Technology Review: John Hockenberry on "what I learned about network television at Dateline NBC." A long but important story for understanding the mindset of those in control of old media (h/t Make Them Accountable)

Halfway There: Once upon a time, in 1960...

The Largest Minority: British satirists John Bird and John Fortune performed this depressingly accurate sketch on how the market works

Daily Kos: The following exchange was heard between two Republicans outside of Big Red's Beef and More Beef Restaurant in Des Moines...

endless simmer: This food blog started a presidential endorsement process to make sure their readers know who the best candidate for eating is.

HOLY CRAP: Holy Iowa!...Promise Keepers on steroids...Domestic religious terrorism...Is Huckabee going to Rock & Roll Hell?...World-O-Crap ...The Pope will wage war on Satan in 2008...12-year-old Georgia Clyde thought she won a Deseret Morning News essay contest but because she's not a Mormon, the paper said fuhgedaboudit...John Gorenfeld's book on Sun Myung Moon will be available in March of 2008..."Rapture Ready" Jesus' General is disappointed with the way 2007 turned out