Here's somebody I want to interview. Check it out:

[Radio_Lady]

Lee Siegel, author of the book, "Against the Machine", was interviewed by Jon Stewart last night.

I'm going to request the book and try to get Mr. Siegel for my show. That should be a tantilizing interview.

Here's a Sunday NY Times article on the subject:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/books/review/Lanchester-t.html

Sounds like it's right up our alley here at the Democratic Underground. See if you find your persona described in the hyperlinked article.

Cordially,

Radio Lady in Oregon

[hippywife]

1. Now that is the

funniest bandwidth theft message, I've ever seen! :rofl:

[Radio_Lady]

2. It comes from the NY Times article. Maybe we could use it as an alternate tombstoned message.

It's much better than LOCKED or IGNORE! Save it and use it on someone when you're fully ticked off. Especially in primary season with the antagonism people have been experiencing around here.

In fact, I can think of a couple of people I'd like to send it to tonight.

But I jest... I'm only joking... :sarcasm:

Cordially,

Radio Lady in Oregon

[Richardo]

3. !!

:rofl:





:hi: hippywife! Long time, etc etc

[hippywife]

4. Hi, Richardo!

I did save that image. It really did crack me up! I can see that it would have so many applications around here but I probably wouldn't use it myself. LOL

Hope all is well over your way! :hi:

[Radio_Lady]

7. Hi Richardo! Did you see the beagle that won the Westminster Dog Show!

What a sweet animal! Gorgeous colors! Affectionate! Just like a beagle should be!!!

Beagle Glee here. Enjoy your week!

Cordially,

Radio Lady Ellen

[Sock Puppet]

5. LOL

Yes! :rofl:

[Radio_Lady]

6. ...

Sock Puppet! I thought you disliked me intensely... but glad you see you're rolling on the floor, laughing. That's good. Have a great week -- did you have to work today?

Cordially,

Radio Lady Ellen in Oregon

[PeaceNikki]

8. Did you read the last 2 or 3 paragraphs of that article? Interesting...

He is hasty, and at times careless, as in this paragraph on the Lonelygirl15 affair, a YouTube stunt from 2006 featuring a young actress who turned out to be represented by the Creative Artists Agency:

“By the time the Lonelygirl hoax was revealed, the country had long been reeling from a series of public betrayals. Enron officials had lied to their shareholders. A New York Times reporter named Jayson Blair had lied to his editors. James Frey had fabricated events in his best-selling, Oprah-endorsed memoir. Most consequentially, and outrageously, of all, President Bush had clearly lied to America and to the world about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and also about a connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. You might have expected an exasperated American public, or at least the American media and blogosphere, to be equally angered by the revelation that YouTube and MySpace had been infiltrated by dishonest and powerful vested interests.”

The fact that a man as smart as Siegel came to put Lonelygirl15 and Iraq into the same train of argument is a sign of the Internet’s power to make people lose all sense of perspective. The ramped-up affect of “Against the Machine,” its air of haste and its ad hominem quality are uncomfortably reminiscent of the blogs Siegel so dislikes. There are moments when it seems that Siegel is baring psychic wounds in public, and the reader comes to suspect that he was much more troubled by his bruising experience with the blogosphere than he is willing to let on. Why is so much to do with the Internet — so much of what’s said on it, and so much of what’s said about it, by its advocates and its detractors — so angry? “Against the Machine” doesn’t solve that mystery. But at least Siegel signs his arguments with his own name.