From Halley’s Comment: Business books are romance novels for men [via Doc Searls Weblog]

Comic author Warren Ellis has a blog and everyone is talking about it (and his cool domain name). [via everyone]

[via Politics in the Zeros]

Beginning in 2003 the Winona, Minneapolis City Council will charge city property owners for the rain that falls on their land. I imagine a tax on oxygen will follow shortly. [via Politech]

Project Censored announced their 2001-2002 most under-reported “censored” stories and to no big surprise the leading story is on broadcasting. The “winners” (if you can describe it that way) are: FCC Moves To Privatize Airwaves New Trade Treaty Seeks to … Continue reading →

I stopped reading Cerebus somewhere around the Melmoth-era or so, but whenever someone mentions the comic it’s guaranteed to generate a flash-discussion about: The Meaning Of It All Is Cerebus creator Dave Sim completely out of his tree? Anyway, the … Continue reading →

From Steve Lopez’s column in the LA Times today. I had a cup of coffee recently with Peter Camejo, the Green Party candidate for governor, and he had a thought. “Do you know how to get Gray Davis to change … Continue reading →

CounterPunch looks at the post-Iraq endgame. It is safer to assume that the U.S. will remain under threat for a long time. The U.S. will be forced to spend more and more to defend itself, its allies, and its interventions. … Continue reading →

I was looking around for a source of the Alternative 3 video and actually found an online streaming version. The video is in the execrable Real format, and rebuffers constantly but it’s vaguely watchable. Alternative 3 was a documentary produced … Continue reading →