
Happy days are here again. Barack Obama's Australian publisher
speaks on his recent good fortune.

A week ago
we linked to an article criticizing Elizabeth Alexander's inaugural poem. For the sake of fairness,
here's a pro-poem piece.

Who wants to be a
millionaire minority? A self-described "Hollywood conservative" has penned
a rich, White, heterosexual's tale of societal alienation.

The subject of this weekend's best online debate was:
Should comics reviewers say whether or not they paid for the books they're reviewing? The Beat's Heidi started it on Friday with
a semi-sarcastic 'pet peeve' piece she did. (She says that announcing how you get your comics makes a reviewer seem unprofessional.) Then, on Saturday,
Comics Worth Reading's Johanna Carlson wrote
a contradictory response. (She says that doing so is helpful to the reader and serves as a sort of 'full disclosure.') Commentors on both sites quickly chimed in with their own opinions...repeatedly.