Another knee-jerk Democratic blog — Atrios/Eschaton — gets removed from my links list

I of course removed Kos after he banned me this summer for calling Armando a spade in spades for lawyering for Wally-World.

Well, with Spinsanity founder Brendan Nyhan getting canned by The American Prospect because Duncan Black (Atrios) bitched, “Eschaton” is off my link list also.

I’ve thought for years, not just months, that Black was among the more puerile, even sophomoric, bloggers around, and had very rarely visited his site in the last three-four months. (I had slowed down after the anti-Green flaming I got there during the 2004 elections.)

I have an account at Talking Points Memo, but hadn’t used it since Josh Marshall upgraded the site. But, less so than with the minions of Kos or Atrios, I’ve tangled a bit with him from time to time, especially when I’ve pointed out Democratic problems and it seems to me like Josh thinks I’m making a moral equivalence statement.

Now, Kevin Drum at Political Animal is less liberal than I, and though a fellow atheist, less assertive a civil libertarian. But Kevin’s always been a dignified and rational blogger.