Flutterby™! :

In Salon this morning, two articles that I find a bit disturbing. The first is a deification of Ralph Nader, which paints him as a saint who's toiled his whole life for you and me without any material recompense. It's contrary to every report I read on the man, and could have come straight from his PR department except that I think in the interest of making it beleivable they'd actually make it a little less gushing. The second is a glorification of some MIT Media Lab wanker, writing the usual science fiction about things that the rest of us are quietly implementing. What bothers me about both of them is that there's no attempt at balance, I gave up on both after the first page as I get enough of that treacly saccharine trash in advertising every day.