Are we there yet?

daddy democrat is this week's featured blog. Representing the third time out in the blogosphere for this Pennsylvania (Delaware County) blogger, you'll find political commentary interspersed with cute kid stories.

Well written, timely, and a good mix of local political coverage with some keen insight on national issues, daddy democrat is worth the time to add it to your blogroll and daily reads. daddy takes delight in seeing Our Rick at the bottom of the heap one day, and amused frustration over the Animal Planet the next.

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Funny thing . . . .

This week's featured blog provides a bit of everything you need when real life or politics is beginning to send you over the edge. I am a huge fan of The Liam McEneaney Experience.

Liam advertises his blog as his "online notebook . . . . a lot of first drafts, true stories, and false starts."

True to his self-billing, the blog is very often a standup workout room, usually providing some social commentary, periodically a source of offbeat or overlooked you tube features, sometimes a political commentary, and always entertaining.

Liam has appeared on Comedy Central's Premium Blend, and on VH1's Best Week Ever and has garnered some press attention, which you can find in the links on his page. He also served as a head writer for The Humor Network, and is currently writing for Standup Nation w/ Greg Giraldo, which airs Fridays on Comedy Central starting March 31st at 9:00pm. When he bothers to update it, you can catch his calendar of appearances here. He is a frequent advertiser on Craig's List, can be heard on Keith and the Girl, and you can be his friend at myspace.

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A Little Bird Told Me Something Worth Passing Along

BLOG OF THE WEEK

This week we suggest you take a look at Blue Wren.

This wee bird's search for the truth -- and gas money -- is worth more than a passing glance.

Blue Wren offers intelligent commentary on matters as diverse as dealing with turning 50, death by natural gas, the Zen of Coffee, and a search for lost time, this one triggered by a stray hair in the beans instead of a small French cake, which may bring a tear to your eye as it did mine.

But mostly she writes with grace and insight on the absurdities and unfairness of the nightmare which the Bush Administration has brought to bear. She skillfully skewers Codpiece, as she has taken to referring to President Bush, and the mosh which passes as his policies, and brings a little more truth to light each time.

She writes like I wish I could and reaffirms for me that -- despite the mass of pickup trucks on my local roads sporting Bush stickers -- I am not alone. From her introductory post:

I'm Wren. I'm an American, a disgruntled Democrat, a veteran, a Mom, a wife, an artist and a journalist, a non-believer. I've never been political. But I can't sit silent and watch while America is taken over by the religious right and our democracy and great Constitution are shredded away by inches.

I'm deeply worried about America. I don't want to see the day come when we find ourselves, by virtue of our silence, powerless subjects of an imperial theocracy. I have a lot of questions and not much in the way of answers. But I have a sharp, questing mind and increasingly, feel compelled to speak out.

And so, I'll blog.

Indeed, she does. And for a long time, we hope.

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Blog o' the Week - Lehigh Valley Ramblings

This week, we're suggesting that you take a look at Lehigh Valley Ramblings. The proprietor 'o that blogspot is Bernie O'Hare, who claims to be a former lawyer and a current title searcher in, well, the Lehigh Valley. Bernie makes his home in Nazareth.

His blog does exactly what one looks to blogs to do -- he covers the courthouse and political scene in his corner of the universal with a pleasing mix of information, insight, and crankiness. He skewers his subjects with a clear eye and sharp tounge.

Lehigh Valley Ramblings is on my daily reading list and you just may find yourself making it a habit as well.

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