Wolfe on Forgiveness, Lasusa Links, Dan Grobstein File

Freedom of the press is important. Freedom of information is important. A terribly bad federal court decision shut down Wikileaks, but you can find a link to Wikileaks new home in Sweden.

Regular contributor Marjorie Gottlieb Wolfe writes about forgiveness on her blog.

Tom Lasusa surfs the web so you don't have to: Overheard in NY...Great comic book art..James Bond fanatic creates underwater car...A Very Star Wars Valentine...Des Moine's "festival for bacon."...This link would have been helpful to me, say around 1990?....Warrantless wiretapping explained by Snuggle the Security Bear...The five Most Bad-assed Presidents of all time...Where the World's Oil Money Is Going...Haiti's poor eat mud cookies. I kid you not... PICK OF THE WEEK: A VERY Interesting Comparison of Obama and Clinton's bills and senate activity. . . Tournament of blood: The sheer horror of horse-fighting. . . There's a lake at the bottom of the sea. . . FRIGGIN GENIUS. . . Stanford is free to students whose families make less than $100,000. . . Tex Avery toon on the Future of Television, 1953. . . A Lead on the Ark of the Covenant. . . 5 Things I Didn't Know about Poop. . .

See also Tom's comments in the Long Letter from Tom LaSusa about Spidey and MJ, posted below.

Dan Grobstein File

• The craftiness of the right (a detailed description of right-wing propaganda techniques.

• BUSINESS
| February 17, 2008
Novelties: Learning From a Native Speaker, Without Leaving Home
By ANNE EISENBERG
If you can’t manage a trip abroad to learn a foreign language, the Internet and a broadband computer connection may do the job, too.

• Josh Marshall talkingpointsmemo.com wins Polk award. This is America's highest honor for serious journalism. For a blogger to win it marks a serious sea change in the narrative of American media.

• McCain and the Media--from before the NY Times dustup of this week
  
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  He is good at keeping the romance going with big media. Back in Arizona -- where he's rarely engaged on any issue, except to refuse to help -- it's a very different story. There he ignores and has contempt for the local media. He is, in his mind I suppose, a figure of national stature, not a public servant of the citizens of Arizona.
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  He feuded for years with the Arizona Republic because the paper had the audacity to raise legitimate questions and demand answers. In other words, to treat him like any elected official. After being bought by Gannett -- a large media corporation with business interests before Congress -- the newspaper completely backed off. It has few resources committed to the campaign of the first (nominal) Arizonan to be the likely party nominee since Barry Goldwater. Editors assigned a reporter whose bona fides was being a reliable conservative editorial writer. Now never is heard a discouraging word.
  
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