A service to my wife, who's tired of being the only one subjected to all this junk. Sunday, July 26, 2009 Gates & TPM  More than once I've argued with various people that blogs (in particular, a specific few left-of-center political blogs) are a better source of news than most "mainstream" news outlets. Recently, I read some back and forth over the Henry Louis Gates, Jr arrest scandal at TalkingPointsMemo.com that I think supports this point of view. The discussion started with the site's author/founder, Josh Marshall, offering commentary, but quickly morphed into a discussion of police power, the dangerousness of police work, whether that danger is truly physical or mostly psychological, and at one point includes a sidebar on the use of tasers. The comments come from Marshall himself as well as astute observers who've emailed him, and taken together they constitute a thought-provoking look at a difficult but interesting news event. If you'd like to see all the posts, you can search for "police" on the TPM site, and then read up from the bottom, starting with "Breaking: President is a Black Guy". // posted by Dug  @ 8:52 PM [link] [comments (0)]	This is Me. [*] Blogs I Visit: Defective Yeti Fanatical Apathy Apostropher OnReligion.Com Static Zombie This Modern World Where I Waste Time: Working For Change (great comics) Uselab - Acno's Energizer (darn that level 35!) Ironic Times My News Sources: National Public Radio (the show, not the site) On The Media (these shows I download) Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me The Onion (America's Finest News Source)
[*] Okay, no it's not. I found it somewhere in the Blogosphere.	...and a little .NET of my own design...