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Thursday, December 30, 2004Went over to Hewitt's place, started following links from page to page and encountered much bloggy goodness. With something like a dozen windows open, I thought I'd pass along some of the best, most interesting and most alarming so that I'll remember where it is and you can enjoy. Here we go:The other day, Hewitt posted a list of questions journalists and opinion writers should have to answer to know where they're coming from. The TurkeyBlog answered here. Siflay Hraka also answered, along with rounding up other people's responses here. One of those people, over at Pajama Pundits, didn't much care for Hugh's bit, but played along. I'll agree that the questions and the simple answers they seem to call for don't do much to draw out the larger, more complex person behind the answers. But that doesn't mean they're not useful. They do provide something of a snapshot. For example, by having gay marriage, late term abortion and the votes, you get a feeling for whether the person is conservative, liberal or libertarian. With respect to the MSM, you'd get a good feel for whether you were talking to someone who toed the line on liberal orthodoxy or who had a few quirks that would let you know whether you might find something unexpected in their writing every now and again. Throw in welfare reform and tax cuts and throw out the president's question and I think you'd get even more out of this. Visiting some of the other respondents, I found out three interesting/frightening bits about the tsunami: Fresh bilge has this post on how seismic events lead to other seismic events, like volcano eruptions, along with the note that Barren Island has started spewing. And then, there's this bit on death tolls going as high as 400,000, that post launched by a Drudge headline. And Shaking Spears has this post on the possibility that the animals might just be smarter than us. In Sri Lanka, it appears, most of the animals took cover before everything went to hell. And now, with four windows closed, we'll close this post. 
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