Beyond the Beltway

Blogghorea:

Anyone else tired of the endless series of thumbsuckers about whether or not bloggers are journalists, bloggers taking down newscasters/politicians/(non)journalistis, blahg, blahg, blahg? Too bad: Here's

, by

The American Prospect

's Garance Franke-Ruta, which ties together bloggers' take-downs of "Jeff Gannon" and Eason Jordan with Joseph Steffen's take-down of himself, and all the other crap that's been going on.

Way, Way Beyond the Beltway:

From

The Irish Echo

, Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to

while in the States over St. Patrick's Day weekend. And from

People's Daily

, the

, the first of its kind in the United States, to start

soon.