Some goodies I've come across recently and thought folks might enjoy:

Tom Ender reviews Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. I really like Tom's style in reviewing movies, and don't point them out as often as I should. (His review of The People vs. Larry Flynt is another excellent review, of a movie that's much better than I thought it would be.)

Susan Callaway at The Price of Liberty reviews The Black Arrow. As the novel gets more attention, it's been interesting to me to see what elements other reviewers focus on; she's taken a very broad frame of view in her positive review.

Garry Reed reviews a book! Check out his review of Loose Canon. Interesting effort, but I doubt I'll hurt his feelings if I say that I don't see major competition for my Salon coming from him. ;) Who'da thunk Ursula LeGuin as a pro-freedom writer, though? I read through an interview with her that demolished that idea ... if I can find it again I'll add the link here.

Added: This interview may be the one, although I'm not too sure of it. At any rate, it's interesting. I've read lots of LeGuin's works, having been a fan long before I discovered the freedom philosophy, and it just didn't occur to me that her works might have a pro-freedom slant ... individualistic, yes; but not so obviously pro-freedom.