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Posted AT 3:01 AM EDT on 17/08/07

The power of these words

From Friday's Globe and Mail

Essence of blogging. The challenge of the blogosphere leapt out in one line of David Rees's response to Michael Ignatieff's recent recantation of support for the Iraq war. Blogger Rees cited an Ignatieff passage on how the noble expectations of war boosters failed to materialize, which ended by saying war opponents "avoided all these mistakes." "Yeah," Rees blogged, "you're right, they did. Do you know why? Because they're not retarded." That's it.

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