A very interesting take by Chris Anderson on Blogging. I think blogging is a long needed component to the large media landscape. Blogging provides the big media outlets a mirror to see what they are doing right and more often than not doing wrong. Blogging also provides news junkies like me yet another outlet. When the big media outlets are not reporting the story, a blogger is usually out there covering it. I wish I had my blog during last year's riots. I believe I could have provided a source of information that was greatly missing in the mainstream media. I hope I don't need to fulfill that role in the future locally, but the next big news event here will most likely get the same level of coverage as last year's riot.

Ohio poll: 'Design' theory is religious
I am glad to see the public and science professionals can see through the propaganda of the conservative media (Enquirer). The important issue is for the state school board to read the poll results and understand that any appeasement to the religious groups pushing ID will not be consistent with the majority of people in the state.

Pet Mania
The animal stories have hit the local news media like a sickness:
WCPO's "Tri-state Pet Store's Policies Questioned"
WLWT's "Goose Killer's Cruelty Charges Will Be Dropped"
Enquirer's "Bronson: Goose flap is dismissed"

I am not a rabid reader of the WhistleBlower but today's edition seems just a tad bit to the right. It seems like Bush's visit drew out an extra thick froth on the local GOPhers mouths.

Jay Love of 1230 the Buzz seems to consider Hamilton County Prosecutor Mike Allen the biggest criminal in the City of Cincinnati. Demagoguery has reached new heights.

Cincinnati war protest brings thousands of demonstrators
XRAY Cincinnati Magazine, a "Progressive" magazine that "explore(s) local arts, culture and news with a hip, edgy style," places the Bush Speech protestors at over 3,000. Since the writer of this article was most likely a protester, I really have a problem with trusting his number. I will stick with the 1,000 number.

This is a new magazine to me, I am just exploring the website. If I find enough content I will add their link the lot on the left.

Abortion foe may join FDA panel
The saddest thing about this is not that Bush is appeasing his Right-Wing base; it is that George most likely agrees with this "Doctor's" nutty "faith based healing" methods. Why not just pray for a gunshot wound to heal "by the hand of god."

Maureen Dowd wrote on this issue in yesterday's NY Times.