Since it's the season for navel-gazing blog lists (see here, here, etc), let's add this question: Which blogs, or bloggers, do you miss the most? There's been a fair amount of churn in the past few years, and some pretty remarkable talents have bowed out, wandering off towards other jobs or more free time. So with that in mind, who are the five whose absence you find most intolerable?
My List:
1) Jesse Taylor; my old co-blogger at Pandagon. He was a scholar and a gentleman. Also, very, very funny.
2) The Mighty Mighty Reason Man. There really isn't anyone around writing things like this anymore: "Anyone who has actually heard Limbaugh speak for more than 10 minutes knows that causing Limbaugh to go deaf (or dumb..preferrably dumb) should be, priority wise, somewhere between balancing the budget and defending the country against terrorist attacks. Yes, it's that important." And remember the world's greatest Corner parody?
3) Fafblog. The only blog that's ever really mattered. Remember when they interviewed the Democratic Party?
4) Nick Confessore. Used to write for Tapped. The reason you know what the "K Street Project" is. My first boss in journalism. Was swallowed by the New York Times, and so now does real reporting. It's sad.
5) Spencer Ackerman. Now doing excellent muck raking at TPM, I miss Iraq'd, the blog where Spencer would helpfully tell me exactly what to think about the Iraq War. Thinking on my own is surprisingly taxing.
Other 5) Max Sawicky. A great economist, a beautiful writer, and an actual leftist. Not a Democrat, or a liberal, or someone who hated Bush, but a leftist. We have too few of those around.
Okay kiddies, your turn.
