Saturday Morning (Journalism) Quarterback

The top five stories worth reading from this past week in worth-reading stories:

More years in review from Alternet and Salon, plus books that will change the world, and Scientific American's Year In Robots. Also, today marks 105 years since Thomas Edison electrocuted an elephant for some reason.

The Financial Times Of London, Common Dreams and Alternet all look forward to the economic picture in 2008.

Vanity Fair has a great article on Richard Melon Scaife this week.

And, The Nation takes a look at the life of Robert Creeley.

Finally, for the sake of piggy backing, we move on to the inane democratic carnival that is Iowa:
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