Salon's Patrick Smith sneers at the miracle angle of Air France 358 and says the real story is not that all 209 people aboard survived, but how.

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Democracy Now! speaks with Cindy Sheehan, mother of a young U.S. soldier killed in Iraq, about her vigil outside Dubya's ranch near Crawford, Texas.

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A relatively young American catholic priest has ripped off borrowed heavily from the look of the Matrix to sell the sizzle of the priesthood. (pix included!)

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Barry Reuger, who blogs at Three Squirrels in a Pressure Cooker, talks about why he thinks the world of conventional radio is dying in Radio? What's that mean?

I believe Sarah Marchildon of The Hollywood North Report speaks for many of us when she says she can relate to a guy who shot up a Toyota Camry to shut off a car alarm in Car alarms, what are they good for?

(Absolutely nuthin'/Say it again, y'all! :) )

I posted yesterday on The Blogs of War about the appearance of the author of a Wired article on military bloggers on The Daily Show.

Well, somehow, the Washington Post got the idea to do a yarn on blogging soldiers too! (probably in the works for months) :)

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Mark Ames, editor of the Moscow alt.weekly The eXile, looks at the controversy over ABC News' interview with Shamil Basayev, the Osama bin Laden of Chechnya, and U.S. hypocrisy in response, for Alternet.

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Rich Meislin offers up this collection of U.S. blogs for anyone looking to dip their toe in the opinionated pool of online journaling.

The CBC has told the Canadian Media Guild that if a contract isn't signed before 12:01 a.m. on Aug. 15, it will lock the union's 5,500 members out.

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