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« Milestones | Main | Today's Reading List » October 26, 2005Today's Reading ListThe War: Donald Sensing tries to explain why al Qaeda bombed a Baghdad hotel where Western media stay, given that the Western media has largely been doing al Qaeda a favor with its relentlessly negative portrayal of the war. I wonder if, now that they've been targeted by the "insurgents," the media will stop using that word and start calling them "terrorists." related to that, do yourself a favor and listen to this commentary by Anisa Mehdi that aired yesterday on NPR's All Things Considered in which she rightly lambastes the media for calling the terrorists "insurgents." Politics: Renovation of Tennessee's Legislative Plaza has taken away the lobbyists' lounge. The Nashville City Paper story doesn't explain why they were ever allowed to have a lounge at taxpayers' expense. ... Jay Bush has the fund-raising numbers for the GOP side of the 2006 Senate race in Tennessee. The smart money says Ed Bryant's ahead. ... Ben Cunningham - who really ought to have his own blog - passed along a link to SurveyUSA's latest approval ratings for all 100 U.S. Senators. Blogging: The Politburo Diktat is creating a "family tree" of the blogosphere, by asking bloggers to report "the one blog that, more than any other, inspired you to start blogging." As I reported (in comment #312), I started my blog on Nov. 30, 2001, after seeing the Blogger service promoted by Moreover.com, a news aggregator. I had never read a blog, never seen a blog and never heard of another blog. I have no "blogfather" or "blog mother." Apparently, however, I do have "blog children." Posted in Today's Reading List
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Ben Cunningham guested for a while over at SouthEndGrounds, and, I must say, was quite good. Posted by: joe public at October 26, 2005 2:10 PMYou may count me among your blog children, although because the Commissar only allows one blog parent I had to flip a coin and Sensing beat you out. On an unrelated note, I cannot seem to load your pages in Firefox. It starts to load and then the page goes blank with a single hyperlink saying "PREMIUM AD SLOTS Advertise Here!" Posted by: AlphaPatriot at October 29, 2005 2:12 PMPost a comment
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