Jeanette Winterson

The Times Online has a nice piece imagining a reading list for capitalists:
Right now, I would like to put every City trader and master-of-the universe banker into an offshore penal colony where they would have to make their own clothes out of copies of The Wall Street Journal, cook a ration of rice in a [...]



Willy Maley, Scottish Poet

Poetry Online has Willy Maley’s poem, On My Father’s Refusal to Renew his Subscription to The Beijing Review, together with comments from the author and his editor.
Once you’ve read the poem you’ll want to hear what the author and editor have to say about it.
When Daddy died, his papers consisted of two passports, [...]



Jerry Falwell’s good and dead but there are several others of similar ilk still around.

feminism: ‘ . . . a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.’

Debi Alper has the whole story on her blog . . .

ps. The funeral is on Tuesday. Republican leaders and hecklers welcome.

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