Linkage

David Neiwert’s blog Orcinus is the place to go for some interesting writing on fascism, and whether we’re headed that way with help from right-wing media such as Rush Limbaugh.

Weekly World News, a news source only slightly more reliable than Fox News, tells us that Saddam Hussein starred in gay porn films.

Is it time to lock up smokers for the safety of the citizens of NY? Bouncer Fatally Stabbed Trying to Enforce Smoking Ban

London, from space
[via consumptive.org]

Number of states that cut their arts budgets last year: 42

Santa Cruz police are searching for vandals with an anti-war message who defaced an estimated 65 sport utility vehicles and trucks in a late-night spray-painting blitz.

I received an email from someone at WNYC who pointed me to their gallery of listener-submitted artwork inspired by the war on Iraq.

A comparison of the relative sizes of Baghdad and New York
[via 601am]

British Air and Air France announce the retirement of the Concorde.

German souvenir packets of condoms with the image of a historic cathedral have been criticised by a Roman Catholic clergyman.

The prophylactics featuring St Mary’s Cathedral in Erfurt were the idea of local tourism officials.