Congratulations to these kids. They're absolutely justified. The military has no right to coerce high school students into taking tests that make it easier to recruit the students. The test the kids resisted, the ASVAB is a covert recruiting tool. If kids want to go to Iraq, let them go to…
Click here for a slide show of the works of Spencer Tunick. Incredibly ambitious, delightful, fun, thoughtful. Certainly something you don't see every day. And how interesting that so many people are so willing to sign up to participate. What does that say?
A few months ago the English alternative rock band Radiohead released their long awaited album "In Rainbows" as a free download, leaving it up to the fans to decide what they would pay, if anything at all. As someone who has had the difficult and expensive experience of distributing physical…
This Slate article is from 2005, but the topic is one that desperately needs to be reported accurately. It's about ethanol, and the story is that it takes much more energy to make ethanol than one can get from ethanol. Ethanol won't significantly reduce our oil imports; adding more ethanol…
The death of investigative journalism is not the title of this paper, but it is the context. Here's the title: "The Growing Importance of Nonprofit Journalism," by Charles Lewis (April, 2007). The statistics will shock and depress you. That the lack of investigative journalism in the corporate media world is a…