Monday, September 25, 2006
Blogroll editing
I've knocked some blogs off of my blogroll, mostly because the bloggers quit blogging, or they quit being interesting to me, or, in the case of Trucker Philosophy, they just went plumb off the deep end.
It's not his wacky neocon, pseudo-Christian, pseudo-libertarian opinions that got me. Hey he's entitled. It's that he bought into -- hook, line and sinker -- pure political evil with the linked post. What a goober.
So, tell me some of the blogs you read all the time. Not just the ones on your blogroll. Which ones do you actually look at pretty regularly?
I don't care how "out there" they are witn their opinions, but I would hope they actually have at least a light grasp on reality.
--ER
It's not his wacky neocon, pseudo-Christian, pseudo-libertarian opinions that got me. Hey he's entitled. It's that he bought into -- hook, line and sinker -- pure political evil with the linked post. What a goober.
So, tell me some of the blogs you read all the time. Not just the ones on your blogroll. Which ones do you actually look at pretty regularly?
I don't care how "out there" they are witn their opinions, but I would hope they actually have at least a light grasp on reality.
--ER
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You, of course, and
whorled leaves, sand creek almanac and counting petals - my mellow, groovy, beautiful friends - and
Emmaus Road and Levellers - my Christian friends - and, God help me,
Daddio
Pocket full of Mumbles
Glen Dean - christian libertarian
Are the ones I'm currently frequenting most often. The first two groups as edification and the last group as missionary work.
whorled leaves, sand creek almanac and counting petals - my mellow, groovy, beautiful friends - and
Emmaus Road and Levellers - my Christian friends - and, God help me,
Daddio
Pocket full of Mumbles
Glen Dean - christian libertarian
Are the ones I'm currently frequenting most often. The first two groups as edification and the last group as missionary work.
I am glad to find that I am still on yoru blogroll! I keep up with SO MANY blogs that I use 2 bloglines accounts and several pulldown menus. Bloglines helps, because they let me know when there's new content, to save me having to check all the time. I have several categories:
1. Sources. For my material. Lots of them.
2. Political blogs.
3. Adoptive parent blogs.
4. Personal blogs of nice people I've met online.
5. Blogs of people I know in real life. The most boring category, but I feel obligated, ya know?
6. Blogs I'm testing to see if I want to stay with them.
Some blogs fit into more than one category, and thats fine. If I ever become gainfully emplyed, I may have to cut back.
1. Sources. For my material. Lots of them.
2. Political blogs.
3. Adoptive parent blogs.
4. Personal blogs of nice people I've met online.
5. Blogs of people I know in real life. The most boring category, but I feel obligated, ya know?
6. Blogs I'm testing to see if I want to stay with them.
Some blogs fit into more than one category, and thats fine. If I ever become gainfully emplyed, I may have to cut back.
After all we have ment to each other and you don't even mention my blog! What am I chopped liver? I even have a story up about a killer teddy bear and I'm not interesting enough? I guess I'll just have to just read Trixie's blog and forget about you!
Just in case you repent I can be found at:
Junior The Bear at:http://www.xanga.com/Juniorthebear
Just in case you repent I can be found at:
Junior The Bear at:http://www.xanga.com/Juniorthebear
# posted by 
: 8:11 AM
: 8:11 AM
Thank the good Lord that I'm still on your blogroll. I would have hated to have had you whacked. I had to do that to a blogger the other day. He was cleaning up his blogroll and "accidently" removed my blog. So I killed him. Oh, I thought about talking it through with him and giving him a chance to explain, but then I thought, screw that crap and fed his lifeless body to the pigs. The pigs made such a fuss over him, like they hadn't had human before. They fought like political parties. Good times.
I read tons of library-related blogs, but doubt you'd find most of them very interesting.
One exception: http://zenformation.blogspot.com/ (Jason is in his late 20's, is a librarian at an Ohio university, and pretty much stands every librarian stereotype on its head. He tends toward TMI, but the writing's good and generally entertaining.)
Others you might like:
http://www.thedailyscribe.com/ (posts from religious bloggers across the spectrum)
http://paulashouseoftoast.blogspot.com/ (photo, prose, and verse blogging)
http://angryblackbitch.blogspot.com/ (good writing, good sense of humor, takes her politics very seriously)
http://www.waiterrant.net/ (again, good writing and sense of humor)
One exception: http://zenformation.blogspot.com/ (Jason is in his late 20's, is a librarian at an Ohio university, and pretty much stands every librarian stereotype on its head. He tends toward TMI, but the writing's good and generally entertaining.)
Others you might like:
http://www.thedailyscribe.com/ (posts from religious bloggers across the spectrum)
http://paulashouseoftoast.blogspot.com/ (photo, prose, and verse blogging)
http://angryblackbitch.blogspot.com/ (good writing, good sense of humor, takes her politics very seriously)
http://www.waiterrant.net/ (again, good writing and sense of humor)
I can't find the words to describe someone who thinks and acts as you do. I pray someday you'll get the help you need.
# posted by : 11:31 AM
: 11:31 AM
I've got my original batch of blogging buddies (ER, Tech, Frenzied Feline, Jeannie Diane, Teditor and Dr. E.R., who needs to post more often.)
Recently I've branched out to a whole new world of blogging friends who are creative types -- I don't think they are the kind of blogs you'd find interesting, but they really enrich my online time. Several of them blog about their children or their hopes to adopt children. There are fascinating people out there!
Recently I've branched out to a whole new world of blogging friends who are creative types -- I don't think they are the kind of blogs you'd find interesting, but they really enrich my online time. Several of them blog about their children or their hopes to adopt children. There are fascinating people out there!
Anon, I don't understand your complaint. I am, after all, entitled to choose who I read, and to comment on those who I do not, am I not? Whatever, your prayers are welcome.
So, is Trucker Philosophy actually suggesting Clinton had that list of people killed?!
Well, I guess wack is as wack does.
Well, I guess wack is as wack does.
" name-calling are we Dan-o?"
Apparently Trucker believes that Clinton has a mafia hitman working for him, taking out dozens of people to cover up his sins. That steps out of the visitation area and into the psycho ward. Not unlike those who'd advocate turning Iran into a "sea of glass."
Some ideas are just crazy - crazy, or stated just for the sake of getting comments left at one's site.
Apparently Trucker believes that Clinton has a mafia hitman working for him, taking out dozens of people to cover up his sins. That steps out of the visitation area and into the psycho ward. Not unlike those who'd advocate turning Iran into a "sea of glass."
Some ideas are just crazy - crazy, or stated just for the sake of getting comments left at one's site.
redneck meet redneck,
www.redneckperil.blogspot.com
Politically oposites, Peril liberterian right, ER left.
I read cuase he and I have a common concern. Kids in Kazakhstan. We both adopted, he is actually helping kids who graduate out of the orphange.
www.redneckperil.blogspot.com
Politically oposites, Peril liberterian right, ER left.
I read cuase he and I have a common concern. Kids in Kazakhstan. We both adopted, he is actually helping kids who graduate out of the orphange.
Glad I made the cut.
I like ole Trucker Philo. Keep him on. But if not I am still subscribed to him on bloglines.
I like ole Trucker Philo. Keep him on. But if not I am still subscribed to him on bloglines.
I think Tug, at Trucker Philosophy, and I have reached a point of mutual disrespect. He thinks I'm a socialist, and I think he's of a brand of right-wingism that actually is harmful to the country. Hard to overcome that.
BTW, I count myself among liberals, therefore, among the mainstream of the Democratic Party. I'm only "left" when compared to what, dangerously, has become the hard-right maainstream of the Repub party. Heck, I liked Bubba, and he was the most conservative Dem president of the 20th century.
I read everyone on my blogroll. Can't very well endorse something with a link if I'm not reading, right?
I am honestly surprised I made your cut... because I don't think Trucker P is entirely off-base, nor do I feel he's stumbled off the deep, steep, or shallow end.
I am honestly surprised I made your cut... because I don't think Trucker P is entirely off-base, nor do I feel he's stumbled off the deep, steep, or shallow end.
Well, EL, you, almost alone among the righty bloggers I read, actually know how to disagree without being disagreeable, and you know how to just let an argument end, sometimes ya win, sometimes ya lose.
Tug's hist list hit me hard because Ron Brown was at top. I remember the day his plane went down like he was a cousin or something. To drag his name into the poison that that list is was an insult to him and his memory -- and to me.
By putting that bunch of innuendo and insinuation up there, Tug, with a shrug of the shoulders and a careless chuckle, did his part to further poison discourse in this country. It makes me sick. Opinion is one thing. That crap is poison.
Another point: I might very well pop in there from time to time. But I no longer want to take the chance of being the one responsible for leading others there. So, I just knocked him off my blogroll. He knocked me off a long time ago.
Tug's hist list hit me hard because Ron Brown was at top. I remember the day his plane went down like he was a cousin or something. To drag his name into the poison that that list is was an insult to him and his memory -- and to me.
By putting that bunch of innuendo and insinuation up there, Tug, with a shrug of the shoulders and a careless chuckle, did his part to further poison discourse in this country. It makes me sick. Opinion is one thing. That crap is poison.
Another point: I might very well pop in there from time to time. But I no longer want to take the chance of being the one responsible for leading others there. So, I just knocked him off my blogroll. He knocked me off a long time ago.
When I looked at Tug's list and tracked it back to the source and looked over the levels of hate involved, I was reminded of how much the radical right truely hates Bill Clinton. It is beyond the bounds of the rationale. Chief among his haters is G.W. Bush for like Sadam Hussain, Bill Clinton humbled and insulted his father by beating him in the election. And to make matter worse Clinton has made up with Bush Sr.. That must really gall the shrub.
If the most conservative Democrat elected in the 20th Century is such an anathema to the haters, what will they do when a liberal is elected? Our American pain is yet to come on this.
If the most conservative Democrat elected in the 20th Century is such an anathema to the haters, what will they do when a liberal is elected? Our American pain is yet to come on this.
# posted by : 11:39 PM
: 11:39 PM
Financial Reality has moved:
http://alamedalearning.com/reality/
If you want to talk about things like minimum wage or trade with some degree of sophistication, you might try some of the better economists' blogs:
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/
http://voxbaby.blogspot.com/
http://knzn.blogspot.com/
Not an exhaustive list. You'd also like
http://angrybear.blogspot.com/
http://alamedalearning.com/reality/
If you want to talk about things like minimum wage or trade with some degree of sophistication, you might try some of the better economists' blogs:
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/
http://voxbaby.blogspot.com/
http://knzn.blogspot.com/
Not an exhaustive list. You'd also like
http://angrybear.blogspot.com/
"Tug's hist list hit me hard because Ron Brown was at top. I remember the day his plane went down like he was a cousin or something. To drag his name into the poison that that list is was an insult to him and his memory -- and to me."--Reverend Redneck
Why don't you do a little research, Er? How 'bout checking out the PBS Frontline piece on Ron Brown's plane crash--even during Clinton's presidency, the leftist offered more support of foul-play than not.
Check it out.
Why don't you do a little research, Er? How 'bout checking out the PBS Frontline piece on Ron Brown's plane crash--even during Clinton's presidency, the leftist offered more support of foul-play than not.
Check it out.
The blogs I read tend toward the relative, which is to say that I enjoy the observations of those related to me:
http://www.lifeinhville.blogspot.com/(my daughter)
http://humanityman.blogspot.com/(my nephew)
http://upsideofbeingawallflower.blogspot.com/(my niece)
http://www.carrier1.blogspot.com/(my brother)
http://hollanderspace.blogspot.com/(my brother-in-law, I believe we decided we could call each other, at our last meeting)
http://discobackache.blogspot.com/(a person I consider a friend for life; also, I often post my well-considered facts and opinions over to there)
That oughta do it. I still read those right wing people, but only comment on those occasions when we happen to agree. I find that even a little disagreement makes them get the steam coming out their various orifices, and it becomes impossible to talk to them.
http://www.lifeinhville.blogspot.com/(my daughter)
http://humanityman.blogspot.com/(my nephew)
http://upsideofbeingawallflower.blogspot.com/(my niece)
http://www.carrier1.blogspot.com/(my brother)
http://hollanderspace.blogspot.com/(my brother-in-law, I believe we decided we could call each other, at our last meeting)
http://discobackache.blogspot.com/(a person I consider a friend for life; also, I often post my well-considered facts and opinions over to there)
That oughta do it. I still read those right wing people, but only comment on those occasions when we happen to agree. I find that even a little disagreement makes them get the steam coming out their various orifices, and it becomes impossible to talk to them.
I get my M.Div. and 1., you can call me "Reverend" and 2., I'll take you seriously, Dad.
And 3., I don't consider reading a bunch of Clinton-hating blogs as "research." You got a link to an authoritative, apolitical source, share it.
And 3., I don't consider reading a bunch of Clinton-hating blogs as "research." You got a link to an authoritative, apolitical source, share it.
One would think that the Special Prosecutors, David Barret on Whitewater, and Kenneth Starr et. al. The Independent Counsel on Whitewater and damn near anything else, who have collectively spend about $100 million on their investigation would have cleaned Clinton's bones like flesh eating bettles. But Duddaddy and other seem to think these guys were incompetent and let Clinto off with a pass. What the....
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