Modern Renaissance man John Perry Barlow (Harvard scholar, digital democracy agitator, ex-Grateful Dead lyricist, ex-Wyoming cattle rancher) will be filmed by The Discovery Channel as he attempts to defy death by getting seriously back in shape at the posh Canyon Ranch spa. More here, in his latest post.

Doubtless he's thought about what a steady diet of chili dogs and worse did to Dead icon Jerry Garcia.

BTW, noted liberal Barlow set off a blogstorm in January when he issued a year-end post declaring The Left was becoming too insular and vituperative toward Bush and Bushies. While Barlow's posts are often lengthy, sometimes weeks apart, and - obviously - not always about politics, he's been a strong voice of late against what some call the "silo effect" of blogging. The comment string of the post above shows he hit a responsive chord.

Rigid partisanship drives the "gotcha" fixation of East Coast big media.

Blogger R. Scott Cummins is another man in the middle. He's a real Seattle Republican who says he knows in his heart Rush Limbaugh really IS a big fat idiot.

(Here's my earlier item on Barlow, and Portland blogger Michael Totten, including some interesting Barlow-related links).

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at February 13, 2004 08:34 AM

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