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You will notice that the blogroll to your left - no, your other left, and down a little bit - has been expanded. Over the last several weeks, my blog reading habits have undergone a slow but inexorable change. With the absence of Steven den Beste's truly incomparable weblog (in prolixity, if nothing else) I have found that I now have time to read many, many more blogs.

By and large, the blogs added are precisely those blogs that I am irritated that I have to dig into my bookmarks for, rather than just click to from the Perfidious homepage. This may seem a selfish motive, but I choose to view it as a heartfelt judgment and appreciation of the quality and irresistible appeal of these fine blogs. The following links each point to what I feel is a singularly fine example of what these blogs have to offer to you, the blogreading public.

• Wizbang offers insightful political commentary, trenchant humor, and posts by Jay Tea. Also boobies! Wizbang has brought us the Carnival of the Vanities, an excellent caption contest, and just recently the neologism "wizbanging." I'd been reading Wizbang semi-regularly, but their coverage of the memogate hooforah roped me in. As an exemplar, here is this excellent takedown of the feared but nor dreaded parasite interwebus asshatus.
• Q and O is a relatively new blog that has become disgustingly successful. I hate them for their success, but I admire what they write. Questions and Observations regularly produces Belmont Club quality posts on a wide range of topics. Earlier, I linked to a post by contributor Dale Franks on Roe v. Wade, and here is another post by co-blogger McQ on rapprochement with France.
• So comrade, what sort of revanchist counterrevolutionary wrecking have you plotted today? If you are falling behind your five year plan's quotas, don't lie to the apparatchiki from the central committee, just steal from the Politburo Diktat. Clenched fist salute to der Commisar!
• Protein Wisdom doesn't just want you to vote, it tells you why. And also explains the Second World War. Now that's wisdom.
• "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." A wonderful quote from H. L. Mencken, and a reasonably apt description of Ace's blogging ethos. He once complimented us on our site design, but has rudely failed to link to us since. Here he slaps Chris Matthews around.
• The Command Post is simply a wonderful resource for breaking news, provided by some of your favorite bloggers. This was a terrible oversight, now corrected. No need to provide a specific link, just go and bask in the warm sunlight of countless bits of interweb goodness.

We have developed an ethos of exclusivity here at the Ministry, which for no other reason but laziness has compelled us to maintain a relatively small blogroll. Were we to throw hallowed tradition to the wind and start adding blogs willy-nilly, these fine blogs would no doubt be on that roll of honor. In no particular order:

• The Jawa Report ***Must Credit Rusty Shackleford!***
• BeldarBlog He's pretty good, for a lawyer.
• Captain's Quarters Excellent!
• The Llamabutchers I absolutely, absolutely love the name of this blog. Though I still don't get why they hate Tibetan Buddhists.
• The 'Dredge Report Now with a new name and a spiffy site redesign.
• Oldsmoblogger And yes, he apparently is slow and in the way.
• The Idea Shop Where the dismal science gets groovy.
• Naked Villainy The Maximum Leader stole our whole minister thingy, but I love him anyway
• Transterrestrial Musings Great space stuff, and good commentary on events of the day.

[wik] I wasn't kidding about laziness. Doing one of these posts is very time consuming.

[alsø wik] I'm also not kidding about the other blogs. If I didn't feel compelled to keep the blogroll relatively small, I'd have certainly added them.