Chris Bowers, at the kool kidz new blog, Open Left: New Establishment Rising? The End Of the Flat Blogosphere (Actually bumped at 2:31 p.m. – promoted by Chris Bowers) SummaryOver the past five years, as the audience and political effectiveness of the progressive, political blogosphere has exploded, the “short head” of the progressive, political blogosphere […]
Susie Madrak has a terrific post up at the Huffpo (yes, I know, but where better to get to the sensible liberals and smug parlour pinks? Do I have your attention? Good. I would like to point out the utter injustice of a Democratic political system that is very, very happy to take the money […]
In amongst the snark, sometimes Sadly, No makes a serious political point that cuts right to heart of current ‘progressive’ discourse: today it’s HTML Mencken (best blogonym evar) that’s taking on soft liberals, specifically Matt Yglesias: But, you know, I’ll skip the thing about the war per se right now, and go to the other […]
Avedon Carol’s post yesterday about the general falloff in blog hits was yet another indicator of the latest periodic shakeout of Left blogdom, what with people filleting their blogrolls, burning out, dropping out, or just generally getting anxious about their hitcount or existential about the whole blogging ‘thing’. Nezua The Unapologetic Mexican has some soothing […]