RE: BLOGGING LIKE GRAFFITI. Dana writes that "[a] better analogy between bloggers and graffiti artists would be if we bloggers had defaced en masse newsstand copies of major papers and magazines in March 2003, writing "LIES LIES LIES" in black magic marker. Of course, that's hardly what bloggers do. We're far more effective than that." I'd like to go back in time and do some newspaper defacin', come to think of it. And also: I'm nowhere near as effective as that. But I vow to improve. I'm off to go write "SUCKS BECAUSE OF UNDERWRITING AND SCREENINGS PROCESSES SUCKS BECAUSE OF UNDERWRITING AND SCREENINGS PROCESSES SUCKS BECAUSE OF UNDERWRITING AND SCREENINGS PROCESSES" in black marker -- and not magic, I don't want this to be water soluble -- on some nearby insurer's window. --Ezra Klein
