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Nuthin' but 'Net

Hi. Lots of stuff on the 'net and in the papers today about the Bloomberg boomlet of the past 48 hours, plus a blogger unveils her identity and surprises some readers -- and more on videos by, and about, the presidential candidates.

Allahpundit at HotAir had some of the most pungent commentary on a possible Bloomberg bid.

And Salon's Tim Grieve points out that some recent polling among voters who know Bloomberg, Clinton and Giuliani might actually give the Bloomberg folks some pause.

Pollster John Zogby begs to differ.

Bloomberg-mania is understandable coming from the New York Times, the Mayor's hometown paper and, based on this front-page story by Adam Nagourney and Jim Rutenberg, recipients of two years worth of whispering about planning and strategy.

But it's sort of hard to sustain the mania about someone who would utter the following soundbite when asked if there were any scenario under which he would run: "If everybody in the world was dead and I was the only one alive, yes, sure. Come on!" Just one opinion.

One potentially entertaining sidebar to all this -- the nascent pissing match between Bloomberg and his predecessor.

The DesMoines Register was on hand as Giuliani tried to explain why he accepted membership in the Iraq Study Group, then failed to attend any of its meetings while simultaneously giving big-ticket speeches.

But Greg Sargent at TPMCafe hits the Google and finds some evidence that Giuliani's response is lacking.

ThinkProgress has some details on the events that conflicted with the ISG meetings.

Lois Romano of the Washington Post writes about Hillary Clinton's close knit team of female advisors.

RawStory picks up on reports that Dick Cheney's office doesn't consider itself part of the Executive Branch.

Notes from blogland: conservative blogs revel in MSNBC.com report that found journalists contributing to Democratic candidates. RedState provides a prime example.

One of the blogs I read every day is called Hullabaloo and its main blogger writes under the name Digby. I had always assumed Digby was a guy -- I even had a picture of what he might look like in my mind. Digby showed up at the liberal Take Back America conference in Washington this week and it turns out, he is a she ... a baby boomer with long blonde hair, not at all what I pictured in my mind all those times I visited Hullabaloo. DailyKos posted an excerpt from her speech on what the left blogosphere is, and is not.

[Editor's note: Some of you think Chris is a man, some a woman as evidenced in your responses to this twice-weekly posting. So, which is it? Offer your opinion below]

And Salon's Glenn Greewald is a Digby fan ... his take on her speech.

Conservative iconoclast Andrew Sullivan plug's liberal Greenwald's new book.

Ben Marshall at the London-based Guardian really hated Hillary Clinton's Sopranos spoof. But perhaps Ben is really misdirecting his pent-up frustration with David Chase.

In the battle of the YouTube fan videos it's the "Obamagirl" versus This Fred Thompson guy ... not much of a contest right now, I'd venture.

And on the parenting front, Slate's Christopher Beam writes about last week's recall of millions of Thomas the Tank engine toys that sent waves of "shock and awww" through uncounted households with toddlers. The U.S. has a China problem that doesn't involve the bond market.

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