From the guy who publishes the books with the woodcuts I caught a link to last week’s NYT Magazine editorial about theRehabilitation of the Cold-War Liberal.

Democrats have no shortage of talented foreign-policy practitioners. Indeed, they have no shortage of worthwhile foreign-policy proposals. Even so, they cannot tell a coherent story about the post-9/11 world. …In the late 1940’s and 1950’s, intellectuals like Reinhold Niebuhr and policymakers like George F. Kennan described America’s cold-war struggle differently from their conservative counterparts: as a struggle not merely for democracy but for economic opportunity as well, in the belief that the former required the latter to survive. Even more important, they described America itself differently. Americans may fight evil, they argued, but that does not make us inherently good. And paradoxically, that very recognition makes national greatness possible. Knowing that we, too, can be corrupted by power, we seek the constraints that empires refuse. And knowing that democracy is something we pursue rather than something we embody, we advance it not merely by exhorting others but by battling the evil in ourselves. The irony of American exceptionalism is that by acknowledging our common fallibility, we inspire the world.

I’ll be honest – I could get behind something like that. In a way, that was the message that I heard Reagan pimping, too, substituting a fight against the erosion of Values (social conservatism) for the corruption of power. Ying and Yang, I say – two sides of the same coin.

Doc Searls (who apparently did something important to build the internet) has a bit over at Linux Journal regarding the death of broadcast that mirrors some stuff I’ve been thinking about pretty much as long as I’ve been doing the podcast thing through iTunes:

AM and FM stations have a future as long as manufacturers ship cars with radios. But that future will be increasingly restricted by a growing assortment of other sources of what we’ve come to call “content”.

If you’re an ethical vegetarian or find Tarantino movies to be too graphic, stop reading now. Really.

Sony just dropped the $600 tag for the PS3 loaded edition. Wow.

On the flip side, the specs are pretty much in line with a mid-range PC, so given a built-in browser and WiFi support, and services like GMail and web-enabled office suites, maybe that’s what they’re shooting for?