So, John Scalzi of the AOL mothership blog By the Way has challenged us again, this time to list our favorite AOL Journals. He asked for our top five, actually. But I only come up with five if I count his, which he probably isn't looking for. But I do enjoy his blog, and not just for the AOL Journals announcements. I'm still working on imitating his trick of making photos LARGE, though. :)
I've been trying to look up some of the other Journals that deal with political topics on a regular basis. My critieria would include thought-provoking entries, entries on a fairly regular basis and useful links. And I only came up with four of those. I've come across several that had good entries, but for whatever reason the authors make a few entries and then abandon them for weeks at a time.
So, on the conservative side of the AOL corner of the "blogosphere", I would mention Charlie Eklund's The Other Shoe. I just posted Thursday something about the 1938 Munich agreement that one of his posts started me thinking about.
Another is Cheese Louise by awriterslife. She's been keeping up a steady stream of posts on the California recall, which she favors. She probably won't agree with my previous post, "Arnie and the Hitler Quote."
On the liberal side, there's Progressive Musings by fdtate313, which is kind of on the same wavelength so far as Old Hickory's Weblog. He has a provocative post on "progressive songs" that I hope to post a follow-up on.
And there's the windmills of my mind by marigolds2 that has very literate posts about various topics, including political ones. Also an intriguing list of links, which reminds me I need to work on mine a bit.
4 comments:
well, i couldn't be more pleased. thanks so much,
especially for the "very literate posts" comment.
so far i haven't found five journals i could nominate,
but yours is certainly on the short list.
I'm honored to be included in your list, Old Hickory. You've been on my list of featured blogs since I started the blog, even though we disagree on the Recall.
I actually do find Arnold's comments on Hitler disturbing, but not as much as the groping stories. I judge the candidates in the recall by their actions more than their words, and Arnold has not acted like a disciple of Hitler. He HAS acted like an entitled male.
Thanks again for the distinction.
Cheese Louise :)
Thank you very much for the mention. I'm ecstatic to see that someone is taking the time to read what I write.
Cheese Louise, see my Arnold posts for more on the Nazi quote issue. I certainly think 28-year-old statements like that have to be seen in the larger picture of a person's life. But combined with his public friendliness to Kurt Waldheim and Jörg Haider, they were very troubling. But the stories about him helping to bust up neo-Nazi rallies certainly present a different kind of picture. - Bruce
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