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Wednesday, November 7, 2007 12:00 AM

The Internet is making us stupid

Legal sage Cass Sunstein says democracy is the first casualty of political discourse in the digital age.

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  • Wednesday, November 7, 2007 01:39 PM

    Salon itself is a counter-argument

    The Blog Report each day lists selected blogs from both sides. I regularly click through, and occasionally comment on the righty blogs.

    And, how would Sunstein deal with John Cole at Balloon Juice? Mr. Cole was a righty, but to me only occasionally descended into wingnuttery, at least the links from Salon didn't go to the really crazy Michelle Malkin/Who Killed Vince Foster area. Not long ago he left the republican party and became a democrat. I occasionally posted mild comments questioning his entries, and so did others, and it could conceivably be that those commenters from the left played some small role in his change of mind.

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