blogging is dumb, take 2

While blogs are a source of overflowing ignorance, there's also the more benign but equally prevalent problem of cut-and-paste journalism. How many blog entries are nothing more than a link to someone else's blog? And if the linked blog is nothing more than a trackback to somebody else's link, then don't we just have an elaborate house of self-fellating cards waiting to topple at the first cold shower of facts? [WARNING: jumbled metaphors in use]

Sometimes it's just blatantly obvious that the blogger didn't fully read the linked item. Even the usually-thoughtful Andrew Sullivan pulled a boner with this entry:

CRUCIFIXION GAMEBOX: They're selling a "Passion of the Christ" video game? Does Jesus try to get away or something?

Slow down, people. Check out the entire site, and you'll see that everything posted there is obviously in jest. And it's pretty funny too, especially the article about the White House's emergency plans in case of Rapture.