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McSweeney's is Fluxing its Muscles
By Staff, McSweeney's
A flux box just arrived in your mailbox, and if it didn't, you probably wish that it had. It's the new issue of McSweeney's, unrivaled in its nouveau-Fluxus mail-art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxus glory. The delivery is chock full of literary snippets, a fake academic journal, a letter to Sgt. Maria Vasquez involving an incident with cars and a fish, a few odd catalogues, an envelope of art, and other tender morsels to feed the right side of your brain. George Maciunas, one of the central minds behind the Fluxus art movement of the 1960s, would be proud of you Dave Eggers. -- Rose Miller
http://tinyurl.com/dtsc7

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Who Would Jesus Torture?
By David Batstone, Sojourners
Torture has sparked a rift on Capitol Hill, as Vice President Dick Cheney and Republican Sen. John McCain square off over whether to ban US soldiers from using 'cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment' of prisoners. In an online column for Sojourners, the standard-bearer of the evangelical Christian Left, Batstone weighs in firmly on McCain's side of the debate. 'Consider this,' he exhorts, 'Who would Jesus torture? I cannot imagine Jesus finding a single 'exemption' that would justify such an abuse of any individual made in God's image.' -- Leif Utne
http://tinyurl.com/ca7cg

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