I still strongly believe that no blogger is obligated to write about any topic

I still strongly believe that no blogger is obligated to write about any topic, but I just find it interesting

that web personalities who one would think would be big Michael Moore fans are collectively shrugging their

shoulders over this. …

Nothing (so far) at Eschaton, Daily Kos, James Wolcott, Josh Marshall, Kevin Drum, Matthew Yglesias, Tapped,

The Left Coaster…

- National Review blogger Jim Geraghty on Tuesday (one of three long posts on Moore’s Oscar snub)

[zip, zilch, nada]

- blogger Jim Geraghty today (as of 8:00 pm Central) on America’s deadliest day yet in MBT

Not so much as a “we mourn the fallen” from Glenn Reynolds, either, though he does have some “good news”

from MBT, so he’s apparently still aware the place exists. Ditto Andrew Sullivan, Jeff Jarvis, and Roger L.

Simon (these were the only ones I checked, but I think they’ll suffice to establish a pattern). Guess Fred Reed

is right:

No one in the mysteriously named “elite” gives a damn about some kid from a town in Tennessee that has one gas

station and a beer hall with a stuffed buck’s head. Such a kid is a redneck at best, pretty much from another

planet, and certainly not someone you would let your daughter date. … Thank God for throwaway people.

UPDATE 10:30 pm CT: Jeff Jarvis has since added a note on this disastrous day:

We pay more attention when more people die. That’s ridiculous, even offensive. Others died yesterday and the

day before. Some died in accidents, some at the hand of insurgents/terrorists/murderers. None of them should

have died, of course. Some try to blame the president for these deaths; too few blame the murderers with blood

on their hands.