Below are simple links to other interesting stuff I've come across on the web in the last day or two; they may or may not concern literature or photography, or indeed the arts at all. You can click here to learn more about how I compile this list and what software I use, if you're interested.

Black journalist called "n-gger" by angry crowd at McCain rally
Or so says the New York Times, anyway. The rise of the American Brownshirts is upon us, or so says futurist Jon Taplin, and I tend to agree with him; like him, I see this new "attack mode" by the McCain/Palin campaign more as an excuse to incite hatred and violence among the FOX-watching, Rush-listening, Humvee-driving, wrestling-obsessed uneducated thugs in this country, exactly what Hitler did in the 1930s to make the Nazi party as strong as it was.

Yahoo stock drops to $13 a share
The end times for yet another '90s tech behemoth? Yahoo stock slid yet another six percent yesterday, after a bungled merger attempt earlier this year with other doomed '90s tech behemoth Microsoft, and rumors this month of yet another merger with yet another doomed '90s tech behemoth, America Online. Is this year's economic meltdown the final nail in the coffin for all the remaining dot-com-era megacorporations? It'll be interesting to see, at any rate.

In which I link to an article just to point out a funny phrase it uses
The article itself is not that shocking; turns out that circumcision doesn't really help prevent the risk of catching HIV, but does so slightly among gay tops. But I just loved the journalistic phrase they used to replace the gay slang term "tops" -- "predominantly insertive partners." Don't call me a dom bear! I'm a Predominantly Insertive American!

Corrupt AIG execs receive another $40 billion in taxpayer money
Exactly one week after their board of directors was flat-out busted holding a lavish corporate retreat at a pricey resort in southern California, Congress is set to hand over yet another $40 billion in taxpayer money to AIG, the world's largest insurance company, to "help it deal with a rapidly dwindling supply of cash." Hey, AIG, maybe if you stopped sending your board of directors on lavish corporate retreats to pricey resorts, that supply of cash wouldn't be dwindling so rapidly? Just a thought.

America and its citizens are now collectively $53 trillion in debt
That's when you combine the government deficit, all citizen debt, plus all promised future government benefits (military pensions, Social Security, Medicare, etc). Sheesh, 53 trillion dollars of debt; how are we EVER going to possibly climb out of a hole like that?

AIG execs: "It wasn't our fault that our company tanked"
Yes. Of course it wasn't. Now, why don't you go on another company-sponsored trip to the Bahamas with your coke-snorting mistress, just like actual AIG execs have actually gotten busted doing in the past? Don't worry; we'll pay the bill!