Patterico’s Blogs of the Week
In the spirit of Power Line’s generosity in bringing lesser-known blogs to their readers’ attention, I would like to highlight some blogs that I think deserve greater attention than they get. Hopefully I can do my small part to change that.
- Damnum Absque Injuria is a blog run by a mysterious fellow going by the handle of “Xrlq.” Xrlq has given me invaluable help in entering and dealing with the blogosphere. He is an ardent Second Amendment advocate, a staunch conservative, a great writer, and a scrappy debater who has made an enemy or two in the blogosphere. If you’re looking for namby-pamby bloggers who can’t make up their minds, this is not the blog for you.
- Junkyard Blog is fairly well known to the blogosphere, as the former blog of Bryan Preston (who has moved on to fame at the indispensable Hot Air blog, where he and the awesome Allahpundit hold forth daily on world events). But not everyone knows that the Junkyard Blog has essentially been taken over by an erudite fellow going by the handle of “See-Dubya.” See-Dubya has been a frequent guest poster here at Patterico, and graced this blog with a couple of posts yesterday. His musings are always worth reading.
- Kevin Murphy has an excellent blog called The Interocitor. In recent times, it seems that Kevin posts all too rarely — but when he does, his posts are always insightful. Stick him in your RSS reader and hurry to click over when you see a new entry. You won’t be disappointed.
- I just discovered the Villainous Company blog yesterday. It is an instant favorite — one I know that I’ll come back to again and again. The writing is tremendous. Just check out this post, fisking a dishonest Glenn Greenwald post about the Swift program.
I have already added Villainous Company to my blogroll and Bloglines “Daily Reads” folder. It’s just fantastic stuff. This blog is going places — take it from someone who recognized the potential of Captain’s Quarters in December 2003, when his traffic was lower than mine is today.
- My last choice will be an unpopular choice for many conservatives: Dispatches from the Culture Wars, by Ed Brayton. Ed is a libertarian and somewhat lefty, who is a little obsessed with debunking Intelligent Design and defending evolutionary theory. But the writing is just top-notch, Ed’s intellectual honesty is strong, and his site is always worth reading.
I’m sure there are other blogs I’m forgetting. I encourage readers and bloggers to leave comments below, berating me for forgetting them.
Thanks so much for the link and the kind words.
I am humbled 🙂 I’m looking forward to checking out the other blogs in your post – I’m familiar with Xrlq’s and it’s excellent. I’ll encourage my readers to do the same.
Cassandra (c9069a) — 6/29/2006 @ 6:55 amDonkey shine, mercy bow-cup and grassy ass.
Xrlq (f52b4f) — 6/29/2006 @ 7:03 amThanks, Patrick, that was unexpected. I’ve been rather swamped in my startup, so blog posting has been light. It’s so much easier to post comments like this — the research requirements for blog comments being so incredibly low.
But I promise to do better, really! 🙂
New post today — on the power of the jump!
Kevin Murphy (0b2493) — 6/29/2006 @ 9:02 amYou think Cass’s writing is superb. Wait until the comments get going and the Blog Princess has to wield her dainty clue bat.
heh.
Cricket (24084a) — 6/29/2006 @ 9:54 amI know you just put that up because Rove told you to, but thanks anyway.
I’ll help you out next underwear day.
See-Dubya (ae518a) — 6/29/2006 @ 1:00 pm[…] Not quite 40 yet, but close enough for a midlife crisis. So far, my presents consist of a new car and a Pattericolanche. I’m much happier about the latter than the former. […]
damnum absque injuria » It’s My Birthday, My Ba-da-dum-Birthday (38c04c) — 6/29/2006 @ 1:22 pmI like Steve Sailer’s site . It could be described as paleoconservative and non-partisan. So not lefty but will disagree with Patterico a lot.
James B. Shearer (fc887e) — 6/29/2006 @ 2:41 pmPatterico, thanks as always for the kind words, which I gladly repeat concerning your blog and your work. I have always enjoyed our disagreements, during which you’ve always been unfailingly civil and intellectually honest. One can’t ask for more than that.
Ed Brayton (e7d11a) — 6/29/2006 @ 3:49 pmDamn it, I knew I should have sent in a PayPal contribution.
Dana (1d5902) — 6/29/2006 @ 6:08 pmIt is worth noting that Cassandra of “Villanous Company” was the Cassandra on “I Love Jet Noise” a few years back (when it was one of my favorites).
Mark L (9a30d7) — 6/29/2006 @ 7:06 pmPatterico, no need to acknowledge forgetting unmentioned blogs and invite berating for the neglect of them. Since you entitled the post “Blogs of the Week,” you can very easily say blogs not included in this list have been held back to be featured in a coming week.
Steve Ely (ff51b4) — 6/30/2006 @ 8:26 am[…] Thanks again to the guys at Power Line for making this site their Blog of the Week (for a two-week run! a bonus I never expected). The extra bonus is that their new Blog of the Week is Villainous Company, a blog I highlighted on this site in recent days. Cassandra has been on fire lately, and I’d like to think that my post about her blog helped bring it to the attention of the Power Line guys — whose recognition will help Villainous Company attain even more popularity, which it so clearly deserves. […]
Patterico’s Pontifications » Thanks Again to Power Line (421107) — 7/9/2006 @ 11:36 am