Today on the Blogs

I spend most of my time reading blogs and news online and find myself wanting to talk and link to so many items that I end up posting on none of it. I hope to make "Today on the Blogs" a regular feature that will provide a bigger picture view of what is garnering my attention online. Please post links to anything you have found of interest.

In the Canadian Progressive Blogosphere:

• Peace, order and good government, eh? discusses Conservative Government's misuse of franking privileges to send propaganda on the taxpayer's dime. This was previously mentioned over at Canadian Cynic, Impolitical and Scott's Diatribes.
  
• Lots of coverage of the "In and Out" electoral scheme. The ethic committee hearings are underway (liveblogging here) and on cue the Conservatives are using distraction and obstruction tactics to take away attention from the real story (h/t BigCityLib)
  

From our neighbours to the south:

• Good article in the American Prospect ask Are We Neglecting the Next Activist Generation?
• Matt Yglesias, one of my favorite bloggers, has launched his new blog at ThinkProgress.org after leaving his previous post at The Atlantic. Take a look at this timeline of Yglesias' career since he graduated from Harvard in 2002
  

~BT