IDIOCY OF THE WEEK

It’s about Eminem and it’s up at Salon.

FIRING WHITES: A British R & B atrist is being pressured to drop his white guitarist in order to placate black fans in the U.S. Can you imagine this even being considered, let alone aired this way, if the races were reversed? Good for the singer for resisting.

IS THE TIMES GETTING FAIRER? Blogger Tacitus notes new balance in a story today. Here’s the sentence:

Paul C. Light, an expert on the federal bureaucracy at New York University and the Brookings Institution, the liberal-leaning research group, called the administration’s policy “an aggressive and a dramatic extension” of the effort by both parties at all levels of government to save money and improve the quality of public services.

Credit where it’s due. Is the blogosphere making a difference?