Link-o-Rama

Here are some worthwhile blogs that I probably haven't mentioned before:

Anybody who wants to understand what's going on in Israel would be advised to read these current or future Jewish mothers: Two Israeli women bloggers I recently discovered: Imshin (not a FISH) and Ilana (Internal Balance). And also this familiar blogger, but a new Israeli, with a new name: Rinat "Balagan" Malkes. It was her birthday this week. Why don't you go and wish her a happy one.

I never used to wake up in the morning and ask myself: "I wonder what's going on in Newfoundland today?" Well now I do, and it's all because of Damian Penny .

Down there in Sydney we have the very useful Tim Blair who this week gives us a hilarious derogation of Helen Caldicott and also revises the revisionist sentimentalism over Johnny Taliban. A few miles down the coast from Tim is Bruce Hill in Melbourne, a sage observer on all things Jewish, Oceanic and otherwise.

Dawson speeks with as much fire as the bottle of tabasco sauce on his logo and he should thusly keep speeking.

Fred Lapides mixes pictures of naked ladies with pro-Israel and other commentary. Which is a better combination than pictures of Israel and pro-naked-lady commentary.

The exceedingly versatile HD Miller, a medieval scholar from Yale (I think), writes the Travelling Shoes blog and 'zine and tells us about Arabic grammar, Muammar Qaddafi, Janet Reno, Moroccan squat toilets and Las Vegas prime rib, among other things.

Closer to home, I am delighted to rediscover Joanne Jacobs, former editorial writer for the San Jose Mercury News, now an independent journalist doing a first-rate job covering education. Read her Quick Reads, especially if you have, might have, have been or are a child in the public schools, or if you pay taxes to support public schools. Craig Schamp is, like myself, a techno-weenie by vocation, but with interests in current events and history. In addition to his very fine commentary, Craig has one of the most readable font/size combination in the blogosphere. The Angry Clam (?!) is apparently a Berkeley student, and is angry about some of the various ills of the Bay Area, such as looneytoons campus radicals and programs for the homeless that only seem to make the problem worse.Toren Smith "vents about current events and generalized stupidity in order to keep himself from strangling his mindlessly liberal neighbors in San Francisco". He vents well, and in doing so makes my fair city an even better place to call home, and saves a few liberal lives in the process.

Life is a meritocracy, albeit a patient one. There are many more good blogs out there, including many blogs that I like, that didn't get mentioned here, and for no particular reason. My timing of this piece was more or less random and my selection algorithm was more or less "most recently used". When I find a good blog, I will also find an excuse to tell people about it at some point.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at July 20, 2002 06:20 PM