This is my first post from Joe’s, East Atlanta’s cafe with free wireless access point. Sweeeet. Think I’ll be “working” from here a lot from now on…

WP on the odd phenomena of bias existing despite the ever increasing availability of sources on the internet:

In fact, as information multiplies, it grows ever easier to choose to read (or watch) whatever best matches your particular bias, whether national or ideological. If you hate network television’s right-wing bias, you can click onto, say, www.globalexchange.org or www.moveon.org. If you hate network television’s left-wing bias, you can always watch Fox.

Nietzsche, my favorite philosopher with syphilis, always complained about the bias of philosophers who started with some arbitrary belief based on nothing but what they wanted to be true, and then built a philosophical system around that belief. Few will ever fully research both sides of an argument to come to a fair, disinterested conclusion. After all, argument is war.

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