Odds and Ends
Cartoons, news, ephemera

I've been a busy girl, what can I say? But here are some odds and ends worth checking out, in no particular order:

Cartoons
• Keith Knight has a historical take on the devastation in New Orleans.
• Emily Flake has an awesome new book collection, and it's only $9.95!
• Speaking of which, why haven't you bought my book or Masheka's book yet? We're even cheaper ($3.80 and $1.75 respectively) and ours are SIGNED! Come on... I know you can read our cartoons for free, but signed books make great (did I mention CHEAP) gifts and look lovely on your coffee table or bathroom floor.
• August Pollak explains how to pound all the pork out of the federal budget.
• Mark Fiore reminds us that, horrible as Hurricane Katrina was, there are other things going on, such as war, starvation, genocide and nuclear proliferation.
• Mike Thompson wonders about politicians' oddly selective outrage over poverty...
• Ted Rall is going to host a radio show for the first time in five years! More details to come...
• Matt Bors cautions us not to mess with NWA (Neocons with Attitude).

Blogs, articles, news
• Body and Soul has some essential posts about abandoned prisoners and exaggerated reports of crime in New Orleans.
• Naomi Klein writes about developers' dreams of purging the poor from New Orleans.
• Over at This Modern World, Greg Saunders notes Bush's ridiculous attempt to link Katrina to 9/11.
• The family of Jean Charles de Menezes (the innocent Brazilian man hunted down and executed by British police in a subway in July, see my cartoon) is crying out for justice.
• Billmon welcomes us to hell and explains why he now supports withdrawing the troops from Iraq.
• A new study clearly shows the racial imbalance on death row--killers of whites are much more likely to get the death penalty. Shocking, huh?
• Amnesty International reports that U.S. police target, abuse and selectively enforce laws against gay, lesbian bisexual and transgendered people.
• In an interview with Campus Progess, Jonathan Kozol notes that "Charity is not a substitute for systematic justice."