Paul Begala is being extremely funny today taking on a new anti-Kerry ad from Bush/Cheney. The ad shows scary Wolves of Terror circling in the Forest of Life, waiting to pounce when John Kerry and weakling liberals let the Fires of Security burn low. (You know what? This sentence is better than the ad is.) Begala is being hysterical, shouting "They're puppies! The Puppies are coming! The Puppies are coming" flapping his arms like Steve Martin in "The Jerk." "What's next," Begala asked, "goats??", referring to the story My Pet Goat that W was reading when he got the news of the 9/11 attacks.

The microscope of big media continues to focus more clearly on what makes the blogosphere tick. Matthew Klam's NYT Mag article does a really nice job highlighting how the pace and the tone of blogging is helping change our national conversation, and even dragging the reluctant giant of big media into the new faerie light cast by the monitors of monitors like Josh Micah Marshall, Kos and Wonkette. But oh how I wish the Bigs would grow up and portray the Blogs without the Kooky Kids sensationalism, which perpetuates an onus of marginality that bloggers and others in online media can no longer claim. Don't believe me? Then see the photo below, or take the lead paragraphs of the Klam article as an example...Nine blocks north of Madison Square Garden, next door to the Emerging Artists Theater, where posters advertised ''The Gay Naked Play'' (''Now With More Nudity''), the bloggers…

You've gotta love it when one location nails your interests consistently, as the current homepage on DailyKos just did for me. Nearly every entry had me buzzing for more. Note especially the news of a reported shift out of Michigan by ACT and some nice Dan Rather/GWB humor cribbed from Outlet Radio. Dan Rather, CBS News Anchor1. given documents he thought were true 2. failed to thoroughly investigate the facts 3. reported documents to the American people as true to make his case 4. when confronted with the facts, apologized and launched an investigation 5. number of Americans dead: 0 6. should be fired as CBS News Anchor George W. Bush, President of the United States1. given documents he thought were true 2. failed to thoroughly investigate the facts 3. reported documents to the American people as true to make his case 4. when confronted with the facts, continued to…