It's Tuesday, it must be Echo day

Allow me to point you to a very moving article, by an online acquaintance. Jonathan Hayes is a New York City Medical Examiner and a long time member of Echo, an old, New York-based online community of which I am also a member. Jonathan writes about how watching the beheading of Nick Berg affected him in the context of processing bodies after 9.11.

Another Echo member has taken gonzo, self-funded journalism to the extreme and founded one of the must-read blogs of our day. Readers contributed $15,000 so Christopher Albritton could go Back to Iraq and offer an independent view of our nation's struggle there. For a small, objective port in the storm of mainstream propaganda, you might check it out.