The Week in Review

Posted on February 20, 2004 in Crosstalk Roundup

I’m probably too lost in my vicodin haze to make much sense (this is Day 3, the worst) so here is a list of pointers to what I think is the best blogging I’ve found over the last week:

• Awake at Dawn on Someone’s Couch asks why it is that Sylvia Plath’s poetry must always be tied to her homelife but her husband Ted Hughes’s work is described as if he existed in some misty poet’s heaven?
  
• There’s always something worth reading at Balkinization.
  
• Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihanouk backs gay marriage according to Bird on the Moon
  
• Jeanne d’ Arc of Body and Soul gave what I think was the best analysis of Dean’s withdrawal from the race. We owe Howard Dean a lot: he took way more crap than he deserved.
  
• Check Body and Soul for an article about the “tragedy of Tony Blair” whose lack of an ideological base has turned into a liability. Brian Kane finds himself scratching his head over how Blair got himself ruined on the Iraq debacle, too. Personally, it doesn’t surprise me. To recast something I have been saying for a few months now, when you market yourself as anybody, you become no one I care to vote for.
  
• Rob of Conniptions revealed that all the Bush/Cheney cat vomit about Kerry’s ties to “special interests” smells even worse when you learn that the pResident and his handler “accepted more money from lobbyists in one year than John Kerry has accepted in the past 15 years.”
  
• Crazy Tracy is in hard times. Difficult to know what to say.
  
• Deborama points to the case of a whistle blower on the Iraq War.
  
• Give Love|Get Love reveals that tuition at his alma mater, Princeton, is now at $38,297: “you get a lifetime of begging from a university with a multi-billion dollar endowment. ”
  
• Hartsongs reprinted a recipe for building a fraud.
  
• Teresa of In Sequence has become an addict of the L-Word.
  
• Michael Doss describes San Francisco’s decision to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples as “an act of civil disobedience on a grand level: the city and county is telling us ‘this may be illegal, but it’s the right thing to do now’.”
  
• Victoria believes she has finally hit her mid-life crisis at age 50: “So I’m going to learn to sword fight and make swords!” I could stand some new cutlery if she’s up to that.
  
• The silence of an image says everything to Coup De Vent.
  
• “The institutionalized church has lost the meaning of service by forgetting whom it serves” says doug the Mute Troubadour. Is he right when he suggests that political activism cannot create lasting change?
  
• Billy has gone over the edge by suggesting that we abolish February. I think it’s all an evil plot to deny me the fruits of my birthday.
  
• Uggabugga said that Bush is watching same sex marriages in San Francisco “very carefully”. Whatever floats your boat, W.
  
• George the Old Fashioned Patriot has a suggestion: “I would like to see Dr Dean hold sway over media conglomerates after Kerry beats the tar out of Bush. Hee Hee. Talk about poetic justice.” But does Kerry have that kind of imagination?
  
• There was no call for Rae to apologize to me. But I’ll accept it since she feels the need.
  
• Dr. Stu posted a photo of what it looks like from the Internet.
  
• Goddess chari has turned pit bull and let Kerry and Edwards know that she’s watching them.
  
• Pen wrote an excellent commentary on Christians and same-sex marriage, pointing out that marriage is about commitment, not having a captive sex partner.
  
• Orcinius trembles at the “eliminationist” trend in Libertine hate speech. Makes me ask “Just what do they want those guns for?”