Blogroll update in progress

As promised, I am creating a new blogroll. I can't edit the old one; however I tweaked Blogger's XML to get past the 10-blog limit, the sidebar won't let me either add or delete one bit; the moving finger moves on, per Omar.

And, I've been wanting to update.

So far, for sure, I am deleting:

• Orac/Insolence
• James Dorsey (Turbulent World of Mideast Soccer)
• The Rag Blog

I will probably delete:

• Independent Political Report.
• Ballot Access News

I may/will possibly delete

• Counterpunch
• Skeptophilia
• Off the Kuff 
• Schneier on Security
  

Here's why, on each.

Orac continues to be a BlueAnon tribalist on all things COVID and will only be insufferable politically the next four years.

Dorsey? Hasn't added anything majorly new to the Middle East discussion since Oct. 7, 2023, even at the Substack that replaces his blog.

Rag Blog? Does nothing for me. 

The two probablies? 

IPR? "Nuña" had ruined that place even before the election, plus the addition of Cloudfare made it hard to pick up a feed. Nuña's stupidity and would-be bullying has gone nowhere since the election, for the most part, and the feed issues are still there.

BAN? Recent idjitry by Richard Winger in fellating the Libertarian Party and outgoing chair Megan McArdle, blogged about last week, plus his doubling down on comments. (And, on the matter at hand, IPR went halfway there, too.) Beyond that, I'm rethinking some ideas here, and also rethinking my focus on politics in general and details of third-party politics in particular. Also, Nuña had semi-polluted BAN on occasion. I had originally put them on the updated blogroll, but removed them again.

The maybes, or first the semi probably, getting close to the two above?

Counterpunch? Written repeatedly here in the last six months about it becoming more BlueAnon like in the past six months, plus weirdness of what qualifies for its paywall and more. It's "meh." (It's also doing a new round of stanning for Ralph Nader.) And, it recently slipped into vote fraud conspiracy theory over Ohio 2004, long ago refuted. In addition, especially with the unpaid material, whether by "casuals" or regular contributors, there's relatively little. editorial focus.

Skeptophilia? His relative lack of skepticism is becoming more and more common. His duopoly identitarian politics are becoming more common to this leftist. I've written about him occasionally, primarily at the "Philosophy of" blog. On the other hand, he's corrected a couple of mistakes I mentioned, so he'll likely stay for now.

Kuff? Probably violates fair use on what he copies and pastes into his blog text, and the days of me anti-virtue signaling David Bruce Collins and Brains and Eggs by having him on my list have long passed. Add in that DBC doesn't write anything any more.

Schneier? My comments never get posted after sitting in its moderation cue, and also, most of what Bruce does is bulletin-board service link posting and that's it.

Stuff lower than that on my original blogroll has gone inactive for a year or more, or else, as in the case of Nautilus (which is also semi-paywalled) has feed issues.

I am adding, or will add, some Substacks I follow and actually read, like Ken Klippenstein and Ken Silverstein.