I find I’m hooked. Hooked on the Web. It’s just so easy to keep clicking and clacking, going here and there, looking at this, reading that. Lots of good stuff online. And blogging takes up much of this time, if one wants to do it right, and, yes, have fun in [...]

It has no definite focus, but has spent a lot of time on politics, to be sure. Still, I’m interested in other things: music, philosophy, religion, science, and last but not least humor. Personal things, like diaries, photos, and accounts of vacations, are also here.
So, why do I do it?
I [...]

The Talking Points Memo (TPM) by Josh Marshall has now become a blog portal with a full news section. (I’ve got TPM listed under ALTERNATIVE MEDIA in my right sidebar.) TPM has always been my favorite political blog, outside of the unbeatable Juan Cole, and now it’s got this great new [...]

Juan Cole who started Informed Comment, his blog on the Middle East, has started a new group blog called Informed Comment Global Affairs. Here’s an excerpt from his announcement:
The problem with keeping up a successful blog is that one has to do an entry every day or readers forget to come back to you. [...]

Riverbend has been blogging from Baghdad since 2003 and is finally leaving. Baghdad Burning is her blog title and she describes her blog thusly: Girl Blog from Iraq… let’s talk war, politics and occupation. Her subtitle is … I’ll meet you ’round the bend my friend, where hearts can heal and souls [...]