Daily Digest: Politics? One Column, Two Sentences, a Headline!

The Web on the Candidates "Digest-digests, digest-digest-digests. Politics? One column, two sentences, a headline!" We've got Fahrenheit 451 on the brain this morning. Ray Bradbury painted a scary portrait of a dystopian future where factoids replaced thinking and the public attention span resembled that of a gnat. If it has felt lately that we're living in that world, are there maybe signs of hope on the horizon? It seemed like much of the world tuned in yesterday to watch the entirety of Barack Obama's 26-minute speech delivered from in front of Berlin's Victory Column yesterday. Even Rush Limbaugh played extended clips. It's impossible to know how many people have watched it on YouTube, as those numbers appear to be stuck -- they've been at 660,996 for hours now. But Obama's field video director has reported that one of... [read full story]