Blog explosions in the news today

From the NYTimes:
an op-ed on Lee Siegal's crash-and-burn at The New Republic for operating a sock-puppet commenter on his TNR blog.

Also, on the front page, an article about the lonelygirl explosion.

You might think I would be pleased to see blog explosions getting such high-profile coverage, but in fact, the coverage IS the explosion. There's a war on, NYT, and some people are trying to brew up another. Our President is a lying monomaniacal delusory freak (oh wait, maybe that's the veep -- well, both of them, then). You refused to put an article about the death-by-torture of some Afghan men at the hands of U.S. forces on the front page, despite repeated pleas by your foreign editor, and yet lonelygirl gets a front-page (at least on the website) spot?

It's a sad day, folks, when not one, but two blog explosions hit the Times on the same day. Authorities have not confirmed whether the attacks were coordinated, but admit the possibility.