I love it. Andrew Sullivan is insightful beyond the norm. His assertion that a blog is not a sole news source, what you might expect from, say, CNN or Fox News, is rather refreshing. Hell, you can’t even expect CNN and Fox News to be sole news sources any more. I think the days are gone where news consumers rely entirely upon one source for their information. To truly stay informed, you’ve got to pay attention to a variety of sources: News, opinion, and, yes, even blogs.

So when David Appell says blogs aren’t detailed enough, Sullivan takes him to task. As well he should. It isn’t that blogs purpurt to be news. They don’t. Most blogs, if anything, analyze the news. They’re more like op-ed pieces. Take the news and opine. But most are typically shorter than your average newspaper op-ed piece. And to quote Sullivan,

The Dish is a portal as well as well as a blog - to all the information and ideas percolating out there. And my role has evolved from purely an opiner to a web DJ of sorts, re-mixing and finding and editing the thoughts and images and facts of others.

Amen. And like any DJ, some of the selections are good and some are not. I might like a certain DJs taste in classic rock and roll and hate the fact that he mixes country with hip-hop, but I also understand that he’s trying to appeal to his entire audience and not just one segment of it.

Blog posts like Appell’s make me just wonder why the hell the man doesn’t stop writing to his blog altogether. I mean, it’s a Blogger.com blog and he’s slamming blogs as worthless bags of wind, even taking a potshot at his own. He uses worthless drivel to criticize what he calls worthless drivel. That’s like looking in the mirror and saying, “You’re ugly.” Well, then quit looking in the frickin’ mirror, moron!