Roll Them Blogs!

I keep a small sample of blogs on my blogroll. I prefer bloggers who actually write, rather than merely parenthesize links. Of those who really write, I seek those that write both intelligently and intelligibly. And, of these, I favor those with good sense concerning what to write about. For this is what makes commenting on blog posts worthwhile.

This last is the highest and hardest standard for most blogs to meet. A number of very good blogs have dropped off my roll when the quality of their content went south. One was particularly saddening to drop--a quite well-known conservative blogger, who wrote like an angel, but abandoned significant public content after the election.

Her private content comes from a world I do not share, and am indifferent to, a common ground only of Generation X, in the particularly arid and tasteless cultural atmosphere of the Reagan Administration. No I will not name her, for she is still far too good a writer to do so in any tone of censure.

In the dance of things, my left wing blogroll has gotten a little overfull in comparison to the rest, particularly with the addition of James Woolcott. I have been searching the conservative blogosphere for balance. Recently, the Easton Jordan affair degraded conservative content disastrously into a mutual self-congratulation linkathon. So its been hard to discern just who over there might still meet my standards.

But I have been keeping an eye on several bloggers, reading them with pleasure, and will now post them to the roll: The Glittering Eye, Captain's Quarters, and Sebastian Holsclaw. Check them out for yourself. And welcome to them for passing the Joe Claus test.