I have also added a couple of links to other blogs that have recently come to my attention. My local paper, the Kansas City Star, is (thank Dog) a McClatchy outfit, and one of our local reporters is in Baghdad on assignment. He is writing a blog from there called The Missouri, the Kaw, the Tigris and the Euphrates. Scott Canon is doing a fine job and making some great posts. Check it out.
Under the Science Blogs link list, you will find The Catalytic Triad - (which might be the best name for a blog ever) - which takes place at the nexus of science, education and progressive politics. Beer is on me if you can refute his well-thought out and sourced arguments. Go on - I dare ya.
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First up is Manifesto Joe. He is an underground writer, living in Texas. He has joined the team of bloggers at WTWC and is helping us keep an eye on the Statehouse down there and the Texas delegation in Washington. Texas born-and-bred, he is a valuable addition to our team over there, and a fine blogger in his own right. Check out his site and I guarantee you'll bookmark him for return visits.
Second is Desdinova - Supervillain of the Ozarks. I blogroll him (in part) because I am afraid not to - you see, when he is the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, I am one of the few people who will be allowed to live. He is raging against the dieing of the light in the media. It's a noble cause and I wish him well, and offer my humble support by linking him. I dread leaving the safe cocoon of the city because eventually, I lose the signal to civilized radio...I would don a cape and mask, too, if I lived in the Ozarks, I am afraid.
Third up is Worldwide Sawdust. I just learned about them, and when I went to have a look-see, by golly, there was your humble blogging servant, linked in the sidebar. I looked around a bit and decided I might not be worthy - Bob Higgins and company are doing some damned fine blogging over there, quality alternative journalism in the same vein as Watching Those We Chose. Check them out. After all, intellect can not live on snark alone.
Fourth is The Barstool Chronicles - dispatches from the existential sinkhole. I saw his link when I checked my site stats and wondered over to have a look around. I liked what I saw. Just the right touch of irreverence, indignation, and pissed-off. Besides, his bio pic shows him playing a Fender J-bass. Gibson folks have to earn a link - but Fender guys get linked automatically. There you have it and now you know. My prejudices are not racial - they are guitar-based.
And I have saved the best for last - The Blog of the Unknown Soldier is brand-spanking new - With only six posts in the archives, you can read them all, and I think you should. This guy is obviously a Mensch, and service by folks like him gives me hope that the military I have loved and revered since my first breath of life can and will be redeemed, rebuilt and repaired. It took men like my husband to rebuild it the last time. Now that they are retired or retiring, it's going to fall to young men like him to do it this go-round. Just in case you don't know me all that well,
Updated @ 6:00 p.m. - Right after I posted this, I checked the sidebar, and realized a couple of folks who had been added recently without comment, and let's face it - my sidebar is a cacophony - although I prefer the word Opit uses - trove. Then I looked at the bookmarks and said to myself "Self, you were supposed to move some of these to the blogroll a long, long time ago, so why don't you just get off your ass and do that?" and I responded "Yes, Ma'am" because I sounded particularly stern when I called myself out. So here are five more you should be reading...
Sixth and seventh - the ones I forgot and had to come back to add - Voices of Reason - is a blog that has been providing me high-quality intellectual protein for so long I forgot I had recently added the link to share with you all......Ditto a part of my daily routine that should have been moved from the bookmarks to the blogroll long, long ago is Leila who writes the wonderful Dove's Eye View. Leila is an Academic, a feminist, a peace-maker, a breast-cancer survivor and she happens to be an Arab American. I hope she will forgive me for the oversight. It has been rectified now.
Constructive Interference is a blog written by my fellow Political Animal MSR. I blogrolled him some time ago, but did so without comment. He also blogs about his adventures in beer brewing and mead making here. He is quickly becoming a must-read for me, and not just because we are like, eexactly the same age and both science-types, either.
I promised myself a long time ago that I would blogroll the Politicky Bitch the next time I updated, so I kept my word and did so. Irreverence and snark are the trump cards in her deck.
Finally, rounding it all out to a perfect ten is Sic Semper Tyrannis; the blog of Patrick Lang, retired U.S. intel professional and author of the seminal 2004 essay Drinking the Kool-Aid. I have blogged about him before - in fact I have done so recently.
There you go - lots of new diversions to keep you occupied until I get back to the city and a high-speed connection and back in the swing. This place is just so peaceful and beautiful that it saps the snark right out of me. If I lived here full-time I fear I would lose my edge. Or make the headlines and not in a good way, either.
(Before someone asks, I'll pre-empt the question...I forgot the digital camera. Sorry. Next time, I promise.)
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