Slow day? When they’re not harping on Jeff Goldstein the bloggers in my RSS reader seem really focused on Ben Domenech, the WaPo’s new blogger and the co-founder of RedState. Pachacutec at Firedoglake has an especially thorough linkfest. Sure, I think that it’s embarrassing that the Washington Post has to “balance” a career journalist like Froomkin* with a hardcore Republican operative, but keep in mind that evil liberal extremists run the media. They must have set him up as a laugh-at-the-crazy extremist freakshow sort of thing. If they wanted to hire a war-supporting conservative with a basic knowledge of his subject matter they could have picked Gregory Djerejian.
There’s Iraq. Blogging about Iraq has become as interesting as blogging about global warming. Some new outrage comes up every day (Iraq, global warming), but the narratives have already been written. The people in charge of policy will adapt to the latest news just like I’m going to sprout wings and fly to the Sharp Edge in time for happy hour.
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(*) Note to rightwingers – muckrakers rake muck about people in power. It’s their job. If Froomkin wanted to spend his time fellating federal officeholders he would host cable news.
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Finally, a gratuitous beer pic to celebrate the return of our server upload capacity. In case you know how that works (which I don’t). We had this at a recent lab mixer and true to its name this brew is hoppy as hell. And tasty. It’s also my boss’s favorite beer so I’m contractually obligated to recommend it.