(Kevin over at GitM has a great capsule review of a political debate that most -- if not all -- people missed. You know, like in about 18 months, someone's got to run against the blithering idiot that we currently call the POTUS. (RealVideo player required) « 11:35:24 PM »    

(Gibson nails that. And finally, I've gotten around to starting Pattern Recognition Let's hope his "gear-train" lives up to the hype. Gibson goes on to conclude that the essential problem with blogging is that: "There's no risk involved. Touché. But on the other hand, just like there are different genres in writing, so too in the blogosphere. For instance, bloggers who write about private aspects of their personal lives are most certainly taking risks. Just because they're not the risks of a novelist or artist doesn't diminish their efforts; putting anything out in the public eye -- publishing -- is always risky, in all its forms. But I wouldn't expect much endorsement of this new, and totally undeveloped writing format from a novelist: in an age of growing illiteracy, a novelist is a practitioner in a dying artform, so all he can do is hold on to what he knows, ironically, instead of imagining the possibilities.) « 8:14:46 PM »