I admit it. I love walking around the city at night, looking into people's windows from the street (no one closes their blinds here), seeing what apartments look like, how they're designed, what "stuff" people have.

Life in a city is such an interesting mix of voyeurism and isolationism (the latter, something I've written about before). One of my most favorite days in the city is the Fourth of July. Not because of the fireworks -- who cares. No, it's being up on a rooftop, and seeing this world of people that comes alive along the skyline, distant silhouettes that oooohhhh! and aaaahhhh! and, if only for a couple hours, become one. When it's over, they head back down their stairs, and we all go back to looking into each others' windows...

In a way, it's similar to the kind of community we have here, on a blog. We're nameless and faceless, yet there's a sense we're in something together. I can't peer into your windows, but, in a small way, I can peer into your brain, or, at least, the piece of your brain you wish to reveal to us.

City life seems anonymous from the outside, but it's really much more. Just like a blog.

This story is buried deep within Election Central, but I think it's actually a pretty big deal.

Why should Dems debate on Fox?

(Not trying to get answers on this post, but if you have an opinion, head over to EC. I just think the story deserves more discussion than it's gotten here...)

Compare today's WaPo to the Times, on the same topic:

WaPo: The fall of this skilled and long-respected public servant is particularly sobering because it arose from a Washington scandal remarkable for its lack of substance. It was propelled not by actual wrongdoing but by inflated and frequently false claims

NYT: That is what we know from the Libby trial, and it is some of the clearest evidence yet that this administration did not get duped by faulty intelligence; at the very least, it cherry-picked and hyped intelligence to justify the war.

WaPo: Mr. Wilson ...claimed to have debunked evidence that Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger; suggested that he had been dispatched by Mr. Cheney to look into the matter; and alleged that his report had circulated at the highest levels of the administration.
A bipartisan investigation by the Senate intelligence committee subsequently established that all of these claims were false -- and that Mr. Wilson was recommended for the Niger trip by Ms. Plame, his wife.

NYT: And although we still do not know the answer to the original mystery, the case provided a look at the methodical way that Mr. Cheney, Mr. Libby, Karl Rove and others in the Bush inner circle set out to discredit Ms. Wilson’s husband, Joseph Wilson IV.
...So, the trial testimony showed, Mr. Cheney orchestrated an assault on Mr. Wilson’s credibility with the help of Mr. Libby and others. They whispered to journalists that Mr. Wilson’s wife worked at the C.I.A. and that nepotism was the reason he had been chosen for the trip.

WaPo: Mr. Fitzgerald was, at least, right about one thing: The Wilson-Plame case, and Mr. Libby's conviction, tell us nothing about the war in Iraq.

NYT: The potential damage from that decision remains of real concern. But it was still a breath of fresh air to see someone in this administration, which specializes in secrecy, prevarication and evading blame, finally called to account.

It seems to me "media bias" is too simplistic an answer here, but, maybe that's it?

I really don't have any good explanation, other than some notion that facts really don't have any bearing anymore...that in a postmodern world, facts are dead.