RIP Michael Hastings: ‘We Punch Folks. They Punch Back. That’s the Deal.’ - The ITT List : Afterward, Hastings and I stayed in touch. Occas...

Missing Michael Hastings : One day last fall, he had a furious exchange with a spokesman for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. His impuls...

Laugh It Off by Cienna Madrid - Seattle Theater - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper : It's a Tuesday night in the basement of ...

Chilling Letter From Chinese Factory Worker Found In Kmart Halloween Decorations - Yahoo! India Finance : The New York Times has identified...

Jon Peters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : In his Q&A/comedy DVD, An Evening With Kevin Smith, writer/director Kevin Smith related...

The BRAD BLOG : 'We're in the Abyss': My KPFK 'BradCast' Intvw with Daniel Ellsberg on Edward Snowden : "What he h...

Edward Snowden and the State-Identified Journalist : And from Marshall's point of view, Bradley Manning did not have a very good reason...

Why journalists should listen to Mike Daisey’s thoughts on journalism | Poynter. : I didn’t see “Journalism” the show, but I think Mike Dai...

Senators propose bill to declassify orders behind NSA spying | The Verge : A bipartisan group of eight prominent US senators announced a ne...

Jedediah Purdy: Why I Got Arrested in Raleigh: The States Are the New Front Line : Henry David Thoreau, another privileged white guy who sp...

America the passive - Salon.com : And I think there’s more to the indifference, even by a lot of liberals, to this latest news than just “i...

Pitchfork: So the second you write something down, it's fiction. Tom Waits: There is no such thing as nonfiction. There is no such thin...

The Real Economy vs. The Wall Street Economy : Almost five years after the near-total collapse of the global economy, the stock market has ...

Today the trial of Private First Class Bradley Manning begins. To mark this occasion, I’m releasing an audio recording of my monologue BR...

Going to Disney World Sure Is Expensive - Richard Lawson - The Atlantic Wire : If you've got little ones constantly pulling on your pan...

BuzzFeed Writer Resigns In Disgrace After Plagiarizing ‘10 Llamas Who Wish They Were Models’ | The Onion - America's Finest News Source ...

"The world is divided into two kinds of people: the natives and the strangers."

A year ago I created a dustup about the All Things D conference. I pointed out that they had Tim Cook in public for questioning at the heig...

Is There Any Value to Be Found in the Intentionally Offensive Comedy of Andrew "Dice" Clay? | Splitsider : The album was called T...

GOODBYE NORMA JEAN : So, that's it. All over. A LOT of work and yes, to be honest, a LOT of heartache. But moments of pure bliss were t...

Last week I performed a one-night only event in Portland of a new monologue called JOURNALISM . A few observations on the nature of journali...

World premiere of JOURNALISM by Mike Daisey comes to Portland for one night on May 21 | portland theatre scene : Portland was also one of t...

The Sunday Morning News | Slog : I'm a little surprised there is so little mention of Mike Daisey's current shows on SLOG. The &qu...

Being Walt Disney: Lucas Hnath and the Theater of Celebrity - The Brooklyn Rail : These experiments with language are in the tradition of w...

Times Square Blues | The Nation : We enter the antiseptic, overlit warren (I say its “much smaller,” but the place is actually still pretty...

Et tu, Mr. Destructo?: Destructo Salon: Does Matthew Yglesias Enjoy Murder? : Writing off the death of 161 people with 370 words of vacuous...