January 28, 2006  Desis Critical  What in dear lord’s name is a
‘superior blogger’? Is it someone who is superior by his/her own
admission, or is it a title that is conferred by a select group
of pundits, who must themselves be super-superior to confer that
title on lesser mortals? Regardless, it is amusing to see blogs
taking on more and more mainstream media-like water into their
hulls with advertisements pasted all over the pages.  I guess
they have ‘costs’ to cover, which surprisingly is a line of
reasoning that I attach myself to when I have to answer why the
websites of the media companies I have worked for have the same
Technicolor advertisements plastered all over them. Actually, I
don’t have any issue with any of this, other than the fact that
we bloggers don’t like to hold the mirror up to our own faces as
much as we love to show it to the others. Do we actually hate
our own faces that much?  January 24, 2006  Something Different?
Once the required hours of sleep was dealt with on Sunday, after
an