Academic

We tend to steer away from political coverage here at the Glom, but Super Tuesday was worth some toe dipping.  With a former, albeit brief, career as a Beltway political on my resume, I'm predisposed to be distracted by election coverage.  And this election is taking the cake.  I'm finding the blog coverage of the horse race to be especially distracting  Marc Ambinder is newsy, Christopher Beam and Chadwick Matlin are insightful, Jonathan Martin is fantastic on the GOP side, and Matthew Yglesias and Ben Smith ain't bad on the Democrats.  And then I have to stop reading so that some actual work can get done.   With  the exception of Kevin Drum, every blogger I read on politics is under thirty and a lot are under 25.  I've found the coverage to be a cheery testament to blogging's-still-got-it claims, an exemplar of the wisdom of youth, and evidence that those rumors you sometimes hear that the best journalists these days would rather do online instead of print might be on to something.