What’s more fun than writing your own blog post? Writing about what other people are writing, that’s what. Even more fun is just linking to what they write and letting you read them for yourself. Thus, please consider reading the following:
Laurie David and Gene Karpinski at Huffington Post musing about Tim “My Dad Sure Was a Great Guy” Russert’s inability to ask candidates any questions addressing the issue of global warming.
Chris Hedges (a writer I admittedly envy) at Alternet on why our last, best hope to forestall an attack on Iran isn’t the Democrats in Congress, its CENTCOM Commander Admiral Fallon, Army Chief of Staff General Casey and Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
Terrance of The Republic of T on the gay/Lesbian/transgender “panic defense” raised by the murderer of Thalia Mosqueda as his excuse for killing her.
Pam Spaulding at Pam’s House Blend on the fear factor campaign tactics of Tom Tancredo.
Gavin at Real Climate on the lack of consensus among global warming skeptics.
Jill at Brilliant at Breakfast on Barack Obama’s spineless attempt at bipartisan centrism.
Managee at Latino Politico discusses the insanity of fence building at the border.
Jill at Feministe reminds us what a cry baby Jonah Goldberg can be when it comes to taxing poor little rich people like him.
Dave Johnson at Seeing the Forest on the willful blindness of Democrats.
Mahablog on the best case against Universal Health Care.
Dave and Sara at Orcinus on when a smear of Ron Paul isn’t a smear: when it’s all true.
And, last but not least, Brad Friedman at The Brad Blog on why The U.S. Election Assistance Commission is succeeding at failing when it comes to electronic voting machines.
Bon appetit!
Latino Politico’s comments seem to be non-functional at the moment?
Worked for me. Did you click on comments and did the halo screen pop up?
thx for the linkage, Steven D!
CM1 – haloscan has been acting up lately, hit the refresh button and the comment links so reappear out of the ether.
Gotcha…
yeah. It might have just been a hiccup on my end…
“Jill at Brilliant at Breakfast on Barack Obama’s spineless attempt at bipartisan centrism.”
I have a general question that been bugging me more and more over the past couple of months — Is the internecine warfare among the progressive/liberal blogosphere helpful in this primary process? I lean Obama, but I don’t particulary want to read the latest rant on Clinton or Edwards, and it’s getting very predictable, and boring. Name the site or blogger and you know in advance what they’ll write. Maybe everyone else is getting something out of this, and I’m an outlier, wouldn’t be the first time.
since this appears to be an open invitation to introducing alternative sites, and viewpoints, into the common fold, l’ll take it as an opportunity to present two sites, that l note have remained conspicously absent from the BT blogroll, that are required reading, imnsho.
not for the weak of heart…nor those who find dark prophesies unpleasant and distasteful…but always well written, thoughtful, well researched, and thought provoking:
chris floyd at empire burlesque
arthur silber at once upon a time…power of narrative
both harsh and scathing critics of the staus quo.
lTMF’sA
Yes bot good sites. I’ll ask Booman if he could add them to the blogroll.
I’ve learned that I can also add items to the blogroll here, so I created a section “Steven D’s Picks” which is where you can now find them.