A Thinking Reed

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal

Blogs and bloggers

  • On the radio: Greenwald and Yglesias

    Very interesting discussion between Salon’s Glenn Greenwald and uber-blogger Matt Yglesias on the press’s coverage of the campaign. But one of the most important points comes out toward the end where Greenwald and Yglesias both agree that the Obama campaign has, disappointingly, shifted gears since the primary, where Obama seemed to welcome a debate with Read more

  • The green revolution that wasn’t

    The libertarian-liberal quasi fusionist blog The Art of the Possible is rapidly becoming a must-read. And I’m not just saying that because my favorite libertarian blogger Jim Henley linked to one of my posts there. Maybe it’s also because of my own warring inner liberal and libertarian. Case in point: where else would you find Read more

  • Whither the ELCA blogosphere?

    Maybe it’s bad form to call out bloggers who haven’t posted anything in a while, but I can’t help but notice that several bloggers from my sidebar who’ve been inactive for months are ELCA Lutherans! I’m talking about Chip Frontz, Andy of Sinning Boldly, and Thomas of Without Authority. What’s the deal here, fellas? What Read more

  • AmCon on the blogwagon

    The American Conservative, which snatched up paleocon uber-blogger Daniel Larison a while back, now has a group blog featuring several of its regular writers. It’s good to have a more regular outlet for anti-war conservatism in the blogosphere. Read more

  • Pray for Derek

    If you’re the prayin’ kind. Bitten by a brown recluse! Speedy recovery, Derek! Read more

  • Don’t spook the blogger

    I’m hesitant to draw attention to Jennifer‘s low profile return to the world of blogging lest we scare her off, but let’s hope this positive reinforcement will encourage her to continue. 🙂 Now, if Camassia would come back… Read more

  • Kibitzing

    Check out blog-friend Jeremy’s new site – The Kibitzer. Read more

  • Surprisingly apt search terms

    Sometimes bloggers will post lists of the wacky search terms that lead people to their blog. But this selection of mine from the last couple of days shows people…being led here looking for things that are actually discussed on this blog. How boring! presidential candidate quiz “skeptical of the skeptical environmentalist “where did the party Read more

  • Barth, Yoder, and the problem of war

    I assume that most readers of this blog also read Marvin’s site regularly, but in case you don’t, you should really check out his current series on Karl Barth and war: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 With more to come, including a “Yoderian” response to Barth’s position. See here for Read more

  • Blogroll update

    Ever since I started using Google Reader I’ve been lazy about updating the blogroll here since one of its purposes was to help me keep track of the blogs I read regularly. But I’ve just done a little housecleaning and added a few links to blogs that I’ve added to my regular diet. Read more