Michael Bérubé: “On Monday I find that the only people still talking about Hookergate are… bloggers. Really smart, reliable ones like Laura Rozen and Kevin Drum, mind you, not those foul-mouthed denizens of the fever swamp (i.e., everybody else, including you). Well, at least this reminds me why I started reading blogs in the first place, back in the summer of 2002 – out of a growing sense that almost everything else had become worse than useless.”