Kathleen Parker explains the logic behind the moochergate statements. Dana Milbank has an agenda on behalf of the media. Jon Stewart's take:
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Also from Mr. Stewart, on last week's news:
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More on that from Tom Friedman.
Organic methods can, under the right circumstances, result in yields similar to conventional methods, with a much lesser environmental impact.
I don't entirely buy into the equivalence--look, most people's babies are, by definition, more boring than anything else everyone else is doing, including eating sushi and going to Thailand. Thailand pictures can be interesting to a lot of people; your baby pictures are interesting to a select few. Then again, the overall argument here meshes with why I'm not on Facebook:
See, I think the problem I'm having here is that I've been operating under the apparently idiotic assumption that we all agree that social media is, by definition, a narcissistic pool of shameless self-promotion, a horrible tidal wave of drab solipsism where each person's pathetic post about their life ("Look at me! I matter! I am drinking a soy latte with a foam leaf imprint!") is only marginally redeemed by the very next, arguably more navel-gazing item in the newsfeed, exclaiming "No really! I matter, too, and I just ordered brunch at a new locally sourced organic restaurant!"But the counterargument is at STFUparents. Friends and I were just talking about this on Saturday night: if it's boring, don't broadcast it. Whether it's your kid's poop or preference for carrot over peas, or your dog's preference for Iams over SciDi.
There are certainly kids worth listening to... like this one. Chris Kluwe has some competition for awesomeness in letter-writing. Let's keep the competition going, people.
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