Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

T R E 4 5 O N

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Bark louder, little dog.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Optimism opens the door to great things.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

“woke” is the new caravan.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

We still have time to mess this up!

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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  3. 3.

    Walker

    Ars Technica

    They are primarily a tech source, but they are very good with tech and public policy (e.g. net neutrality).

  4. 4.

    Helena Montana

    Don’t have five, but here’s two:

    Hoffmania (www.hoffmania.com)
    The Carpetbagger Report (www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com)

  6. 6.

    John Cole

    WTF- I thought Lawyers, Guns and Money was on the blogroll. Maybe I just access them from my browser links.

    That shit is fixed now.

  12. 12.

    grumpy realist

    I was going to add GroupNewsBlog as well. All of the regulars are very good (I think Sara posts over at Orcinus regularly as well). LowerManhattanite is an absolute joy to read–I’ve been nagging him to write a book for some time now. Go back into the archives and read his reporting on Giuliani’s campaign and you will be falling over with laughter, all the while taking in a very acute political analysis.

    The GroupNewsBlog also links to Steve G.’s (R.I.P.) archives. Interesting but depressing to see how accurately S. predicted the present messiness in Iraq.

  17. 17.

    cleek

    Atrios
    BoingBoing
    The Consumerist
    Science Blogs (esp Pharyngula and Dispatches From the Culture Wars)
    Unfogged

  18. 18.

    Ron

    Careful about beating up on West Virginia, Cole is from there. I don’t know how he got educated there. :)

  20. 20.

    A Different Matt

    Sweet Jesus! –

    A Tiny Revolution

    And

    Who is IOZ

    A Tiny Revolution is the best blog on these here internets. Who is IOZ is a new blog to me, and similar in tone to A Tiny Revolution.

    I also like the comics curmudgeon, but didn’t check your blogrole for it. Maybe it’s there.

  21. 21.

    Existenz

    I highly recommend, and therefore am blog-pimping, my site Old Man McCain, a go-to blog for anti-McCain news and humor.

    My goal is to have the site be a top hit in Google when someone searches “old McCain”. It’s getting up there!

    I also like Jed Report, Al Giordano’s The Field, Ben Smith’s Blog, and Huffington Post.

  22. 22.

    Ron Chusid

    Other Ron,

    “Careful about beating up on West Virginia, Cole is from there. I don’t know how he got educated there.”

    We’re dealing with statistical averages, not every individual. There is still a sizable number of Obama supporters there (as well as educated people). The Obama supporters are just greatly outnumbered by the Clinton type voters. Besides, it is the Obama supporters of West Virginia who are really beating up on other people from West Virginia in the article quoted.

    If he went to school at West Virginia and finds out I’m a Michigan alumni then my chances of making his blog roll might be shot. People at West Virginia don’t seem too happy over the way we stole both their basketball and football coaches.

  23. 23.

    John Cole

    Careful about beating up on West Virginia, Cole is from there. I don’t know how he got educated there. :)

    Did I miss something?

  25. 25.

    cbear

    The best cartoon site on the intertubes,Get your War On, otherwise known as GYWO

    Be sure and read the archives.

  27. 27.

    Ron Chusid

    John,

    He’s referring to a post at Liberal Values which goes over why I’m not surprised that Clinton is doing much better than Obama in West Virginia. Naturally the trends there apply to who will take the majority and not to every person in West Virginia.

  29. 29.

    Ron Chusid

    “Chusid had a post up about hillbillies in WV on his front page”

    The title Hillbillies for Hillary was too good to resist considering the topic and some of the quotes from the LA Times article cited in the post.

  30. 30.

    demkat620

    I third the Group News Blog and one of their alumni, driftglass.

    Also poblano’s spot, fivethiryteight.com is good too.

  31. 31.

    Brachiator

    Blogcritics
    Gene Expression
    Quackwatch
    2Blowhards
    iLounge

    And now, for something completely different, podcasts:

    Skeptics Guide to the Universe (and associated Web site)
    Quackcast (and associated Web site)
    BBC Friday Night Comedy (may be available from BBC media site)

  32. 32.

    Neal

    Well, if whoring is okay and “websites” was mentioned then I will whore myself and say that I make music and put it out electronically and free. http://www.new-lands.com. Yay. I’m finishing a full length record in the next month or two so I have to whore it every chance I get.

    Oh, and the Thomas Jefferson Wiki is nice. If you’re into that sort of thing.

  33. 33.

    SamFromUtah

    Jim Kunstler’s Clusterfuck Nation

    I dunno – if you’ve read his Clusterfuck Nation Manifesto, you’ve read everything Kunstler has to say, except that people who don’t agree with him are idiots. I think he makes a lot of good points in the Manifesto but doesn’t have anywhere near enough material to sustain a blog.

  34. 34.

    John Cole

    Oh. We call ourselves hillbillies. It isn’t a smear. If you have ever been to WV, you will note that we consistently don’t give a shit what you outsiders think of us. No offense. I actually like it when I hear WV get bad press and people call us all hillbillies, because it means you people aren’t going to move here and screw things up and I can keep going to bed at night with my front door unlocked and my windows open. I live in one of the bigger cities in WV, and I did not lock my car door for 8 years unless I was out of town.

    And yes, I wear shoes, have all my teeth, and I LOATHE ramps. I have, on the other hand, eaten roadkill and had moonshine run that was run through the finest radiator in Randolph County.

  36. 36.

    SamFromUtah

    I actually like it when I hear WV get bad press and people call us all hillbillies, because it means you people aren’t going to move here and screw things up…

    Utah has some of that same charm. There was awhile in the 1990s when we got a bunch of people moving in, but I think they all left again.

  37. 37.

    dslak

    We call ourselves hillbillies.

    It’s similar in Oklahoma. Those of the younger generations will refer to themselves as Okies. The older folks still consider it a smear, I’m told.

  38. 38.

    JGabriel

    I know they’re part of the ‘Jane Hamshers of the Left’, but I’m somewhat surprised that neither of these two FDL satellites are on the blogroll:

    TBogg

    Emptywheel

    .

  39. 39.

    Andrew

    Everyone seems to be picking good blogs. The Blogs We Monitor and Mock As Needed category is getting lonely. Surely Hillaryis44.com, Taylor Marsh, TalkLeft, and No Quarter deserve some special mention.

  40. 40.

    Ron Chusid

    John,

    I was hopeful that you wouldn’t be offended by the post. After all, people from an area are often quite aware of its peculiarities. I mean if someone wanted to insult the conservative theocrats where I live in West Michigan they are free to go ahead. I wouldn’t feel offended–I do it all the time.

  42. 42.

    John Cole

    WV gave us “the Dancing Outlaw” Jesco White.

    I have all the DVD’s. In undergrad I had a buddy who would go to his events, and was sort of a Jesco White groupie. I shit you not. He was from England and thought it was a hoot.

    WTF- I read TBOGG every day, too.

  43. 43.

    Libby Spencer

    Tim already lists Newshoggers and I think my colleagues there are some of the best in Blogtopia but I’d blogwhore my own measley little blog The Impolitic where I put up orginal content separate from my stuff at Newshog and I have a couple of fabulous co-bloggers there that deserve more attention. I’d also second Ron Chusid’s Liberal Values. And everybody should read Avedon’s Sideshow. She lives in England and has the freshest links to the best of the web first thing in the morning and often catches under-reported stories of import.

    Otherwise I’d recommend just about everybody on my blogroll at The Impolitic. Some are more or less dormant but they’re mostly still active and I’ve kept it to mostly B-listers that deserve more attention than they get.

  45. 45.

    JGabriel

    Damn, Andrew, I was going to mention No Quarter, too, for the same category you chose.

    Ah, well, I guess I’ll just say, ‘Seconded’.

    .

  46. 46.

    rob!

    i run about 6 or 7 blogs, but they’re all comic book related. DANG!

    if only someone made a comic book starring Obama…maybe in January 2009.

    btw, if–WHEN–he becomes president, me and my gf plan to go to the swearing in, or at least get as close as we can. this is History, and we wanna be there in person. we’ve already lined up overnight pet-sitting.

    anyone else thinking about doing this?

  48. 48.

    JGabriel

    Cleek & Incertus: Pharyngula is already on the blogroll, near the bottom under ‘Science Blogs’.

    .

  50. 50.

    JGabriel

    Rob!:

    if—WHEN—he becomes president, me and my gf plan to go to the swearing in, or at least get as close as we can. this is History, and we wanna be there in person.

    You and a few ten million others, I’m sure. Barring emergency level weather conditions, it’ll probably be the most massive inaugural turnout ever.

    .

  52. 52.

    kilo

    For those with an interest in energy, social policy, and our collective future:

    The Oil Drum, especially the daily DrumBeat. Yes, I’ve pimped this here before – but it’s seriously important reading.

    Gristmill (and the less-bloggy magazine Grist is good too)

  58. 58.

    Velvet Elvis

    One from your neck of the woods that I like.

    The Goat Rope.

    I monitor and mock Ace of Spades on a regular basis. He’s also pretty damn funny from time to time. Bummer he’s such a fascist.

    The Energy Blog is really solid.

  62. 62.

    Bob In Pacifica

    I’m too modest to suggest anyone hit the blue-colored name attached to this post to read my considered, semi-paranoid ramblings. Want to thank Ron upthread for the Taylor Marsh Death Watch and all the other good blogs and ideas. My daily walk through the internets has been getting stale lately, and I need different minds to walk through.

    Only suggestion, I like the Science Daily blog a lot. Big news about platypuses in the last few days. Did you know that their hind feet had venomous claws?

  63. 63.

    Cain

    Well hell if people are going to whore themselves. Feel free to browse the GNOME Journal It focuses on stuff that’s happening on the GNOME Desktop on GNU/Linux computerss.

    And slashdot.org, but I know we all read that. haha.

    cain

  64. 64.

    dr. bloor

    I second Moar’s nominations for Irvine Housing Blog and Calculated Risk. Both offer great slices of zeitgeist on a daily basis.

    Also second JGabriel’s nomination for TBogg and Emptywheel.

    Not for everyone, but Harry Hutton . His commenters may be the best on the web.

    But you already have Pharyngula, which is all anyone really needs anyways.

  66. 66.

    merrinc

    I actually like it when I hear WV get bad press and people call us all hillbillies, because it means you people aren’t going to move here and screw things up…

    The real problem with all that migration is it gives town councils a reason to cut down all the trees and put a building on every square inch of land because we apparently can’t survive if there’s not a shopping center within 3 blocks driving distance of every cookie cutter subdivision. The best thing about being back here for a couple of days is no matter where I am, I can always see a hill covered with green growing things.

    Report from the field: Precinct 125 in Bridgeport appears to be good for Obama. 10-1, in fact. Um, that is exactly 10-1 as bunch of people weren’t home and get this, 20 people haven’t made up their minds. How can one not know by this point who they want to be president? Sheesh. I think I may have convinced a couple of the fence sitters to take a chance on the MUP. I have also added several Obama signs to nature’s decor.

  67. 67.

    Cain

    Seeing how Hillsboro, OR has changed, I kinda wish people would stop coming to Oregon. Hillsboro especially seems to have just turned into a receptacle for every strip mall with all the crap food that comes with. Since we have Intel plants here, the entire city’s dining experience is set around Noon – 1:00pm. *sigh*

    cain

  70. 70.

    Surabaya Stew

    Here’s a wide variety of blogs that I read daily or every other day that have nothing in common with me. I am recommending them because they are well written and speak for a part of the world that I am not usually party to:

    http://ruralvotes.com/thefield/

    Great for progressive rural issue, plus Al Giordano’s rants.

    http://www.pamshouseblend.com/frontPage.do

    Gay folks are 10% of the world, yet aside from Andrew Sullivan or Glenn Greenwald, we never read their blogs. Pam is a married, black, lesbian living in North Carolina…she and her blogroll makes for good reading.

    http://misterfurious.blogspot.com/

    There is an asterisk next to your name on his blog roll with the explanation “has seen the light”. Only you and Sully share this honor!

    http://dilbert.com/blog/

    Scott Adams at his wacky best. Doesn’t usually do politics, but is generally a funny and/or informative read.

    http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/

    The only anti-Chavez Venezuelan blog that doesn’t offend me. Full of information and just as able to pick on the failings of the opposition as on the Chavistas.

  76. 76.

    Genine

    btw, if—WHEN—he becomes president, me and my gf plan to go to the swearing in, or at least get as close as we can. this is History, and we wanna be there in person. we’ve already lined up overnight pet-sitting.

    anyone else thinking about doing this?

    I work two blocks from where the Democratic National Convention will be. I also volunteer at the Obama HQ in Denver. I hoping to get close to some action. There are going to be tons of people milling about right outside my office building.

    The convention is coming at the busiest time of year for me. But, this year, I’ll have a slave an intern to help me this year. So, I might be able to play hookie a bit.

  78. 78.

    Krista

    I second the nom for Jesus General.

    John Cole Says:

    …
    And yes, I wear shoes, have all my teeth, and I LOATHE ramps. I have, on the other hand, eaten roadkill and had moonshine run that was run through the finest radiator in Randolph County.

    John, you took that directly from your online dating profile, didn’t you?

  83. 83.

    Genine

    This is a site I like that deals with politics and social issues, but from a different angle. Some I agree with, some I do not. But I like the different thinking and the other stuff on the site.

    It’s called Reality Sandwich

  84. 84.

    Kirk

    So many good blogs mentioned already, I can’t add five. I can, however, add two.

    First, kfmonkey. He’d be on the list just for the Crazification Factor post, but he’s still a good read (though once a week or so right now – you’ll understand why after some reading.)

    And a bit different, global guerrillas is 4GW reviewed.

  85. 85.

    jrg

    Alternet is entertaining, even if it’s more of a blog aggregator than a blog. A lot of time the articles are way out there, and some of them are just as worthy of opprobrium as some of the right wing blog entries that John likes to pick on.

    They’ve got a great article up now:

    I hoped I was at least in the ballpark of what I thought I needed to look like, which was a slow-moving hulk of confused, shipwrecked masculinity, flailing for an Answer.

    Classic! Another good site is slashdot. It focuses on tech, but is not limited to tech, and the number of contributers along with the moderation system makes for a pretty good reading experience.

  86. 86.

    conumbdrum

    I’m surprised no one has yet mentioned James Wolcott or Roy Edroso at alicublog… two of the wittiest, best writers out there. We still have yet to find a true H.L. Mencken of the Blogosphere, but at their best, these two come within shouting distance.

    Oh, and I really, really, really miss billmon and Whiskey Bar.

  89. 89.

    Svensker

    A fourth for Tiny Revolution. Jonathan Schwarz really tears up the intertubes.

    And a second for Billmon — where are you Billmon? We really really miss you.

  90. 90.

    w vincentz

    These aren’t blogs but I go to them all the time:
    BuzzFlash
    Common Dreams

  92. 92.

    Ninerdave

    I saw this over at the Carpetbagger and thought it interesting as John’s been discussing his home state.

    I honestly, for the life of me do not get why someone can’t vote for a black man. Or people still think that he’s a muslim even after the whole Wright fiasco.

  97. 97.

    TheFountainHead

    Everything I read is mentioned above, but I will second xkcd, by far the most intelligent comic on the intarwebs and well worth viewing three times a week.

    I won’t whore my own, as I’m not doing anything particularly original.

  101. 101.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    Stoic Says:

    Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis – http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/

    CalculatedRisk – http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/

    naked capitalism – http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/

    Dr. Housing Bubble – http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/

    Irvine Housing Blog – http://www.irvinehousingblog.com/

    Dangit! Stoic beat me to it. Ditto all of the above, especially Yves at naked capitalism (IIRC you already have Tanta + CR on the blog roll).

  106. 106.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    Another one to consider adding:

    Ron Dreher at http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/

    A good writer with whom I disagree about a great many things but make a point of reading on a regular basis to expand my exposure to different viewpoints and ideas.

    It will be interesting to see if progressives and theocons who may become untethered from the GOP will find more common ground with each other in the future, vs. big business and the neocons.

  108. 108.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    John, you took that directly from your online dating profile, didn’t you?

    lmao

  109. 109.

    Walker

    Classic! Another good site is slashdot. It focuses on tech, but is not limited to tech, and the number of contributers along with the moderation system makes for a pretty good reading experience.

    I have read Slashdot since the mid 90s. It has not aged well. It is a mere shadow of what it once was. I have posted a comment there for at least 5 years.

    Ars is now what Slashdot could have been. Plus Ars actually has a lot of original content and does its own reporting now. Slashdot has not done any of that since the “Welcome to the Hellmouth” days after Columbine.

  111. 111.

    Warren Terra

    Spencer Ackerman

    Mark Kleiman et al. at SameFacts

    Also, I realize that my favorite TAPPED bloggers have moved on to bigger and better things (Yglesias, Ezra Klein) or cross-post elsewhere (Lemieux, Farley), but it is a very good group blog – and a blogger training ground, with the Prospect’s one-year writing fellowships – and more diverse/less partisan (within, of course, the Left) than many other blogs.

    That isn’t five, of course. But the other blogs that I sometimes check out and that I haven’t seen listed above, I don’t really see as being on the same level.

    One other thing: the lists are already long, and will get longer (and your time will disappear) if you check out all these suggestions. How about creating some sort of tiers of links, by strength of preference?

  113. 113.

    Epicanis

    Well, you said I could, so:

    http://www.bigroom.org/wordpress

    Primarily applied microbial biotechnology (I’m too nerdy to call it “brewing”) lately, though other bits of nerdliness pop in from time to time – I claim this site to be the internet’s foremost authority on expired Jell-O® science, for example. Comments are welcome.

  115. 115.

    Chuck Butcher

    John expressed an interest in the doings in OR so here’s my report from Bill Clinton’s appearance in our little burg.
    Bill Clinton Speaks In Baker City, OR

    Don’t expect journalism, I was in no positioin to take notes and I had a rather jammed up day.

  117. 117.

    SamFromUtah

    Dennis the Peasant.

    I hadn’t been by there in awhile – when did he become completely obsessed with Amanda Marcotte? He used to have some clever stuff.

  119. 119.

    Soylent Green

    Seeing how Hillsboro, OR has changed, I kinda wish people would stop coming to Oregon.

    C’mon, Cain, the Californians can have their homes foreclosed on and still have enough cash left over to come up here and run our real estate prices up even higher (unlike elsewhere ours are still trending up). And we have the good life. Plenty of that to share, the more the merrier, what’s a few more developments among friends? And please bring your aggressively driven huge SUVs with you, Californians. We don’t have enough of those yet. Please build some more of those 5,000-square-foot homes dominated by three or four garage doors in a row, one giant house after another, crammed together for maximum developer profit. Don’t mind those 150-foot Douglas firs in the way, we’ll be happy to get rid of them for you, wouldn’t want to block your sunshine. Mind you, we are working on the problem of there not being any sunshine nine months of the year in hopes of making you more comfortable. Welcome to Oregon. Someday soon it will all seem just like home to you.

  122. 122.

    ken

    American Street, Booman Tribune, Cliff Schecter, Mahablog

    And for god’s sake get rid of talk left. They are as honest as Fox News.

  123. 123.

    Soylent Green

    Chuck–

    I see you wore a necktie for the occasion. I don’t remember ever seeing one of those in Baker before.

    Excellent write-up.

  124. 124.

    Kewalo

    Everyone has pretty much listed everything I read except for one.

    http://www.kissmybigbluebutt.com/

    The gal that writes this lives in Sugarland TX and sometimes she just makes me laugh out loud. It was fun reading about the TX caucuses from the viewpoint of an Obama supporter. Nothing deep here but just plain old enjoyment.

  127. 127.

    Tattoosydney

    A lot of my favourites have been mentioned, but I would put in a vote for

    Whiskey Fire – a very funny (mostly) political blog with lots of swearing;

    and one that is on the blogroll already, the wonderful Sadly, no!

  128. 128.

    Conservatively Liberal

    … and had moonshine run that was run through the finest radiator in Randolph County.

    John, I hope that radiator wasn’t held together with lead solder. ;)

    From his “online dating profile”? LMAO!

  131. 131.

    Conservatively Liberal

    Here is something at Kos that is pretty interesting regarding Hillary, 1993, healthcare and political amputation. I was not aware of this past history, and I find it an interesting glimpse at the way Hillary operates.

    Not on topic, but that is the nature of an open thread. :)

  138. 138.

    Carnacki

    John, I think you’d really like ginmar. I began reading her Buffy fanfic. Then her unit was activated for Iraq and I read her war posts. Her unit was cut off, surrounded and badly outnumbered at one point which led to the classic, The Alamo is overrated as a tourist attraction. She is home and writes about her PTSD and vampires and the crime of rape. Here’s the link.

  139. 139.

    John Cole

    I hope to GAWD one of you plans on narrowing this list down for a vote, because I sure as hell don’t want to do it.

    Maybe when I get a rebuild this summer for the website I can have them create some dynamic link where the users nominate and vote on a section of the blogroll. Not sure how that would be done, although with you twisted bastards I would probably end up with nine links to NAMBLA.

  140. 140.

    jake

    And for god’s sake get rid of talk left. They are as honest as Fox News.

    Nah, I’m thinking the Monitor & Mock as Needed is looking a mite sparse.

  141. 141.

    Bot LaBeer

    although with you twisted bastards I would probably end up with nine links to NAMBLA.

    LOL!

  142. 142.

    John Cole

    Talk Left will come around, I hope.

    Plus, I owe it to Jeralynn to stick it out for at least a while. If it is still all crazy all the time this time in a few months, I will delink. But I think she is a good person and am just more upset at what has happened than I am mad or in the mood to taunt.

    I don’t even go there anymore unless someone links it in the comments because I know I won’t be able to control myself and will end up posting and mocking them. it took all my self control to ignore the Obama as AG post, especially when you read the first line:

    “He be terrific as head of its civil rights division.”

    He be.

    Talk about unfortunate typos.

  143. 143.

    Soylent Green

    On Talk Left today, Paul Lukasiak posted one of his overheated critiques of Obama’s campaign skills, and a number of other commenters immediately shot it full of holes.

    Good times.

  144. 144.

    Krista

    Not sure how that would be done, although with you twisted bastards I would probably end up with nine links to NAMBLA.

    Thanks John! We hadn’t thought of that. But now that you mention it…

  145. 145.

    Nikki

    Not sure how that would be done, although with you twisted bastards I would probably end up with nine links to NAMBLA.

    Naw. More like the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom or the Woodhull Foundation.

  146. 146.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    “He be terrific as head of its civil rights division.”

    Hard to believe there are this many Democrats so hung up about race. At least we can now stop pretending our side is so much more enlightended than the other side.

  147. 147.

    jake

    Do I want to know about the Woodhull Foundation? If it involves people dressed as chipmunks please don’t answer.

  148. 148.

    We Need New Gov't!

    I’m glad to see that at least one person recommends http://thinkprogress.org/ as well as Dan Froomkin…

    I think http://www.gregpalast.com/index.php is worth checking out on occasion, as well as http://thepoorman.net/, http://www.ourfuture.org/ (Rick Perlstein, David Sirota & Digby have all contributed some great stuff there), Wired’s Threat Level (http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/) & Danger Room (http://blog.wired.com/defense/) blogs break great stories w/a technical bent (Ryan Singel has been digging deep into the FISA horror show for a long time)…

    Salon’s http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/ helps keep me up to date, & every now & then – when I’m on the verge of losing my sanity – Mr. Fish (http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/04/hbc-90002885) is one of the most ‘out-there’ cartoonists this side of Ralph Steadman.

    Finally, (I’ll probably be eviscerated for this), I realize that some/many here may dismiss http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/ because of his criticisms of Obama & too-frequent defense of Hillary, but he does frequently present a lot of interesting info…
    (If that opinion offends, sincere apologies!)

    (Oh yeah: http://buzzflash.com w/their cornucopia of daily updates: lots of great interviews at
    http://buzzflash.com/articles/interviews!)

    Most of all – Thank The Powers-that-Be for Balloon-Juice!

  149. 149.

    myiq2xu

    On Talk Left today, Paul Lukasiak posted one of his overheated critiques of Obama’s campaign skills, and a number of other commenters immediately shot it full of holes.

    Got link?

  152. 152.

    Conservatively Liberal

    I was just about to post that link, CL.

    First come, first served. ;)

    Pretty interesting story, eh? I like the ‘I’m going to cut your (political) legs off…” line from Hillary. Her supporters would call that being tough, I would call it vindictive. Vindictive is not presidential material.

  153. 153.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Her supporters would call that being tough, I would call it vindictive.

    Apples don’t fall too far from the tree.

  154. 154.

    myiq2xu

    Talk Left will come around, I hope.

    Plus, I owe it to Jeralynn to stick it out for at least a while. If it is still all crazy all the time this time in a few months, I will delink. But I think she is a good person and am just more upset at what has happened than I am mad or in the mood to taunt.

    There are many of us that are still where we were when this campaign started. We refuse to drink the pony piss kool-aid, so we’re the ones that have lost our minds?

    Back in December and January I was getting bashed right here on this blog because even though I was an Edwards supporter I was defending Hillary from the same false right-wing bullshit that’s been going around for sixteen years, only now it’s coming from alleged progressives.

    Fauxgressives, to be accurate.

    The inmates have taken over the asylum.

  156. 156.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    There are many of us that are still where we were when this campaign started. We refuse to drink the pony piss kool-aid, so we’re the ones that have lost our minds?

    Back in December and January I was getting bashed right here on this blog because even though I was an Edwards supporter I was defending Hillary from the same false right-wing bullshit that’s been going around for sixteen years, only now it’s coming from alleged progressives.

    Fauxgressives, to be accurate.

    Yawn. The victim-lashing-out schtick is getting real fucking old.

  157. 157.

    myiq2xu

    Her supporters would call that being tough, I would call it vindictive.

    First off, it’s old news, I heard it years ago. Secondly it’s single-sourced from the alleged victim.

    Thirdly, even if true what’s the problem? A congressman sabotages Hillary’s healthcare reform and as a result the White House backs someone else.

  159. 159.

    Seanly

    alicublog

    lawyers, guns & money

    sadly, no

    Those 3 & yours are the sites I must check everyday.

  161. 161.

    Conservatively Liberal

    I read that as the congressman already had a bill, and rather than working with him on health care, Hillary (and Bill) went off on her (their) own tangent without telling him (a fellow Democratic officeholder) anything. He tells her that her healthcare plan will not pass, which pisses her off. So they work to defeat his senate bid while Bill plays buddy-buddy with him.

    While this is a single source story, and it has been around for some time, I have not found anything that Bill or Hillary have said that refutes it. It could be just a ‘story’, but to me it has a ring of truth to it. IMO, it fits with the way that they treat those who do not see eye to eye with them. But ‘fits’ does not make it true.

    It really is not a big deal other than that if it is true, then it only confirms what I have already figured out about the Clintons. Like I said above, it is only ‘interesting’. Like any other political story, I take it with a grain of salt.

  163. 163.

    srv

    I second or third Pat Lang’s Sic Semper Fidelis and suggest the old intel-dump peanut gallery (FDChief, publius (not the obsidian one), IRRsoldier, Aviator47, JD, etc) who have settled at buggieboy. The best commenter there (and the interons, IMHO) was FDChief. He has a personal blog at Graphic Firing Table that covers whatever he feels like saying, and whatever it is, it’s worth listening to. He’s an old artillery guy who is as smart as Pat Lang and sounds like Marcus Aurelius with his insight.

    Also, Abu Mugawama, a little too right wing, but not wingnutty.

  164. 164.

    rishathra

    Making Light has the best and smartest community on the web (even better than here, if you can dig it)
    Brilliant at Breakfast – Jill et al. sit just after BoingBoing in my links to check, which is just after Balloon Juice (alphabetization is fun! :-)
    The Sideshow – Avedon Carol collects and often comments on the best political links
    The Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Blog One of the all-time NBA greats is also articulate and intelligent
    Wil Wheaton has lived a geek’s dream life, is still living it, and tells the rest of us how it is and feels

  165. 165.

    myiq2xu

    I read that as the congressman already had a bill, and rather than working with him on health care, Hillary (and Bill) went off on her (their) own tangent without telling him (a fellow Democratic officeholder) anything.

    Bill Clinton made healthcare reform one of his key campaign planks in 1992. He appointed Hillary to chair his healthcare reform taskforce. This was very public news.

    So where was this congressman that he was unaware of all this? One of the primary reasons healthcare reform failed in 1993-94 was the failure of the Democratic Congress to support the President.

    The same guy that’s now falsely blamed for the GOP takeover in 1994.

    It could be just a ‘story’, but to me it has a ring of truth to it. IMO, it fits with the way that they treat those who do not see eye to eye with them.

    Do you have any real examples? I hear constantly about how vindictive and ruthless the Clintons are, but I never see examples of it. Unless you’re referring to the “Clinton body-count.”

  166. 166.

    srv

    Just the latest gem from FDChief.

    He’s like passion of ppGaz but with a philosphers brain and actual language skills.

  167. 167.

    cbear

    I hear constantly about how vindictive and ruthless the Clintons are, but I never see examples of it.

    You gotta be shitting me—what about their heartless abandonment of poor little Socks? I still cry myself to sleep every night when I think about it.

  169. 169.

    Soylent Green

    even though I was an Edwards supporter I was defending Hillary from the same false right-wing bullshit that’s been going around for sixteen years

    So was I; Edwards supporter, went to Clinton. Then she lost me by proving the right-wing attacks to have a solid foundation in cold hard fact.

  170. 170.

    barkleyg

    Daryl Cagles Professional Cartoonists Index is a Must See for comic takes on contemporary events. Your first impression might be that there is a liberal press, but I personally think King George and his minions just make it easy to laugh at them. Take a peek!

    http://www.cagle.com/main.asp

  172. 172.

    DougJ

    Informed Comment (Juan Cole)
    BaseballAnalysts (you guys are sports fans aren’t you?)
    FreeDarko (ditto)
    RochesterTurning (my blog)

  173. 173.

    Ron

    You should check out:

    fivethirtyeight.com
    (100x better than electoral-vote.com)

    and

    chris-floyd.com
    (if you ever really want to get depressed about American foreign policy)

  174. 174.

    myiq2xu

    Then she lost me by proving the right-wing attacks to have a solid foundation in cold hard fact.

    Can you be more specific? Which attacks, and what proof of their accuracy have you seen?

  175. 175.

    Steve

    Fellow West Virginia resident and Python fan, been blogging since 2004, but never really good at getting the word out about my blog beyond “Hey honey, I put up another post last night!”, so I’ll take you up on permission to linkwhore.

    The Steve Report http://stevereport.blogspot.com/

  177. 177.

    b-psycho

    My own site already is linked when I comment, so I won’t be more direct than that. Rather, I’ll promote a site that I happen to regularly read: Rad Geek

    Also, c/s whoever mentioned Cunning Realist.

  178. 178.

    myiq2xu

    In 1994, Cooper ran for the United States Senate for the seat left open when Al Gore was elected Vice President, but was defeated by Republican attorney and actor Fred Thompson, receiving just under 40% of the vote. It was a bad night overall for Democrats in Tennessee, as Republicans captured Tennessee’s other Senate seat (in the person of Bill Frist) as well as the governorship. The 4th also fell to the Republicans (in the person of Van Hilleary) as the party gained a majority of the state’s congressional delegation for only the second time since Reconstruction. Cooper then moved to Nashville and entered private business, also serving as a professor at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management.

    Where’s the vindictive part show up?

  179. 179.

    Soylent Green

    Can you be more specific? Which attacks, and what proof of their accuracy have you seen?

    Hell if I know, myiq, I have not documented the right wing’s vicious smears of Bill and Hillary during the 90s, not being that wonky — I only know I hated them for it. I’m sorry I can’t supply you with neatly packaged charges to refute.

    What I said was rhetorical, obviously. What I meant to say has been said before, that she has Stockholm syndrome. She suffered all those years of character assassination, then adopted the methods used against her with vigor, even kibbutzed with the guys who used them. When Edwards quit I assumed she would prevail, assumed she was qualified to lead, and assumed I would be carrying water for her all this year. Her fatal miscalculation, expecting to wrap it up early, triggered the syndrome. Then she started crossing the line into territory I simply cannot accept from any Democratic candidate. “As far as I know.” “McCain can be CinC, Obama can’t.” “He is an elitist.” Only her wins count. Give her all the MI delegates. Risking our chances in the general to suit her vanity and ambition. Everything we have been bitching about for months. The gist of all the Republican attacks was that she was lacked integrity, honesty, and competence. That’s exactly what she has shown me without any help from them at all.

    Quite a rude awakening after 17 years of defending the Clintons.

  181. 181.

    Ninerdave

    I hope to GAWD one of you plans on narrowing this list down for a vote, because I sure as hell don’t want to do it.

    I could be wrong, but isn’t that what Blogrolling does? A random list of links from a given set per day?

  184. 184.

    Zuzu

    PS re Acephalous:

    I became a Scott Eric Kaufman fan after reading his scathing take on Jonah Goldberg’s lazy research style:

    Liberal Fascism: Two Words Next to Each Other

    He had plenty more to say about the book/Goldberg in other posts, but this one is priceless because it describes the time he offered his scholarly expertise in an area Goldberg had advertised for help with. Goldberg dismissed it of course, because it diferred from his own preconceived notions.

    The blog is often a hilarious read.

  187. 187.

    john

    I’m like Muckety too…

    Muckety

    Very interesting way to see who is connected to who

    Kind of six degrees of separation

    Also some interesting stories that have to do with how people are connected to one another as well as to organizations and corporations

  195. 195.

    dj spellchecka

    for iran/iraq news i hit jaun cole first.
    no love for kevin drum @ washingtonmonthly? or did i miss somethin’?

    fave news aggregators: fark politics [wild comment threads, too], cursor [cursor {dot} org] think progress, they’re an org too. their “wonk room” and “attackerman” blogs are also worth popping in to see.

    newshounds [newshounds {dot} us] for folks who like to read what kinda bullshit fox news is up to

  197. 197.

    oldfatherwilliam

    I can’t believe nobody mentioned DENNIS PERRIN for the cynical seen-it-all Hunter Thompson of the ‘sphere perspective. And this is a second for WHOISIOZ for the acutely literate pox-on-all-yer-politics view. Only if you can take it straight.

  200. 200.

    Desargues

    Two blogs that have been mentioned already:

    hammeroftheblogs.blogspot.com (awesome, incisive, and funny).

    nomoremister.blogspot.com (very au courant, and well-reasoned).

  202. 202.

    Ninerdave

    Alright, I’ll throw mine up there if for any other reason that I probably won’t post crap but I can put up picts of my cat every week.

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