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So…what keeps blogs from being a legitimate source of news?

Bad bloggers.

OK, the title is a little -- hey! -- snarky. But the guy at Residual Forces works overtime to find conspiracies.

Here's his quote -- which I lifted from Always Right, Usually Correct -- because I deleted Residual Forces from my daily read a few weeks ago. I'm sorry, he's just too consistently wrong to be considered -- at least by me -- as a source of political insight. I can get ravings just by walking four blocks west. I have a good supply of lefties and righties -- and a few centrists -- on my daily list. Some are more logical than others on a fairly consistent basis, but all are worth reading just to see if there's something interesting on Planet Politic. There are, of course, exceptions for which waiting only prolongs the pain.

For some reason, the media sure seemed hell bent on providing full and up to the minute coverage of the DFL convention compared to their canned (pre-written) stuff for the GOP