Re your #49 -
"...they wonder why the 'blogosphere' is on top of things."
So far it is; let's not take it for granted, though.
China has apparently managed to strangle all dissent on it's internet, thanks to the obedient cooperation of Microsoft and Google, who have supplied them with what they need to know in order to locate and root out internet critics, and send them off the the slave-labor "re-education" concentration camps.
Or to the ChiCom involuntary organ-donor program.
Let's not kid ourselves; if the left wasn't getting some benefit out of the internet, it would probably have been shut down some time ago, I opine.
And the UN wants very much to wrest control of the global internet away from the US.
If that happens, (and it might) then Billy Gates et al will be more than happy to sell us out just as they have sold the Chinese who dare yearn for freedom out to their Communist overlords.
In a heartbeat.
So let's enjoy and make the most of this opportunity for free discussion while we can... while it lasts.