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TODAY IN TAP ONLINE. Marj Halperin writes about a monthly satirical newspaper called The New Orleans Levee.
Publisher Rudy Vorkapic says his goal is to give voice to residents' frustrations, "redirecting the inane back at those who spew it," as he wrote in a recent edition. Vorkapic fashions the paper as an unapologetic, broadside attack on area politicos. It's a local-news version of The Onion, but unlike that paper's mock news, The Levee tries to base most of its satire in fact, giving flood-weary locals more than the occasional laugh.Read the whole thing here.Also today, Anthony Kaufman sits down with Afghan politician and women's rights activist Malalai Joya She's the subject of the new documentary, Enemies of Happiness.
"Even with these risks that I face -- for example, I'm going outside wearing a burqa, I must have bodyguards, I'm changing houses, I can't live with my family -- but just because of that, I want to go back to this warlord-ism, druglord-ism Parliament to tear their masks off in front of them in their own house, because nobody dares to."Read more from Joya here.--The Editors