As you’ve probably seen on the news, Mark Kleiman’s blog has moved. Update your blogroll.
It just struck me that if all your information about America came from political blogs, you’d think the country was composed mainly of libertarians together with a bloc of right-wing populist-imperialists and a few liberals here and there. But if all your information about California came from political blogs, you’d think the state’s politics must be a model of thoughtful right- and left-leaning commentary, marked by a care for civility, a tendency to moderation and a close attention to detail.
Just goes to show.
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Maynard Handley 10.09.03 at 1:25 am
To show what, Kieran? Until yesterday I would have said something about how all the sane people in America live here. Sadly that myth has been shattered.
Vance Maverick 10.09.03 at 2:27 pm
Unfortunately, all of us do. All that’s been shown is that we’re not in the majority.
Jimmy Doyle 10.09.03 at 10:21 pm
Kleiman’s stuff on the l’Affaire Plame (‘Intimigate’?) has been uniformly excellent. Mark Steyn’s guff on the same subject makes me suspect that much of his writing in the immediate aftermath if Sept 11, which I revered at the time, was one of those “even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day” things.
Tom 10.10.03 at 6:54 pm
“To show what, Kieran? Until yesterday I would have said something about how all the sane people in America live here. Sadly that myth has been shattered.”
To paraphrase a piece in New Scientist this week, we’re the state where the lunatic fringe wraps all the way to the center.
neil 10.12.03 at 8:19 am
… and that Philadelphia is a model of unapologetic liberalism.
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