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.

Is British politics near an apocalyptic implosion?
It's easy to have lost track of this, since the news moves so fast, but nearly 20 members now of the British Parliament have resigned over the never-ending expenses scandal going on over there right now, including four separate members of Gordon Brown's cabinet, with Brown himself now reportedly weeks away from getting booted out of office too, and supposedly so frustrated over everything that he has apparently THROWN SILVERWARE at people during official meetings. Many Brits are calling him the worst Prime Minister since the dude who signed a treaty with Hitler; here, a good overview of the entire thing from The Daily Beast, including the ongoing soap-opera saga (still new revelations daily) concerning the relationship between Brown and former PM Tony Blair.

The Anti-Sherman's March: Obama taps yet another Republican
Politico has a great article concerning President Obama's third major appointment of a Republican this week to a cabinet-level position, and coins a great phrase for it -- the "Anti-Sherman's March," whereby he forces Republicans in 2012 into no other option but to march right back down to the racist, backwards Deep South, the only group left in the country that still supports the party in large numbers. By picking off smart, moderate conservatives one by one, and "love-bombing" them into powerful positions within a Democratic cabinet, he assures that they will be no threat to Democrats in the 2012 election, and of course assures that the hillbilly contingent of the GOP will attack them as "turncoats," then erasing their chances of ever becoming popular among Republicans in 2012 in the first place. It's coincidence when it happens once, argues Politico; when it happens three times in three months, it's officially a strategy.