The Blogosphere Challenges the MSM in arithmetic impairment.

Below see the ap seems to have reached Donald Luskin's level of understanding of inflation adjustment (concluding that US spending on the war in Vietnam reached 14% of US GDP by dividing spending in 2007 dollars by nominal GDP).

Now Rachel Sklar of The Huffington Post reports that the number of seats in the White House Briefing room has been reduced from 48 to 49

Woo-hoo! It's a happy St. Patrick's Day indeed for Helen Thomas, who was just officially re-awarded her front row seat in the White House Briefing Room after it had been rudely snatched away last month, owing to the combination of fewer seats in the newly-refurbished briefing room (7 seats per rows for 7 rows instead of 6 seats per row for 8 rows)

Keep up the good work bloggers we have a ways to go.