Where did the links go?

Yes, I have eliminated the links on the right side altogether. Not that they were doing anyone any good: It was pointed out to me several times that the link to the "Economists for Dean" blog was no longer active -- no kidding, my links to "Actuaries for Mondale-Ferraro" and "Anthropologists for Harkin"are expired also! (I linked to that blog originally because of the wise comments of the person known as "praktike," who now writes mostly at ChezNadezhda.) I was also reminded that my link to  Kevin Drum was at "calpundit," an identity he shed when he took charge of the Washington Monthly blog. I would have kept that for sentimental reasons, though, because I remember that when this blog jumped from several dozen readers into the hundreds and low thousands, the moment was marked with an email, which I think came from praktike,and which I recall word for word. It said, "I see calpundit has linked to you. Now you will start feeling the love."

I always assume that this is not anyone's first blog so my links don't matter. But that's not always the case, there are people who come here who don't know some of the other remarkable sources of informed opinion on the left side of the web. So I will soon rebuild the list, ideally with some links that are not obvious and, as DeLong would say, "subvert the dominant link hierarchy."

In the meantime, two links, neither to a blog, that I have bookmarked ecently:

-- Overheard in New York is what it is. If you enjoyed "Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies" in the Village Voice years ago, this is basically a dozen over-the-top Stan Macks a day. This site manages to satisfy about 70% of what I miss about living in New York, which is basically the lunacy of the place and the fact that for all the variety of languages and everything else,  no sentences include the phrases "paygo" or "chairman's mark."

and from Z-100 to NPR:

-- a few weeks ago I was in a used bookstore and seriously considered buying the four volumes+ index Dictionary of the History of Ideas. When I got back to my office, I thought I would check whether the price was right, and found that the entire 1973 edition is online. It's  not  up to date, and a very expensive new edition is available that promises to be more "global and gender inclusive."  The 1973 edition, though, is sort of an encapsuation of the pre-postmodern , Dead White Male vision of intellectual history, and fascinating within those constraints.It's a little bizarre to call it a dictionary, though, the definition of topics being  very arbitrary. "Analogy of the Body Politic," for example, is a very interesting entry, but how would you know that was what  you were looking for?  --  Searching by author is particularly rewarding -- look for Isaiah Berlin, Herbert Butterfield, Kenneth Arrow, Jaroslav Pelikan, etc.

And please feel free to harass me if I don't get a new blogroll and reading list up by mid-April. Thanks.

Comments

[DLev]

Larry E.'s blog Lotus at www.whoviating.blogspot.com deserves more traffic. Take a look and consider whether he belongs in the subversion of the dominant link heirarchy.

[ogged]

I was relieved when you took down the link to us, because I would see people clicking through and think, each time, "you're probably *not* going to find what you're looking for..."

[thom]

I'd personally love to see Unfogged back up there, as this was my gateway from the wonkier side of things straight into the ogged/PG/apostropher, et al axis. Please don't abandon me to *shudder* "favorites".

[Nell Lancaster]

Thanks for the 'Overheard' link; I used to love Stan Mack's strip.

And now for a question I can't believe I'm asking in public: What does "chairman's mark" mean? (Realizing that this marks me as something lower than a DC wonk/nerd, a wannabe DC wonk/nerd.... I'm not, really I'm not, I'm just curious.... yeah, that's it, curious...)

[ogged]

thom, I'm flattered, but I have faith that you'll find your way to Unfogged without requiring Mark to compromise his good name and reputation.

[wd]

linking, funny thing.

[Lloyd]

As far as lefty sites go, I like to visit http://preemptivekarma.com/ now and again. I never agree with her but she always makes me think.

[downtown]

Users of the lynx text browser would raise a really
loud cheer if you'd now either move everything in
the left column to the empty right column OR
place an internal link at the top of the page
that allows a jump straight to content. Many
publications (the Guardian and CNN come to mind)
offer this courtesy and so do a few blogs (see
cursor.org). As it is, we must PgDn any number
of times to get to the meat. Whatever, thank you.
You always have something interesting to say.
Just wish getting to it weren't such a pain.

[lerxst]

Mark,

I always appreciated the link to E4D ...even though you weren't a Dean guy.

I took down the site sometime after Kerry had become the nominee or presumptive nominee...and i knew you were bound to clean house one day. If I ever start up a blog again maybe I'll ask for a link again ;)

[harry near indy]

i remember stan mack's real life funnies in the voice back in the day, and i thought they were always consistently funny.

and if you'll never hear the term chairman's mark -- whatever the hell that is -- in new york, i'll bet that in certain parts of the city -- say your more exclusive clubs and the upper east side -- you'll hear the term maker's mark -- and make it a double!