Gents: I guess I just don't see a difference between a group of arts supporters giving Bulte money and the CAW giving money to the NDP. Because the blogsphere is littered with left of centre types, no one wants to raise the issue of where the NDP -- and Peggy Nash -- got their cash. If the CAW or CUPE held a fundraiser for Nash or Layton, no one would blink. It is a double standard. As for the blogsphere -- if you guys can swing a few thousand votes in a riding, despite the fact only a few hundred people read your sites each day -- then that is surely impressive. But I wouldn't go around patting each other on the back quite yet. That said, Evans, I thought your Post column was the only balanced one on this issue.