Into the Streets

Some amazing photography from the Democracy protests underway in Burma. Unfortunately, if news sources are to be believed, a crackdown is about to hit.

Update, more here.

Shorter Bush

Last night’s address to the nation can be summed up pretty easily: “I’m no longer going to try and pretend that I haven’t created a disaster that others are going to have to clean up once I’m gone.”

“The Age of Disaster Capitalism”

A preview of Naomi Klein’s new book.

North Korea is for Lovers

Vice goes to the DPRK.

The place is simultaneously fascinating and repellent, as failed Stalinist utopias tend to be.

“. . .a kind of weather in the harbor and beyond”

Have you ever read poems by August Kleinzahler?  You should really read some poems by August Kleinzahler.  Here are four.