(I'm feeling that I'm part of a very small minority who think this way and are daily more appalled at what the unheeding herd is thundering toward)

Emperor's Glorious Raiment. soon to be acronymized to EGR as in EGRegious. And I see no signs of hope, none, from any quarter of the political rainbow. Faugh.

…all over again…

Bruce Sterling keeps finding 'em. This one truly boggles whatever is [still] bogglable

from WFMU's Beware of the Blog, always fascinating and in this case positively essential cultural background and commentary

from Mark Rubin's Chasing the Fat Man, this one is a fascinating rumination and ethnographic reportage by one of my favorite musicians and commentators. A lot to think about in this one.