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Jens 'n' Frens
Idle thoughts of a relatively libertarian Republican in Cambridge, MA, and whomever he invites. Mostly political.
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."
-- Daniel Webster
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Wednesday, January 01, 2003 :::
I had several reasons for starting this site. I wanted a place to articulate my opinions. If someone stumbles across this site and joins the city committee because of it, I won't be disappointed. But my main reason for getting a blog was simply that all the cool kids had them. With that, let me say a few words of introduction for some of the cool kids on the right side of this web page.
James Lileks posts his bleat weekdays around midnight (i.e. Sunday night through Thursday night). It's a mostly personal column about raising his daughter ("Gnat") in Minneapolis. He gets into politics occasionally -- mostly regarding national security -- and is generally center-right. His insights aren't necessarily more original than yours or mine, but we're not as funny or good with words as he is. At least I'm not.
The Corner is written by the staff of National Review Online. That's all I should need to say.
The Instapundit and the Volokh Conspiracy are both good blogs read by everyone -- Instapundit is a little newsier, Volokh a little eggheadier and legally-focused -- though the Conspiracy is a little too long-winded to read everything. I tend to read almost everything by Eugene, Sasha, or Juan, but pick and choose among the other writers.
Colby Cosh is a writer/editor in Edmonton, Alberta. He comments on politics and culture, just like everyone else, but frequently better. And he has a link to us on his extensive blog-roll.
Discriminations is about affirmative action and the like. The Kitchen Cabinet, with which you're familiar if you've read Jens 'n' Frens for any length of time, is a general politics/personal/cuture blog, primarily by a pair of Yale law students who could do well in either the kitchen or the cabinet. Both blogs seem to be gaining attention from the blogosphere at large, but both are still under-appreciated. Go correct that.
Honestly, I rarely read "Ex Parte", Reason magazine's "Hit and Run", or appellate-law blog "How Appealing". The latter two are fine blogs, if you have the time for them; the former is a little too angels-dancing-on-pinheads for me (and I consider myself something of an egghead), but I like the Federalist Society and they're in Cambridge, so they're staying on the blog-roll. Hub Blog -- a good local news source -- and A Good Oman, by Harvard Law Student Nate Oman, are also listed more because they're local and don't suck than because they're unusually brilliant. That sounds worse than I mean it.
Go read.
::: posted by Steven at 11:37 PM
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