Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly top ten.
I thought I should start today with Thoroughly Modern Millie, who claims to be, at 79, one of the oldest bloggers on the web. (Just out of interest does anyone know of any older female blogger?) The post to which I'm pointing here could be a message to us all: "If you don't go out, nothing will happen".
I feel I have to include a London bombing post, but just one, reflecting my personal concern that it not be allowed to loom out of proportion. Catherine Redfern is quoted on MsMusings raising some of the broader issues around the attacks.
Of greater long-term importance, in a week when US abortion rights faced a new threat, Bush v. Choice's is a blog to follow on the aftermath of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement.
The British government might meanwhile be shilly-shallying on the banning of smoking, but Fascinating History reports on a ruler who had an effective, and very final, solution to the problem.
But to gentler political climes: maybe it is just the pastures across which I graze, but Canadians seem to be represented in the blog world, both in quality and quanitty, far beyond their proportion on the world population. It thus seems appropriate to point to Promptings' post on Canada Day.
The delightfully named Booklust is meanwhile finding that she (unfortunately) has seven degrees of separation to Norman Mailer, while Paper Napkin, whose title is explained as "all the news that's fit to wrap your gum in", is finally closing on the purchase of a house, with all of the ensuing stress, and wondering what watching aliens would make of the scene.
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