Thogging

I was hoping to avoid this meme. But as so many good people have shown uncharacteristically poor judgment (thanks chaps!) in nominating me as a thinking blogger, I feel obliged to pass it on.
Lot's of blogs make me think. Iain and Guido make me think: are people really interested in this tittle-tattle? Harry's Place makes me think: don't these guys ever get bored of making the same point? I could go on...
Anyway, my five nominees are: Paul, Shuggy, Fabian, Matthew and Not Saussure.
I've excluded those kind enough to nominate me. I've left out Norm, Samizdata, Civitas and Wat as they don't need the traffic. And I've left out US bloggers - though I find Bryan Caplan and Overcoming Bias, to name but two, very stimulating.

Comments

[dearieme]

I'd add to Shuggy the NHS Blog Doctor - for matters Sawbones-and-Quacks; More Than Mind Games - for fitba-related; A Place to Stand - for making me wonder just how much we've been misled about what happened in Bosnia; and The Joy of Curmudgeonry - for deft shafts of insight about The Human Condition. Among the yanks, Steve Sailer is without peer.

[ohdearieme]

ah, Steve Sailer, the noted film critic and race nut.

[Anon]

"don't these guys ever get bored of making the same point?" Pot and kettle, Mr Dillow, pot and kettle. (You could hold a demand=revealing referendum on it.)

[jameshigham]

Delighted I was passed over. Think I'll start up the Mindless Bloggers Club.

[chris]

James - that was exactly why I was trying I avoid the meme. You just annoy everyone who's not in your list, for no very good reason. Sorry.

[Fabian Tassano]

Thanks for the mention.

[jameshigham]

Chris, I wouldn't be annoyed with you, particularly as you were kind enough to link the Malcolm Marshall thing. It does create divisiveness though [speaking generally here, not specifically]and this is the big problem with my blogroll - how not to elevate some to the exclusion of others.