The geek in me loves whenever folks manage to combined politics with comic books in new and interesting ways. Case in point: The Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics, in which all it takes for good to triumph over evil is the power of positive thinking. Author Matthew Yglesias argues that makes for a good comic book, but doesn't work so great as a basis for foreign policy.

Science fiction writer Cory Doctorow turns the conventional wisdom that pirated SF novels are bad for the industry in his Locus Magazine column "Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet".