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Friday Festival Of Blog Bits

I haven't had much spare time for blogging this week, but here are quick blurbs to serve as a recap of the week:

-- Sen. Trent Lott loves his share of the "pork" in the federal budget, so it goes without saying that the Mississippi Republican hates the PorkBusters who are out to force a politically kosher diet on congressmen. But Lott said it anyway this week.

"I'll just say this about the so-called PorkBusters," he told The Washington Post in an article about what is now being called the "railroad to nowhere." "I'm getting damn tired of hearing from them. They have been nothing but trouble ever since Katrina," he said.

The response from N.Z. Bear, one of the leaders of the PorkBusters campaign: "I'm sorry to say it, but we have just barely gotten started making the likes of Mr. Lott tired. So I hope he's ready for many sleepless nights to come."

-- Tom DeLay, R-Texas announced his plans to resign from the House, but GOP Bloggers wondered why some Democrats aren't doing the same. One contributor at The Huffington Post, meanwhile, urged the blogosphere to donate to the defense of Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., in his longrunning court battle against now-House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.

-- The directors of RedState added their unified voice to the immigration debate, outlining seven principles for immigration policy.

-- MyDD highlighted the fightin' words of a Democratic official in Philadelphia: "We need to understand the Internet and to teach our people how to use it. We need to battle the bloggers on their own turf."

-- Borders is urging people to read banned books. That made Wizbang curious about the company's seemingly hypocritical decision to ban the April/May issue of Free Inquiry because it published some of Muslim cartoons. Ezra Klein shared the answer from the CEO of Borders.

-- Bloggers love to talk, so inviting them to panel discussions could be a mistake. Matt Stoller offered some advice at MyDD after he participated in an event in Maryland: "I have to warn future blog panel moderators -- bloggers are shy and don't tend to have much to say. I'm lying. Just cut us off. Two minutes for an answer to a question and then be brutal. Otherwise we'll run roughshod, mwah hah hah."

(Full disclosure: I was invited to participate in the Wednesday roundtable in question but had to decline because of other obligations -- and you can bet the panel moderator would have had a hard time cutting me off, too.)

-- Erick-Woods Erickson of RedState thinks Daylight Savings Time should become a presidential campaign issue.

-- The Week magazine named Ed Morrissey of Captain's Quarters as "blogger of the year" at a ceremony in Washington. Power Line, which won the honor last year, and Tapscott's Copy Desk were among those to praise the selection of Morrissey.

-- Will this be the "year of scrutiny" for the blogosphere and citizen journalism? Debbie Weil of BlogWrite thinks so.

-- And Hotline On Call looked at "The Funniest Photos On Official Congressional Web Sites."

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