I think the very idea that anyone thinks Newt Gingrich HAS an intellect is a joke. If Newt is now the top intellectual powerhouse for the GOP, they may never win another election : )

America has crossed the Rubicon from dumber to dumb, so we may never again elect another like the dumbest president ever, you know who: W.

OK, I take back SOME of what I said about Facebook…

Rowland Scherman

Izzy Stone in his print shop…

by Glynn Wilson

When I signed up for Facebook a litte more than a month back, I was not thrilled with the prospect. I already manage several Web sites, most of which carry an economic interface where I can get paid and create something for the future with the real possibility of generating enough revenue to pay other writers and photographers.

My skeptical question was: How is Facebook going to help with that goal considering that the programmer geeks at Facebook make all the money off the free content tens of thousands of people post there every day?

Now, thanks to an incident that happened today, I see the power of social networking software and realize the utility of the concept.

I ran into my old friend Rowland Scherman on Facebook in the past couple of days. Today, he sent me the photo above to use on this site. This gives me the opportunity to tell a couple of stories and connect a few dots.

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