Elsewhere

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire is soliciting "reviews" (doubt that he's getting any bad ones--he's offering $100 Amazon gift certificates for his favorites, manna to us book drunks) but even so, the truth is that I've been going to his site first thing for longer than just about anywhere else in the blogosphere.

Political Wire offers nuggets, not just blurbs. It's fun to scan for the political Zeitgeist stuff of the day but what I find most valuable are the summaries of polls and studies, and not just the usual suspects. These sometimes support impressions you get from the news, but sometimes they are quite different, showing that perhaps the conventional wisdom has got it wrong about how voters think and feel.

Again, it's not just that these summaries are short and sweet, with links to the full presentation. It's what's in the summaries. Beyond the obvious headline, they often highlight the most interesting and key facts that may be buried in the data. Political Wire has been my secret weapon for years. Too bad I had to out myself, but that's what the possibility of $100 in books and DVDs will do.

Also elsewhere:

A consideration of playwright Carol Churchill on sexual and other politics at Stage Matters. Some thoughts on regret at the reformatted Blue Voice, and on ergonomics at the reformatted Shopopolis.