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Meet the Allies: Wet Ink
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Wet Ink
Essays, news stories, personal accounts, and column fodder that stands
alone.
The venerable New Yorker magazine leaps eloquently into the 21st century, and their free archived stories are worth more than the price of admission. IndyMedia reports under the wire. Boy Crazy! In praise of adolescent lads. Columnist Robert Scheer writes the May 22, 2001 issue of the L.A. Times of the "Faustian" deal the Bush administration struck with the Taliban. Columnist Dave Kopel pleads for congressional rationality in light of anti-terrorist legislation. The Onion peels away the news of the day in favor of sophmoric pranks, smart incidental insight, and a few good laughs. The Fray Day site of storytellers compiles personal stories of all descriptions. A wonderful and vibrant community of writers! Matrix Masters online zine reminds you that you control your own matrix. They help you make decisions through stories on the environment, international issues, U.S. concerns, and matters of the soul. Required reading. Sign up for poet John Averill's electronic biweekly muse, "14 Days," by writing to him at wiremesa@aol.com Signum e-zine: Media, method, meaning Dear Possible, poet Kim Bernstein's when-she-feels-like-it e-zine. A little confirmation that one's livelihood isn't complete bunk doesn't go amiss. And indeed, AsiaWeek magazine prints an intelligently skeptical look at the science, not just the art, of astrology, proclaiming that just maybe there's something to it after all. Rob directs you here.
Anything by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll is worth reading, but we particularly recommend these essays: The Organic Gardener is a weekly online-only column for the strictly pesticide-free home grower. EarthLight, the magazine of spiritual ecology, awaits your edification.
Popular Mechanics Magazine throws a wrench in skeptics' machinery!
Alternet investigates the "10 Moral U-Turns That Changed the World"
Israeli novelist David Grossman ("Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel," "Yellow Wind"),is known for his balanced portrayals of Palestinians. Due to recent events, he now tries to think his way out of the escalating war, writing from a deserted café in a Jerusalem suburb, as citizens scurry past him, eager for the relative safety of home. "How did fear and anger rob an entire people of their reason?" he wonders. One reader writes that others may enjoy "perusing the ever-witty celebration of human foibles in the Arcata Eye police log." Arcata, for the out of town, is a high North Coast California town, smack amid the failing lumber and rising marijuana industries of the area. And, um, what if women ruled the world? There'd be plenty of extra free time, that's for sure! As if things haven't been bad enough, it now appears that boycotting most brands of chocolate is the only thinking person's choice. You're not that fond of eating the sweat of African child laborers, are you? Sadly we thank GODDESS CHAOTICA for alerting us to this Alternet.org story. Meanwhile, TWINKLER writes to recommend the all-organic no-slavery goodness of Brit chocolatiers Green and Black. We've got a soft spot for Blindspot, an IndyMedia.org affiliate based in Canada's Kitchener-Waterloo area. Truly a grass-roots media effort, Blindspot's newest issues are downloaded via PDF file onto your hard drive. You print it out, enjoy the activist read contained therein, and then distribute the paper yourself by idling dropping your copy off at a favorite coffee house or coffee table. They'll even help you publish your own views 'n' news via their Adobe Acrobat program.
The Headline Muse is an "archetypal e-zine" that has a very different take on the mainstream media and pop culture. For example, is a worldwide Baby Boom malaise in part responsible for the 9/11 tragedy? Even if you don't understand the word "enantiodromian," this essay is guaranteed to make you feel Jung again.
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