The flair and literacy that Chris Floyd shows in writing about the U.S. national security state is also present in this charming appeal for "a few spare coins."[1]  --  It just goes to show that Sir Walter Scott was right when he said literature was "a good staff but a poor crutch." ...


Mickey Z. posted his "top ten reasons why activists shouldn't be 'too radical'" on Saturday.[1]  -- David Letterman take note....


According to the web site Boing Boing ("a directory of wonderful things"), the "Washington" web page of the New York Times struck briefly an astonishing, if appropriate, note in the aftermath of the House's 246-182 vote against the administration's Iraq war escalation.[1]  --  Was it an accident?  --  Bill Keller isn't saying.  --  Check it out at the link below....