I haven’t done a roundup in a while. For each blog (alpha-order) I’ve selected my favorite among recent posts.

• 3-Way Watch Blog – Mercs in a Corporate World
• AMERICAblog – Condi has to force State Dept. officials to Iraq
• Amanda’s Engima – More great Wallpapers from WallpaperStock
• An und für sich – The Complication of Nature and Grace in Aquinas
• Arianna Huffington – Midnight in America: the Mainstreaming of the GOP’s Lunatic Fringe
• Atheist Revolution – Christian Extremist Links CA Fires To Homosexuality
• Bitch PhD – Fatness as Metaphor
• A Blind Chihuahua Speaks – Processing
• Blog of a Bookslut – Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia
• Blog of Death – Winners of the Final Farewell Contest
• Buttrrflyyz – sometimes…
• Brainsnap – Ann Coulter Follows O’Reilly Playbook
• Bring it On! – FEMA: The Federal Editorial Management Agency
• Capital Hill Blue – America’s lost soul
• Cosmic Variance – Vice Vice Baby
• CounterPunch – So Much for Islamo-Fascism Awareness
• Crooked Timber – Facebook profiling
• Crooks and Liars – Dodd’s Speech on the Constitution & Rule of Law
• Daily Kos – “I Don’t Think This Place Is Worth Another Soldier’s Life“
• Dante’s Virgil – Here’s Your Sign, Dad. And It’s Shaped Like A “D”
• Data Dome – Corporate Culture Comic Strips
• Democrats.com – Join our Impeachment Group on Facebook
• Discourse.net – Torture Charges Filed Against Rumsfeld in France
• Douglas Rushkoff – My Formula: Social Control as a Function of Media
• Ecstatic Days – Riley and Cat (photo)
• Ergo Dubito – Two Quotes
• Even the Devils Believe – Recap of last week (Washington)
• Everything Isn’t Under Control – Caught in the Wild
• Eyebeam reBlog – Kafka couldn’t make up something this absurd
• Faith In Public Life – God and Global Warming
• Frogs and Ravens – Terra Cotta
• Further Left Forum – Blackwater’s Run for the Border
• Gary-Philosophy.com – Foucault, surveillance, panopticism
• Georgia Politics Unfiltered – A Cleland-Chambliss rematch could be close
• Get Religion – Why does ‘evangelical product’ sell so well?
• Get Rich Quick! – Grate Fun! Child Franchise from China
• Godspy – I Was in Prison, and You Tortured Me
• Grateful Bear – Compassion Training
• infinite thought – blair and bartleby: the conditional as enemy
• Information Clearinghouse – Taxi to the Dark Side
• Inside Higher Ed – ‘Too Good’ for Tenure?
• Is America Burning? – Read It – Just Read It
• Jehovah’s Witnesses and Thought Control – Thought Control and Shunning
• Katrina vanden Heuvel (The Nation) – Five Years On….
• Language Log – Linguistics in the Funny Papers
• Larry Hnetka Goes HMmmm – To fold or to roll when packing a suitcase
• Liberal Oasis – What are we, Americans, about?
• Liberty Street – Take A Deep Breath, Let’s Look Under That Rock
• Life Cycle Analysis – Google maps of Southern California
• Looking beyond the Cracked Window – I believe…
• Lord Matt – MySQL methods Get, Do, Show
• Love Ministries – The Book of Job
• Mad Kane’s Political Madness – Pondering Condi
• Makanani – Save the World with PB&J
• Mama Christy’s – Task Completed: Elephant Peeking at Me
• Mark Crispin Miller: News from Underground – Blackwater: America’s White Army?
• Mark Morford – Come see our giant toxic stew! 1,500 miles wide, floating in the Pacific, made of all your plastic crap. Bring the kids!
• Mary Pause1964 – The Cost of Recruitment
• Meditations on an Eyeball – Monologue on a leaf
• Metroblogging Atlanta – Atlanta Water Shortage Blog
• Michael Moore – US peace activist barred again from entering Canada
• My DD – GOP Presidential Candidates Shamed Into Acknowledging Disaster
• Neil Gaiman – to autumn
• Nonviolent Jesus – Head Bloody but Unbowed
• The Notion – Matthews on White House Crime & Media Failure
• The Ominous Comma – Blogging Week – Frumpy Friday
• The Onion – Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters
• The Online Rant – Does information naturally gravitate towards freedom?
• Open Letters to George W. Bush – Dear George Oct. 28 2007
• The Ordinary Mystic – Is Salvia Divinorum Really a Teacher Plant?
• Pandagon – Laugh of the day: Winger blog Red State bans Ron Paul supporters
• Panopticist – Lower-case N, Standing on a Hill
• Politics TV – Paul Wellstone on Iraq just before his death
• Postcards from Hell’s Kitchen – Gotta Have It! The Lost in Space Robot
• Professional Mirror, Ph.D. – One way to get tenure
• Prose and Thorn – Words Taken Down: The Murky Puddle Left Behind When Terrible Truth and Corrupted Consequence Collide
• Quod She – Help! I don’t want to be grad director any more
• Radical Druid – Thoughts on the Undertown
• Radical Goddess Thealogy – Goddess Perpetuations and America the Christian Nation (tie)
• Real Clear Politics – PM Line
• Reconstitution – Presenting the Other Side
• Religion News Blog – Marine’s Father Sues Church for Cheering Son’s Death
• The Revealer – Letting Jesus and Buddha Dance Together: Eve and the Fire Horse (by my former fellow grad student and always friend Brent Plate! Nice surprise.)
• reverend mommy’s random thoughts – I’m Shredding
• Rhetorica – Dumbness in Campaign Reporting
• Rudy Rucker – Kyoto #5: Enlightenment and Good-Bye
• The Satirical Political Report – Media Watchdog Group: ‘Fake’ FEMA Reporters More ‘Fair and Balanced” than FOX
• Street Prophets – Wanker Of The Day
• Sunrays and Saturdays – Thought for the Day 1
• Tapped (American Prospect) – Can We Please Stop Calling Rudy Giuliani “Pro-choice?“
• Telling it Like it is – You Just Can’t Please Everyone – A Rant
• Tenured Life – Things I’ve learned since I last blogged
• Think Progress – Military Strike On Iran ‘Would Lead Absolutely To Disaster’
• thinkBuddha – A Little Light Reading
• Total information Awareness – On Distinctions and Differences
• Unconfirmed Sources – Ann Coulter Denies Sexual Relationship With Terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
• Uncyclopedia UnNews – In response to widespread devastation in California, Bush declares war on fire
• The Untraditionalist – All hell will break loose?
• The Vanity Press – What If They Gave an Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week and Nobody Came?
• Virtual Bourgeois – I’m Caught Up!!!
• Virtual Pus – Smart people can be morons too
• The Wall of Separation – Proclamation Consternation: Washington State Governor Gives Support To ‘Christian Nation’ Rhetoric
• Watchtower Quotes – Love Bombing
• What Now? – Stick a fork in me
• Whitehouse – President’s Remarks to Super-Stoked Troops During Mega-Secret Photo Op in Increasingly Ultra-Safe Iraq
• Wonkette – Rumors – Blackwater Is For Our Children’s Future
• Worldwide Sawdust – Hard Rain Journal: Asking the Right Questions

I hope that you find a few interesting things to read here, but I remember now why I don’t do this very often. (smile)