Thank you for actually reading the article, KnownIssues. Since the view count on the original has gone up by about 10 views since the teaser paragraph was posted on Slashdot I have to assume that the other 200 or so comments were made by people who read only the summary paragraph. Besides suggesting that Slashdot is not a very good resource for viral promotion (or linkbaiting, if you prefer), it also tends to confirm a theory of social networking cocooning that I have where people find a community they're comfortable in and talk to each other and it doesn't really matter much what the topic is.

Although the same blognoggle did write those terrific articles you cite he never submitted or caused them to be submitted to this particular august body because he wasn't aware until yesterday that Slashdot has a politics section. My bad, but my thanks to whoever did post them here. You've got to to admit the Limbaugh one is pretty funny: "Here's my fantasy. I'd like to wake up some morning to the news that Rush Limbaugh has decided to take his millions from fleecing the rubes, an endless supply of Viagra and Oxycontin and moved to a private island in the Caribbean where he will live out his years sprawled on the sand like a beached Great White whale, rising only occasionally to have his elephantine loins and copious man-boobies oiled by little brown 12-year-old beach boys. Think about it, Rush. You owe it to yourself. You've done enough to your country already."