Beantown Becomes Blogtown

Randell Beck, editor of the Argus Leader, is feeling the heat. In a column yesterday, he wrote: "Those perched on the political fringes have found a home on the Internet. True believers of one stripe or another, no longer content to merely bore spouses and neighbors with their nutty opinions, can now spew forth on their own blogs, thereby playing a pivotal role in creating the polarized climate that dominates debate on nearly every national issue. . . . If Hitler were alive today, he'd have his own blog."