The street poster is still a crazy shot to the eye! A nondigital YouTube, an always-current, cheap and effective weapon for all sides!

You in there, Mr Rove?
The news from Nigeria (“The elections were a fraud, a sad spectacle of backwardness from a country riven by cronyism and oil-money corruption!”) appears to be the same as the news coming from Ohio.

The much-anticipated White Stripes single “Icky Thump” was of course ripped from a web-radio stream and passed around last night before iTunes could release it exclusively at midnight, which was the plan. It’s just the latest swipe in the thousand-cut battle against the dominant recording industry business model, a model based on copyright law that [...]

I just watched my Tivo’d version of The Daily Show from Tuesday night, and was amazed by Jon Stewart’s debating skills on the war in Iraq. He should really win a medal. Arguments between him and Sen. John McCain were hotter than an installment of Crossfire. I say Stewart for president! [...]

The LA Times did an interesting story on Tyler Perry in the Business section today. If you don’t know who Perry is, he’s responsible for the Madea franchise (“Diary of a Mad Black Woman”) and is on his way to becoming a mogul in entertainment. Recently, TBS bought 100 episodes of his new [...]

I spent two days last week “live blogging” and lived to tell the tale.
Live blogging is blogging an event while it’s happening. It’s that scene of young people—usually guys—sitting in the back of the room, furiously typing away at their laptops during Bush’s State of the Union or the Scooter Libby trial.
I’m not your [...]

Pushing Off
Live blogging is attention deficit heaven! Do I like that? Yes. Maybe. I mean, What was I saying?

If you missed these episodes of Hometown Baghdad, they’re good to see in tandem— the hubbly bubbly, above, and the rat-a-tat-tat, below.

Opposite World: He’s right and she’s left.

Bloggers are reporting that French presidential candidates Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal are headed for a second-round election run-off. Sarkozy, the rightist, polled 30 percent and Royal, the socialist, 25 percent of the overall vote today. As predicted, voters turned out in record numbers, so candidates at the ends [...]

The New York Times reported today that there’s been a recent increase in the number of black babies dying in the southeast. It states:
“Most striking, here and throughout the country, is the large racial disparity. In Mississippi, infant deaths among blacks rose to 17 per thousand births in 2005 from 14.2 per thousand in 2004, [...]