A great moment from “The Office.”

So there was little amusing mini-fracas among some hip DC political bloggers this week, apparently started by this post asking why DC can’t be more like Portland in catering to white people. The writer has already regretted writing it, but not before other DC bloggers took issue with him.

That’s not the point, though. The point is this post, the best of all, about how all the people in this blog-fracas already know each other and hang out offline. Its title: “Why the blogosphere is like being trapped at a cocktail party with the same 50 people forever.”

Paul Krugman’s op-ed in the Times today begins like this:

Sometimes it seems that the only way to make sense of the Bush administration is to imagine that it’s a vast experiment concocted by mad political scientists who want to see what happens if a nation systematically ignores everything we’ve learned over the past few centuries about how to make a modern government work.

How can that not pull you in?