Oh my! Today’s Times Magazine has a profile of everyone’s favorite hyper-literate pop engima, Stephin Merritt. Salon has a story on anti-corporate anarchist riots reimagined as video game — but is that really any more political than a shoot-em-up about, say, the military or the police? Or are we so used to reinforcing the right-wing status quo that any glorification of leftist “soldiers” seems strange?