I feel like I ought to address DD's gloom about blogworld. There really is a lot of worthwhile stuff out there. Below
are places I visit regularly, though they are many more good ones for which there just isn't time. Here's a rough taxonomy (Google if you want to find them. I don't have the energy to supply all the URLs): Social-democratic policy wonkery. Informed discussion of the details of policy Issues can be found at Tapped, Ezra Klein, Samefacts.org, DeLong, economistmom.com. (The Tapped/New Republic writers are I think the careerists Daniel was talking about. I don't see the problem if they want to grow up and get platforms on bigger outlets. We could do a lot worse - in fact we are doing a lot worse. At the Post, for instance, The big liberals EJ Dionne and Harold Myerson are total bores.) Following the political horserace: Media Matters for America, The Plank (at the New Republic site), Talking Points Memo. Partisan Democratic vituperation: Eschaton (I find myself obliged to check it about every 20 minutes), firedoglake Iraq coverage: attackerman, Juan Cole, Robert Dreyfuss Academic topics: Crooked Timber Financial Markets: The Big Picture, Calculated Risk, Roubini/Setser Heterodox economics: EconoSpeak, naturally, featuring a gaggle of eminent and former PEN-Lers; the incomparable Dean Baker on the American Prospect site; D-Squared when he's in the mood Other economics: DeLong, Marginal Revolution, EconLog, Mark Thoma, Krugman, Angry Bear Funny: Fafblog, The Poor Man, Chase Me Ladies I'm in the Calvary (especially the comment threads) Best timewaster: The Huffington Post Best radical site: good question. Have to say CounterPunch, warts and all. Not bloggy as much as article-based. Early Days of a Better Nation is good but posts are infrequent and as much essay as bloggy. _____ I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 63226 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter <http://www.download.com/Spamfighter/3000-2382_4-10764780.html> for free now!
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