Politics
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
A Google employee who played a key role in the Egyptian protests causes people to wonder: Can Google ever really be a neutral source of info? Nokia and Microsoft just announced their partnership. Did Nokia jump out of the frying…
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Things Are Going Down in Egypt
For the best breaking news coverage you should be watching Al Jazeera English and reading its website. “Mubarak Steps Down, Ceding Power to Military.” Who is in charge now? Get to know Egypt’s military leadership. With jubilant cheering and loads…
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The Rumpus Interview with Michael David Lukas
At first, I thought he was going to be a pornographer. I’d received a scholarship to attend a writers’ conference in Napa Valley and had a cheap flight to San Francisco, but I still had no ride from the airport…
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Donald Day
Donald, the new book by Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott and Eric Martin, is officially out today, timed to coincide with the release of Donald Rumsfeld’s memoir, Known and Unknown. Eric and Stephen were on The Takeaway this morning and…
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The Rumpus Unreview: Known and Unknown, by Donald Rumsfeld
An 800-page memoir from the former Secretary of Defense tells an old, familiar story—so familiar that our reviewer didn’t even have to read it.
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Zizek on Egypt and Tunisia
“The inevitable conclusion to be drawn is that the rise of radical Islamism was always the other side of the disappearance of the secular left in Muslim countries. “When Afghanistan is portrayed as the utmost Islamic fundamentalist country, who still…
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A Relevance Roundup
There seems to be a bit of soul-searching hitting the book blogs about the social relevance and political importance of literary writing. Some selections below, in no particular order.
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“The Last Temptation of Ted”
“I bought drugs and a massage from him, and he masturbated me at the end of it. That’s it.” A profile of reverend Ted Haggard, four years after he was outed by escort Mike Jones. (via @CaitlinRoper)
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The Egyptian government has shut down the country’s Internet. Compliant providers made it surprisingly easy to drop traffic to almost nothing in less than two hours. But stateside, over 25% of Americans can continue using facebook in the bathroom. Microsoft…
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Rate of Loss
“For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide than it has to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
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“LaVena Johnson to Sarah Palin,” A Rumpus Original Poem
In Iraq, in the summer of 2005, 19 year old US Army Private LaVena Johnson was found dead and mutilated in a tent belonging to military contractors KBR. The Army, to this day, asserts that her injuries were self inflicted,…
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“Pussy Fever” Loves “Locker 29”
A Conversation with Cheryl Strayed, who is against sex work, and Antonia Crane who agitates for sex worker rights, about sex work and feminism.