Well, in away, endless cuttin' and pastin's becomes somewhat tangendental (sp)... I mean, they are to me a little like the fillibuster... A few go a long way... But, geeze, with the volume of bloggers out there there are articles on every subject one can imagine and no laws requiring that what people write is fact-checked... Yeah, I read just about every op-ed writer in the Post... Even the righties... But I do it with a sense that each has an agenda and if we just accept one writer as the knower-of-everything-correct then we don't do our own curiousity an good...

I wouldn't mind seein' some kinda rules put in place on cut and pastes... Maybe that the cut and paster has to write as many of his own words in the post as are in the cut and paste... I think that would cut down on them... Or do what some, including Amos, does in just lifting the pertinent paragraph... You know, kinda like using a reference in a college term paper...

B~