Memorial day weekend 2002. a fiftysomething minneapolis lawyer named John Hinderaker (sounds like "indie rocker") sits down in his kitchen with a laptop and some simple software and cooks up a website. He bangs out a generic first posting: "This is a new blog dedicated to current events and any topics that are of interest to me." Fair enough. His daughter, 13, is hanging out in the kitchen with her best friend. The friend throws out a name for the blog: Power Line. Sure, that'll work. A lot of people, including Dan Rather and any number of executives at CBS, wish that Hinderaker had done something else that Memorial Day weekend.
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