Plastic Fantastic News Source

Not that the site needs it, but here's a plug for Plastic, the filter site that, as the scoliosis-ridden backbone of Automatic Media, helped kill off the great Suck, the Web's first daily commentary site of note. Started by one founder of Suck (Joey Anuff) and now administered by the other (Carl Stedman), it remains a great source of news and commentary with wit and range. Like many things related to the Internet boom, it may not have made money but it's great that it's around. Current top stories include:

A Breath(Ed) Of Fresh Air Returns To The Comics Pages
(about Berkeley "Bloom County" Breathed's return to cartooning)

Say It Ain't So, Moe! ? France Gets Its Own Shakespearean Controversy
(about charges that Moliere was a fake)

I'm Sorry Dave, I'm Afraid I Can't Vote That Way
(about all the technical problems with Diebold's high-tech voting machines being tested in California)

Comments

[objective dissent]

I've always thought Breathed a bit of a flake but I love how energizes comics in general.

Think of how the comics page would look if we could get rid of ilk such Fred Bassett and let Calvin, Opus et al have big formats.

[Todd Fletcher]

Plastic jumped the shark 2 years ago. Last time I checked it was little more than a haven of Bush-bashing. But I'll never forget Old Sailor...

[dude]

I liek Plastic, but man. . . those people can post. Post and post. I dunno how you can read it all if you're not an unemployable shut-in.

[nm156]

BILL AND OPUS, 2004! I'mm sure Milo was a Libertarian.

[s.m. koppelman]

Some publications less concerned with the abolition of society's constraints would see fit to mention that their web editor used to work for Suck. And that along with past and current Reason writers like Brian Doherty and Pete Bagge, the erstwhile and logrolling Mr. Gillestpie himself was a regular contributor.

The ties that bind aren't exactly kept secret, but noting them would have added some context to this product endorsement.