I've cleared a number of pending blogprojects recently. The other day, for example, I mentioned Charles at dustbury--now he resides on my blogroll (hope he prefers it to Oklahoma!). Megan McArdle--the "Jane Galt" of Asymmetrical Information--was one of my early blogreading favorites, and has now, finally, been added; and my admiration for Wendy McElroy goes all the way back to the mid-1970s, when I can only imagine she must have been a child prodigy. They've both been added, too.
SpinSanity and Eden at Just One Bite both offer reality checks. They do, er, differ.
Rachel Lucas is gone, sadly. She remarked a few months back that her blog had begun to really suck and that everyone knew it. Well, Rachel, I never "knew" that. But she seems to be inactive and deliberately so, so I've removed her. Should she return to blogging--and I hope she does--she'll probably return to my blogroll.
I read the columns and articles at Lew Rockwell's site six days a week and I always learn something. I learned this lesson the hard way almost twenty-five years ago, but then know-it-alls (among which I must count myself) have to learn everything the hard way: there are intelligent, thoughtful conservatives and Christians out there. Libertarians and Objectivists, take note.
The Texas Powerlifting Scene is what it is, and what it is is good. Spend some time there, check out how the strength sports differ. They're all appealing for one reason or another. Let me know, too, which side you take on the "raw" issue, or if you think powerlifting should be an Olympic event.
The Humor section is new as of tonight. Books, blogs, links, articles, sound files, organizations, comedians, writers, television shows...lots of stuff there, all of it good, much of it great. Check it out. Check it all out: you'll savor the laughs.
And I realize that, as with anything else in blogging, my Humor section is a permanent work-in-progress. For one thing, I'd thought earlier to include Shakespeare. After all, he gaves us A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Comedy of Errors--and in Sir John Falstaff, he created one of the two or three greatest comic figures in all English literature. Greatest, in this sense, means, simply, funniest. But I didn't, simply because I forgot. Jackie Gleason isn't represented (shame on me), and neither is Woody Allen. There is no Chaucer, he of the Miller, not to mention the Wife of Bath. What was I smoking?
Soon-to-be-introduced Anger of Compassion features include a section on cryptic crosswords, the British version of that verbal obsession; a section devoted to and delving into mnemonics; a Reason and Capitalism Quote of the Day; and The Punditrail TM. That last is exactly what it sounds like...
And, I promise, more on beer. Permanently.
Finally, I just discovered tonight that I'm blogrolled by Diana Mertz Hsieh at NoodleFood. I'm a Conchiglie Blog, sandwiched alphabetically between two Anger of Compassion-blogrolled efforts, Radley Balko's The Agitator and Megan McArdle's Asymmetrical Information. Woo hoo!
Posted by Craig Ceely at February 22, 2004 10:29 PM