Notes from the Twittersphere

Hi all;
Everyone's heard about twitter, right? It's a social networking site, right. Could be, but like standing around the water cooler it also is a great place to keep your finger on the pulse of public opinion. (So go to twitter.com and get in the game.)

Let me give you the low down on what's going down on twitter today.

First off, check out BadAstronomer's article on Discover on line at
http://is.gd/32DQ4
It's a scree against the boneheads who attacked Obama's school house chat as Marxist indocrination. It also has the text of the speech, in case you wanted to see exactly what he said.
(paulapoundstone says: I think it's beyond great for President Obama to tell our kids to study hard and wash their hands. Let him get blue in the face.)

HalSparks has a great imagined GOP response to the speech on http://FunnyOrDie.com/m/2y6p

The majority of twitterphiles are big on public option for health care. Honestly don't we all know that health insurance companies are like public utilities, providing a necessary service that we can't live without - like water or electricity - only they are privately and for profit run organizations that have us all by the short hairs. The only way to keep competitive pressure on these guys is to provide an option. As my wife says, if you don't have car insurance, you can walk or take the bus, but if you don't have health insurance you're screwed.

Also tweeters are dead against Blackwater, and jeremyscahill is on top of it all. Check out his report at http://bit.ly/1246PQ.

Off to feed the chickens.