Mixed takedown …

… Jonathan Franzen sounds off pompously about the internet. Prepare for a really, really bad book – Telegraph Blogs. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

True, "trying to do a Malcolm Gladwell" is enough to have a person marked down an ass. But the business about "privacy paranoics" grievously undercuts the rant. I suggest Mr. Wright read this:

Four Principles for a Libertarian National Security State. I am not at all hostile to technology or the Internet or Amazon, but I don't see how it follows from that that I must live in a surveillance state. If Wright really thinks the state is over-ridingly interested in protecting the innocent, he is as naïve as Franzen is pompous.