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One reason I prefer blogs with comments: the commentors can make such good points.

From a Winds of Change article about John Dean and Wesley Clark, reader Mike G. comments:

As every management book ever written says, if you don't like the way the game is going, you need to change the rules, the playing field, the objective of the game. The Bushies, with their mostly CEO backgrounds, have done a Steve Jobs on the problem. They're not buying influence with dictators any more, they're building a whole new country in one of the worst old ones. ...

Like their policies or not, it's hard to escape the notion that they're simply several years ahead of the Democrats on what foreign policy is like now. They're making iPods and selling 99 cent songs through iTunes while the Democrats are still trying to prevent music piracy and protect margins on CDs.

From Spoons' post on Chicago's status as the murder capital of the U.S. despite the city's gun control laws, reader Marks comments:

You know, it would really be inappropriate, and maybe downright mean, to place billboards on the edges of town, big signs that said "Come on in, criminals! We're unarmed" and "Chicago is a criminal-friendly city" That's what they've done in principal already, all they lack is the signage.