More and more, I'm able to consolidate my trusted sources for news and opinion.

Huffington Post and Salon are the big two.

There are few blogs or online news columns with good comment sections; but, then again, I have a really low Idiot threshold.

Agreed. The idiots here are way outclassed by the informed and informative commentariat. A veritable feast of worthy tidbits.

Not to mention the Wicked Humor threshold (as measured by everything from belly laughs to pom-tini sprays) is pretty nourishing as well, with folks like Amity, Cocktailhag, Titonwan, Derbig (where are you Mooser?) and others.

just wanted to say what a mensch you are. your praise for a colleague and self esteem to welcome a competitor as an equal.

thanks.

Standing the front pages of The Daily Beast alongside The Huffington Post I am reminded why Arianna Huffington has always reminded me of Tina Brown.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/

With the exception of a few writers, like Scott Horton and Dan Froomkin, I'll click over to either site when Glenn, or someone like him, links to them. Lfe is too short, and my time is too constrained to sift through a pile of glitz and glitter looking for the odd substantial piece. Everything that appears in either website, that I consider worth reading, is more easily found someplace else. I'd sooner lend my eyeballs and my time to Firedog Lake.

Would it be irresponsible to speculate?

It would be irresponsible, and silly, not to!

That humility, by whatever means it is achieved, is worth its weight in gold. Ergo, his popularity: for seeking some essential truths.

everything & nothin.

i had hear [read] talk amoungeset some of the long term experimental [j. guest: NYT 11/03] victims [ouwey]

that bush had been beaned/beamed during the 06 election debate w/ Kerry.

just this week was i able to sit a truly,

look at the thing, recorded.

did bushie get beeaned/beamed and carry on for 4 years [at the time i was truly in dire straights, seriously not sure, if i was going to make it through 'opertation-undeground-secret-freedom' [his, finacial, socail and food,HEALTH-DENTAL not mine]{nasa-dental-procedure @ yuotubed, info not shared at this time]

here's an exapmle [easy-overed w/ a music sound clip part way thru]

http://www.spike.com/video/bush-speechless-in/2755189

Bush Speechless in '04 Debate

[just stand there and in his case, for sure SHUT UP]

i refuse to buy anythign from texas, if possible here in california..learn to swim on their own, EH?

Danger Room What’s Next in National Security Darpa Plan: Turn Warzone Data into Simple Stories

By Noah Shachtman December 4, 2008 | 6:16 am | Categories: DarpaWatch

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/12/darpa-memory-pr

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-Once -

upon, a time,

There was, a watch maker of extra-ordinary talent.

He was rumoured to attend to the smallest details of his craft.

It is stated, that he spent hours after hours, staring at his work,

wondering

if ever would come a day when he,

could out best his own self.

It was whispered,

that in vain, he tried to manufacture,

a watch, of untold proportions,

that he thought the world, whole,

would stand in awe at his self persrcibed ability.

There had been gossip, that his plans were,

in fact, a blue print from a distant past, and that

in realty, the watch maker lacked any real

talent of his own, hence the long hours pouring over

manu-scripts, seeking and out a method or

diagram of something not made for the populas,

since the days of the great Ceaser himself.

The watch maker, in vanity, would say all

was of his making, even the Swiss gears, he

ordred up and the English spring hatches

and the Italian glass-piece

-penname intials:-

S.S.[07]

he's part of a panel discussion entitled "Justice After Guantanamo" that's free on Thursday, July 9 at 7 p.m. at BookCourt (163 Court Street Brooklyn, NY 11201).

Might be worth it for those who live near and are interested to attend.

***@ Pedinska--I think Derbig is still playing with his new keyboard assuming he hasn't been out riding and enjoying the wonderful weather we've been having out here (until yesterday) in the Great NW.

Here we see the Israel issue pushing Froomkin off the WaPo pages. The internet is ahead of the parties, or the main stream press. HuffPo has been uncomfortable being too critical of Israel. Froomkin's tepid critiques will further polarize this Israeli divide.

I wonder what this signals, if anything. Perhaps this is the water sucking back before the tsunami comes. Will the democrats take up this issue? Is this an opening for a third party, libertarians and progressives are united in opposing our militarism.

National healthcare essential sits as the one obstacle uniting Libertarians and progressives. I see the Israel issue as totally intertwined with the empire American and militarism. Israel is a useful bur in the saddle in the Mid-east.

Israel also shares in America's original sin of exploitation of Native peoples. Questioning Israel brings scrutiny about the Manifest destiny project that we've yet challenge or deeply consider. This selfish and hubristic sin justifies our interventions in Central and South America, the whole world really.

You are both very knowledgeable about the web and the best blogging sites to sharpen your knowledge. Others have different knowledge and needs. I don't believe that HuffPo is trying to attract either of you or most commenters on UT.

That doesn't mean that it doesn't work for a lot of other people. HuffPo should be judged by what it is trying to accomplish for the audience they seek and not because it isn't the site for you. What may be tabloid to some isn't for others.

What I love most about UT and why it is my primary blog in addition to Glenn's great and most valuable work, are the quality of the commenters. What has bothered me lately are the number of commenters and the frequency of their comments who have no interest in learning anything from someone else because they are too enamored of their own thinking and impressing instead of learning.