This morning I read the, "Reading political blogs and comments saddens me". The response seemed to be: this is the internet and that's the way it is - accept it or leave.

I just watched TPM's Towering Babble assemblage of weekend talk show clips. Granted that TPM comments are not as bad as elsewhere, but even so, I have to wonder whether the shouting, trolling, posturing and cronyism on the TPM comment board is a significant improvement over the shouting, trolling, posturing and cronyism we see on the TPM video. The comparable answer to the Towering Babble: this is politics on TV - accept it or don't watch.