A Spork in the Drawer

Well That's Sobering

8 people read this blog regularly.

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Introduce yourselves, 'cuz we could have fun with this.

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Monday Poll

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A Short Break

Everybody's written what I would have written any way so why be redundant?

Normal weekend features remain scheduled and my regular brilliant insights will return Tuesday.

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I Got Nuthin'

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Monday Poll

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Morning Has Broken

I wonder which Democrat will be forced to denounce somebody today.

Perhaps a picture of some pop tart's bare shoulder will surface and distract everybody!

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More Fairness

In response to Roy Edroso's The Official Village Voice Election-Season Guide to the Right-Wing Blogosphere: A confederacy of dunces the always brilliant Thers gives us The Official FDL Election Season Guide to the Left-Wing Traitorsphere.

(My personal favorite: The entry for Amanda Marcotte.)

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Useful

The great Roy Edroso of alicublog gives us The Official Village Voice Election-Season Guide to the Right-Wing Blogosphere: A confederacy of dunces.

Know thine enemy!

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Blogs Are Not The Enemy

Devilstower has a terrific post up at the Great Orange Satan:

Punditry has always aimed as much artillery at the people who deliver the news as it does at those who make it. There's a very good reason for this. Before you can convince someone of a lie, you need to make it more difficult for them to check your information. If you establish from the start that NPR is communist, MSNBC and CNN are slanted, and every newspaper this side of Journal's editorial page should be printed on pink paper, then any exaggeration you deliver becomes the de facto standard. Impugning the validity of other news sources is the first job of a successful pundit. They don't seek to be your sources of information by passing along reliable news. They do so by constantly assailing the legitimacy of other sources until you're left shaking your head at the absolute ignorance of everyone but Rush/Bill/Sean/Ann.

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In response to the assault from less factual sources, media both accelerated the already existing trend toward mingling news and entertainment and -- in the most twisted move imaginable -- sought to imitate the mudslingers. They joined the war not by upholding their standards, but by dismissing them. And again, they did so for the reason that Keen indicates as the break between amateur and professional: the perception that there was more money to be made on the less truthful side of the aisle.

Definitely worth a read.

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Housekeeping

New additions to the blogroll: Roy Edroso takes the right down a peg or twelve at alicublog, the wonderful Susie Madrak whacks them at Suburban Guerrilla, TRex snarks a trail at IamTRex, the Rude Pundit is, well, rude, local boy Bram goes local at the local Pittsburgh Comet, and a gathering of fine femmes can be found at the Pittsburgh Women's Blogging Society.

Those, and many more, can be found to the left (!).

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