Took an evening off to go exploring, & found a couple of weblogs off the beaten track that I like very much--from Oregon, Notes on the Atrocities, of which its creator states:
The nature of politics is one of balance between public good and personal gain. Politician, federal agency, state, citizen--all must work to create just law from individual need. What results is either a well-organized polity or a looting.
This is another synapse in the neural net of progressive blogs that seeks to stop the plunder.
It covers current political events like many blogs but does so particularly well; no soundbites to quote though, so go read it yourself.
And De Spectaculis ("throwing myself to the lions"), whose creator speaks of him?self as follows:
and has put up a Conflict Impact Analysis Primer online. Excerpt from his Powerful Rhetoric post:
A large part of what I do is conflict impact analysis. I work with organizations of all types (NGOs both international and local, donors both government and foundation, businesses and corporations both local and multinational) operating in conflict zones or potential conflict zones. They need to know about the context, of course. They also need to know about the impacts of their decisions and their operations on the conflict...
Rhetoric is an art not to be dismissed. It can move mountains thought securely rooted, it can light fires best left unkindled, and it can stir up souls thought long dead. The very best rhetoric speaks the honest truth and speaks it in a way that truth passes through the ears and into the heart, moving men and women at their core and then moving them in the world.
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