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Open Thread: On The Daily
ByAside from Scrutiny Hooligans, what blogs do you make a point of reading every day? This is also your open thread.
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December 27th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
I’ll kick it off:
BlogAsheville, AshVegas, Hangover Journals, Arratik, Petulant Rumblings, Mtn. X, Daily Kos, Eschaton, TPM, BlueNC, Open Left, Tigerhawk, Crooks’n'Liars, Think Progress.
There are oodles that I check less frequently. You can check them out at our “Links” page (click “Links” atop the left hand sidebar).
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December 27th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Ashvegas, The Field Negro, Afrospear, Pam’s House Blend, Afrobella, Blogdorf Goodman…
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December 27th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Hot Air because AllahPundit is the best blogger hands down, AshVegas, C&L (it’s fun to antagonize the commenters), Andrew Sullivan, The Corner @ NRO, Americablog, Huffpo, Ace of Spades, Malkin, Sadly, No!, dListed (that guy is hilarious), What Would Tyler Durden Do? are the regulars.
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December 27th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
bob,
Wow. I can read only one or two of those right wing sites a day without my head exploding. Their strengths appear to be “attack liberals” and “ignore Republican scandals”.
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December 27th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Crooks & Liars, Think Progress, Blue NC and Talking Points Memo.
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December 27th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
I read that Jason Bugg guy’s blog, as well as Scrutiny Hooligans, Ashvegas, and that’s about it.
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December 27th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Scroo-Hoo, Glenn Greenwald, Digby
Almost every other day: MyDD, Firedoglake, Crooks & Liars, Atrios, Campaign for America’s Future (Rick Perlstein, Bill Scher), TPM, BradBlog
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December 27th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Scru Hoo, dKos, C&L, and Rasmussen. But if you haven’t heard of FORA.tv PLEASE check it out. Its a video blog that will make you forget about TV, if you haven’t already.
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December 27th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
FORA.tv is a video blog that is a must see. It shows lectures made by great thinkers, good and evil alike. So not do you keep up on progressive thought, you keep ahead of right-wing spin.
Also, Scru Hoo, dKos, C&L, Rasmussen on a daily basis and a lot of the usual suspects named above occasionally.
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December 27th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Gordon,
You don’t read anything for perspective or at least for material? Have you actually read Hot Air? AllahPundit actually is the hardest on Conservatives, especially the nomination contenders.
How about Sullivan? He’s at least half a liberal. Hell, he endorsed Ron Paul.
As far as their “strengths”, what the heck do you think C&L and Think Progress do? Equal time? No, they fight tooth and nail against their “enemy” as much as Malkin and LGF do.
You’re kidding yourself if you think the Liberal sites hold higher ground.
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December 27th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
I’m subscribed to over a hundred blogs, and I check them, on average, a couple of times a day. I’m a sick, sick man. 56 are Asheville-centric.
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December 27th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
Scrutiny Hooligans, BlueNC, Talking Points Memo, Daily Dish/Andrew Sullivan, Question Authority/Dr. Peter Rost, bothwell’s blog. I also have RSS feeds to the NYTimes Political News, and Yahoo’s Political News. There are also a couple of personal friends’ blogs and some feeds re. my favorite baseball and football teams.
I spend entirely too much time on Google Reader..
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December 28th, 2007 at 12:13 am
bob,
Like I said, I can’t read too much of that stuff at once. And I certainly can’t imagine creating a moral equivalency between Michelle Malkin and The Center For American’ Progress’ “Think Progress”. One is a progressive think tank, and the other is a blowhard who supported Bush’s march to war and continues to support it. I haven’t spent time at AllahPundit, but I’ve cruised by Ace Of Spades enough to know what kind of glorification they’re selling.
The Liberal sites do hold higher ground. We call it reality-based blogging. Any group that has supported the policies of our current president is complicit in the direction he has taken the nation. Conservative sites have carried water for George W. Bush’s neocon agenda for years. I’m not suggesting we punish the monkeys and let the organ grinders go, but we should know a monkey when we see it. I’m only 37 years old, but that’s old enough to know how perilous a course Bush and his apologists have chosen for our Republic.
I won’t be forgiving them anytime soon for that.
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December 28th, 2007 at 12:23 am
p.s. My favorite conservative site is Tigerhawk. Check it out and tell me what you think.
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December 28th, 2007 at 6:25 am
Thanks to the magic of RSS, I don’t actually read blogs.
Well, apart from those of friends and family, a small handful of local blogs and the usual suspect “a-list” political sites (I unsubscribed from several recently because subscribing to them and to news feeds is redundant since even most of the “a-listers” merely ctrl-v AP and Reuters stories), here’s some of the stuff I read:
MAKE Magazine’s blog, Boing Boing, GetLoFi, Music Thing, Joe Mathlete Explains Today’s Marmaduke, Suicide Food, WFMU’s Beware of the Blog, all kinds of stuff (that’s John Kricfalusi’s blog – he’s the guy who created Ren & Stimpy), Graffiti Research Lab, Tales of the Freewayblogger, Music Thing, I Can Has Cheezburger…
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December 28th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Gordon,
But there are more issues than just the war. Like I said, perspective.
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December 28th, 2007 at 9:40 am
Good Lord, bob.
Which other issues should I mention? How about habeas corpus? How about all-too-frequent comparisons between terrorists and liberals? How about SCHIP? Katrina? The U.S. Attorney’s scandal? Gonzo? Civil rights? Extraordinary rendition? Torture? Saber-rattling at Iran? Valerie Plame? I could, of course, go on and on.
The big right wing bloggers are sycophantic and evidently beholden to Bush’s neocon agenda. The “perspective” you allude to seems to me a false equivalency a la FOX News. Just because there is more than one side to an issue does not mean various approaches have equivalent quality.
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December 28th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Yes Gordon, those are some of the other issues. And yes, most of those issues go have various approaches of equivalent quality, namely Katrina, Iran, Plame for sure, SCHIP definitely.
Gonzo, Habeus, Patriot Act (to name a few) are all things I agree with Liberals on, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t look beyond the hysterics of some to see where the level headed conservatives are coming from.
Anyway, my original point was that Conservatives don’t have the market corned when it comes to demagoguery. Comparing Republicans to Nazis comes to mind.
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December 28th, 2007 at 10:09 am
oops: *do* have various approaches…
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December 28th, 2007 at 10:25 am
You continue to try to create equivalency between the neocon water carriers and the liberal blogosphere. It doesn’t wash, bob. They’re not equivalent.
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December 28th, 2007 at 10:28 am
equivalence on Katrina? Ha! On Iran? Ha! Plame? Are you serious? SCHIP?!?
bobaloo, your lips are stained red.
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December 28th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
These are some blogs I check daily. They may or may not be updated as frequently:
NoodleFood
Objective Standard
Tammy Bruce
Scrutiny Hooligans
George Reisman
Brink Lindsey
Cato Daily Podcast
Neil Boortz
Bluegrass Blog
Zeldman
Machan’s Inputs
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December 28th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Sorry,
Neil Boortz
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December 28th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Off topic, but what’s with the local media attacking me?
Check this out, from today’s AC-T
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December 28th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Man, Tim Rawal’s been guzzling the Haterade.
Unlike him, I don’t tend to hold grudges for that long, and I’m secure enough with myself to accept that I’m an asshole just like you.
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December 28th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
OK, Gordo, I don’t get the stained red lips thing. You mean like a Mentat? But I digress.
Opposition to SCHIP is not all about hating children, enforcing immigration laws is not all about racism, Katrina wasn’t about killing black people and so on. But many liberals seem to enjoy their high seat on the moral authority throne and refuse to believe anything beyond “Rethuglicans and Reichwingers are eeeeevillll”. It’s just not the way the world works and it weakens the debate.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a Republican. I know how they abused power in the first six years and I have no illusions about the transgressions of the Bush administration. But I believe that strict adherence to one side or the other of any ideology without remembering your opponents are human is very dangerous.
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December 28th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
The AC-T just continues to sink. Next they will be printing the Dishing Divas post.
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December 28th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
People should take to the streets demanding that I receive a chance to state my case and all that stuff.
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December 28th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
The New York Times issued yet another retraction.
All the news that’s fit to skew.
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December 28th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Not every day:
scrutinyhooligans.us
calculatedrisk.blogspot
43folders
transitionculture.org
worldchanging.org
energybulletin.net
Richard Florida’s blog (just started with it)
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December 28th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
In the rain?
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December 28th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
Try to get to daily:
Scru-Hoo, Ashevegas, Edgy Mama, Jennifer Saylor, Hangover Journals and now blue gal
more like weekly:
Bird on the Moon, Lowell Allen’s Serial Photo, Modern Peasant, She Who Eats, Stoplight Haiku, a year in asheville, The Ashevillein
once in a while:
Brainshrub, Petulant Rumblings, random
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December 28th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
It is the rain.
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December 29th, 2007 at 10:09 am
A few times each week:
Screwy, of course.
Ashvegas to keep tabs on tv news, since I haven’t watched it for 30 years, oh, and to keep track of how to avoid the crowd.
Juan Cole: Informed comment http://www.juancole.com/
Weekly:
TomDispatch
http://tomdispatch.com/
Mark Morford: Notes and Errata
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/archive/
Every couple of weeks:
Blue Gal
http://bgalrstate.blogspot.com/
Asheville on the Ground
http://www.ashevilleontheground.blogspot.com/
She Who Eats
http://shewhoeats.wordpress.com/
Jennifer Saylor: Freelance writer
http://jennifersaylor.wordpress.com/
Gaia’s tears in Asheville
http://gaiastears.blogspot.com/
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December 29th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Hourly: DK, Scroohoo, BlueNC,
Daily: Digby, Atrios, Juan Cole, C&L, Raw Story
Weekly: Poodle Guide, Science News Review and North Carolina Travel
As for the discussion above between Gordon and bob, it is embarrassing. This administration and this President have set a new standard for bad everything. If bob wants to tie himself to that failed vision, that wretched experiment, then that is to his shame.
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December 29th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
The Bush administration’s 10 dumbest legal arguments of the year.
http://www.slate.com/id/2179934/pagenum/all/
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December 29th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
Kai,
Thanks for the link. ANY reasonable person who is not a true believer of the cult like experiment that is neoconservatism, must agree that time after time, this has proven to be a rogue regime. It is a criminal enterprise.
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December 29th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
bobaloo says that right wing blogs like NRO’s The Corner are moral equivalents to blogs like Think Progress, randallt. He mustn’t be a reasonable person in your book. He’s got his own book, however.
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December 30th, 2007 at 1:00 am
Yeah, Gordon, it’s called the book of reading differing opinions. All I can gather is that most people would rather be spoon fed by people that agree with them.
As for you Randall, your reading comprehension is abominable.
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December 30th, 2007 at 7:50 am
bob,
I prefer to “be spoon fed” by people with good judgment who tell the truth. Like I said, I go to the right wing sites, usually when I want to see how they’re dodging the latest Republican scandal.
The list of right wing failures, scandals, and misjudgments over the last seven years is historic. The right wing blogosphere has been complicit in the media manipulation that began and maintained so much of what is wrong with America.
They can have their own opinions, but they can’t have their own facts, bob. You’re free to believe that you’re getting products of equal quality at right and left wing sites, but I’ll bet you have to busily ignore all of the right wing failings to do so.
I’m not wrong about this, no matter how much pomposity you perpetrate.
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December 30th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Yeah, but I don’t ignore the right wing failings, which is why I’m not a Republican. I just like to see both sides of an issue and I’m not such an ideological zombie that I can’t see some of the points they make on issues that have two sides. No, the war is not such an issue. Though I am more of a hawk than most Liberals, I do side with the Left on this one, and have since 2003. But, as a centrist and a fiscal conservative, there are other issues in which I appreciate a differing opinion. As for equal quality, as I said above, I believe both sides demagogue, obfuscate and exaggerate their opponents stances and from time to time actually get things right.
As for pomposity, you were pompous first, so nyah nyah.
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December 30th, 2007 at 11:27 am
bob, I really did well in college with all the reading comprehension stuff. Not sure why you are suggesting otherwise. I see the right as an abomination and my comprehension of the words I read at LFG and NRO seems pretty clear and unambiguous. My comprehension of the vile pronouncements I hear from Rush, Hannity, Bill, Ann, Savage, Boortz, and the the others I stumble upon, seems pretty steady as well.
I predict this whole right-wing mindset will go down in history as the last flicker of selfish desire from dangerous, bitter old men.
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December 30th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
OK Randall, I’ll explain. You said I’d tied myself to that “failed vision” to my shame. I didn’t tie myself to Bush policies; that’s not what the conversation was about. It was about reading other opinions.
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December 30th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
My apologies then. I thought you were equivocating progressive ideals with those of the far right.
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