Posted 5:10 PM by Gene

It's getting to the exasperating point that you don't read an article in TOENAIL.COM, you read ABOUT it. Seeing the word GENIUS in a home-page blurb on a story about -- you guessed it -- [C]RAP led me to skim down to the blurb at the bottom of the piece:

Brendan I. Koerner is a contributing editor at Wired and a fellow at the New America Foundation.

Wired is gaseous enough, but I'd never heard of the New America Foundation, so over I went to its Mission statement, which could have been concocted on a non-profit version of Dilbert's Mission Statement Generator. Now armed with suspicions I went to the page listing the Board of Directors. To the extent it has politics it is vaguely, anodynely, CW-ly liberal -- Laura Tyson, Chris Whitman -- but it does have a few indeterminate bloviators like Jim Fallows and Francis "Death of History" Fukuyama (what DOES this man write?), along with a genuine scoundrel like UNCLE BERNIE SCHWARTZ, and a symbol of trendy technological dysfunction like Eric Schmidt, the chairman of KADIDDLEBLOG'S PARENT. In short, someone who works with a think tank with a board like this will definitely NOT write anything memorable, just CW with an EDGE -- and THIS is how you read an article in TOENAIL.COM.