Obamacare: Daughter saves mother, 80, left by doctors to starve – smoothstoneblog.com 10/14/2009 This will be the soft tyranny imposed on Americans by Obama in the stealthly written Health bill written behind closed doors resulting in a 1,000-page, trillion-dollar Washington takeover which will slash a half-trillion dollars from seniors’ Medicare, add new taxes, raise premiums, and which you will be fined AND imprisoned for up to a year if you don’t buy into the US Gov’ts plan.  That’s not freedom! That’s not reform, Obama.  That is tyranny!  Obamacare – coming soon to your family.

Ever since somebody leaked General Stanley McChrystal’s strategic assessment of the situation in Afghanistan late last month, we’ve had a smidgen of debate in the megamedia about what it all means. An improvement over the dead silence that preceded it, without a doubt, but hardly what one could call a robust discussion.

The more I read this interview of an FTC staffer by book blogger Edward Champion, the more the stupidity burns. By way of background: This morning, the Federal Trade Commission announced that its Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials would be revised in relation to bloggers. The new guidelines (PDF) specified that bloggers making any representation of a product must disclose the material connections they (the presumed endorsers) share with the advertisers.