Just wondering:

What are the most critical liberal/critical thinker favorites loaded into your browser?

Penthouse letter

SI Swimsuit calendar

Maxim, Hottest new gadgets’



Basically in that order.

Ehowa.com

Well out of 4000 links in my favorites it may be hard to narrow down.
http://econlog.econlib.org/
http://www.globalisationinstitute.org/blog/
http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/index.html
http://www.publiuspundit.com/index.php
http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/
http://poorandstupid.com/chronicle.asp

Loganthor - now that's truly _liberal_ media...

Sawdust, Ronald - thanks!!

Simon, you're new here, so I feel like you ought to know that those first three guys who replied are a large part of the resident conservatives who frequent this board. A "favorite" "liberal" website in the commonly understood sense of the word may mean something totally different to them.

A couple of my favorites are:
1) 3quarksdaily.com (Thanks to commonmanjason for that link!) It's cool; mostly science, literature, arts, and some politics.
2) scienceblogs.com which has links to science blogs, I like The Loom the best, it's written by Carl Zimmer. He knows his stuff and he writes so that non-scientists can understand what he's saying.
3) tpmcafe.com which is mostly liberal policy/politics.

Lisa, you saying you don't like Ernies House of Whoop Ass?

I don't use favorites/bookmarks much. Here's one that is useful during hurricane season, because it's hard to find the exact page with the beautiful photography:

http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/

Also, I've got:

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=1x7kf68w...lc04a&linktext=Locke

http://www.france-hotel-guide.com/parishotels.htm

http://www.cswnet.com/~erin/dhlpoem.htm

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/congpowers.htm

Yes, we loved your question so much we forgot to welcome you here.
Welcome.

Yes, my links are to more of the original meaning of Liberalism. But I hope you still check them out anyway.

Anything of particular you are looking for? Area of interest?

Everyone, thank you - and Kate, thanks for the Lawrence poems!

Ronald - hello! - and thanks for the welcome. I've listened to Thom Hartman for the last year on KPOJ. I've been genuinely impressed with his substance; times seem so dire that I thought I'd start participating in the national dialog in a couple of ways. I thought this was a natural venue.

No area of particular interest than education. The Long Tail wags: I know there are some rich sources of liberalism out there and would assume that you guys would have a great list of links cached in your browser.

I particularly like your own sites as economics was an undergraduate major - reading _The Economist_ is a guilty pleasure - and I often emphasize macroeconomic forces in my own lectures; I teach grad/undergrad tech curriculum for onground and online universities. One cannot escape discussions of globalization, comparable advantage, or the bargaining position of labor when responsibly talking about e-commerce (grin).

Thanks for the welcome!

Simon,

for me, the most interesting links in my favorites are the NOAA link and the Paris hotel finder link. I found the D.H. Lawrence link in a chat where someone else (I think it was Ren) told me Lawrence wrote poetry, in addition to the prose he is famous for.

Curious,

1) what's in your favorites file?

and/or

2) what's your Paris hotel pick, and why?

quote:

Lisa, you saying you don't like Ernies House of Whoop Ass?

No Sawdust, that's a bit too liberal for my tastes.

Hey Kate -

Well, patently, nothing truly astounding. I do have a number of technical and partner links which are relevant to my line of work but not necessarily creative nor liberal (grin).

My Only Liberal Thing...Thom's Site:
http://thomhartmann.org/eve/forums/a/frm/f/4361097651

In my RSS Feeder:

http://www.liberaloasis.com/
http://www.techdirt.com/
http://www.roughtype.com/
http://www.slashdot.com/
http://www.wired.com/

Technology Stuff:

www.ubuntu.com
www.zbiz.tv
www.openbusiness.cc
partner.microsoft.com/40021739

But now I have all of these other great suggestions that I'll probably RSS'ing....!

As for Paris. I have never been there! One day, certainly, after I put my 14 year old through private school and college, and require a respirator (sp?) to move about... but I'd be interested in being _outside_ of Paris, probably in a bed and breakfast type of ... chateau... or something. Here, this looks good:

http://www.france-hotel-guide.com/h78100cazaudehore.htm

Yes, "le spoiled extravagance" of "le beaten path-uh"....

That was "off" not "of" by the way...

And somebody was so kind as to fix my Dr. Bob head. Whoever did that, my thanks (grin). He looks less fuzzy now. Good for Bob.

Nice pick for a Paris hotel, Simon.

As I play with the hotel finders, I think about something I might be able to afford comfortably for at least a week. That idea led me off to look at the hostels.

http://www.hostelworld.com/availability.php/DemeuredesTilleuls-Paris-7622

This one looks great, and affordable, but I googled the name of the place and found an irritated traveler at another site who said it had doublebooked and he was without a room. :shrug:

I've been to Paris once, but for a very short time, and with not much homework preceding the trip. Since then, I've been reading up on the expatriot writers from the 20's who hung out there, on the Left Bank mostly, because they could very economically, for years and years on end. So, reading about them, and reading them, I've gotten curious about the place.

Fun to play with the idea of a trip, but as you say, ... there are trains to catch and bills to pay.

http://www.jibjab.com/

http://zombo.com/

LMFAO.
And I did so much there!!!
But, I must be limited in some fashion though.

Sorry, but this is one of my newest sites and have to post it again. (Adult Content).
Bloodlines

Kate I was in Paris for awhile a long time ago. Met an American who told me if I got in trouble, to tell them I was Irish. At the time, they loved the Irish and couldn't stand Americans.

Couldn't get served in a restaurant. Everyone pretended they didn't speak English. so shouted loudly "Does anyone speak Gaillic?" People at the next table began sharing their meal with me, and a waiter rushed to me doing double-time.
This was a long, long time ago.

Retired Monk

polycarp,

Were you able to shout loudly in a Gaelic accent? One of the things that made me nervous about the trip was news reports of a dismal attitude toward Americans. I made some effort to wear things that would blend in. My husband, however, favored t-shirts with clearly American locations emblazened on the front, and white tennis shoes (which, I read in a tourist book, were a dead ringer).

It was a challenge, figuring out things, in a place that did not pander to the English speaking tourist. The hotel we used was set up to attract Japanese travelers. I think the Yen was at an exchange rate of 6 times (at least) over the Euro. Reading museum cards was sort of a challenge, but it was surprising how much could be deciphered, just because of the common root sources of the languages.

The language barrier reminds me to share another link I had in my favorites, but I can't find it back right now. It's a message board devoted to language translation.

A simpler cousin:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/