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Breaking News 5/6/2009

Minnesotans today can breathe a sigh of relief, now that 6th District Republican congresswoman "Michele Bachmann" has revealed herself to be an elaborate performance-art hoax.

No stranger to outlandish and "guerilla-style" art projects, the openly-gay [Trinity] Ohm said she created the Bachmann character as part of her ongoing mission to use experimental performance art to "confront issues of gender, patriarchy, and the mainstreaming of authoritarian politics in America." Previously, Ohm was best known for her video art project "Tyrannosaurus Sex," a five-hour video, which featured a nude Ohm, with a latex phallus attached to her forehead, making, then destroying balloon animals…

Read the full story at Dear Leader.

Reading Material 2/25/2009

I want to draw attention to a new addition to the blogroll at ~~left~~ right: Dear Leader Blog. Take, for example, his crush-manifesto on the subject of Rachel Maddow. Excerpt:

I think Maddow-crushing has more to do with the fact that she has intelligence, integrity, and most of all a strong point of view, which makes her so radically different from the dominant species of lame-brained fembots and money-honeys that men have grown so accustomed to being offered by TV producers. I think most of the women on cable TV are probably more familiar with what it feels like walking on Mars than expressing an original thought or opinion.

There's a lot more, check it out!