Best of Blogs: Liberal Gibberish

I did my best to find some interesting conservative blogs - you know, that weren't overtly racist - but I guess I will have to achieve that goal next time. I just cherry-picked the top of the Top 100 Blogs e-mail from Professor Thelen.

1: The Huffington Post

It's equally hard hitting columns (on the left of the screen) mixed with liberal drive-bys trickling down the right side of the screen. The front and center top of the homepage has the same tired economic stories that now engender perpetual brain dump in the populace. The presentation is top notch though. Every scroll down the page continued to engage me with the kind of stories I love to laugh at. Jon Stewart is crucifying CNBC and Jim Cramer. Bill Maher is debating Ann Coulter. Palin's teen-preggo daughter split with her racist jock boyfriend. Holy crap! It's a liberal orgasm.

Holding it's pitiful own on the left of the Huffington Post's homepage are featured blog posts and Arianna Huffington's own blog posts. This is where the intellectual gravy of the blog ladle rests.

2: The Daily Kos

Like the Huffington Post, the Daily Kos highlights other blogs from the internet along the side of the screen. Unlike the Post, these guys have a much shorter list of stories. These focus mainly on interesting perspectives on current events, as opposed to just reporting them. Kos reports on a change in the approval rating of Congress and interior plots by Republicans to oust Michael Steele. This is a perspective we don't often hear from in the mainstream press, which is more focused on what has already happened. At the same time, this blog is clouded with advertisements, and terrible graphics. This blog instead incorporates whole stories into the home page instead of giving readers the option to pick and chose what they want to read.

3: The Daily Dish

I prefer this blog's look above all the others. It doesn't have a list of other blogs stealing the spotlight. Instead this has a certain visual flow more reminiscent of a newspaper. The Daily Dish has a flag, and a bar at the top with links to other facets of the website, which really help it organize into something less than a paint splat on the internet. Andrew Sullivan's website is a collection of innocuous innocent topics, like "A dog that fetches you beer". The blog is a lot less of a liberal hit job and more a collection of interesting goings-on.

This blog feels personable. That's something I haven't noticed on the others I've looked at. They all feel corporatized. Andrew Sullivan's blog captures what concerns him most, and probably helps him touch some of his readers on a deeply personal level.