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...embracing locally grown food as the eco-healthy choice. Farmers' markets are thriving, along with community-supported agriculture, through which people subscribe to a monthly produce basket. And on locavore websites, converts swap shopping tips (Goatsbeard Farm feta from a Missouri cook) and recipes (cheese grits via a Georgia blogger who plugs a stone-ground variety from a mill powered by a mule named Luke). Some boast of eating local on a budget-- $8.34 a day in the case of an Oakland, Calif., activist who got by on sorrel-potato soup and honey-sweetened cookies for dinner. But she confesses...
...Really the Kingmaker? He says no. But if Joe Lieberman loses his Senate primary and jeopardizes a Democratic seat, the leading liberal blogger knows that he will be blamed...
...Senator Barbara Boxer, the California Democrat, gives a keynote speech, then schmoozes in the blogger media room. She fields their questions gamely though at times she sounds less like she?s talking to anything remotely like the press than she is talking to a group of possibly hostile foreign nationals. ?You people,? she says a lot. ?That?s how you can help,? she asserts several times, though she doesn?t seem positive about it. Richardson and Clark talk to their audiences in the same cautiously flattering way, making self-deprecating but pat references to how old and out of touch...
...tough to say, Moulitsas argues, because so much of the profits of the site get poured back into it. Whatever his take-home pay is, it?s enough to generate respect from unlikely quarters. "Most would argue and it?s self-evident that he?s the most well compensated blogger on the planet," says Mike Krempasky, co-founder of the virulently conservative RedState.com "I don?t say that in a pejorative way. I think that?s great!" Moulitsas?s enterprise was in fact the inspiration for Red State, right down to identical software and a spirit of embattled community...
...Some are already paying a heavy price. In a statement issued from jail and posted in numerous blogs, blogger activist Mohammad Al Sharqawi said police brutally beat and sexually assaulted him when he was arrested leaving a protest last week. "The pain was terrible," Al Sharqawi wrote in the statement. "I was screaming asking him to stop so that I can catch my breath. He took down my underwear, and tore it to pieces, and kept on hitting me on different parts of my body asking me to bend down. I refused, but they forced me." Gamal Eid, Al Sharqawi...