Taking A Break

I decided that I'll take a break from the old blog today (after this post explaining that, natch). Always good to take a break from the internet for a day to clear the brain out. Gonna sleep in, watch some DVDs, and eat a bunch of cheese. Good times.

Speaking of which, I got a chance to chat tonight with John Aravosis- who runs AmericaBlog- as he was in NYC taking care of business. He had organized a small get-together of readers to discuss politics and blogs. It was a great group conversation. The chat was held at Starbucks, naturally, where we liberals always gather to plot our nefarious schemes.

Finally, I think I mentioned this briefly the other day, I am currently reading Eric Boehlert's new book, 'Lapdogs'. It's a great summary of how, in the past several years, the press not only fell asleep, but also reacted to fear of liberal bias accusations by embracing right-wing narratives. Much of this has been documented all over the web the past couple years, but Boehlert does an excellent job of bringing it all together. In a preview of the book on Salon, Boehlert writes "Battered by accusations of a liberal bias and determined to prove their conservative critics wrong, the press during the run-up to the war -- timid, deferential, unsure, cautious, and often intentionally unthinking -- came as close as possible to abdicating its reason for existing in the first place, which is to accurately inform citizens, particularly during times of great national interest." Yup. It was a huge mistake and one they're just barely beginning to wake up to in the past year.

Thus ends my random chatter for the night.

Enjoy your day. Wake me if Bush gets impeached anything exciting happens.