Today in Salon: Oakland mourns

Today in Salon: Saturday March 28, 2009

Oakland mourns A long blue line of police officers, backed by a grieving city, gather to say goodbye to four cops who died doing their jobs By Gary Kamiya

Open Salon We're not bad at everything ... Obama's Missed Opportunity at Online Townhall Save the Papers! The Case for Social Journalism

All the news that's fit to be birdcage liner Newspapers have been battered by technological and economic forces, sure, but journalism has also delivered a one-two punch to its own jaw. By David Sirota

Texas on evolution: Needs further study Although the state ruled that schools must support Darwin's theory, creationists are singing the praises of Friday's decision. By Gordy Slack

GigaOM Network GigaOM Spring Cleaning: Motorola and Others Hit the Dustbin Opinion: Smart Meters Are Not the Answer to the U.S. Power Problem Alkaline: Windows Browser Testing On Mac OS X Thunder in the Cloud Over Openness Smartphone Sales to Keep Growing After Judgment Examines Life After Rapture App Review: Tumblr — Collect Every Moment Wherever You Go Charter Says Bankruptcy Won't Affect Speed Upgrades TextFlow Gets In-Browser Collaboration Subsidized Netbooks = Bad Idea Netbook with Optical Drive Arriving from Asus JavaScript 3-10x Faster On iPhone OS 3.0 WebOS on a Netbook Could be the NBT Apple Begins Selling Contract-Free iPhones at Retail Stores Opera Still Cooking With CSS3 On the Way Another Harebrained Microsoft Ad: Lauren and Her Quest MobileTechRoundup 167: 3 Kindles are Better than 2 Green:Net Video: Jonathan Koomey, Bob Metcalfe, LaunchPad Google to Connect TV Ads With YouTube Who's Using Your Content? This Week at Mobile Tech Manor #32 Hybrid Wars Begin: What's Behind the Price Tag?

War Room GOP uses 9/11 in new attack ad Controversial Kansas doctor acquitted in abortion case If we nationalize health care, more celebrities will die! Obama's Afghanistan strategy gets warm reception Reid to liberals: Settle down Dem takes lead in N.Y. special election Obama unveils new plan for Afghanistan

Dick Cheney was right Deficits don't matter -- and Republicans who are complaining about Barack Obama's spending are hypocrites. By Joe Conason

How the World Works This is what it sounds like, when derivatives traders cry Put away your economic gloom and doom Alexander Hamilton had a toxic asset problem, too

Broadsheet Happy birthday, Mme. Speaker! Too bad about your face Valerie Bertinelli in a bikini? It's a miracle! Study finds gender bias on transplant waiting lists "Sexting" teens strike back!

Obama's new way forward in Pakistan and Afghanistan An administration white paper argues that the core goal of the U.S. must be to uproot al-Qaida from its safe havens in Pakistan.

Hail the profit A member of Salon's Table Talk community explains why government takeovers aren't always a bad thing, this week.

Glenn Greenwald Britain responds to the "rule of law" nuisance

Obama goes back to the grass roots The president ducks traps laid by the GOP and slams the door on marijuana legalization at his first online town hall. By Mike Madden

"Monsters vs. Aliens" Earthlings, beware! It's a battle for world domination as Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen and Rainn Wilson lend their voices to this animated sendup of '50s creature features. By Stephanie Zacharek

"The Education of Charlie Banks" Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst makes his directorial debut with this surprisingly quiet, introspective film about a sheltered Ivy League student visited by a bully from his past. By Stephanie Zacharek

Whaddaya have to do to get a kidney around here? My search to find an organ donor taught me just how generous my friends are -- and how flawed the current transplant system is. By Frances Kissling

Eat your saints, purge your demons Why do people worship religious relics, and why is the number of trainee exorcists rising? Two new books suggest that our desire to believe in magical forces remains irresistible. By Laura Miller

Ask the pilot Planes crash. The media descends. But why can't reporters get their facts straight? Plus: Kudos to an outstanding exception. By Patrick Smith

My friend broke my phone! She opened it like a flip phone. It's not a flip phone. It's a swivel phone! By Cary Tennis

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