Tonight is the season-5 finale of Lost, in which one of the characters may or may not be killing off a supernatural creature who may or may not be the key to all of the island's mysteries (or perhaps spell the doom of every single character on the show). Here, a brilliant poster for the finale by anonymous Flickr member "Tasty 'Shops." First spotted at YesButNoButYes.com.

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.

Huckabee: "My party's 'rebranding' efforts are a pathetic joke"
And the GOP inches ever forward towards its party-destroying civil war: Now it's ultra-conservative Mike Huckabee complaining (who let's not forget, regularly snuck crucifix images into the backgrounds of his presidential commercials), calling the 'rebranding' effort known as the "National Council for a New America" a pathetic joke, and laughing that their effort to "reach out to common people" started in a wealthy suburb of Washington DC. Replied the group's founder, Eric Cantor: "No, seriously, we hate f-ggots just as much as Huckabee does! No, seriously, we hate f-ggots too, we do, we do!"

Cigarettes in US might jump to $20 a pack
The Senate Finance Committee has started exploring options for the first time as to how the US might possibly pay for a national healthcare system; and one of the strongest arguments right now is to vastly increase the rates of so-called "vice taxes," or the fees added to the very things that make people the unhealthiest -- cigarettes, liquor, fast food and more. Under one proposal, in fact, cigarettes in most large cities would jump to nearly $20 a pack, which for those who don't know is a dollar PER CIGARETTE; and at the heaviest point of my own past smoking, to give you an example, I smoked around a thousand cigarettes a month (or two packs a day, every single day), a habit that would cost you $12,000 a year under this new proposal. Yikes.

GOP: "Either refer to Democrats as socialists or get kicked out of the party"
No, this is not a joke: Using an obscure by-law in order to force a special general session of the Republican Party, later this week the RNC will be drafting an official resolution which will force all GOP members nationally to refer to the Democrats as the "Socialist Party" in all future public mentions, or else risk being kicked out of the party altogether. THIS IS NOT A JOKE. Needless to say, there are lots of Republicans who are not happy about this at all; this might just be the straw on the camel's back that kicks off the party-destroying GOP civil war that I've been predicting for months.

White House hosts poetry slam
NO! NOOOO! NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! (Alternate smartass caption: "I wonder if they'll get wasted and hit on the host's wife like usual.")

Moron twitters from outer space
The astronaut's actual tweet, and I am NOT making this up: "Launch was awesome!!!" And you wonder why this nation has been on an unstoppable downward spiral for the last decade.

Cheney's daughter: "Yep, I'm a torture-loving monster too"
Yet more proof that you don't have to be a guy to be a violent, sociopathic animal. Girl power!