The Conscience Of A Liberal

[filkertom]

As of yesterday, the NY Times Select firewall, behind which they hid "premium" content, is down. (They're making better money from ad revenue.)

Just in time, Paul Krugman has begun a blog, The Conscience of a Liberal. This immediately goes on the required reading list with Glenn Greenwald, Think Progress, and Digby.

Any blogs you find particularly useful, compelling, or just entertaining? Anything's fine; just, if it's a political blog, mention which way the politics lean. (No recommendations, please, for Coulter, Malkin, Hannity, or Beck. If you find them useful, compelling, or entertaining, how the hell did you find my LJ?)

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[valarltd.livejournal.com]

I like Pandagon (http://pandagon.blogsome.com/), which is liberal feminist.

[cheshyre]

My must read is Susie Madrak, Suburban Guerrilla -- she's got an amazing way of summing up the issues and extracting the most important bits.

Also, Think Progress and AmericaBlog

[moquif.livejournal.com]

My brother, David, and some of his friends have a libertarian blog http://lawlegislationandlunacy.blogspot.com/ I think sometimes he goes off the deep end in the way he favors business and seems out of touch with the real world. Lately it seems that I'm the only one who replies (and it's the most reliable way for him to talk with family).

[cheshyre]

Oh, one more: Digby @ Hullabaloo

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

I'm fond of No Quarter (http://noquarterusa.net/blog/), the blog/website of Larry Johnson. I've heard him a number of times on Stephanie Miller, Ed Schulz and Randi Rhodes. He's got national security cred up the wazoo and he's a relentless critic of our current (very failed IMO) strategy in Iraq etc.

[timemachineyeah.livejournal.com]

Shakespeare's Sister (http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/), a liberal blog that has focuses on feminism, fat acceptance, and basically all major issues. I also really like it because along with the serious blogging, there is also the Two-Minute Nostalgia Sublime every day, and the Question of the Day that you can respond to in the comments, and the Virtual Pub on Fridays and Saturdays just for readers and posters to hang out in.

And it's not just one blogger, there's a whole community, and I think that's cool.

I also read Health at Every Size (http://www.healthateverysize.info/) as a constant reminder to myself that I AM OKAY. 170 lbs at 5' 9" is NOT A BAD THING, no matter what the magazines try to tell me. I'm living healthy and my body functions and I should love myself. I also read Shapely Prose (http://kateharding.net/) (which features Kate Harding, who often cross-posts to Shakespeare's Sister) for the same reason.

I also personally enjoy A "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks (http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/) just because it rubs me the right way.

[gavroche42.livejournal.com]

Does this apply to the 'Premium' archives? When I search the archives, stuff between 1923-1981 still comes up as fee required. Is there a way to access those articles?

[partiallyclips.livejournal.com]

Warning: you may fall in love with this woman just by reading her blog.

http://smartypants.diaryland.com/index.html

Excerpt:

I really wish that one of my older, tasteful, very genteel professional colleagues would stop using the phrase "shot [fill in possessive pronoun here] wad" in emails about budgets, the timing of certain press releases or published features, etc. I am fairly certain that this person would never talk about wads being shot if she knew the standard meaning of those terms, and it upsets me every time but there is no way to get her to stop without making the situation much, much worse.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

I like Pharyngula, a blog by an atheist biology professor.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

(No recommendations, please, for Coulter, Malkin, Hannity, or Beck. If you find them useful, compelling, or entertaining, how the hell did you find my LJ?)

Playing devil's advocate for a minute, perhaps someone could find those useful in a "know your enemies" way? For example, I know several reasonably sane people who are on the American Family Association mailing list in order to keep an eye on that organization and to champion causes the AFA opposes.

[ann-totusek.livejournal.com]

I find the ones you mention useful since I can find out what they're saying and address it intelligently if I read it, regardless of how stupid or poorly thought out what I read is. The ones I _like_ are

http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com

http://jestersbasement.blogspot.com/

http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/ (Geoffrey Chaucer Hath A Blog)

http://complianceandprivacy.com/blogs/Bruce-Schneier-index.html

[ddrussianinja.livejournal.com]

I find this blog incredibly useful. You pretty much do all of the surfing for geek news that I was going to waste my afternoon doing and then post about it. You save me hours every day.

[sdelmonte]

TV and comic book writer Mark Evanier's blog is a good mix of the trivial, the ephemeral, and the serious, and he often provides links to commentary on a number of issues. It leans to the left when it's about politics.

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Arianna Huffington, a recovering conservative, has a site that is a compendium of not only her own blog but those of a number of other excellent liberal/progressive types, called The Huffington Post. Between that site, Crooks and Liars and the Democratic Underground (not to mention your page), I get pretty much all the intellectual ammunition I need when surfing the Web.

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

No one's mentioned Obsidian Wings (http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/) yet? It's a group blog, with both liberals and conservatives posting. The commentariat tends to be left-leaning, and the most frequent posters - hilzoy (who is divine) and publius (formerly of Legal Discourse) are left of center. I visit there several times a day.

[smoooom.livejournal.com]

So if I find one thing I agree with in any column written by those people what? 14 or so years of knowing each other goes down the drain. I read an article Coulter wrote about Doctors. While I don't agree wwith every word she says there is some truth in what she wrote.

As to how I found your blog, we're mutual freinds. And I thought friends could agree to disagree.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

My "must" daily blog routine is Digby, Orcinus (David Neiwert and Sara Robinson; oriented liberal and focused somewhat on the extreme right, including the Minutemen, KKK, Malkin, etc.), Making Light (Teresa and Patrick Nielsen Hayden), and Firedoglake (liberal, you betcha).

I do read lots of others, but those are the ones I don't miss any day. (I'm considering adding Eric Alterman to the list.)

For nonpolitical blogs, there's Boing Boing, Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools (VERY highly recommended), Growabrain, Whatever (John Scalzi, currently on hiatus until he wrestles the snot out of Movable Type 4.0), and the occasional look at some highly specialized blogs (e.g., Blogway Baby (focused on Broadway and stage shows), Malls of America (all sorts of material about malls), Management by Baseball (an excellent discussion of business and similar management techniques, illustrated with baseball examples and metaphors), and Babes With Books (what it sounds like; contains NSFW material).

Hm. I'd been wondering why I haven't gotten anything done recently... :-)

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Bugger. Here are those last three links, properly:

Malls of America
Management by Baseball
Babes With Books (reminder, NSFW)

[kilbia.livejournal.com]

For entertainment and "goddamn I wish I could write like that" value, I'm a big fan of theferrett. He's not on my actual friends list for complicated reasons, but it's one of the links in my "check daily" folder of Firefox bookmarks.

[technocracygirl.livejournal.com]

According to the NYTimes website, content until 1987 is free. After that, you still have to have a subscription or pay per piece.

[kilbia.livejournal.com]

Oh, I suppose I should warn: when he does write politically, he leans left. But really if you're worried about content, you should worry more about how often he writes on R-rated topics, and is definitely rated R for language. =)

Though the latter applies to my blog as well.

[gavroche42.livejournal.com]

A little more complicated (http://www.nytimes.com/membercenter/faq/timesselect.html#tendsqa24):

1851-1923 - free
1923-1987 - fee
1987-current - free

Still quite excellent.

[crwilley.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite stops is

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One of my favorite stops is <a href="http://www.bobharris.com"</a>Bob Harris's blog</a> - he covers travel, gameshows and trivia, a little sports (almost everything I know about cricket, I learned from him), deadly-cute knee-high relatives of deer, and a healthy dose of left-wing politics.

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Almost forgot Firedoglake; thanks, redaxe, for reminding me. That's a must-bookmark blog for me, too.

[crwilley.livejournal.com]

Argh. I can do HTML, really I can. Trying again:

One of my favorite stops is Bob Harris's blog (http://www.bobharris.com) - he covers travel, gameshows and trivia, a little sports (almost everything I know about cricket, I learned from him), deadly-cute knee-high relatives of deer, and a healthy dose of left-wing politics.