Another small step (giant leap - pending)
My Blog-Roll
I've been reading blogs for quite a while, political ones anyway. I try to keep up with the usual mainstream to right-leaning sites like Instapundit, The Corner, Power Line, Teem Bleah, VodkaPundit - and I've mostly stayed away from the more rabid fringes. An example of some other blogs I frequent include Captains Quarters, Oxblog, Roger Simon, and Belmont Club - although there are many others that I'll mention some time. I also make myself drop into places like KOS, Atrios, and DU every now and then, to try to get perspective.
Pontifications Past
I've sometimes participated in comments as equitus, but I've not become a regular at any one site yet. Funny though, I was a regular in CNN's old board before they closed it down in '02(?) - for a few months. More recently I was very involved in the current events email list at my job, where I was usually the sole voice from the right (a SF Bay Area software company). For the most part the discussions were very civil, but I was greatly outnumbered and I sometimes felt disgusted by some of the things my fellow contributors would write. I'd typically retreat - stop replying - rather than proceed with full-blown confrontation. I mean, this was at work after all!
Meme o' Mine
I think I sometimes have some interesting thoughts regarding current events. Lately I haven't had much outlet for my point of view. My wife, bless her, will sometimes indulge such subjects with me but I want to try to reach out. I don't claim to be an expert on such things, but I'm an avid hobbyist - and I have a particular knack for original thinking. Outside-the-box, if you will. I also like to make predictions, and while of course I'm often wrong I've been surprisingly right on some major things. (Let's see how I do now that I've made this boast...)
I've been reading blogs for quite a while, political ones anyway. I try to keep up with the usual mainstream to right-leaning sites like Instapundit, The Corner, Power Line, Teem Bleah, VodkaPundit - and I've mostly stayed away from the more rabid fringes. An example of some other blogs I frequent include Captains Quarters, Oxblog, Roger Simon, and Belmont Club - although there are many others that I'll mention some time. I also make myself drop into places like KOS, Atrios, and DU every now and then, to try to get perspective.
Pontifications Past
I've sometimes participated in comments as equitus, but I've not become a regular at any one site yet. Funny though, I was a regular in CNN's old board before they closed it down in '02(?) - for a few months. More recently I was very involved in the current events email list at my job, where I was usually the sole voice from the right (a SF Bay Area software company). For the most part the discussions were very civil, but I was greatly outnumbered and I sometimes felt disgusted by some of the things my fellow contributors would write. I'd typically retreat - stop replying - rather than proceed with full-blown confrontation. I mean, this was at work after all!
Meme o' Mine
I think I sometimes have some interesting thoughts regarding current events. Lately I haven't had much outlet for my point of view. My wife, bless her, will sometimes indulge such subjects with me but I want to try to reach out. I don't claim to be an expert on such things, but I'm an avid hobbyist - and I have a particular knack for original thinking. Outside-the-box, if you will. I also like to make predictions, and while of course I'm often wrong I've been surprisingly right on some major things. (Let's see how I do now that I've made this boast...)
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