I thought that the street naming system here in the UK was screwy – building numbers go up one side of the street, come down the other; streets get seemingly get new names every 15 feet; signs are rarely posted.

In most of the Arab world, they don’t name anything. Qatar, however, in a bid to improve business, is now naming thousands of streets.

I love this story in The Stranger about the San Francisco alternative newspaper war between the Village Voice-owned SF Weekly and the locally-owned Bay Guardian but I can’t improve over Fark’s one sentence description…

Murderous editors, billionaires paying off underage prostitutes with cocaine, ties to the Church of Satan and illegal predatory pricing schemes: just another day in the…

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Straw man, Marco.

It’s not a question of entitlement. It’s a question of clear vision about the inevitability of painful, weird change, and whether we can each find the courage to face it without folding.

If anyone’s acting “entitled” right now, it’s the many…

Vanity Fair has a good article of the final days of Matt Taibi and Mark Ames’ Exile newspaper in Moscow.

In its time The Exile was arguably the most abusive, defamatory, un-evenhanded, and crassest publication in Russia, and Ames and his staff had paid for that fact, or at least for the fact that they were arrogant reprobates, many times before. Columnist Edward Limonov, the 66-year-old political provocateur in whom…

I never did find a copy of the third edition. If you did, would you please contact me here.

Also, Shouldn’t you be following me on Twitter?

Week One | Week Two

I’m posting this to remind myself. We have a tiny and dangerous balcony off the bedroom that would be perfect for falling to one’s death and growing tomatoes. This year will be the year that something actually grows.

We ran Ted Rall periodically in Terminal City, often his pieces on Afghanistan. The actual trips were paid for by major media outlets – we just paid his bargain-by-comparison column fee.

Now he wants go back back and he has set up a fund for readers to pay for it.

The short version: They have a taste of power but not enough fiscal incentives not to rock the boat. This short article in Foreign Policy lays it all out.

Although the website of the London Weekly says the third edition has been released, we have been unable to find it at our usual locations.

All staff of RevMoonbeam remain on high alert. Hit Twitter #revmoonbeam or contact above if you have any leads.

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