At consortiumnews.com is the article How US Media Botched Iran’s Election.

One can still remain skeptical of the premise of the article (if you want to), and still have your mind opened to the possibility that what we think we know about the recent election is very far from reality.

U.S. foreign policy toward Iran may be way off base because of this faulty story line that western countries are accepting.

At least one has to wonder what Brazil and Turkey think they know that would lead them to try to deal with Iran on purely diplomatic term.

Maybe there is a rational reason why Russia and China are so hard to convince to go along with us on our bellicose behavior toward Iran.

Would our heads explode if we were to contemplate these possibilities?

The article Inside The Mind Of The Anonymous Online Poster that appears on the boston.com web site is a fascinating look at the issue of anonymity and online blogs.

There is nothing actionable about what we learn from the article.  However, it is nice to know that the people who run these sites are concerned about the impact of anonymous posters.

I have been reading the comments on Yahoo! News lately. True to the name, it seems to attract mostly the yahoos to post comments.  I think it is actually worse than what I read for comments on the Worcester T & G web site.