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(CHECK BACK OFTEN; THIS GROWS!)');
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WriteLinkComment('I check these sites daily. You don´t need me to tell you how to find the New York Times, Washington Post, AP, name-brand columnists, bigtime Democratic Party organizations, environmental organizations, union sites, etc., so I won´t. Here are some interesting and useful sites you might otherwise miss, presented in more-or-less alphabetical order...')
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WriteLink('A Rational Animal', 'www.arationalanimal.org/blog/', 'Lilith writes well on human rights, civil rights, civil liberties, women´s issues, etc.');
WriteLink('Alas, a Blog', 'www.amptoons.com/blog/', 'Barry Deutsch, cartoonist (Ampersand), deep thinker on feminism among many other topics.');
WriteLink('Antidotal', 'antidotal.blogspot.com/', 'Eric Tam, of the Political Science Dept. at Yale, offers philosophical perspectives on difficult political and societal issues. A deep thinker, that one!');
WriteLink('Atrios/Eschaton', 'atrios.blogspot.com/', 'One of the web´s definitive blogs, by a mystery author... and he´s on our side.');
WriteLink('BlargBlog', 'www.incontemptcomics.com/blog/', 'Political blog by ´nevikmoore´ (Kevin Moore), who also draws the splendidly astringent In Contempt comics.');
WriteLink('blogAmY', 'www.blogamy.com/', 'Amy´s political blog, including, in the author´s own words, \"creative writing, blogamy, blasphemy\".');
WriteLink('Body and Soul', 'bodyandsoul.typepad.com/blog/', 'The heart of a genuine, deeply compassionate liberal beats in "Jeanne d´Arc," who writes this worthwhile blog.');
WriteLink('Burnt Orange Report', 'www.burntorangereport.com/', 'Byron´s youthful, unabashedly orange-tinted view of Texas Democratic politics. Worth your time!');
WriteLink('BuzzFlash', 'www.buzzflash.com/', 'BuzzFlash is the definitive news clearinghouse site from a Dem perspective. Essential!');
WriteLink('Charlie King and Karen Brandow', 'www.charlieking.org/', 'Extraordinary protest singers. I am delighted people like this still exist');
WriteLink('Common Dreams', 'commondreams.org/', 'Selected news and essays from a left/liberal perspective. Low bandwidth, no cookies, no popups.');
WriteLink('Daily Kos', 'www.dailykos.com/', 'Well-written political blog. Poll scorecards, electoral votes calculator, source of great and legitimate optimism for Democrats.');
WriteLink('Danziger Cartoons', 'www.danzigercartoons.com/', 'Trenchant political humor, almost always from our perspective.');
WriteLink('Dave Lippman', 'www.davelippman.com/', 'Extremely creative singer/songwriter/activist, left of many Democrats (as is the YDD)... but read his stuff about W a l - M a r t!');
WriteLink('Dem Donkeys', 'www.demdonkeys.com/', 'Elsie Cook, a steadfast Democrat in Houston, makes superb Democratic jewelry - donkeys, yellow dogs, etc. My partner and I both love her work!');
WriteLink('Democrats.com', 'www.democrats.com/', 'Essential Democratic activist site. Protest notices, petitions, news, commentary, excellent archival material on theft of Election 2000.');
WriteLink('Dohiyi Mir', 'dohiyimir.blogspot.com/', 'NTodd says his peace, and a lot more... politics, philosophy, chess, bicycling.');
WriteLink('Ironic Times', 'www.ironictimes.com/', 'Fake-headline newsletter. Three pages; thirty laughs a page.');
WriteLink('Labor Cartoons of Huck and Konopacki', 'www.solidarity.com/hkcartoons/', 'Updated once a month. If you ever wondered why you need a union, these guys will show you why, one hard-hitting panel at a time.');
WriteLink('Madeleine' + BRequiv + 'Begun Kane,' + BRequiv + 'Humor Columnist', 'www.madkane.com/', 'Political and other humor. \"Mad\" Kane is funny, incisive, insightful. Don´t miss her \"Dubya´s Dayly Diary\"!');
WriteLink('MaxSpeak', 'www.maxspeak.org/gm/index.htm', 'Personal blog of Max Sawicky, Economic Policy Institute. Max patiently explains economics w/o dumbing down, and takes splendid potshots at right-leaning bloggers.');
WriteLink('Nurse Ratched´s Notebook', 'www.happyvalleyasylum.com/ratched/', 'Have you gone off your meds again? Shame on you... go read Nurse Ratched!');
WriteLink('One Man´s Opinion', 'www.onemansopinion.org/', 'Splendidly well-reasoned and well-written commentary mostly from the left, though categorizing OneMan is difficult. See for yourself!');
WriteLink('Off the Kuff', 'www.offthekuff.com/mt/', 'One of the best-written and best-researched political blogs in Texas.');
WriteLink('ReachM High Cowboy Network Noose', 'reachm.blog-city.com/', 'The Cowboy has a genuinely unique lefty perspective, and a sense of humor.');
WriteLink('Rittenhouse Review', 'rittenhouse.blogspot.com/', 'James M. Capozzola´s blog. Politics, international matters. Frequently deep. See also his ||trr|| site, emphatically and deliberately not deep.');
WriteLink('Sideshow -' + BRequiv + 'Avedon Carol', 'www.sideshow.idps.co.uk/', 'American blogger living in UK. Well-written, wide-ranging, political commentary; frequent updates.');
WriteLink('Sierra Club', 'www.sierraclub.org/', 'Oldest, perhaps most straitlaced environmental/outdoor org around, and still one of the most effective. Join us! (Full disclosure: I´m in the local leadership.)');
WriteLink('Smirking Chimp', 'www.smirkingchimp.com/', 'Funny name, serious site. News links, commentary, member chat.');
WriteLink('StoutDemBlog', 'stoutdemblog.blogspot.com/', 'Bill Howell, another excellent Texas Democrat and former D/FW party chair, joins the blogosphere!');
WriteLink('Talking Points Memo', 'talkingpointsmemo.com/', 'Joshua Micah Marshall, Washington blogger, free-lance writer, investigative journalist, New Democrat, serious thinker.');
WriteLink('Ted Rall', 'www.tedrall.com/', 'Rall writes columns and books, and draws cartoons. He´s seen Afghanistan on the ground. His prose and his cartoons... political but not humorous... are relentless. Rall fights the good fight.');
WriteLink('Thaddeus and Weez', 'www.thadeusandweez.com/', 'Political cartoon drawn in my home town (I think).');
WriteLink('The American Prospect (TAP)', 'www.prospect.org/', 'Democratic magazine of politics, economics and policy, edited by Robert Kuttner. Their Tapped blog is also excellent.');
WriteLink('This Modern World', 'www.thismodernworld.com/', 'Tom Tomorrow´s blog. This cartoonist has a lot of insight, reads everything and writes well.');
WriteLink('truthout', 'www.truthout.com/', 'Excellent Democratic news-commentary-interviews link site. Be sure to read Jennifer van Bergen on the USA Patriot Act.');
WriteLink('Virginia Fairchild' + BRequiv + 'Art Exhibit', 'www.virginiafairchild.com/', 'My favorite computer art site on the web.
Full disclosure: The artist is a friend...');
WriteLink('Wampum', 'wampum.wabanaki.net/', 'MB offers, as she says it, Progressive Politics, Indian Issues, and Autism Advocacy, to which I add, economics analyses and very readable prose.');
WriteLink('Where is Avdo Palic?', 'http://www.geocities.com/pvlwright/index.htm/', 'Avdo Palic was disappeared in 1995. Amnesty Group 23, Houston, is pressuring his government to locate him. Phivan Wright provides more info on this site.');
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WriteLinkComment('This list is preliminary, always in flux, never complete. Check back often!')
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