Art Spiegelman on why he left the New Yorker — good, but frankly I think comparing smoking restrictions with post 9/11 civil right abrogations is ludicrous

U.N. inspectors say tips from the U.S. are garbage.

Go read Uppity Negro on how bad American media has become.

Lynn Johnston, creator of one of my favorite comic strips, says it will end in a few years when her syndication contract is up.

Things to ponder about war with Iraq, from CalPundit.

I love Pandagon’s new design.

A study says that open source code for operatings systems is of higher quality than that of closed source systems.

I think the logic of all of the people who say anti-war protesters are coddling (or appeasing) a dictator boils down to this: “If those Iraqis knew what was good for them, they would let us bomb them to rescue them from Saddam Hussein and bring them democracy.”

Michael Tomaski provides a good timeline on how we got to this point on Iraq.

If anyone has a better link for this, let me know. I’m going to protest the INS special registrations downtown at Federal Plaza on Friday.

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