I've begun blogging over at True/Slant because it's an interesting idea (a kind of steroidal version of both blogs and Web forums) and because it promises compensation. Yesterday's post was about the odd tendency to blame opinionated talking heads for society's ills:

"The [GOP's] first African-American chairman told The Washington Times of his plan to lay out an 'off the hook' public relations blitz targeting young Latinos and African-Americans in 'hip-hop settings.' He appeared on radio to denounce President Obama's budget as containing a lot of 'bling bling' and used a podcast to pronounce himself ready to hold a 'rap off' with late night comedian Stephen Colbert."

"But for all the bullying bluster of conservative talk-show hosts, their essential attitude is one of apology and submission -- the dreary old conservative cringe. Their underlying metaphysic is the same as the liberals’: infinite human potential -- Yes, we can! -- if only we get society right. To the Left, getting society right involves shoveling us around like truckloads of concrete; to the Right, it means banging on about responsibility, God, and tax cuts while deficits balloon, Congress extrudes yet another social-engineering fiasco, and our armies guard the Fulda Gap. That human beings have limitations and that wise social policy ought to accept the fact -- some problems insoluble, some Children