Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

“woke” is the new caravan.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

The arc of the moral universe doesn’t bend itself. it’s up to us.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

People are complicated. Love is not.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Even though I know this is a bad idea, I’m off to do it anyway!

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

T R E 4 5 O N

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

I’m more Christian than these people and I’m an atheist.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

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  3. 3.

    BGinCHI

    There are also these things called books. They don’t really sell them in stores anymore, but you can get them online. They also have them for free at public libraries, if your city still has them after budget cuts.

    There are also blogs about books, but I don’t want to feed your habit.

  7. 7.

    gex

    I do enjoy my buddy’s humorous blog that frequently touches on politics: youngnotions.com. It’s at most one a day, so not a big drain on your time and usually pretty amusing.

  11. 11.

    p.a.

    the blogess. Bonddad, Angry Bear, The Big Picture- not on the blogroll here but should be right up there w/Calculated Risk as economic blogs.

  15. 15.

    joel hanes

    Jon Talton’s “Rogue Columnist”

    and “Spocko’s Brain” has ended its hiatus

  18. 18.

    AA+ Bonds

    @Cassidy:

    It is exactly goddamned because I like comix that I despise that site and every bit of SEO’d dross like it, Jesus Christ, “7 Videogame Politicians That Might as Well Run for President”

    Like I said, Tucker Stone or GTFO

  21. 21.

    AA+ Bonds

    @Cassidy:

    Yes, I am definitely one of those people who is not actively killing the form with what I consume, thank you for noticing

    For people who have a growing interest in comix instead of an interest in playing with little toy pony dolls from McDonald’s, I do of course recommend The Comics Journal in all its unwieldy glory

  22. 22.

    burnspbesq

    Economist’s View, Mark Thoma’s blog.

    Lawfare.

    Audiostream has become my go-to blog on topics related to computer audio.

    Steven Mejias, who writes for Stereophile, frequently posts on new music, and I’ve found several new records that I like based on his Recommendations

  23. 23.

    beltane

    Atrios must also be bored. He is currently bestowing the ultra-prestigious Wanker of the Decade Awards, and has declared McMegan Runner-up #9.

  24. 24.

    Cassidy

    @AA+ Bonds: If that’s what you want to call it. I was thinking humorless, comic snob, but YMMV.

    Not to say that’s wrong. Every culture needs its purists.

  29. 29.

    Jewish Steel

    @burnspbesq: Do you read http://balkin.blogspot.com/? Do you have an opinion on it?

    I say if you are right about the ACA decision, FP for a day. Carte blanche.

    If you are wrong…hmm. Going to have to thing about that. A day of listening to heavily compressed mp3 files of your favorite music?

  34. 34.

    Cassidy

    @AA+ Bonds: TR is more than just comics. It’s movies, gaming, anime, nostalgia for horrible things, tv shows, and all around nerdery with the occasional smattering of Brony. It’s a fun, little website with an interesting regular community and tries not to take anything too seriously except for the Michael Bay and George Lucas hate.

  38. 38.

    jayackroyd

    OK I’ll pimp.

    I’m pretty happy with these short segments we’re inserting at the bottom of the hour on some of our virtually speaking programs.

    http://www.youtube.com/jayackroyd

    Stuart’s most recent, Negotiation, is interesting, for instance, as is David Cay Johnston’s Sweden story.

  39. 39.

    catclub

    @AA+ Bonds: “because you couldn’t very well consider yourself knowledgeable about the United States if you didn’t”

    Unfortunately, there are probably LOTS of people ( me included) who might consider themselves such, but not actually _be_ knowledgeable.

    Maybe you mis-spelled “shouldn’t”

  40. 40.

    Culture of Truth

    It’s not a blog per se, but The New York Times has a cute website. I learned today it’s likely 750,000 people died in the Civil War.

  46. 46.

    MattF

    I’d recommend (if you don’t already):

    jwz.org (Zeitgeist)
    University Diaries (Margaret Soltan, Perfessor of English)
    Language Log (Linguistics)
    In the Pipeline (Organic chemistry, note the topic ‘Won’t work with’ for explosive and/or smelly)
    Ian’s Shoelace Site (You’re doing it wrong)

  47. 47.

    danielx

    Stop the Spirit of Zossen 2.0

    The Bloggess

    The Epicurean Dealmaker

    Washington’s Blog

    Naked Capitalism

    live365.com Not a blog but for internet radio it’s excellent.

  48. 48.

    Wiesman

    Like Cassidy, I love ToplessRobot.com, which is (almost) totally SFW despite the name.

    I check out bonddad’s blog regularly so I can read a bunch of stuff I completely don’t understand and then skip to the last paragraph for something that I only slightly don’t understand about the economy.

    Charles Pierce, obviously.

    Penny Arcade, since I’m in the game industry.

    And yes, I have a blog too, with which I reach 15, sometimes 20 people in a single day. somedisagree.com

  49. 49.

    burnspbesq

    @Ben Franklin:

    Justice Kennedy. Strip search everyone?

    Well, that’s a deeply disingenous description of the holding, exactly what we’ve come to expect from you.

    The actual holding: visual, non-invasive strip search anyone who is being placed in the general population of a detention facility.

    Lying comes as naturally to you as breathing, doesn’t it?

  51. 51.

    srv

    FDChief, great personal stories, great history, great pictures and visceral on politics and war (he’s backed off ranting for awhile, but I read the archives all the time)
    http://www.firedirectioncenter.blogspot.com/

    If you though ABL was angry, check out the Mormon Worker
    http://themormonworker.wordpress.com/

    Economics, besides K-thug (who got in a big tiff with Minskyites in the last week and kind of went off the deep end), Rick Bookstaber
    http://rick.bookstaber.com/

    He only posts once or twice a month, but he’s an SEC advisor and he explains why your world is never going to be the same.

  52. 52.

    burnspbesq

    @Jewish Steel:

    Do you read http://balkin.blogspot.com/? Do you have an opinion on it?

    I do, daily, and I love it. I only wish Marty Lederman would post more often.

    If you are wrong…hmm. Going to have to thing about that. A day of listening to heavily compressed mp3 files of your favorite music?

    I’d rather die. Just put a 12-gauge in my ear and pull the trigger.

  53. 53.

    Judas Escargot, Your Postmodern Neighbor

    I used to read tens of blogs every day, and was a semi-regular commenter on the now-defunct Plastic. I think that nowadays we’re all talking about the same things, so the need to follow all those blogs might not be as strong as it once was. Also, a lot of the niche-interest blogs I used to follow have either gone inactive or got absorbed into other sites as folks got actual blogging careers.
    __
    These days? Ritholz’ The Big Picture. BoingBoing. Ars Technica. Raw Story. Pandagon. I confess to checking in on Sullivan’s place at least once a day. TPM as my mainstream newsfeed. And, of course, this place.
    __
    I sometimes write here when I need to ruminate on something in a longer form, but not very often.

  57. 57.

    Yutsano

    @Cassidy: Of course my brain goes right to a knockoff of 4chan. But 4chan hasn’t been just a geek blog for a very long time. They ARE the meme now. Plus the geek world is more than big enough to handle more than one blog.

    And I dare anyone to mock the genius of Lauren Faust. Any creator that allows “The Terminator” to be referenced in a show for girls and make it fit deserves to be recognized.

  60. 60.

    miserybob

    Mike the Mad Biologist.com – great science and education blogging. He always has great ‘links of the day’.

    Blog philosophy:
    “Helping idiots who desperately need my assistance by calling them fucking morons since 2004”

  61. 61.

    gogol's wife

    I wish James Wolcott were on the blogroll. He doesn’t post every day, and he hardly ever writes about politics, but when he does he’s hilarious. He’s almost always hilarious and interesting on any subject. And he promoted Bitsy to win the cutest dog contest!

  62. 62.

    Cassidy

    @Yutsano: What I like about TR is the self deprecation. It feels like Robot Chicken to me. The only thing consistent and visceral is the hate-on for Michael Bay. But, the other cool thing is the community. Every week, TR runs a contest and this past one was best/worst nerd dating story. I think the intent was to have some funny, slightly humiliating accounts of freaked out guys/girls by whomever’s particular obsession. Instead it turned into this really sweet recounting of how multiple people met someone randomly and “…we’ve been married (x) years.”. It was actually pretty cool.

  66. 66.

    burnspbesq

    @Ben Franklin:

    excuse the potential for abuse

    Ben Franklin, continuing to make shit up. Show me where I said anything even remotely like that.

    Must be nice to be comfortable with utter disregard for truth. You’d make a good Republican with that attitude.

  67. 67.

    barath

    A friend and I have been writing about energy, environment, society, technology, and related topics for the past year or so at contraposition.org. It’s been fun, though a lot of the stuff we write about is pretty nerdy.

  69. 69.

    ChrisB

    Have you ever heard of a guy named Andrew Sullivan? He has some awards you might find amusing.

    More seriously, I’ll also recommend Balkinization on the Supreme Court and other legal matters.

  70. 70.

    Angry Egilsson

    You need to start reading volokh.com.

    It’s pseudo-intellectual and is the home of libertarian ideologues – and unfortunately they have had clear success spooning radical legal positions right up to the Supreme Court.

    The daily jolts of outrage you will experience from the dishonesty and breath-taking radicalism is like a narcotic.

    The more you read libertarians, the more you understand how amoral and despicable they are.

    Start raising cain in the comments, but they do ban people who are inconveniently shrill.

    Ultimately, they are partisan hacks.

  72. 72.

    Ben Franklin

    @burnspbesq:

    You’d make a good Republican with that attitude.

    Funny. That’s exactly my thought arising about your stealth politics, Segretti.

    An interesting projection. But, then, you are a USC lawyer.

  73. 73.

    barath

    @Angry Egilsson:

    The more you read libertarians, the more you understand how amoral and despicable they are.

    Just thought I’d share my favorite quote from Greer about libertarianism:

    What now passes under the name of libertarianism is a philosophy of privilege that could only look reasonable to people who are deliberately not paying attention to the benefits they get from the system they claim to despise.

  79. 79.

    AlanDean

    I’ll second or third Balkinization by Jack Balkin and up the ante with:

    scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/

    instead of Bad Astronomy. I also like Brilliant at Breakfast.

  81. 81.

    Bruce Baugh

    Hah! I had also planned to recommend Starts With A Bang, an astronomy blog with amazing illustrations and great extended friendly explanations of neat stuff.

    So i’ll send that, and add One Man And His Blog, a British business journalist’s ongoing coverage of the ways reporting, news corporations, and media opportunities online all interact. It’s like an informal trade journal of a still-emerging field.

  82. 82.

    negative 1

    @Zach: Does anyone besides me remember when Ken Levine did color commentary for the Braves? It was right around 1990 (before they got good) and he was hysterical. It was like Bob Uecker in Major League, except for real.

  83. 83.

    mzrad

    On my blog, CentralCoastFoodie.com, we promote exceptional, sustainable food and drink from Santa Cruz to Ventura. We’re working on a piece about the Farm Bill and recently published a piece on food justice, as well as lots of posts about wine, whole food preparation, bicycling, eating your garden, and generally supporting your community through informed food/drink purchases.

  85. 85.

    gocart mozart

    I have tried to put together all of Ayn Rand’s anti-Christian material in one place in hopes of putting conservative Christians on the spot. “You can’t support both Jesus and Ayn Rand. You must choose.” Forward the link to all your Supply-Side Jesus worshiping friends. aynrandhatedjesus.blogspot.com

  89. 89.

    Steeplejack

    Plug for my Atlanta friend’s blog about feral cats. It’s not updated super often, but it has a lot of pictures, videos and useful information. She and her partner have a clutch of indoor cats, and they have taken over “management” of a colony of feral cats in the woods behind their house. Successfully trapped and neutered all of them.

  91. 91.

    Schlemizel

    @gocart mozart:
    Nice work – your poor brain. To have to wade into that fetid fever swamp, hope the PTSD is manageable.

    As for links, I’ll second the comic curmudgeon! also bad astronomy
    not a blog but often funny oddball cartoons Toothpaste For Dinner

    TNC if you are not reading him you are missing the only Atlantic blog worth reading

    Bartcop for some angry Dem spitballs

    Jesus General if for no other reason than the great emails he sends to wingnuts – he had a sooper-dooper one just yesterday

    Gizmodo is tech related but funny & weird

  93. 93.

    Dave Whitefield

    Not just because I was born in Texas and adored Molly Ivins (if you don’t know who she is, google her, you’ll love her), I love this one: Juanita Jean’s

    I also love this one: Under the Mountain Bunker

    And of course, Robert Reich’s:
    Robert Reich

    I’ve never posted on Balloon Juice before, so if I did something wrong, I apologize. I love Balloon Juice!

    Thanks,

    Dave

  96. 96.

    Jewish Steel

    @Steeplejack: Not to my knowledge. I’ll bet there are some good ones out there, but I’ve got my hands full, blogularly speaking, tracking Republican outrages and Democratic deviations.

  102. 102.

    Joax

    Tired of flipping out about the state of affairs in El Norte? Check out life in one of the best places in Mexico, Oaxaca.
    oaxacanyear.blogspot.com

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