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I haven’t done a roundup in a while. For each blog (alpha-order) I’ve selected my favorite among recent posts.

• 3-Way Watch Blog - Mercs in a Corporate World
• AMERICAblog - Condi has to force State Dept. officials to Iraq
• Amanda’s Engima - More great Wallpapers from WallpaperStock
• An und für sich - The Complication of Nature and Grace in Aquinas
• Arianna Huffington - Midnight in America: the Mainstreaming of the GOP’s Lunatic Fringe
• Atheist Revolution - Christian Extremist Links CA Fires To Homosexuality
• Bitch PhD - Fatness as Metaphor
• A Blind Chihuahua Speaks - Processing
• Blog of a Bookslut - Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia
• Blog of Death - Winners of the Final Farewell Contest
• Buttrrflyyz - sometimes…
• Brainsnap - Ann Coulter Follows O’Reilly Playbook
• Bring it On! - FEMA: The Federal Editorial Management Agency
• Capital Hill Blue - America’s lost soul
• Cosmic Variance - Vice Vice Baby
• CounterPunch - So Much for Islamo-Fascism Awareness
• Crooked Timber - Facebook profiling
• Crooks and Liars - Dodd’s Speech on the Constitution & Rule of Law
• Daily Kos - “I Don’t Think This Place Is Worth Another Soldier’s Life“
• Dante’s Virgil - Here’s Your Sign, Dad. And It’s Shaped Like A “D”
• Data Dome - Corporate Culture Comic Strips
• Democrats.com - Join our Impeachment Group on Facebook
• Discourse.net - Torture Charges Filed Against Rumsfeld in France
• Douglas Rushkoff - My Formula: Social Control as a Function of Media
• Ecstatic Days - Riley and Cat (photo)
• Ergo Dubito - Two Quotes
• Even the Devils Believe - Recap of last week (Washington)
• Everything Isn’t Under Control - Caught in the Wild
• Eyebeam reBlog - Kafka couldn’t make up something this absurd
• Faith In Public Life - God and Global Warming
• Frogs and Ravens - Terra Cotta
• Further Left Forum - Blackwater’s Run for the Border
• Gary-Philosophy.com - Foucault, surveillance, panopticism
• Georgia Politics Unfiltered - A Cleland-Chambliss rematch could be close
• Get Religion - Why does ‘evangelical product’ sell so well?
• Get Rich Quick! - Grate Fun! Child Franchise from China
• Godspy - I Was in Prison, and You Tortured Me
• Grateful Bear - Compassion Training
• infinite thought - blair and bartleby: the conditional as enemy
• Information Clearinghouse - Taxi to the Dark Side
• Inside Higher Ed - ‘Too Good’ for Tenure?
• Is America Burning? - Read It - Just Read It
• Jehovah’s Witnesses and Thought Control - Thought Control and Shunning
• Katrina vanden Heuvel (The Nation) - Five Years On….
• Language Log - Linguistics in the Funny Papers
• Larry Hnetka Goes HMmmm - To fold or to roll when packing a suitcase
• Liberal Oasis - What are we, Americans, about?
• Liberty Street - Take A Deep Breath, Let’s Look Under That Rock
• Life Cycle Analysis - Google maps of Southern California
• Looking beyond the Cracked Window - I believe…
• Lord Matt - MySQL methods Get, Do, Show
• Love Ministries - The Book of Job
• Mad Kane’s Political Madness - Pondering Condi
• Makanani - Save the World with PB&J
• Mama Christy’s - Task Completed: Elephant Peeking at Me
• Mark Crispin Miller: News from Underground - Blackwater: America’s White Army?
• Mark Morford - Come see our giant toxic stew! 1,500 miles wide, floating in the Pacific, made of all your plastic crap. Bring the kids!
• Mary Pause1964 - The Cost of Recruitment
• Meditations on an Eyeball - Monologue on a leaf
• Metroblogging Atlanta - Atlanta Water Shortage Blog
• Michael Moore - US peace activist barred again from entering Canada
• My DD - GOP Presidential Candidates Shamed Into Acknowledging Disaster
• Neil Gaiman - to autumn
• Nonviolent Jesus - Head Bloody but Unbowed
• The Notion - Matthews on White House Crime & Media Failure
• The Ominous Comma - Blogging Week - Frumpy Friday
• The Onion - Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters
• The Online Rant - Does information naturally gravitate towards freedom?
• Open Letters to George W. Bush - Dear George Oct. 28 2007
• The Ordinary Mystic - Is Salvia Divinorum Really a Teacher Plant?
• Pandagon - Laugh of the day: Winger blog Red State bans Ron Paul supporters
• Panopticist - Lower-case N, Standing on a Hill
• Politics TV - Paul Wellstone on Iraq just before his death
• Postcards from Hell’s Kitchen - Gotta Have It! The Lost in Space Robot
• Professional Mirror, Ph.D. - One way to get tenure
• Prose and Thorn - Words Taken Down: The Murky Puddle Left Behind When Terrible Truth and Corrupted Consequence Collide
• Quod She - Help! I don’t want to be grad director any more
• Radical Druid - Thoughts on the Undertown
• Radical Goddess Thealogy - Goddess Perpetuations and America the Christian Nation (tie)
• Real Clear Politics - PM Line
• Reconstitution - Presenting the Other Side
• Religion News Blog - Marine’s Father Sues Church for Cheering Son’s Death
• The Revealer - Letting Jesus and Buddha Dance Together: Eve and the Fire Horse (by my former fellow grad student and always friend Brent Plate! Nice surprise.)
• reverend mommy’s random thoughts - I’m Shredding
• Rhetorica - Dumbness in Campaign Reporting
• Rudy Rucker - Kyoto #5: Enlightenment and Good-Bye
• The Satirical Political Report - Media Watchdog Group: ‘Fake’ FEMA Reporters More ‘Fair and Balanced” than FOX
• Street Prophets - Wanker Of The Day
• Sunrays and Saturdays - Thought for the Day 1
• Tapped (American Prospect) - Can We Please Stop Calling Rudy Giuliani “Pro-choice?“
• Telling it Like it is - You Just Can’t Please Everyone - A Rant
• Tenured Life - Things I’ve learned since I last blogged
• Think Progress - Military Strike On Iran ‘Would Lead Absolutely To Disaster’
• thinkBuddha - A Little Light Reading
• Total information Awareness - On Distinctions and Differences
• Unconfirmed Sources - Ann Coulter Denies Sexual Relationship With Terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
• Uncyclopedia UnNews - In response to widespread devastation in California, Bush declares war on fire
• The Untraditionalist - All hell will break loose?
• The Vanity Press - What If They Gave an Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week and Nobody Came?
• Virtual Bourgeois - I’m Caught Up!!!
• Virtual Pus - Smart people can be morons too
• The Wall of Separation - Proclamation Consternation: Washington State Governor Gives Support To ‘Christian Nation’ Rhetoric
• Watchtower Quotes - Love Bombing
• What Now? - Stick a fork in me
• Whitehouse - President’s Remarks to Super-Stoked Troops During Mega-Secret Photo Op in Increasingly Ultra-Safe Iraq
• Wonkette - Rumors - Blackwater Is For Our Children’s Future
• Worldwide Sawdust - Hard Rain Journal: Asking the Right Questions

I hope that you find a few interesting things to read here, but I remember now why I don’t do this very often. (smile)