Gee, I posted something and you linked to it like 10 minutes later. Eye of the Goof is fast, baby!!

I owe it all to those speedy RSS feeds and Bloglines, which you turned me on to as well.

I support Salon. I am a partisan who enjoys an alternative to NPR's grey wishy-washyness. The public-radio-style begging grates on me, but it comes with the territory. Plus, I get a free subscription to Granta. Win-win.

Well, I'm not a partisan. In my 26 years as a voting citizen, I've pulled the handle for Democrats, Republicans, and independents...whoever I thought was best qualified for the job. I haven't always been right, but I've always weighed the facts carefully and made up my own mind. I refuse to be swayed by pundits and ideologues who thrive and profit on the divisiveness that they sow.

I'm highly suspicious of any organization, publication, or person who's so absolutely convinced that their ideology is correct and pure that they won't allow for the possibility that the sun *doesn't* shine out of their behinds 24 hours a day.

Over the past 4 years, Salon has become increasingly shrill, smug, self-righteous, and condescending to the point where they're so biased that there's no way that I can trust their reporting.

If your mileage varies, then enjoy the ride. I'll be taking the bus.

Like the beta-monkey I am, I cringe at your display of wroth. You seem to be calling for "intellectual diversity," in the David Horowitz sense. I believe in distinct viewpoints across the spectrum of political belief. That's why I listen to Pacifica KPFK, for example, even though its leftism has holes in it through which the proverbial chariot-race from Ben Hur could be driven. Salon is no different. For that matter, Fox News or CNN is no different. Each is an exponent of a monolithic point of view.

I can't argue with the divergence of our bus routes; oddly enough, though, we seem to be taking the same means of transportation.

No need for cringing. I'm not wroth, nor am I calling for left-wing ideologues to be counter-weighted by right-wing pundits like Horowitz.

I'm completely uninterested in monolithic viewpoints of any kind. I had to be deprogrammed after spending my teenage years living with a cult. Consequently, I see a lot of unpleasant parallels between partisan politics and religious fundamentalism.

I despise Salon simply because of their "WANT CONTENT? SIT IN THE CHAIR WHILE WE PEEL YOUR EYES BACK AND FORCE YOU TO WATCH THIS AD" extortion.