Perhaps that's "interesting" in the sense that a biologist might find a petri dish where cultures taken from a public bathroom had been growing for a couple of weeks to be "interesting."

What Daily Kos does is allow a real free market of ideas with the most articulate, best thought out, and meaningful writers raising to the recommended list and garnering the most discussion through commentary.

Drum and Marshall are invaluable, but in a different way than DK. They provide fact based commentary on issues as well but with single voice.

If one is interested in seeing how we are going to work out issues that confront us it would be foolish to avoid reading DK on a regular basis. There are just too many good writers there and good ideas for anyone to ignore.

While I agree that occasional reading of Daily Kos is something that someone in Peretz' position ought endure, it's hardly particularly informative on "the great issues of the day." Surely, one could read, say, Kevin Drum and Josh Marshall and have a far better understanding of what's going on in the minds of thinking Democrats than by reading only DailyKos.

DK has been the leading forum for discussions about the issues facing our nation for years. It has regular entries by major political figures and regularly featured entries by a whole host of highly intellegent persons who bring an expertise to the subject matter rarely found in the MSM and never in TNR.

Whatever his problems are with Marcos he needs to read Dialy Kos on a regular basis if he hopes to remain informed on the great issues of the day and how they will be resolved in the future.

But TNR is a heterodox institution, a concept Kos surely cannot fathom.

Of course the Kossacks think TNR is a neocon co-conspirator. These are the same wackos who think ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN are right-wing media.