Primary Sources
Looking
The Biloxi Sun-Herald is looking for its employees:
“If you work for The Sun Herald, please contact the paper to let us know where you are.”
After some difficulty, the paper has posted aerial photos of Biloxi. And then there’s this editorial, with that classic Southern outrage: “We are not calling on the nation and the state [...]
Bob’s Body of Work
Bob Mould, feeling a bit more expansive in this Irish Times interview:
“People regularly ask why I don’t play the Hüsker Dü songs, and it’s a good question. I think this tour those songs will be fine. I’ve sort of reconciled all that, putting my work into different drawers. In a sense I saw the uselessness [...]
Inside G-8 Anarchists
A Scotsman reporter infiltrates the network of anarchists and protestors preparing for the upcoming G-8 summit in Scotland:
It was a world in which neo-hippy mumbo-jumbo met hardline, expert protest technique. Activists met in circles - use of a table was regarded as too corporate - and indicated their approval or disapproval of decisions by waving [...]
Afghan Opium Trade
I suggest reading pretty much everything that Paul Watson of the LA Times writes, including this piece on the drug trade in Afghanistan:
Kunduz, Afghanistan - Like a frustrated hunter, the head of the local anti-drug squad keeps snapshots of the ones who got away.
One photo shows a prisoner wearing a flat, round pakol hat, standing [...]
The Kutztown Project
Kutztown, Pa., is a couple miles from where my mom and her busband live. It’s a fairly quiet small-college town, just far enough from the Interstate to avoid an enormous big-box retailer. What Kutztown does have, however, is high-speed data lines. For everybody in town.
In 2001, Kutztown decided to build its own network, hiring a [...]
