Songs of Insurgency, a new book of short stories by my friend and colleague Spencer Dew, is now out with Vagabond Press. Some of Spencer’s stories are available online here and you can order the book via SPD or Amazon.
In the words of its creator—er, redactor:
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?
Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against lonliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb.
More here.
(via Joel Calahan)
Of the several things this poster leaves one to wonder at—like the fact that there’s a union for college students in France, or the kind of argument it deploys—perhaps the most amazing is that it worked: on Feb. 15 it was announced that 620 million euros were being set aside for new college housing.
(via Beppe Grillo)
Poor Brandy Coons.
In a front-page article by Kevin Sack in today’s New York Times Coons, a 23-year-old waitress in Atlanta, managed to get herself pinned up as the poster child for health-insurance free riding. Sack writes,
She may not fully appreciate it, but her decision to go without health insurance, like millions of similarly situated Americans, has become central to the pre-eminent policy dispute of the Democratic presidential campaign.
That policy dispute is over the question of a health-insurance mandate. Hillary Clinton believes one is necessary; Barack Obama thinks it isn’t. The candidates’ argument over the mandate is the real subject of Sack’s story, which does a good job of explaining the ins and outs of the two policies. Coons is merely there to give the piece a human face.
But there’s an interesting sidestory here that’s worth bringing out, since it too will have a part to play in either candidate’s health-care policies. (more…)
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