I'm still sorting myself out on the blogosphere, seeing what tools are available to me in terms of editing and linking. I've joined St. Blogs and now I've applied to Blogs Canada. I think Rings and such are always useful tools and that's why I've decided to use them.
The other issue on my mind is asking other bloggers for reciprocating links, which I have not yet done partly because, 1) I'm shy, and 2) I'm not sure that I want a link list ten kilometers long. I see what blogs like mine do as being acting a bit of as a gatekeeper. We pick out items from the web - news, pictures and, yes, other blogs. People visit based on how much they like your choice of stories and your take on said stories. A blog collection is a bit like a custom newspaper that you can read at anytime, because it is always being updated. It never sleeps and it never "goes to press." So I'm leaning towards a trim link list and hoping anyone who asks for a link and is refused will understand. It means less traffic for me too but I think I can live with that.
So with that out of the way, I have, in my recent browsing, come across a few blogs that I do want to add. It took a bit of searching to break into the secret room that Canadian conservative blogs live in. Too many blogs with any mention of Canadian origin read like they aspire to be the Globe and Mail if that paper were assembled by students at Concordia University after a 3 a.m. bender during which the praises of Micheal Moore were sung a little too loudly.
Here's one small step towards turning Canada's Right Wing Conspiracy into something a little more, what's the word I'm looking for....? Oh yes, Vast.
Living in the Unmentionable Times - a very nice site
The Last Amazon - also right on the money
The Canadian Conservative - appears to be the kind of guy I can relate to.
Trudeaupia - also seeking to alter the course of the good ship Canada
Right in Canada - more conservative commentary from north of th 49th
And from the U.S.A.:
American Soldier - do everyone a favour and learn about what's happening on the ground in Iraq from people who are there, and not Micheal Moore, not the the BBC, etc.
Ecce Homo I haven't done a quote from Pope Ratzinger's Introduction to Chistianty in a while and even though I have finished the book there are still one or two passages I want to share, including - perhaps even especially - this one. When I first began to look over what Christianity teaches, to look at the gospel story and to try penetrate why it has been so compelling to so many for so long, this was one of the things that leapt out at me. I was happy to see our Pope confirm it. Expanding on the Apostles Creed where it says "... suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried," Ratzinger writes: The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: Thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man - that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast. Thou art such because, unjust thyself, thou dost always need the injustice of the n...
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