A note on internal links: I have sprinkled this site generously with links to other pages, but i want to reassure my readers that they are all there either to substantiate a statement i’ve made or to provide additional information i think the user will find useful. There are no links on this site to advertising. The closest i come to that is adding a link to a restaurant’s home page when i’m doing a review, and i promise you no restaurant has ever given me a dime for linking to their page.
I sometimes remember to insert an exclamation point (!) at the end of links in my text that provide critical information.
Here are links to some sites i find interesting. They range in bias from far left to far right: [note: some of these are dead. List needs reviewing.]
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- Aeon. A digital magazine with superb essays and breathtaking videos.
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- The Automatic Earth Great social and political commentary.
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- Cryptogon News tidbits about your police state from an exile in New Zealand.
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- Data Pointed Fascinating articles and “visualizations” by a polymath artist/scientist. Nothing added since fall ’14.
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- David Laslie, Designer David doesn’t run a restaurant, but his renderings are good enough to eat.
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- Eater If you want to get all the news about the San Francisco dining scene long before i write about it, check out this site.
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- Ian Welsh Great essays from the radical left.
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- The Intercept. A new site as of 2014 devoted to exposing the surveillance machinations of the US government. It’s even worse than you imagined.
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- JoeMyGod All the gay news, some of which is fit to post.
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- More Crows Than Eagles. Breathtaking essays on the current political and social situation.
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- Pen and Sword * (Alas, Jeff Huber died in January, 2013, just a couple of weeks after his last post. A master of invective, and I miss him.)
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- Stefan’s Gourmet Blog Great, easy-to-follow recipes for the serious amateur. I blundered onto this site while googling on babi pangang. A wonderfully eclectic collection from a gifted Amsterdam chef.
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- Shawn Clover. Combine San Francisco urban exploration with fine photography and you get Shawn.
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- Taking Sense Away Everything you always wanted to know about the TSA. Alas, as of 2021,there’s been nothing new for five years.
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- TomDispatch Pointed political analysis with a leftward tilt.
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- Truthdig Chris Hedges monitors our slide into totalitarianism.
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- Uptown Almanac Despite the name, this blog is focused on San Francisco’s Mission District. You’ll read it here first.
- Zero Hedge – The primary focus here is on financial issues, but you get fine commentary across a wide range of other areas, often material largely ignored by the mainstream media
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* Inactive