One thing I forgot to mention: big time props to The Agitator, one of the best libertarian blogs out there on the net (as one might imagine from my politically oriented posts, I lean strongly to the libertarian side). Forceful, eloquent, and down-to-earth, its owner, Radly Balko, knows his shit, and knows how to communicate an idea like few I've read. He posts over at foxnews.com in an occasional opinion column, but don't hold that against him. His stances on all things social, from the (bullshit!) Internet gaming ban, to police abuses, to the drug war, to Iraq, to the Bush administration, continually ring true. He's not afraid to get silly, either, with the occasional post just being a normal blog-link to some shit that struck him as funny.

I've been digging through his archives and continue to be impressed with his work.

And he appears to know poker!