‘Protests should do three things: they should express anger, through marches and targeted civil disobedience, at a particular political or social situation. They should give people the opportunity to see that other people, even people different from themselves, share that anger. And they should provide a vision of how life would be better if the world were different. Occupy Wall Street is doing all three of those things.’

Why the reaction to the iPhone leak reflects a much-weakened press and an Apple in bed with the authorities.

"I’ve long assumed that if you followed the news, the stories behind the headlines would become plain."

Stylistic changes in the Obama White House. "I've got to do something about these plates. I'm not really a plates kind of guy."

"America should take a chance and make Barack Obama the next leader of the free world." A cautious but firm and thoughtful endorsement from an excellent publication.

"Animals are banned from the moon. House cats now kill more people than heart disease."

The sad dumbing-down of one of the most visited and trusted news sources in the country.