Kittens!

Blogs are starting to rev up again in fits and starts as people surface blinking from the safety of their duvets, stumble bleary-eyedly back to work and go “Wha’?” over their keyboards.

The desertification of the lefty blogosphere over the holiday period might’ve led one to think that not every employee uses their work pc for the purpose for which it was intended… or maybe bloggers just have better social lives and that stopped them blogging. Yes, that’s it. It must be.

Anyway, now we’re all done with our rich and fulfilling, glitter-filled social whirls, let’s take a look at what some of our favourite bloggers’re up to:

The News Blog: Steve Gilliard on Bush and sacrifice, exploding myths about young Black men, and middle-class American children’s pole-dancing and running wild in libraries. I don’t always agree with him and that’s putting it mildly, but he’s always provocative and the commenters make good reading too. (I do wish the blog’d switch back to a commenting system that remembers commenter ID though. Haloscan is indeed a pain, but at least you don’t have to keep retyping info to post a comment.)

Lest we forget, Martini Republic is pointing to the newly-beatified former president Gerald Ford’s shady role in the crime of East Timor and also is showing why even online versions of US newspapers are failing. It’s the journalists, duh.

At Pandagon, Pam on the folly of putting the civil rights of a minority to the popular vote, and Amanda asks: is creationism the supreme form of separation anxiety?

For those who’ve overindulged somwhat in the past couple of weeks, Lifehacker takes its considerable nous to New Year Weight Loss Hacks

Dependable Renegade has moved to her own domain here, and is still retitling pics with great aplomb:

“I didn’t do it, I swear.”

REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Bouphonia: “…the conclusions one can draw about Womanhood from the matrimonial hazards of 19th-century Mormonism are limited at best. ” Quite.

Reading wingnuts so we don’t have to, Athenae at First Draft gives us the shorter Townhall: “New Orleanians too stoned to evacuate”

I almost hesitate to look at Sadly, No these days for fear of what those strangely lovable little scamps have been up to now but it seems to be safe at the moment after Atrios’ valiant bombardment of their lair with the bunker-busting Rick Wakeman On Ice. However, they are not dead, they are merely sleeping. Beware. But…. hmmm, I wonder if now, while their powers are weak, might not be a good time to taunt them with two-faced kittens ?

Hilzoy is a bit fed-up and apparently a antiamerican satanist to boot, but is cheered (and who wouldn’t be?) by the existence of Poetry Tulip.

And finally, get next year’s Christmas shop done early from the comfort of your sofa, via The AK-47 Shopping Channel:

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