(no subject)

[reldnahkram]

So, watching election results Tuesday night with ccommack and think_too_much, and was told about Wonkette by ccommack. So, with nothing else to do tonight, I wonder over there, and what do I find? This lovely link. Look closely. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

In general, I'm looking to pick up a few blogs. I've decided to split my current reading into morning and evening, so as to take less time in the morning, but the current selection leaves me a few minutes. Recommendations? I've currently got Creighton's mostly-inactive SEPTA rant-fest, UniWatch, Sandow, and Recording Industry v. the People, which I just picked up. I'm picking up Twangville, we'll see if it can consistantly tell me things about music I'll like and not annoy me.

Comments

[tirerim.livejournal.com]

<snerk>

[jere7my.livejournal.com]

And the hits keep on comin'.

[ccommack]

Politically, I read Andrew Sullivan on the right for philosphy, Talking Points Memo on the left for corruption, and the aforementioned Wonkette for what I mentioned Tuesday night.

[kid-prufrock.livejournal.com]

You mean for a source of your philosophy? I could see reading Andrew Sullivan for perspective, as an articulate proponent of the other side (the way I read the two conservative NYT op-ed writers), but for goodness sake!

[ccommack]

Well, there *simply isn't* a good liberal blog that I enjoy with a philosophical bent. I'm sorry, but there's not.

And fear not, I do occasionally want to throttle Mr. Sullivan. But being the opposition has its perks; I'm more willing to personally forgive him for being ridiculous than I would someone on my own side (*cough*, Kos, Atrios, *cough*).

[kid-prufrock.livejournal.com]

Okay, fair enough; at least there certainly isn't a high-profile one. Most of the more philosophical blogs I look at tend not to be political blogs in the sense Andrew Sullivan's is (I'm thinking of Crooked Timber here); although I wouldn't rule out some young poli-sci graduate student or professor's having a great political blog, I suspect that most people on the left whose blogging has a philosophical bent tend, like most of the writers of Crooked Timber, to spend less time on day-to-day political events and to follow the academic practice of treating fairly orthodox liberal politics as relatively banal background assumptions.

Interestingly, Brian Leiter is the only professional philosopher I can think of who does have a relatively high-profile political blog that's explicitly concerned with current events, and the blog is such a terrible mixture of preaching to the choir and sneering at the opposition that it makes me despair at the prospect of professional philosophers ever producing good political blogging...

[sonatanator.livejournal.com]

Thay removed it. Paint me a picture?

[tirerim.livejournal.com]

Go to Wonkette and scroll down to where it says "Office Cubicles - $2600". They still have the pictures up.

[think-too-much.livejournal.com]

www.deadspin.com for all your sports, and "sports" needs.