Who Can Really Say?

I was slightly disappointed to find out I had to manually edit the main template of this blog in order to begin placing links in my blogroll. Maybe I'm missing something, but there's so much cool stuff Movable Type does I figured it would be easier.

Anyway, for now I put up two rather obvious (for me) links, to Instapundit and the Volokh Conspiracy. (No links here -- look over on the left). Actually, the first blog I ever read was Andrew Sullivan's. I'm not sure when it was, but what I am sure of is that I didn't "get" that there was anything unique about the format. I went back now and then, but not much.

Then I found myself with a lot of time on my hands (I either won the lottery or got laid off -- which do you think?) in August 2002, and that's when I found Instapundit via an article in the NY Times. He's relatively unique among political bloggers in that he doesn't actually write much to get his points across. Sometimes, I think, that works to his disadvantage because one-liner's can be read more than one way. But mostly he's a link rich source and unlike many political bloggers, he'll link to the opposition not only to disagree but also when he thinks they're right.

Eugene Volokh is a law professor (as is Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds), and what I really enjoy about his writing is that he does it so well, and yet so dispassionately. I don't have links handy as examples, but regardless of the contentiousness of the issue, he's persuasive without being off-putting or insulting. There's a humility to it. And on the rare occasion when he pulls a dagger, it makes his writing all the more effective.

I read the blog mostly for Eugene's stuff, but this is one of the more prolific co-blogger blogs on the net, and I read most of the stuff on the site daily. Do you care? Should you? Or better yet, would you?

More later. Onion soup needs tending to.