From: "Steve Ewing" 

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 11:39:43 -0400, John Beamish  wrote:

> Which blogs are you people reading?  Give the blog, url, topics and/or
> political leaning, and 25 words (max!) saying why others should read it.

These are all liberal: the right-wing stuff I read is via links on these,
or from postings on Barktopus.  These I read daily.

Talking Points Memo
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com
Left, rational, and well-sourced.  Some good inside stuff, from inside-the-Beltway.

Joe Conason's Journal
http://dir.salon.com/topics/joe_conason/index.html
Left, appearing in Salon (online liberal mag) once or twice a week.

Altercation - Eric Alterman's Blog
http://www.msnbc.com/news/752664.asp
Left.  Author of, among other things, "What Liberal Media?"  An
actual journalist; good correspondents

This Modern World - Tom Tomorrow's Blog http://www.thismodernworld.com/
Left.  TT is the cartoonist.  Interesting takes on issues.

Political Animal - by Kevin Drum, formerly Calpundit
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/
Left.  Posts frequently; rational: not so some of his commenters (on both sides).

The Whiskey Bar
http://www.billmon.org/
Left.  Interesting well-thought-out articles; seems to be an economist or
at least knows more about it than average.  Recently disabled comments.
Currently taking a break.

South Knox Bubba
http://www.southknoxbubba.net/skblog/
Left.  Amusing; a lot of local (Knoxville, Tennessee) issues (he despises
TVA) but also good takes on national issues.

Atrios
http://atrios.blogspot.com/
Left.  Not as rational, but posts frequently, and lots of interesting links
thereby (sometimes *all* he posts is a link).  Also picked up Friday
Cat-Blogging, after Kevin Drum gave it up.

The Washington Note - New blog by Steven C. Clemons http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/
Left.  Infrequent poster, but  lucid rational articles.

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Steve 
http://www.qmss.com/sewing

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