Sideshow Looking Up a Bit

As Marigolds2 points out in the comments below, AOL Election Sideshow has put up some new blogs.

One is Tank Gurl's Two Cents by Ghollahan. She seems to be, gasp! choke! some kind of liberal!! She talks about elections and issues. And she has more than one post! That alone is a good sign compared to the selection earlier in the week.

The other is Christine's Journal by Lvegasdolphin dedicated to "scriptures, politics, news." Cool. I like blogs that stick to safe and tame subjects. :)  She also has more than one post! And she talks about ... elections!  Amazing! She even has a first hand report of a John Kerry speech. And, unlike the famous one-post blog, Democrats apparently don't make her want to retch.

Neither of these two are ranting about traitors. From a quick first look their posts seem comprehensible. I'm not sure if either of them thinks John Edwards is a Communist. But I'm guessing not. I haven't come across any foaming at the mouth about Jane Fonda yet, or conspiracy theories about the sinister UN.

Wow! It may be a bit too early to conclude that Sideshow is finally getting a clue about how this blog thing functions. But this may be a sign of hope.

And both of these blogs are new to me, which probably says more about my own laziness than anything else. That's a good use for the blog section on Sideshow to promote some dialogue and cross-fertilization among the AOL political blogs. And, by the way, it looks to me like some minor page redesign would give room for listing more than two blogs there at once.

(Psst! Don't tell anybody. But I think they may have put two liberal-leaning blogs up at once. Don't spread it around, though. Somebody at AOL News might get fired!)