Blogroll Amnesty Day

Jon Swift is the man on this one — at least in my experience:  it was  through his efforts that I first came into consciousness of blogroll amnesty day, the day every blog should celebrate (and link to) blogs worthy of notice.

The idea is to get big blogs to give interesting, otherwise hard to find little blogs a boost by linking to them and otherwise highlighting them.

The problem with blogroll amnesty day at Inverse Square is that basically, this is one of the little blogs in need of a leg up, (which, btw, Mssr. Swift has been more than kind enough to do more than once — about which more in a post tomorrow).  I mostly link up, because there isn’t all that much down (at least in terms of traffic, not quality, I trust) on which to shine a light.

But that doesn’t mean I can’t come up with a few cool places to like.

First off — and I’m going to post separately about some of what can be found there, let me draw your attention to my student MacGregor Campbell’s really excellent, eclectic, music, science, art, science writing blog, Main  Sequence.  I’ve blogrolled it already — I try to link to every MIT science writing student whose blog I learn about — but I haven’t spotlighted it yet.  Good sounds, fun computation-art play, and some video on science writing as a career are all on the front page right now.

More in the “I’ve already blogrolled it but I really want  you to pay attention” category:  Elizabeth Parisi’s Wisdom of Whores is funny, sexy, and there to make you mad.

Even more, go read Lovable Liberal.  LL is one of my college roomates.  I have him on retainer not to tell certain specific facts deriving from that experience. More to the point, LL is doing serious high quality in-your-face commentary analysis with a real grudge-match edge on Republican folly, thuggishness, treachery and deceit. He’s got a gift I lack for concise disdain — plus he’s smart, which mean that the derision rests on an analytic and fact-centered foundation.  Think of him as an Atrios type with less allusion and more “check this out.”  Plus he links to many of the best political cartoons.  LL isn’t getting near the number of readers he deserves, so get on it folks.

Now how about some blogs I haven’t rolled yet?  (Said in the best possible taste, of course.)  Abandoned Stuff is a marvelous collection of absurdity and well directed rage from a much more foreign land than is usually suspected.  I’m not sure how much more traffic Saskboy needs, but what we got here could do much worse than take a look.

Michael Drake has been a friend of this blog for quite a while; I can’t understand how I haven’t highlighted his church of reason before now.

I plan to revert to an earlier plan, now lapsed like so many good intentions the second week after Auld Lang Syne, and try to blogroll and note some new blogs every month — any day can be Blogroll Amnesty Day! — so I’ll stop here with one last blog that gives me dangerous hours of procrastinative amusement.  The Irving Housing Blog hardly needs links at this point; it is a force and focus of attention for those trying to understand just how deeply WASF, but going to IrvineRenter’s blog is like getting to watch every last wreck on the highway you wanted to stop to ghoul over, but somehow found yourself restrained by vestigal good taste.  Go there now and root around in the nastiest caverns of your soul.

Update: I find by actually reading my own blog that I have already linked to Michael DrakesStrange Doctrines.  No reason not to do so again.  But that means I owe you at least one more, so let me correct a long standing and intolerable error of omission and send you to James Hyrnshyn’s The Island of Doubt, one of the best places to go to get real clear-headed thinking about climate change and the communication of the critical issues within that excessively large story.

There we go.  Some old, some new, some borrowed (may I have your bandwidth, please), all more or less blue, if I may hazard some political guesses.  Have fun with them all, and y’all come back here real soon.

Image:  “Amnesty International 1961-’86″ Stamp FR 132 of the Faroe Islands, issue date 2 June 1986.

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