By request, this open thread is dedicated exclusively to non-political topics. Let's have a race between this one and the political thread and see which can gather the most comments overnight!
The loser thread will be closed tomorrow morning.
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Have a look at the Carnival of Evolution and the I and the Bird Carnival. Both have lists of excellent, amazingly wonderful non-political bird and evolution posts, the best of the best in the blogosphere for these topics.
One of the bloggers quoted in Simon Owens's demographics post states flat-out that "I basically don't give a crap about the non-political blogosphere." I found this interesting, because I used to read almost exclusively political blogs, but my opinion has shifted to be almost exactly the opposite…
Update: I seriously feel guilty for writing politics in a physics blog. I personally sometimes get annoyed at reading politics on other non-political blogs, and I imagine you do too. That's why I happily encourage you not to read anything I write tagged with politics unless you like that sort of…
I'll get to Noah in a bit. But first, digby describes the lobotomization of our national discourse:
Something very disconcerting has been happening in our discourse for some time, even worse than the up-is-downism that has characterized the most unctuously presumptuous members of the Cheney…