Best non-political blog entry:
“Life and death” by Chris Clarke (via
Patrick Nielsen Hayden)
Best article about political writing:
“Flathead: The peculiar genius of Thomas L. Friedman” by Matt Taibbi in the NY Press. And don’t miss the Friedman-esque parodies of
Keat’s “On First Looking into Chapman’s ‘Homer’” in
Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s Making Light.
Best article about economics and honesty:
“What the Bagel Man Saw - An Accidental Glimpse at Human Nature” (via
Kottke)
Best musical response to an obscure historical note about a current event:
“Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” by
tahnan Best webcomic I discovered this month:
Ojingogo by Matthew Forsythe.