The influence of the blogosphere, as it is fondly known, is growing exponentially in society, commerce, politics and journalism. (Just ask Jeff Gannon). Now, blogger and journalist Max Blumenthal has made a significant advance in the area of psychiatry.

It is likely, of course, that the psychiatric profession will pay about as much attention to Blumenthal’s startling discovery, as most of the mainstream media has paid to the revelation that one of their number — a member of the White House press corps — turned out to be a pseudonymous pseudo-journalist, who worked for a pseudo-news agency (now defunct), and was an authentic Republican propagandist and a male prostitute, among other things.

Nevertheless, let me be the first to hail Max’s breakthrough, which like so many great discoveries, is really very simple: “If you do not read Fred’s blog you are insane.”

I will be offline this weekend, but if insanity breaks out, check out this post — still pretty fresh after two weeks:

A Top Christian Nationalist Comes to Massachusetts.

And if the hunger is still there, try out this one — which thumbnail’s Max Blumenthal’s Nation online expose of Family Research Council honcho Tony Perkins’ connection to white supremacist David Duke.