Blogs I'm viewing

This originally started out as a post about books I’m reading as well as about other blogs and web sites I’m viewing. But as brevity is obviously not one of my virtues, particularly when I’m talking to myself, it was getting ridiculous long, so I’ve decided to split it into two posts. The one on books will be sent later.

Let me begin by apologizing for saying, in “Krismus prioritizes the Apocalypse,” that I have “the greatest contempt and loathing for the whore [the U.S.] has become after being dragged through mud and filth by the Bush crime family and the christo-fascist ideologues of the neo-con movement.” I should have said, more accurately, that I have the greatest contempt and loathing for the verminous latrine-scum who have done the dragging, but I’m developing a renewed fondness and respect for the citizens themselves—or ourselves. And this is based not only on their finally waking up and kicking Elephant butt last month, but on the blogs I’ve been reading here lately. Of course I’m only reading liberal/progressive blogs; if I were to go slumming and read some of the conservative ones, I’d probably get depressed and cynical all over again, so I won’t. One of the comments on one of the posts on one of the blogs I read this morning actually thanked the thugs and idiots of the Bush crime family for doing such a catastrophically bad job that they’ve galvanized the liberal opposition and turned them into an articulate and increasingly powerful counter-force; which is, of course, precisely why the thugs want to control and suppress the Internet, which is the forum where most of this empowerment has taken place. Let me just list some of the sites I’m particularly impressed with. The earlier ones, which I’ve been familiar with for several months, are mostly web pages; the ones discovered more recently, several just a few days ago, are blogs. I’m afraid I have not mastered the art of highlighting an address so you can link directly to it from here.

“Muskrat Hunt” muskrathunt.blogspot.com – The blog of my Guru, who is directly responsible for ruining my life—sorry, I mean saving my life by waking me up and urging me to start this blog. So far as I know, he’s the only one who reads it, but as I said in “Yes, I’m dull and boring,” I’m used to talking to myself. The name derives from the fact that Guru originally started the blog as a forum for attacking Marilyn Musgrave (a.k.a. Muskrat; R-CO) in the hope of helping to unseat her. Unfortunately, in spite of the fact that she’s a raving lunatic, she managed to be one of only two Republicans from Colorado to remain in the House, but Guru got in some good punches during the battle.

“The White House” www.whitehouse.org – Actually a satire, as most people know, and a hysterically funny and wickedly scathing one. I sometimes think satire is a better criticism of insanity and absurdism than commentaries that take it seriously.

“PERRspectives: Bringing light to darkness” www.perrspectives.com – One of the more serious sites, but with some light touches, like the “Conservative Threat Advisory System” parodying the infamously silly Terrorist Threat Advisory System, and the “Avenging Angel” that “metes out punishment to the worst perpetrators of the vast conservative assault” on the U.S. (“so many guilty, so little time to punish them all”). Named after creator Jon Perr.

“The Rude Pundit: Proudly lowering the level of political discourse” rudepundit.blogspot.com – One which Guru turned me on to just a few days ago; in fact, he’s called my attention to several more since then. As hysterically funny and wickedly scathing as “The White House,” but on a more personal level. Some truly inventive insults.

“WTF is it now?!?” maruthecrankpot.blogspot.com – Usually short posts, often with quotes and neat pictures and graphics. Maybe not quite as good a bludgeon as some others, but still pretty scathing.

“Democratic Underground” www.democraticunderground.com – Notable primarily for its “Top 10 Conservative Idiots,” a weekly compilation of the latest insanity in the crime family, which I linked to from one of the other blogs. I haven’t looked at anything else on the site.

“Wonkette: The DC Gossip” www.wonkette.com – One of the ones Guru told me about just ten minutes ago (stuff moves FAST on the Internet), which he calls a “good general round-up with very flip tone.” Run by a woman, judging from the feminine ending and the drawing in the masthead, and, as she suggests, mostly gossipy as well as flippant, but with some interesting observations and (befitting gossip) numerous comments, sometimes as many as 23 on a single post, and sometimes as interesting as Wonkette’s original post.

So there you are. Democracy is still alive and well in our great country, even though furtively underground, and arguably powerful even from that position. Congrats and thanks to all you subversive pervert termites helping to gnaw away the foundations of Mordor in Washington. (Does anyone not recognize “Lord of the Rings” references?)