After Fallujah

There's an excellent account of the Battle of Al-Fajr in Fallujah over at Michael J. Totten's Middle East Journal. It's important to look at the realities of that battle as it has become a rallying cry for those who would support the extremists over America and her allies.

Bubbles & Bastards

I regularly read The Underwire over at Wired.com and it's recently brought up two very good - and very pertinent - little videos. Firstly, here's a little ditty by The Richter Scales about the Web 2.0 bubble:

And here's Harlan Ellison talking about Hollywood's attitude to the writers; it makes a much better case for the WGA's strike than Tina Fey's sanctimonious bitching about Desperate Housewives stalling ever could.