Second-quarter blogroll updates

Fleck's Colorado River blog? Gone. Apparently I'd been ghosted out of commenting on his blog since my start of year update. I could just use a new email address, but he's not worth it. I tried FF as well as Chrome, home and office both. Wouldn't post. When I used same email but new user name, my comment posted, but "under moderation." I've been ghosted/banned. So, bye to Fleck. And fuck his 1-star book. Fleck could also stand to read the likes of Johnny Thompson, who notes how climate change in the Colorado River Basin affects plants, and that in turn is leading Arizonans to continue to increase often-unregulated groundwater pumping.

Wrong Kind of Green, besides thinking the ultimate answer to neoliberalism on climate change is Marxism, is full New Agey on plants, with this post about "trees ... care for their young" and "mother trees suckle their offspring." Trees do none of that as we  understand not only humans but many other animals doing that because they don't have brains, or, in the case of suckling, they don't have mammary glands. Friendship? Involves conscious decisions that trees can't make. Two species growing in some degree of symbiotic relationship is not "friendship." And now claiming that the desire for environmental enclosures like national parks stems from 1860s US racism (a reference to the creation of Yosemite, I guess???) is just ... off the wall. Marxism + New Ageism together is bad enough.

Washington Babylon. Sorry, Ken Silverstein, but you've turned it over too much to Andrew Stewart for "fill" on the political side, and a two-bit poet for other fill. And now Stew is full-on conspiracy thinker on the assassination of Malcolm X. No, COINTELPRO didn't do it. Elijah Muhammad thugs of Nation of Islam did; evidence is pretty solid, including a freely made confession by one of the convicted murderers. I can still drop by on occasion without blogrolling you, to see if you've got something to say yourself. Or something from someone else more insightful than Stew, like all the allegedly outside-the-box journos who simply are in their own new box.

Fleck is gone entirely; the other two are still on my links list, but removed from my active blog feed. I don't visit either regularly.

Evgeny Morozov's "The Syllabus" had an interesting idea, but never really caught on with me on details, plus its RSS feed has been semi-AWOL for some time. To the links list it goes.

I still like Shem, but if you're not posting much (and not on Twitter much)? Driven to Abstraction goes to the links list.

Added? DeSmog Blog. Tracks pollution issues especially, and environmental issues in general, pretty well. Further left than Gang Green but not either New Agey or Marxist.

The Rag Blog. Texana from a generally old Austin hippie/Observer fellow travelers POV.

Off the Kuff. One person knows why, or should know why, even if I hadn't dropped a hint in a recent Roundup.

Joe Monahan's New Mexico Politics moves to the link list but no active feed. Heath Hausaman and his NM Political Report don't have the same knowledge of the Desplobado's political chess as does Monahan, but on news analysis, they've got a better feel for the pulse of the state and what's happening. I have clicked to see how repentant he's become after attacking Gov. Lujan Grisham for allegedly being panicky in vetoing spending bills from the NM Lege's short session. He's been reasonably repentant, but still.