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The Blogs on Rumsfeld
The Bloggers
(in order of appearance)
Tim Dunlop (The
Road to Surfdom)
Tim Dunlop is an Australian writer currently living in Washington
D.C. His Ph.D. dealt with the role of intellectuals and citizens
in public debate and it was this work that led to his interest
in blogging. The Road to Surfdom first went to air in May 2002
and quickly became Australia’s most widely read left-leaning
blog.
Geoffrey K. Pullum (Language
Log)
Geoffrey K. Pullum is Professor of Linguistics at the University
of California, Santa Cruz, where he served as Dean of Graduate
Studies and Research from 1987 to 1993 and was named Distinguished
Professor of Humanities in 2004. He is author of a book of humorous
and satirical essays on the study of language (The
Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax, University of Chicago Press,
1991) and co-author (with Rodney Huddleston) of The
Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (Cambridge University
Press, 2002). He has written for Language Log since its foundation
in 2003.
Eli Stephens (Left I
on the News)
Eli Stephens is the proprietor of Left I on the News, on the
Internet since 2003.
Nathan Newman (NathanNewman.org)
Nathan Newman is director of Agenda for Justice, an organization
that provides legal and policy support for unions and other grassroots
organizations working to enact progressive legislation. With
a Ph.D. in Sociology (University of California, Berkeley) and
a law degree (Yale), he has written extensively on labor and
policy issues, including his book Net
Loss: Internet Prophets, Private Profits, and the Costs to Community.
He also runs NathanNewman.org, one of the most popular online
blogs with an emphasis on workers’ rights issues. He was
formerly associate counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice
in its Poverty Program. His email is nathan@nathannewman.org.
Max B. Sawicky (MaxSpeak)
Max Sawicky is an economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
He has worked in the Office of State and Local Finance of the
U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. Advisory Commission on
Intergovernmental Relations. He also serves on the at-large national
board of the Americans for Democratic Action.
Melanie Mattson (Just a
Bump in the Beltway)
Melanie began her blogging career as a weekend guest poster at
Daily Kos in October of 2003. From there she went on to found
Just A Bump in the Beltway on November 15 of that year.
A 20-year resident of the D.C. metropolitan area, this musician-turned-writer
and theologian received a master’s degree in theology from
the Washington Theological Union in spring 2005.
Barbara O’Brien (The
Mahablog)
Barbara O’Brien is the proprietor of The Mahablog. She has
been posting her commentary there since 2002.
Long ago, Barbara earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism
from the University of Missouri. Since then—when she wasn’t
raising very small children or finessing a mid-life crisis—she
has enjoyed, in her own words, “a long but unremarkable
career in the book publishing industry, in various capacities.”
Her journalism career has been rekindled by the popularity of
her blog and other blogs she contributes to, including Buzzflash,
Alternet, Democratic Underground, Scoop, and Open Source Politics.
She is the author of Blogging
America: political discourse in a digital nation (William,
James & Co., 2004).
Tom Engelhardt (TomDispatch.com)
An editor in publishing for the last 30 years, Tom is the author
of The
End of Victory Culture, a history of American triumphalism
in the Cold War era. He is at present consulting editor for Metropolitan
Books, a fellow of the Nation Institute, and a teaching fellow
at the journalism school of the University of California, Berkeley.
Jeanne d’Arc (Body
and Soul)
Jeanne is the founder of Body and Soul, on the Internet since
the summer of 2002. In 2003, she received the Koufax Award for
Best Writing.
Kevin Raybould (Lean Left)
Kevin Raybould contributes to Lean Left, on the Internet since
2002.
Fafnir (Fafblog)
No stranger to politics, Fafnir played small but critical roles
in the Bush, Clinton, and McCheese administrations throughout
the 1990s. Over the years he has served as a clown, a drug czar,
a bicycle, and the state of Oregon. He currently lives in a blimp
in the sky with his co-blogger Giblets and their sidekick, Pope
John Paul II.
Digby (Hullabaloo)
Digby, recipient of the Koufax Award for Best Writing in 2004,
is the founder of Hullabaloo, on the Internet since 2002.
Ted Barlow (Crooked
Timber)
Ted Barlow is a regular contributor to Crooked Timber. He has
been blogging since 2002. He lives in Houston with his fiancee
and crime-solving dog.
Jeralyn E. Merritt (TalkLeft)
Jeralyn E. Merritt is a Denver attorney in private practice representing
persons accused of serious federal and state offenses. She served
as one of the principal trial lawyers for Timothy McVeigh in
the Oklahoma City Bombing Case.
Ms. Merritt is a past Secretary and Treasurer of the National
Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. She is co-author of
a text on the U.S.A. Patriot Act and has testified before both
Congress and the United States Sentencing Commission on drug
sentencing laws. From 2001 to 2003, she was a Lecturer in Law
at the Denver University College of Law teaching Wrongful Convictions
and Criminal Defense.
Ms. Merritt lectures nationally on a variety of legal and political
topics, and has been a television legal analyst since 1996, most
frequently appearing on Fox News and MSNBC.
Ms. Merritt is also the creator and principal author of the award-winning
weblog, TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime, providing liberal coverage
of crime-related political and injustice news. TalkLeft has won
the Koufax Award for Best Single Issues Blog 2002–2004.
Since its inception in 2002, the site has welcomed more than
5 million visitors.
Chris Herrmann (News Hounds)
Chris Herrmann was one of the Fox News researchers for Robert
Greenwald’s exposé Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s
War on Journalism. She continues to monitor Fox News at News
Hounds (“We Watch Fox So You Don’t Have To”).
The Medium Lobster (Fafblog)
The Medium Lobster is a higher being whose ultimate essence transcends
the bounds of what you call “space” and “time.”
He appears, for the benefit of your limited perception, to be
a medium lobster.
Riverbend (Baghdad
Burning)
Riverbend has been writing her blog Baghdad Burning from Baghdad
since 2003. She is the author of Baghdad
Burning: girl blog from Iraq (The Feminist Press at the City
University of New York, 2005), which was adapted for the stage
and produced in March 2005 by Six Figures Theatre Company in
New York City.
Melanie Killinger-Vowell (News
Hounds)
Melanie Killinger-Vowell was one of the Fox News researchers
for Robert Greenwald’s exposé Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s
War on Journalism. She continues to monitor Fox News at News
Hounds (“We Watch Fox So You Don’t Have To”).
Rude Pundit (The
Rude Pundit)
Rude Pundit is the founder of The Rude Pundit, on the Internet
since 2003.