…at least not from his owner. From MSNBC.com: J.D. the Labrador retriever meant well, but he’s landed his owner in a mess of trouble. Police say his owner was playing Frisbee golf with two friends at a suburban Dallas-Fort Worth course Monday when a police officer arrived. The officer thought he smelled burning marijuana, so he asked the men for identification and began checking for outstanding warrants. J.D., apparently sensing the party was over, waded into nearby Bear Creek, retrieved...

…wait until they infect things other than your computer.

I can’t reconstruct the entire link-chain that got me to this discussion by Anil Dash on the direction of blogging in light of recent events with respect to both the Jordan and Gannon imbroglios, but regardless of how I got there, it is well worth reading. A brief excerpt to tempt you to go there and read: And about Eason Jordan: More myopic blogger triumphalism. Dear political bloggers, most people, even in the blogosphere, have never heard of the whole kerfuffle, let alone the one surrounding...

…falls the Faith Based Initiative. The question is asked at Centerfield, and the comments make interesting reading.

Instead of merely throwing rocks at proposals that we don’t like, at which blogworld has shown it can excel, it is far more constructive to make alternate proposals. In that spirit, here are some alternatives to the plans being put forward by the administration on Social Security, which is being used as a lever in creating the “ownership society” that President Bush says is his vision for the nation. — A technical note: Joe was a bit mistaken that he could not link to my...