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• Sunday, August 5, 2007 10:15 PM

  It would be important ... if it was.

  I'm sorry, but perhaps tomorrow after a good night's sleep I'll be able to bring myself to read this Salon article by Michael Scherer ("Cheerful boos for Hillary") but the whatever-you-call-it descriptive text teaser presumably aimed at getting readers interested enough to read the article is such a turn-off I can't dignify it by clicking on the article.

  At the YearlyKos convention, the mixed reception for Hillary Clinton is more evidence that the liberal blogosphere might not take sides in the coming Democratic primary.

  You've got to be kidding. Look, the "liberal blogosphere" is dead, or should be, the minute it starts self-referentially and self-importantly referring to itself as "the liberal blogosphere" which is presumed to be so monolithic that it may or may not (Oooh, tell us more!) "take sides" regarding anything. [For the blissfully uninformed, does "the liberal blogosphere" have a uniform, a dresscode, a health care plan participants can buy into, a union, a certification program, a retirement plan, or a continuing education requirement?] Honestly, please lay off the Kool-Aid and save the self-justifying behind-the-scenes blogo-gossip for Blog World magazine (a title I'm making up in hopes that it doesn't actually exist) or whatever publication the liberal blogosphere (and perhaps the conservative blogosphere as well) reads these days.

  Harrumph ... I'm going to bed.

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