Liz and her band of ruffians drawn (largely from the ranks of the Chicago Maroon) have come out with an election issue of the The Saturnine Detractor.

http://www.detractor.org

It includes a short fiction piece by your’s truly:

Burroughs vs.

1) My personal “endorsements” for Michigan voters

2) Ditto Illinois

3) Six blogs and one dozen political links

These three posts will take me a lot of time, and I also have to submit a grad. school application by this weekend, so I don’t expect to post much of anything else.

I got an email from Michael at i-magery.com several days ago. We’ve begun corresponding, and I’ve enjoyed his blog more than any other pro-Bush site I’ve come across.

His original email wasn’t short (and my response downright long-winded), so I’m posting the guts of our correspondence here:

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Michael wrote:

Perhaps you would understand our support of the president if I mentioned:

1) My father’s friends were tortured in North Vietnam to the sounds of Kerry’s senate testimony, much of which has since been proven to be outright lies.

THE FLINT JOURNAL PRESIDENTIAL ENDORSEMENT

The Flint Journal endorsed Kerry, which is good, although they’ve written the wimpiest nomination I’ve ever read for any candidate in any periodical.

First, they outline Bush’s achievements, with some qualifications… their praise touches upon the ousting of the Taliban, No Child Left Behind, the introduction of Homeland Security, and one of the most incomprehensive paragraphs I’ve ever encountered in a newspaper, regarding the war in Iraq:

History will judge whether Iraq should have been included in this terror war, but it’s certainly part of it now.

The Cummins Family Home Page

http://www.i-magery.com/

I said I’d link a Republican blog, and here it is.

I tend to find that political blogs on the whole are obnoxious and unreasonable… which is easy to over look as long as you agree with them.

http://nytimes.com/2004/10/23/politics/campaign/23vote.html?hp&ex=1098590400&en=b3506ec97533d07e&ei=5094&partner=homepage

A respite from politics: what happens when Petrella meets Otranto.

First, Lord Manfred tries to stab Count Cenci while the latter is praying… but Cenci doesn’t pray. Ever! Instead Lord Manfred stabs a stuffed dummy placed before the altar by Francesco.

I often express more distaste for Nader and other third party presidential candidates than I do for Republicans.

In fact, not only do I fully acknowledge this seeming contradiction, but I would argue that, in fact, such distaste is consistant with my hopes for a more progressive, egalitarian society.

Unofficial Vote4Nader Blog

http://vote4nader.blogspot.com/

I promised to post links to at least two blogs explicitly divergent from my own political beliefs.

This is the first of the two. It is not so much a blog in the sense of a structured commentary on running events as it is a compilation of articles and events put together by Morgan, a fervent Nader supporter.

It’s been a couple days, and I’m afraid it’s going to be a few more: I’m back at the hospital, 40 hours per week as of tomorrow.

More on that later.

I don’t have the time tonight to read/research political stuff (my “Pyramid politics” thing will have to wait), but I’ll open a couple cans of worms for chewing in the meantime.