I hereby accept Steve Gillmor’s challenge to write even more crap in 2009 in the name of disrupting Techmeme (or in my case, Memeorandum) to prove that I have absolutely no authority other than that which others think I have. Here is my first contribution. Tonight’s PBS broadcast of John...

It’s been awhile since there’s been a good, old fashioned “you can’t do that in the blogosphere” controversy, but this morning Memeorandum brings us one in the form of a public rebuke to nomadic Center for American Progress (CAP) blogger Matthew Yglesias by CAP interim ...

As Always, They Shall Return To The Scene Of The Crime… Reuters is reporting on the president’s visit to his “legacy” this weekend: Bush makes farewell visit to Iraq By Matt Spetalnick BAGHDAD (Reuters) - President George W. Bush made an unannounced farewell visit to Baghdad....

Jack Goldsmith: Please, PLEASE Don’t Investigate Me, Mr. Obama! FIRST — A glance at the “Who Is This Guy Anyway???” tagline at the bottom of Mr. Goldsmith’s passionate plea to the Democrats to HALT any and all attempts to ramp up torture investigations under the new... ...

John Brennan Plays “Victim” Role In Resignation From Consideration Letter To Barry “Steve” Obama H/T goes first to MemeOrandum for the Glenn Greenwald (Salon) pull, then to Glenn Greenwald for the Andrew Sullivan (The Daily Dish) pull where he has posted an image of the... Th...

Those Of Us Who Hoped And Prayed The Obama-”O” Biden Victory Would Spare Us From Four To Eight Years Of Shrillary Clinton Sound Bytes Must Now Question The Existence Of God Since I reside currently in the Great State of Alabama and NOT the Great State of New York, I popped the champaign....

Today isn’t the first time I have had the opportunity to go and visit NewsJunk, although it is the first time I was made aware that it wasn’t just another errant weekend project of Dave Winer’s, but instead something with apparent aspirations to supplant (or at least supplement) wi...

Sure, I understand that “useful” is a general and sometimes useless term. It’s relative and subjective; what’s useful to someone may not be to someone else. But I pose the question nonetheless about social news sites, Digg being the grand daddy of the lot: are they useful any...

A few hours from now, Eliot Spitzer will surrender the office of New York governor to David Paterson. A few hours from now, it will be exactly a week since the New York Times posted the first report on its website about Spitzer being “linked” to a prostitution ring. So what did that init...

They're not helping Obama any because they are so patently absurd. Talk about transparent tactics. Hillary Clinton, a racist? Hillary Clinton? Jesus. I preferred both Obama and Edwards to Hillary,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]...