Recommended

As is so often the case with Blogspot-hosted sites, the permanent links at Orcinus are broken, so you'll just have to go to the main page and wander through all of it, which you ought to do anyhow because it has been especially good recently. Over the next couple of weeks, David Neiwert is republishing the final version of his Rush, Newspeak, and Fascism series (an 87-page pdf version is also available). It has been tightened up and edited since the first run through, and it really should be required reading. Given the last two years' examples, it's possible that our alma mater still might do just that.

He also has great posts up now about the history of lynching in the south, the unpleasant politics and odd religious beliefs of Mel Gibson's father, the difference between Ann Coulter and Michael Moore, and Katherine Harris confiscating opponents' literature at a town hall meeting and then distributing her own. But as I say, the links are all broken. So just go.