TheLoop21.com‘s Keli Goff capped off Monday’s edition of The Dylan Ratigan Show with a “Daily Rant” about the state of internet criticism, both via email and comment forums, that nearly caused me to stand up and cheer in my living room. Sending vile comments into the “trash” folder, or deleting them from the comments section, is a barely-noticeable reflex action, but just above that low bar are types of comments that are really irksome. Goff offered some great advice to the cellar-dwellers.

The Arkansas Governor seat has been held by former two-term President Bill Clinton and 2008 GOP Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.

But someone in Huckabee’s current field (TV host) has his sights on the Arkansas governorship in the future – CNN anchor T.J. Holmes.

File this under “People Who Think They Are Helping Roman Polanski Really Aren’t”: At least one pro-Polanski online activist has blocked at least one Facebook user critical of Polanski from posting anything to do with Polanski to her Facebook page. Bi-zarre.

While our country is engulfed in two wars, struggling to climb back after falling off of an economic cliff last year and trying to find a way to provide health care for nearly fifty million uninsured Americans, I am glad to see that some of Hollywood’s elite, (including Mr. Weinstein, Ms. Winger and Woody Allen, among others) have found a truly important cause worth fighting for: defending Roman Polanski.

Where were you a year ago today? If you are a political journalist — or media hanger-on — chances are you were living out of a suitcase at the 2008 Presidential Conventions, with the Dems nominating Barack Obama in Denver and the GOP nominating John McCain in Minneapolis/St. Paul. Remember those heady days?