...useful knowledge.....

Just in case you missed this.....I don't normally read The Huffington Post, however, a few of my favorite bloggers post there regularly and I do read them. If you haven't read Chez Pazienza, you really should. He's one of the reasons I waited so long to write up a blog.....comparatively, I suck. So please read this piece regarding Wikileaks and the 'Professional Left'. Here's a taste......

I'll try to say this as respectfully as I can, but it's getting to the point where whatever Glenn Greenwald says, I feel an instinctive need to stand against it, simply on principle. It's not that he doesn't occasionally make some excellent and even necessary arguments from the left; it's that he's become the personification of a movement that's so self-righteous in its outrage, so petulant in its demands, and so destructive to its overall cause by refusing to give even an inch in its quixotic quest to see the Progressive Utopian States of America come to fruition in our lifetime that it's tough to consistently take his side. All that aloof disapproval just becomes exhausting after awhile. Throw Sirota and Hamsher into the mix and you've got the intractable left's own version of the Supremes -- only more diva-ish.

remember, it's important to know what's going on around you....politics and the business of politics are intertwined in our daily lives and we must be as informed as we can be......