Today's quality tour

Christian Crumlish

Salon Blog Quality Tour for You.     -  Marcus O'Riley

And we're back at the job of searching out the best bits from Salon's Blogs for you. Some folks have written to say that Marcus is ignoring many of the best things on Salon, so it might be a good time to note that we try to stay away from the top of the pops, and spotlight things you might not see otherwise. Simple enough?
 

Salon Babies: Good start for Saracen‰s Radio Weblog, who attempts the decidedly uncool task of inserting Dale Carnegie into the 21^st century.

Hate Central drops a personal POV on ë8 Mile‰ and the great Eminem.

 O‰Pesky the Rat does about as good a job of pulling together the topics of Iraqi invasion, the stock market, and feline self-interest as anyone could hope for.

The always cheerful Necrolicious provides us with a little Afghan story. I‰m always a sucker for a good fableá

Secular Blasphemy provides a good list of resources for following current events in the Isreali/Palestenian conflict from an international viewpoint.

Salon Blog Death Watch: Wiken‰s Eclectic Time Waster. Born: August 5,2002,  Died: September 2, 2002. Unlike many of the dead blogs, WETW did seem to try and make a go of it, although his increasingly desperate hopes of Salon-Intervention seems to have sealed his fate. That and the end of the thirty day free trial. Typical entry from the next to last post: ‹My time on the trial version is rapidly running out. Down to six more days. I have noticed that number of hits to this site depend greatly on the time of day that updates are made. Late evening is like pissing in the wind; but posting seems to always work. Very early morning catches attention in the recent updatesአDamn! If he had just paid his forty bucks! He almost had it figured outá