October 09, 2003

Big Changes in California

Posted by Kieran

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.

Posted on October 9, 2003 12:17 AM UTC
Comments

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.

Posted by Maynard Handley · October 9, 2003 01:25 AM

Unfortunately, all of us do. All that’s been shown is that we’re not in the majority.

Posted by Vance Maverick · October 9, 2003 02:27 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.

Posted by Jimmy Doyle · October 9, 2003 10:21 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.

Posted by Tom · October 10, 2003 06:54 PM

… and that Philadelphia is a model of unapologetic liberalism.

Posted by neil · October 12, 2003 08:19 AM
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