"And if you don't like them, I have other principles..."
It is a strange phenomenon in the current US presidential election. Whenever the focus is on Bush, Kerry rises in the polls. When the focus changes to Kerry, Bush does better.
Mickey Kaus argues (I am not sure if he's really serious) that John Kerry's strange idea not to accept the nomination at the Democratic party convention is really a brilliant scheme to avoid press attention. By not taking the nomination, he can stay out of the spotlight and enjoy happy poll figures! (no permalinks, you will have to browse down to just above Tuesday 25th)
Now, that is a race to the bottom!
Be that as it may, Kerry has now changed his mind and will accept the nomination in July after all. It's not as if changing his mind is not Kerry's trademark.
It just had to happen. Every new technology-related phenomenon causes media reports about "addiction", and now the New York Times, often the terget of blogger ire, is reporting about complusive (or is that obsessive) bloggers. The angle is men who abandon wife & family to write that next posting in their blogs.
Nifty way to discredit bloggers: Nobody reads what we write, except the neighbour and his dog. Just a bunch of addicts with an opinion on everything. Move along, folks! No media revolution is happening here.
Blogger Tony Pierce gets the best quote award for this line "If this were beer, I'd be an alcoholic." Of course this piece will also give him loads of traffic. Eh, nice pictures there Tony.
