I am putting this link up because Mr. von Drehle has, I think, captured the nature of political blogging in his piece.

Without speaking at all of political leanings, I can tell Ms. O'Brien that a journalism degree will hardly assure you a step up the ladder. I know. I have one.

Become an upholsterer, a machinist, an electrician, a plumber, and see where that takes you. Perhaps a manicurist or a hairdresser. We didn't know, did we?