Besides The Mighty Corrente Building, of course.
I’d like your thoughts, because I’m doing the Blog Round-Up over at C&L next week, and I don’t want to be linking to blogs everybody already knows about. Readers?
I thank you. The hamsters thank you.
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Me, Mine!!!! Me, Mine!!!! Me, Mine!!!!
http://walled-in-pond.blogspot.com/
http://woodyguthriesguitar.blogspot.com/
http://thewell-armedlamb.blogspot.com/
really, they’re pretty damn good…
in fact they prob’ly otta be blogrolled (hint hint hint)
A few...
http://scriptoids.blogspot.com
http://zdrake.blogspot.com
http://uncrediblehallq.blogspot.com
http://toughenough.org/
Sorry bout dat...
the program said i’d not added correctly, and required me to try again…
I also regularly visit
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/
and
http://www.cabdrollery.blogspot.com/
On Fire Lately
Hume’s Ghost
Love these two
http://bottleofblog.typepad.com/bottleof…
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/
Hey, be generous!
If you want to mention your own blog, use a sig!
But please! Give other people some glory, eh?
No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.
adsf
You probably already now it, But Steve Audio is a great one for music and politics.
And this guy has to be the hardest working poet on the tubes.
Driftglass is priceless
just sayin…
Daniel McKay's Pretty Snarky..
http://dannymckay.blogspot.com/
and he’s getting like zero traffic
Besides my own, right?
That’s OK - I sometimes do political topics, but I’m not really a political blogger.
For your consideration: Watching Those We Chose is a relatively new groupblog written by veterans of Kevin Drum’s comment pages. There’s a lot of focus on Senate and Congressional races, and they’ve been savage on the Middle East war. (Full disclosure: I make infrequent contributions there as well.)
The best blogger nobody knows about is Tom Hull, and he doesn’t seem to care. A former Village Voice writer, Hull’s is one of the few places I read (apart from here, of course) where I learn something new every time I visit. Unfortunately, Hull doesn’t accept comments, and does little to promote himself. Maybe he feels he had enough of the limelight during his Voice days.
…for the rest of us
Try these,
Try these, please:
http://www.edrants.com/
http://j4p.blogspot.com/
http://ellissharp.blogspot.com/
http://obscuresound.com/
Give some love to Northstar at
www.intellectualize.org.
I read him before I ever found Atrios!
Drifty is brilliant
OK Drifty… but he only writes 3-4 times a week. Carpetbagger Report has some of the best insight on the interwebs and he posts many times each day, he also posts on C&L and TPM on weekends…I luvs me some Larry Johnson at No Quarter…Zaius Nation may be the best at linking music and politics and new media and he’s just darned funny. Marcy at TNH may actually be the most incisive writer who follows all the arcania of the Bush Admin as anyone IRL or on the net. I love the ASZ and First Draft. Seeing the forest usually has a great story arc of this admin. Rogers, at Kung Fu Monkey has some great stuff on Hollywood and politics. There’s always the good Roger Ailes…Pensito Review, Rising Hegemon and Vast left-wing Conspiracy, all great places. I love Sadly, No. And Down with Tyranny. Scholars and Rogues are great also. DebkaFile, IraqSlogger and Juan Cole are great mostly newsy sites, but they all scare me. They each in their own ways prove to me where and how our government is lying and lacking.
So sorry I listed sooo many… but please understand these are only a few of the regular sites I visit and why I visit them. I’m not even touching on the FDL’s and Glen Greenwalds in my fav places listings. I’m trying to give some of the lesser popular sights I visit a boost, why give a boost to a known webiste? Right?
There’s a few I didn’t mention.. Arthur Sibler writes beautifully, but he scares me and makes me madder than I usually am. And there’s this kid stationed in Iraq who blogs, or did at The Calm Before the Sand, he also writes amazingly well, and I hope like hell he survives this regime and can publish his account of this war. And the most ephemeral and egaliactic Riverbend, writing at Bhgdad Burning,, she too is most eloquent and personable…
Thanks, thanks, thanks for the links, but a caveat
I want undiscovered blogs. Like—to use bringiton’s metaphor—that little restaurant you don’t tell anybody about because it’s too good.
The Carpetbagger is great, Baghdad burning, all are great — but we already know that….
No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.
And how about non-political blogs?
Military blogs.
Music blogs.
Art blogs.
Food blogs.
We all have lives beyond electoral politics, fortunately.
No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.
(relatively) unknown blogs i like
alif sikkiin (eclectic, not always political, but always thoughtful and interesting)
the angry arab (actually, this blog is pretty famous if you hang around the arab-centric blogosphere)
the arabist network (ditto)
archy
bark bark, woof woof
the black iris (written by a jordanian 20-something who just finished college in canada)
explananda
indexed
fables of the reconstruction
registan.net (also not that obscure, except that it’s only really well-known if you’re into following central asia)
coeruleus (aka “she flies with her own wings”)
the tattered coat (or at least it is one of my favorites when matt bothers to write a friggin’ post)
a view from iran (actually, this is a little late. it used to be a blog by an american and her iranian husband living in iran. but now they’ve moved to the u.s. i expect it still will keep its honest appraisal of iranian society)
waiting for dorothy (an eclectic mix of law, homo and general snarkiness)
the yellow doggerel democrat
but in terms of sheer awesomeness, i can’t recommend rubber hose highly enough. it doesn’t always make sense and the writing is often sloppy, but that upyernoz guy sure is brilliant!
I like these two
bento box info and recipes:
http://www.cookingcute.com/
occasional national and Alaskan politics:
http://schapira.blogspot.com/
My blog
I think this tells us more about our current situation than anything else I’ve read.
http://myfightfordemocracy.blogspot.com/…
Any gardening blogs?
Blogs that aren’t about electoral politics?
No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.
undiscovered
I have an undisputed claim: the oldest undiscovered blogger. I may be ancient but I’m prolific:
http://ajliebling.blogspot.com
Robert, are you the ghost of AJ Lieblings dog??!!
You know the other odl commenter I’d like to find?
“Erik (conservative)” from back in the day at Atrios.
No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.
Bloggers with things to say
Litbrit never fails to present solid arguments and did a ton of legwork on the poisons that the U.S. imports.
And for a techie, John Dvorak has a lot of interesting things to say about the world around him.
—WKW
Deconstructing The Manifest blog
Besides mine, may I offer the gently irascible Joe Bageant…
Joe Bageant
Besides mine, may I offer the gently irascible Joe Bageant…
Seconded.
—WKW
Live from Philly, it's...the brothers Skwire
check out Brendan Calling and his brother Philly Bits:
http://www.brendancalling.com/
http://phillybits.blogspot.com/
I've got a few to suggest
1% More Conscious
A bunch of teachers and friends with too much time on their hands in the summer. Runs the gamut from high brow to humorous to raging. Though, one out of the four writers is a far right wingnut. Nobody is perfect, eh?
The Field Negro
One of the strongest voices in the AfroSphere(or AfroSpear, either way seems correct to the members?), IMHO. Expect some very thoughtful in your face commentary, opening doors to conversations that aren’t being had enough in the Blogosphere, and the comment threads and regular commenters add even more to the Blog.
The Strange Death of Liberal
America
Wow!… No… Seriously. Just outfricken-standing writing and thoughtful commentary. My only problem is that the Blog isn’t updated enough!
OK… The next Blog is just another Blog among millions of them out there.
Drinking Liberally in New Milford
It’s my Blog, and it is an honest Blog with all of the words, links, blockquotes, facts, videos, pictures and opinions that everyone else has. Occasionally I do something right and sitemeter goes berzerk, BUT, even more important, is that occasionally I get an Email from a local that discovers the Blog from a link saying “Cool! Who knew there was a local Blogger?” which makes it all seem worthwhile.
sorry... Link was broken?
http://field-negro.blogspot.com/
The Field Negro
One of the strongest voices in the AfroSphere(or AfroSpear, either way seems correct to the members?), IMHO. Expect some very thoughtful in your face commentary, opening doors to conversations that aren’t being had enough in the Blogosphere, and the comment threads and regular commenters add even more to the Blog.
lutton's right
i don’t know how i missed brendan in my above list of recommendations. his site definitely belongs on the list.
Executive Order: Incriminating Evidence Against President George
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/7…
I'll pimp your blog if you'll pimp MINE!!!
News Corpse
The Internet’s Chronicle of Media Decay.
Blogs I like
Lutton Square (thanks for the plug)
MalcolmX Park
From Pine View Farm
SEPTA Watch
A Big Fat Slob
Ya’ll already know my brother
Dovate (words and pictures)
And that’s what I have right now. I’d pimp myself but someone already took care of that.
http://www.hells-handmaiden.
http://www.hells-handmaiden.com
The sex of this blogger is almost as big a mystery as Digby.
BARBARian Blogs
I would be remiss if I didn’t give props to my fellow San Francisco Bay Area Bloggers:
You Forgot Poland!
Scaramouche AKA The Swashblogger
Belisarius
Blognonymous
If I Ran the Zoo
The Generik Brand
PaperWight’s Fair Shot
The King of Zembla
Undiscovered Blogs
Of course, I like the one I contribute to -
http://lanternbrigade.blogspot.com.
I like our sister blogs as well:
http://independentsunbound.blogspot.com
http://uparoundthebend.blogspot.com
I also like the angry independent
One stands out
http://www.jmbell.org
JM Bell and his team of misfits have a near legendary status as fully wired national issues wonks with a great take on local impact and local issues.
And, JM Bell is funny as hell.
Unknown Blogs
http://jeancscathouseandshootingsociety….
http://blog-sothoth.blogspot.com/
http://f-words.blogspot.com/
http://www.kurdishaspect.com/index.html
Thanks for asking.
Undiscovered
Hard question, given if I’m reading them, they generally count as discovered, at least to me.
Happy Jihad’s House of Pancakes, always a fun read
http://hjhop.blogspot.com/index.html
and I think the guys at American Footprints deserve more recognition for their excellent work.
http://americanfootprints.com/drupal/
And of course there’s my own blog, which I can safely say remains widely unread. Of course, there’s always the possibility when talking about one’s own writing that there may be good reason for that
Undiscovered
I enjoy being a part of The Liberal Coalition, which includes a wide range of views and interests.
I also like Skinny Legs and All.
I also contribute to Shakesville, but that’s a pretty well discovered blog.
And of course my own Bark Bark Woof Woof, recently labeled by Uggabugga as the blog with a name more absurd than its own. :)
Great and undiscovered...
The SNAFU Principle does some great stuff.
http://snafuprinciple.blogspot.com
here are some (not all blogs but all worthwhile):
Pageflakes (a feed of many blogs and sites—civil rights, equality, diversity, etc)
Afrospear
Culture Kitchen
Doug Ireland (worldwide glbt stuff usually)
Billerico Project (new/expanded glbt blog)
Watching America (a daily collection of foreign news links of us and our actions)
Giornale Nuovo (old art and illos and history, etc—don’t miss that blogroll either)
And most importantly: whenever Skippy recommends or says hello to a new blog, i make a point to visit. His blogroll is the absolutely best place for new voices too, i think.
oh, this place i just
oh, this place i just discovered too: Words of Power
oh, and Town Called Dobson
oh, and Town Called Dobson (a comic and blog)
one more
Republic of T
i lied--one more : >
Shorpy—the 100-year-old photo blog
A Favorite Few
Some favorites, only partially self-serving:
Perrspectives
BlueOregon
Pam’s House Blend
Is it a given that all
Is it a given that all y’all already are familiar with Hecate (http://hecatedemetersdatter.blogspot.com…)
and WaterTiger?
(http://www.dependablerenegade.com/)
for the longest time, i read the latter as ’degenerate renagade’…
My friends' blogs
Often Right, Rarely Correct
Only In America
Disgusted Beyond Belief
A Blog from Hell
The Choice is Now
Bodwyn Wook
newly-discovered favorite
cryptogon
http://cryptogon.com/
Some I look at
http://upyernoz.blogspot.com/
http://www.cloggie.org/proggold/
http://debrahaffner.blogspot.com/
http://uggabugga.blogspot.com/
http://slacktivist.typepad.com/
http://heraldblog.blogspot.com/
I'm Not Sure How Unknown They Are....
…but I’m a link collector and these are just a tiny number from my collection. But you asked for it, so now you’ve got em’:
Mojo’s Blog (nutty buddy of mine)
http://mojopo.blogspot.com/
The Assimilated Press
http://assimilatedpress.blogspot.com/
Irregular Times (News Unfit To Print)
http://irregulartimes.com/
Kathleen Connally’s Photoblog (beautiful pics)
http://www.durhamtownship.com/portfolio/
The First Church of Common Sense
http://www.angelfire.com/co/COMMONSENSE/
Cannabis and the Christ (oh yes he DID! Its in the bible)
http://www.cannabisculture.com/backissue…
The Daily Redundancy
http://www.dailyredundancy.com/index.htm…
The View from Number 80
http://www.number80.co.uk/
Beware of the God
http://www.bewareofthegod.com/
Atlanta Progressive News
http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/in…
Princess Sparkle Pony
(obessed over Condi)
http://sparklepony.blogspot.com/
Musings of a Working Mom (Soccer Moms Speak Out!)
http://musingsofaworkingmom.blogspot.com…
She Should Run (Getting Women Into The Race)
http://www.sheshouldrun.org/
All Hat No Cattle
http://www.allhatnocattle.net/index.html
I Blame The Patriarchy
http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/
Feministing
http://feministing.com/
Box Turtle Bulletin
http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/
Comment Is Free
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/inde…
Freedom To Marry
http://www.freedomtomarry.org/
Susie Bright’s Journal (Sometimes NSFW. Okay most of it is NSFW)
http://susiebright.blogs.com/
Pissed On Politics
http://pissedonpolitics.com/
Biblical Errancy (Allt you need to argue with Fundies)
http://members.aol.com/ckbloomfld/
BS Detector Extraordinaire
http://angryblackbitch.blogspot.com/
Sharp, funny, and unapologetically intolerant of BS.
blogs
firstly, thanks to amberglow for the kind words. i always try to give new blogs a shout out.
a couple of great ones i like
bearwaller hollar
man eegee
the group news blog, the blog of some friends of steve gilliard who are trying to carry on his work
linkmeister who doesn’t get enough credit or traffic
the galloping beaver, a great canadian progressive blog
hoffmania
new pair o dimes
the reaction
and one of my all time favorites cap’n dyke, lesbian pirate queen
all of these blogs are under-appreciated and could use some publicity!
ps
i second the motion for upyernose, pissed on politics, waiting for dorothy, scriptoids, steveaudio (he’s great), watching those we chose, bark bark woof woof, feministing and dependable renegade (tho imho, those last two are pretty well known compared to the others…steveaudio, who blogs at huffpo, may also fall into that “well known but not appreciated enough” category).
Props to The Skipper
I mean Skippy, for being a champion for the Long Tail blogs. And for railing against the accomodationists. Or whatever they’re called.
And props to Deb of Debsweb who I just met today.
For daily updates on Bush/Cheney madness
Antiwar.com
A must read for any American who doesn’t drink the “We invaded Iraq because Iraq had WMDs” Kool Aid.
Maybe not unknown but not
Maybe not unknown but not usual in political blogs:
Food:
chowhound.com if you want to find a restaurant or food shop anywhere.
http://chocolateandzucchini.com/
Technical:
http://www.tomshardware.com/us/
Local, again maybe not unknown but it’s good to get local, NY:
http://gothamist.com/
http://www.r8ny.com/
Film:
http://selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com/
This Texas gal pulls no
This Texas gal pulls no punches. Get ready to spew, though. She’s funny as all get out.
http://oldbroadspeaks.blogspot.com/
tiny little dots
Mike used to grab a few posts now and then.
Politics, Media, Art, Music, and mucho snarko.
http://www.tinylittledots.com
Didn't see anyone mention
my favorite witty political commentaries, namely alicublog and doghouse riley, but then again, maybe i buzzed through the now-extensive list way too fast…
Thanks everyone for excellent exposure of worthy writing. And just when I was not having enough time in my life for a daily blog meander.
If Only It Was Updated More Often
I’d toss in Visual Blip at http://www.visualblip.com as a favorite. Always good for a laugh, just not updated often enough.
Public Health
http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/
http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/
How about Truly Equal?
http://www.trulyequal.com
In other words, me! :-)
I have been linked many times from C&L and other blogs too - who wants to see my CV?
really undiscovered great blog
Here’s a truly undiscovered excellent blog:
http://ozongsbalcony.blogspot.com/
If I Ran the Zoo is often
If I Ran the Zoo is often both searingly thoughtful and searingly funny.
My friend Generik at The Generik Brand posts some great politics, some great humor, and some great photographs, not necessarily in that order.
My own blog features humor, commentary, and a deep, simmering hatred of David Brooks. I hesitate to mention it, but hey, I read it.
—nash
Aww, shucks
“>Stayin’ Alive
I believe we're worthy...
… of a mention, let alone a link. Find out how Arianna Huffington really broke her leg in this week’s episode.
Thanks!
Mine! and three others
Mine: Fact-esque, Newsrack Blog, Alt Hippo and Paperwight’s Fairshot.
Hey, thanks! And likewise,
Hey, thanks! And likewise, I’m sure.
Whilst I am here, I think Huck and Jim (http://http://huckandjim.blogspot.com) is probably one of the best blogs around.