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margotdarby took a stand1:14 AM
It is appropriate for the President of the United States to make appearances on late night talk shows.

Generally no, but Obama's act is sort of 'Mr. Late-Nite-Cool,' so I say let him. I always got squirmy when Nixon showed up.
margotdarby took a stand11:00 PM
Social networking web sites are not a fad.

No, I think a large minority of bandwidth will be used for them for the next few years.
margotdarby took a stand10:57 PM
"The O'Reilly Factor" is the best Fox News evening program.

They are all silly. There is no good conservative or nationalist program on Fox.
margotdarby took a stand9:45 PM
I do feel secure using Craigslist for transactions.

Yes, within reason. I wouldn't buy anything sight unseen, or arrange an assignation/
margotdarby took a stand4:25 PM
Facebook merits a higher valuation than MySpace.

I don't know anyone serious on MySpace.
margotdarby took a stand11:48 PM
Craigslist should not remove its 'Erotic Services' listings.

They probably will, inevitably, but what's the point now?
margotdarby took a stand10:12 PM
Google should attempt to acquire Twitter.

Yes, and deep-six it!!! Or put it on a solid framework.
margotdarby took a stand10:07 PM
The Internet has had a negative effect on journalism.

So far it is negative, but things may settle in.
margotdarby took a stand10:52 PM
CNBC is a credible financial news network.

As much as any other one. I wonder if the boom in these things in the last ten years was due to the great numbers of day traders.
margotdarby took a stand10:27 PM
National evening news broadcasts should not expand to an hour-long format.

I think Douglas Edwards's CBS News (the first serious one) was 15 minutes. That pretty much covered all you needed to know.
margotdarby took a stand12:34 AM
Websites should allow anonymous comments.

otherwise everyone mutes opinion or tries to sound bien-pensant, like a greasy-palmed Obama supporter
margotdarby took a stand12:09 AM
The New York Post's chimpanzee cartoon is not racist.

There was no reference to race. The chimp was not Obama. The chimp was crazy. The stimulus bill was crazy and stupid. That was the point.
margotdarby took a stand11:36 PM
The Attorney General should not have the authority to bring civil lawsuits against alleged file-sharers.

I think the AG probably could bring such suits, but the complexity would overwhelm the prosecutors. It's something like a dead-letter law. Too much wo...
margotdarby took a stand11:34 PM
David Gregory is a good choice to host Meet the Press.

I see him as a placeholder and probably a competent, inoffensive one. You don't get a Lawrence E. Spivak or Tim Russert very often.
margotdarby took a stand1:17 AM
margotdarby took a stand1:15 AM
I do not regularly read blogs using an RSS reader.

RSS readers looked to be the coming thing about 4 years ago, but people don't want to read blogs that way. RSS is a neat bit of backend technology tha...
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