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Well, Digby still brings it every day.

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That is true! And with great force.

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Digby was my first thought. She pops up on The Majority Report fairly often.

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YOU don’t bring it every day, but when you bring it, it gets brought. (Slouching Toward Urschleim, at blogspot via alicublog’s “Forget About Politics” list)

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My blushes.

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Of The Horse wasn't she?

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Well Joe Jervis at JoeMyGod: he started as stories about his gay life and has become a sort of aggregator for general news: he brings the receipts and priors of the right wing and the backstories frequently: has hammered clergy sex abuse, and the many stupidities of tRump and the MAGAts..(surely the worst disco band ever).

Recommended especially if you interested in LGBTQ stuff, and has been better on covering the states (particularly TX and FL) than most...

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He had slipped my mind, but yes, when I see his byline I know I'm getting the goods.

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Joe tends to bury his commentary below the aggregated stuff: and you'll find his most pungent remarks in the comments section: they have a pretty good, apparently self policing, commentariat.

You guys develop your own catchphrases and shibboleths*, and you learn pretty quickly when Jervis says "Red Caped Loons" in a headline, he's referring to Bill Donohue and the Catholic League, e.g.

* surely a Blog title

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Digby has been a daily stop for years. Lawyers Guns and Money is still around (although I think it's turned into a club where people pay Eric Loomis to abuse them. ) I don't think Eric Alterman has a regular gig but I recall reading him often in The Nation. (Him and Roy share the distinction of being the only two political writers who can also write great stuff about music and media. )

Mock Paper Scissors has been a great blog for years.

In a class by itself - Wonkette!

On edit - Rand beat me to the Digby well.

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All true. I haven't looked in on MPS in a while and on your recommendation did -- still funny and dead on.

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I pretty much refrain from LGM except for Loomis's labor stuff, and American Grave visits.

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I was a regular commenter there up until last July’s Bidengate fiasco. When Farley finally suggested that anyone who didn’t agree with them (him, Campos and Loomis) that Joe should be taken out behind the barn and shot should leave, I and my monthly patreon contribution did just that. Since then I have been reconnecting with some old bits of the blogosphere, including place already mentioned like Balloon Juice, driftglass and digby. SteveM over at No More Mister Nice Blog is always worth a daily stop, as is Drum’s hangout, jabberwocking.

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The LGM-Biden meltdown was unpleasant, but I've managed to hang on because most of the frontpagers are pretty entertaining, even Loomis at times. I've followed Drum since his Calpundit days and still check in on Atrios everyday.

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Yeah, LGM's generalized raving about Biden after the debate was what put me off them for now. I'll go back eventually. As Pink Collar said just below, Cheryl Rofer and Shakezula are both very good reads.

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The calming focus of Cheryl Rofer. And (too occasionally), Shakezula.

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Vacuum Slayer is a refreshing occasional fper there, too.

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Wonkette is my other big hangout these days, and every time I listen to The Professional Left I feel bad about neglecting Crooks & Liars.

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LGM rules!

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This

"If you don’t get what I’m saying, then try it yourself at home."

is cherce. Give her 2 marks next time you see her.

Also, Yas.

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Yes, Yas!

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If it's getting my dress caught in a car door, OK if I do it outside in the driveway?

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In your case, probly keep it in the garage. With the door closed.

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But not with the engine running!

When, about 70 years ago, one of my scary [1] grandmother's boarders decided to gas himself with her Plymouth, he at least had the good grace not to do it in her garage: he borrowed her garden hose and did it out on the street somewhere.

[1] Since my mother and father both worked (as a public school elementary teacher and an inventory clerk at The Biggest Restaurant Supply House Between Chicago and New York™, respectively) I got a lot of Abusive Child Care℠ from his mother. Among the less abusive parts of it, I got to accompany her on her regular trips down to the Cleveland municipal sewage plant, where she would shovel composted shit into the trunk of the Plymouth (for use on her garden: luckily, given what we now know about heavy metals and so on, she never grew any vegetables); she kept a long, sharp knitting needle plunged into the upholstery above the driver's seat, for use against the constant danger of stop-light banditry.

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I admire a citizen taking it upon themselves to battle the throngs of stop light bandits. Did they eventually get cowed by her vigilance and switch to stop signs?

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They never even showed up! Obviously, they'd been pre-cowed (or calfed, I suppose).

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I love English! What other language equates cows giving birth to glaciers droppin' icebergs?!

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My blog reading is much diminished these days. Basically, it's Roy in all his manifestations and LGM. But I know there are many out there still swinging for the fences. Power to 'em, and maybe this FF will make me surf on over to check out the old stalwarts!

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LGM not only maintains high standards and output, I believe its current staff is exemplary in providing a mix of styles and perspectives (within the correct left parameters of course) and -- the secret sauce for these things, in my view -- occasional posts from the worlds of sports and the arts.

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Yeah, it’s b/c of LGM that I now follow Cheryl Rofer.

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I’m still subscribed to her blog Nuclear Diner via an old Wordpress account. Definitely worth it for all things atomic!

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For me, Roy’s manifestations include RMF on the playlist. Yes, still.

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As long as we're talking about the old days, I have a question for everyone. Many years ago, during GWB's run, I saw a video that someone had done on some blog or the other that's stuck with me ever since. It was based around footage taken from a Sinbad movie (possibly "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad"), but had the voices reworked so it featured commentary on the then-upcoming invasion of Iraq by various members of GWB's admin. The Sinbad character was voiced as if by W, and at some point something happened that irked him, and the Sinbad/W character was heard to say "I'm enragiated!" That line has been stuck in my head ever since - 20+ years on. Anyway, the point of this is to ask if anyone else here saw that, and if anyone knows who did it and how to get a download of it.

As to the point of the piece today, I still read Atrios, and have moments when I read LGM (though that's hit or miss, because there are times when they start to bug me a bit). And I regularly visit Balloon Juice.

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B-J is also a regular read, though I rarely comment there because it's a rather closed community.

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BJ is also often a very centrist community. I pretty much only comment there on Medium Cool posts on Sunday night

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I pretty much never even look at the comments on Balloon Juice, mostly because of my perception that unless you're there every day, you don't exist.

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I can saw a BJ post in two, but you don't want to look in the comments if I do.

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Yes! Dave Winer's Scripting News, which just celebrated its 30th(!!) Anniversary!

http://scripting.com

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🎂

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My entré into blogging came via “The Anglo-Saxon Narrative Poetry Project,” where I presented 50-75 lines of an Old English poem as I worked my way through it. When I got my current job the then-dean offered me webspace on university servers, and I never looked back.

My other Blogger offering was “The Secret Life of Guinea Pigs,” which hasn’t been updated since 2013 or so, but for which I still get a web traffic update every month. That cute little gurl is still waddling along!

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Digby and driftglass. Also, whatever became of Riverbend? I hope she's OK.

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Jason Kottke, home of fine internet products since 1998 (kottke dot org).

And Nancy Nall (nancynall dot com), a journalist in Detroit who's published a snappy, nicely designed blog since (I think) 2006, which was when I launched my own blog, Fritinancy. Technically my blog is still alive and occasionally updated, but only to point to my Substack newsletter.

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You and me both, sister. I don't have the jam for daily blog AND Substack posting (and, ahem, a Cottdamn job). I'm stunned when people can.

How could I forget Nall.com! She's a real journo, not a tyro like me, and her page always has the fresh salt air of her voice.

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I think it's a line in a Laura Lippman novel: "She never met a rut she couldn't love." That's me, now in my...23rd year, I believe.

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Can you add https://? You make my Chrome browser nervous.

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No, but here is a blast from the Usenet past. Praise Wonko. 😁

https://www.satori3.com/justdrew/wonko.html

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Tucows.

Tucows.

I think I know what rabbit hole I may be venturing down this weekend. 😶

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“Rex Parker” is still going strong

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More and more I'm coming to view reading non-fiction as a bad habit, unless it's something that can qualify as literary. As I think I've mentioned, my retirement goal is to live in my car down by the river with no phone or internet connectivity for my computer. But I've still got a couple legacy links in my shortcuts that I click on from time to time. The Daily Howler is still tilting at the windmills that populate the leftish media. It gets old fast but it's interesting in small doses. And Naked Capitalism is good, but I just forget about it for long stretches. Kinda miss Jane Hamsher. She was a hero.

Too many of the ones you all are mentioning are people I for the most part agree with and find they don't really teach me anything. With my limited attention span these days I need some combination of great writing and insights that I haven't come up with on my own.

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The Daily Howler's takedown of the coverage of Clinton and Gore was fun reading, but Somersby seems to have gone off the deep end on some topics these days.

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Definitely Driftglass and its affiliate podcast The Professional Left. Great people whom I met at NN 2016 and later had a long zoom with. Helped through Trump I and will help through Trump II. Not just inspirational for keeping political hope alive, but keeping front and center their deeply loving marriage and family. Finally, otherwise little known history and coverage of Chicago and Illinois politics - from the bad (Daley) to the also bad (Gov. Hedgefund Rauner) to the great (Pritzker).

And for keeping the memory of Steve Gilliard alive, which we need now more than ever. Steve was a bolt of lightning taken much too soon. Erudite and transformatively angry.

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Oh. And picking my daughter’s cat for Internet Kitty of the Week.

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I really miss The Poor Man. And while it was a Tumblr, not a blog, throw ANIMALS TALKING IN ALL CAPS in there, too.

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I really miss Fafblog! the world's only source for Fafblog

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and MediaWhoresOnline

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I hoped The Editors would become the new Nat Lamp with Liberal Fascism, on my bookshelf near the Dacron Democratic Republican

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Can’t think of old school folks, but wanted to pour one out for The Whiskey Bar.

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