts amendement attached to the House Health Care Bill.

"Hey, Peter, Representative Stupak and your sixty-four Democratic supporters, Jim Wallis and other antichoice "progressive" Christians, men: why don't you take one for the team for a change and see how you like it?

For example, budget hawks in Congress say they'll vote against the bill because it's too expensive. Maybe you could win them over if you volunteered to cut out funding for male-exclusive stuff, like prostate cancer, Viagra, male infertility, vasectomies, growth-hormone shots for short little boys, long-term care for macho guys who won't wear motorcycle helmets and, I dunno, psychotherapy for pedophile priests. Men could always pay in advance for an insurance policy rider, as women are blithely told they can do if Stupak becomes part of the final bill."

 

Go read the whole thing.

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