New Roberto Clemente Graphic Novel

ITEM: Something nice about baseball especially since I hate the modern day pirates, or at least I hate their ownership. The Pirates are designed to lose but make money for the owners. A nice illustration as to what's wrong with American Capitalism: most everybody loses except that guy at the top.  I wish we had soccer rules that demoted low performing teams to another league. More about this graphic novel here and here.

New David Brin future novella asks "What happened to American Manufacturing?"

ITEM: I am currently reading an online graphic novel called "Tinkerers" by acclaimed science fiction writer David Brin. Its futuristic theme is supposed to be about "what happened to American manufacturing?". I'm guessing the answer that David will give has something to do with reawakening the individual's gumption and so forth. As someone who's been watching American industrial policy for the last 30 years I can assure you that this has more to do with the choices made by the investor class than what individuals do, the Internet notwithstanding. Related: Have I mentioned that we're trying to ruin the Internet? World's greatest growth engine? (Here and here.) I guess we don't want the Facebooks or the Googles to succeed unless the Right gatekeepers have approved of their disruptive technologies. More Related: Or unless they become Narcs.

Comic drawn by Alan Moore (world's greatest writer) and written by Harvey Pekar.

Harvey Pekar comics that was illustrated by Alan Moore. I think this is the full thing. Yep. Alan definitely sucks as an artist.