Politics
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #57: That Ecstatic Parade
You mustn’t live with people who wish to annihilate you.
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“Charge, angry youth”
“A woman in China has been sentenced to a year in a labour camp” for a tweet. We encourage those of you who use Twitter to re-tweet her statement (“Charge, angry youth”) in protest.
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Donkey Blogger Released
Adnan Hajizada, one of two bloggers who were jailed for “hooliganism” after a supposed fight in a restaurant, but who were more likely being punished for a “satirical Internet video in which Hajizada holds a fake government press conference dressed…
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Men Come First
“…Romeo and Juliet. John, Yoko. See a pattern? We may have come a long way baby, but our female names still typically follow the man’s name.” — Scientific American on a new study showing that when it comes to name…
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220,000 Copies
Hey, George W. Bush, you’ve done so many worse things… much, much, much worse. Still: Fuck you!
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“My son finally hit this jerk in the face.”
As a single mother living in a majority-Republican town, Alana Noel Voth is determined to raise an open-minded son against all odds. She talks to her son frankly about sex and sexuality, despite the sometimes overwhelming negativity she encounters from…
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Move Bush’s Book
Remember W.? Our boy’s new memoir, Decision Points, is slated to drop tomorrow, and folks are protesting its release by pledging to subversively move the book to shops’ crime section. What do you say? Want to do some sneaky book-switching…
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Zadie Smith On Her Generation
“When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it’s a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings,…
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What’s Going On At The New York Observer?
“By our count, nine out of nine of the latest Observer departures were women or gay men. All left in the last three months.” — The Awl wonders what’s going on with the staff at the New York Observer.
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King of the Rats
Paranoid—From the greek: Paranoos, “distracted” from “para” irregular and “noos,” mind. There are rats in my garage. Boot-sized ones that run straight up the walls and then tiptoe along the roof beams.
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Election Day Drawings
Rumpus cartoonist and graphic journalist Susie Cagle traveled to different Bay Area polling places on November 2nd and drew what she witnessed. The results are pretty darn neat.