Housekeeping

It had been a while since I last revised my blogroll, but over the weekend I finally got around to updating my links to better represent what I actually read out there in blogtopia (y!sctp).  I won’t detail which sites were dropped; that’s not important.  However, I do want to take a moment to mention and introduce to you the new entries on that list over in the left column.  In blogroll-order, they are:

• Blog Reload is the home of Lee Rosenberg (AKA thehim), who I would call something of a “left-libertarian” because of his overriding interest in matters of social, privacy, cultural, and civil liberties.  He writes weekly Drug War Roundup diaries on DailyKos.  A fellow former-Philadelphian, Lee co-leads the local DrinkingLiberally gaggle and is a self-described “Seattle techie”.
• I don’t know who’s behind CoolAqua, another in the lengthening list of left-political Puget Sound blogs.  Mixing comments on national stories with support for local political campaigns, especially that of fast-rising WA-8 challenger Darcy Burner, it’s an interesting read.
• Nicholas Beaudrot is the other—some would say principal—organizer of DrinkingLiberally in Seattle.  The tagline of his blog Electoral Math is, in part, Reality-Based^TM Political Numbers, so it’s obviously a place I like to visit.  Yeah, he’s originally from Atlanta, and yeah, he’s an unrepentant Braves fan ... but he’s also a fellow SABR member, so he can be forgiven for his youthful enthusiasms.  After all, he was barely out of diapers in those good old days when the Braves were horrible.
• Not all of the new members of my blogroll are local left-bloggers.  New York City litigator Glenn Greenwald‘s Unclaimed Territory is one of the great recent success stories on the web.  He’s incisive, insightful, thorough, bright.  And his blog has risen at warp speed to the highest levels of respect on our side of the political divide.  Everywhere you look, you’ll see references to Glenn’s posts.
• Back to local bloggers… Steve Zemke has been part of the Washington political landscape for decades.  Ask anyone in Washington State political circles; people look up to Steve as a mentor, as a repository of political memory, as a fighter for good causes.  Not too many months ago, he started the Majority Rules Blog (and how cool is it that that domain name was available?).  Now we all get a chance to find out what’s on Steve’s mind.
• PodcastingLiberally is, plain and simple, the place to look for and listen to the podcasts that take place during our weekly DrinkingLiberally gatherings at the Montlake Ale House.  I don’t know whether Gavin and Richard bought their domain name before or after I suggested it, but it’s great that they were able to snap it up just as the technology is beginning to mature.
• ScienceBlogs is a one-stop-shopping site for access to a wide variety of, well, science blogs.  You’ll find such gems as PZ Myers’s Pharyngula, Dispatches from the Culture Wars by Ed Brayton (co-founder of The Panda’s Thumb, another good’un), Chris Mooney’s blog The Intersection, and many other fine blogs under this umbrella.  Real science, real philosophy, reality.
• The Stranger, far the better of Seattle’s pair of alternative weekly newspapers, recently started Slog, a blog of and by its writers and editors.  It’s quickly become a major player in the region’s political and cultural discourse.  When the “rave murderer” story broke a couple of months ago, this was the place to go for news, analysis, discussion, and even some healing.  The staff of The Stranger is ready and willing to interact with all comers, and they give as good as they get.
• Mollie is The (liberal)Girl Next Door, at least if your door is here in Seattle.  Her self-desciption Mother, activist, writer and political junkie of the highest order says it all.  She’s feisty, passionate, profane, funny.  As anyone who frequents our DrinkingLiberally events will tell you, Mollie’s good people.

So there’s the list of my blogroll newbies.  Click on any and all of their entries in the list for an interesting and valuable experience.  You’ll be glad you did.

Comments

I happen to be writing a story for the NY Times that incorporates the 1950s and 1960s in Cherry Hill.  I, too, didn’t know Andrea Dworkin lived there, but got to this by way of Googling her.  If you graduated four years after her, you did so close to me.  If you wouldn’t mind being interviewed for the story, please either email me or call me at 856-429-5157.

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Thanks!

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Hey thehim, it was long overdue.  I trust you take my characterization of you in the positive spirit in which it was offered.

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