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Underappreciated Blogs
It being the new year and all, I thought I would recommend a few very good but less-heraled sites that will be of interest to people following national security and foreign policy issues. The eponymous blogs from Justin Logan and Brad Plumer along with the egregiosly named Liberals Against Terrorism from the pseudonymous Praktike.
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Definitely. This site, LAT, chez Nadezhda and Brad's blog are my 4 must reads.
Posted by: LJ | Jan 2, 2005 2:54:55 AM
Thank ye kindly. I think of the esteemed Mr. Plumer as the Yglesias of the West Coast, or vice-versa.
In my defense, Pseudonymous Commenters Against Terrorism just didn't have the same ring to it.
Posted by: praktike | Jan 2, 2005 8:00:11 AM
I would also nominate Global Guerillas for a consistently insightful network analysis view of what is going on with global terrorism.
Posted by: fester | Jan 2, 2005 10:27:17 AM
Is that the same Justin Logan who promised a paper on how it would be a good thing if Iran got the bomb? I seem to remember he did not deliver.
Posted by: Otto | Jan 2, 2005 10:28:41 AM
Apologies, Otto, a lot on my plate. But thanks for the kick in the ass -- I'll start spending more time on that again this week.
Hopefully.
Posted by: Justin | Jan 2, 2005 11:07:09 AM
Brad Setser
One of my daily reads on currency discussions. Besides Fistful of Euros and the famous ones, of course.
praktike and Plumer are excellent
Posted by: bob mcmanus | Jan 2, 2005 11:39:38 AM
I think it would have been better if Matt had recommended "Liberals Against Terrorism" without distancing himself from the name. One major disadvantage of liberals is that we let ourselves get too self-conscious about rhetoric. You just don't see that in rightwingers. Nobody on the right would dare comment that a name like "Free Republic" is a tad presumptuous. And you could probably write a conservative fast food review called "Patriots for Freedom Fries" without raising too many eyebrows. Liberals have to learn to stop wincing privately and filtering our words as if the chief audience were our favorite college professor or NYT editor.
Another liberal disadvantage is that we are always attacking each other in public (a tradition I continue here). If Matt doesn't like the name, he should make the criticism directly to the bloggers and keep it out of a plug.
Posted by: Paul Callahan | Jan 2, 2005 11:57:08 AM
I think that was a joke on MY's part, Paul.
Posted by: praktike | Jan 2, 2005 12:02:21 PM
After the things like "War on Poverty" liberals can use pretty much any bs rhetorical slogan they want. Their favorite college professor stopped paying attention long time ago.
Posted by: abb1 | Jan 2, 2005 12:10:40 PM
I think that was a joke on MY's part, Paul.
Posted by: Paul Callahan | Jan 2, 2005 1:06:54 PM
I think that was a joke on MY's part, Paul.
Did he really mean it ironically in the sense that he actually thinks it's a good name for the blog? I didn't read it that way. Personally, the name makes me wince, so maybe I was projecting.
I took his qualification as something along the lines of sanitary quotes. He needed to refer to the name but wanted to make sure that nobody would ever think that he would come up with such a phrase on his own. If so, that just seems unnecessary and undermines the recommendation. It's not a big deal, but I simply think the recommendation would be improved by omitting the qualification. I also think that the need to make such qualifications is one of the major communication problems facing liberals that conservatives are blissfully immune to.
Posted by: Paul Callahan | Jan 2, 2005 1:12:21 PM
No, I think the joke was that the blog is not eponymously named.
Posted by: praktike | Jan 2, 2005 1:14:00 PM
Yeah, well that is yet another problem with liberal eggheads: making jokes that I am way too literal-minded to pick up on.
Posted by: Paul Callahan | Jan 2, 2005 1:21:07 PM
Thanks to MY for providing that link. I've actually long wondered whether the ubiquitous praktike had a blog of his own, but his sig always seemd to have only the nospam email. And for some unfathomable reason I never thought of googling until today: if you do, you'll learn the man manages to write two political blogs, aside from contributing valuably on so many sites. Too talented. Anyway, thanks for the three additions to the regular reading list.
Posted by: Aaron Radcliffe | Jan 2, 2005 3:31:36 PM
May I recommend in all humility Left I on the News, which occupies a unique spot on the left end of your dial.
Posted by: Eli Stephens | Jan 2, 2005 9:13:58 PM
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