Daily Archives: March 21, 2008

Pundustry, Or A Day In The Salt Mines Of Information Overload

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Gaius

Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post tried an experiment recently. He spent 24 hours in a room surrounded by televisions, two radios and a laptop set up to cycle through a selection of blogs and news sources. It was all … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogosphere, Media, News | 5 Comments

After The Snow, The Floods

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Gaius

Many areas in the Midwest, having suffered a brutally cold winter are now being inundated with water, both from new rainfall and the melting of heavy winter snowpacks. The Washington Post reports on the flooding. FENTON, Mo. — With more … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment | 2 Comments

Brilliant Fraud

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Gaius

Charles Krauthammer looks the big speech that Barack Obama gave this week and pronounces it a brilliant fraud. Harvard-tinged sophistry meant to misdirect listeners away from the real issues, the speech played on two major themes: moral equivalence and white … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | 3 Comments