"We [Newsweek]will be engaging, in depth, and tethered to the news but not trapped by it."

Oh how our webs become so tangled

When news is trapped, and tethers mangled;

Our format's fresh, our depth new-fangled --

'Though rest assured we're still star-spangled.

P.S. With such a motto, how can newspeak

Not fit in with our new Newsweek ?

Nice! And how can lots of shiny pictures not fit in as well?

At least we can be thankful that the Parasitical Bloggers don't seem to be taking their cues from the Great Ones when it comes to figurative language!

Or Glenn would be writing:

The big fish media outlets claim that the blogging worker bees are flying in their air space, but the truth is often the opposite.

I wonder if anyone had the same experience I did. When I first discovered Glenn's blog at Salon, I took a look, and was so impressed that I have never missed a single blog he's written since.

His expansive knowledge, the "window-pane clarity," as George Orwell would say, of his writing, and his passion and determination have all combined to make him the most compelling writer online.

Go, Glenn.

Che pasa, I think they could do something like allow image links from image-hosting sites like photobucket. If they only allowed linking from certain sites such as that one, then the porn or NSFW problem would be solved, as such sites already censor the images for nudity and sex stuff.

I hope the flags don't give the moderators here a bigger headache than they are worth. At another site I know of, they have a big problem where people report others who simply disagree with them. I know Joan mentioned that in her notice, but it will probably still happen a lot.

I am flipping fed up with you flapping your gums about this flagging issue. Stop flooding this thread or I'll be flogging your bare flesh. And you'll be as flummoxed as Guy Fleegman.

when I saw a clip of Obama addressing Notre Dame the other day.

When some guy in the audience was yelling about abortion or something and security tried to stop him, Obama said, "No, no, it's OK to look at uncomfortable things sometimes."

That really irked to see him trying to come across as a model of openness. Let's look at the rest of the Abu Graib pictures, eh, Mr. Openness? Let's let the evidence against the Gitmo detainees see the light of day.

Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee had included $50 million in the supplemental bill for the Guantanamo shutdown, while stipulating that such funding would only become available once President Obama submitted a detailed plan for the shutdown and relocation of inmates.

Senate Republicans have made the lack of a plan for closing Guantanamo and the prospect of inmates being sent to the U.S. a major point of attack over the past month.

Well, of course we can't close Gitmo!! As Mitch McConnell and Michael Steele have been saying lately, those terr'ists will be wandering around in our neighborhoods, wreaking havoc and whatnot. We need protection from them.

Illustration at sig.

You have hit the nail straight on the head. The people who are spewing bullshit about Glenn here are the very ones who have been trounced by Glenn in the letters section of his blog. They cannot stand up to him, so they have to go gripe behind his back.

. . . unless one of happens to be a big-time CEO, and I can guarantee that I am not.

Oh, man! Can you imagine if a billionaire CEO ever read this blog? I think that such people have nightmares about someone forcing them to look at it, with their eyes wired open a la Clockwork Orange.

willyjsimmons:

The case was argued before the judges in November, before President Barack Obama took office. But the Obama administration is siding with the previous administration in trying to kill another lawsuit that seeks to recover any missing e-mails.

Quel surpris!

Check it out. Among other things, he puts the U.S. use of torture in a historical context. Well worth reading.

The fact that this human paraquat is in your corner should tell you all you need to know about your position.

Dude--or rather, Duderino, as I am not into the whole brevity thing--if anyone deserves to be called a human paraquat, it is Dick Cheney. I bet he is not even house trained.

He said Congress refused funding for closing Gitmo because they are not going to put up with the President making unilateral decisions and leaving Congress out like Bush did, and they wanted leverage. He said they got the President's attention. He said he has proposed using military tribunals to try the detainees so they can get a fair trial. The whole conversation seemed too good to be true.

Anybody know anything else about this?

WTF?

REID: I’m saying that the United States Senate, Democrats and Republicans, do not want terrorists to be released in the United States. That’s very clear.

QUESTION: No one’s talking about releasing them. We’re talking about putting them in prison somewhere in the United States.

REID: Can’t put them in prison unless you release them.

QUESTION: Sir, are you going to clarify that a little bit? …

REID: I can’t make it any more clear than the statement I have given to you. We will never allow terrorists to be released in the United States.

Glenn's tweet on this:

Reid's last book was titled (absurdly) "Fighting the Good Fight." Maybe his next one can be: "Hiding Under my Bed"

HA HA! That killed me.