Freedom of speech, huh?

Bush talked of bomb­ing Al-Jaz­eera but Blair per­suaded him not to EDIT: And while I was speech­less, jen_tlemnfarmer said a lot of what I was think­ing pretty clearly.

Inside Guantanamo

Ganked from antiminke: “Because Sami com­plained repeatedly they held him in sol­it­ary con­fine­ment at Camp V. Three years into this ordeal, Sami’s tribunal found him “inno­cent” – as he had said all along, he never was an enemy com­batant. So what did he get for...

Two from fireflesh

1. The state of rock­’n’roll. Scath­ing treat­ise on what’s wrong with the yoof of today and spe­cific­ally the apolit­ical music they listen to. 2. Pan­dora. Awe­some use of the concept of like-leads-to-like that we almost saw with Music Plasma but that here is...