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this mystery writer, Foggy B, keeps coming back to OpenJ with well-researched stuff and challenging but interesting things to say. So as of now he’s our first official anonymous contributor. welcome aboard, Foggy Bottom, wherever you are.
by Foggy Bottom
The international community has recently been racked by a string of nuclear crises: Iraq, North Korea, India, [...]

Foggy appeared out of nowhere and started submitting some hard hitting policy pieces. We know his name, Foggy Bottom, seems to refer to a neighborhood in Washington and that he seems to have a perspective shaped by governmentality. He’s taught us some things about assumptions and interpretation already, so he’s living up to the great [...]

Theory in the Fan Voice. Part 1.
by R.D.
1: Shinichiro Watanabe directed and storyboarded Samurai Champloo. This is the show we are currently watching. Before this we watched seasons 1 and 2 of NYPD Blue. Samurai Champloo is glowingly, astonishingly beautiful. It’s about hiphop-flavoured and brazenly anachronistic Samurai rebels, traveling with a funny and tough girl [...]

So I am pillaging and plundering from the site of our official contributing illustrator, One Neck, OneNeckHatesYou.com, pulling out pieces from his extensive library of twisted and heart-twisting comics to emphasize here on Open. I can’t stop reading his work, but this one hit me most this morning, so there you go. The funny [...]

by Foggy Bottom
While unrest was simmering across Europe and the Muslim world in the wake of the recent row surrounding the Mohammed cartoons, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called to the newly minted Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay to congratulate him on his appointment. Amidst the light and amicable banter that accompanies such [...]