A Sad Blogosphere Development

[I'd meant to mention this days ago...] Ed Morrissey has long been one of the best conservative bloggers out there, providing fantastic analysis and insights as the Captain of Captain's Quarters.

He's now packed up his bags and is blogging over at HotAir. I don't particularly like the HotAir layout, but the move unites him with Allahpundit - thus making a pretty dynamic duo. I've removed CQ from my blogroll and added HotAir.

DKos to be in Newsweek

Newsweek has apparently decided that its readership isn't satisfied with their in-house leftish nonsense; no they want more. Thus they've contracted with Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, Kos of DailyKos, to be among their 2008 correspondents. They've promised to find an equally obnoxious right-winger; my first thought is "what's David Duke up to?"

For his part, Ed Morrisey - far more fair-minded than I - views this as a fundamentally good thing for the blogosphere.

I also think, David Duke comments aside, that it'll be hard to find a right wing equivalent to Kos; as a whole, the left wing blogosphere is far angrier and more obscene; they lack the measured voices of a Captain Ed or a Glenn Reynolds (don't believe me? Take a look at firedoglake).

More Michael Yon From Iraq

Michael Yon, itinerant independent journalist and blogger, has given the world another unbiased look at things in Iraq; this is the sort of stuff that never makes it in the media. Yon's currently with the Queen's Royal Lancers in southern Iraq, where our allies are watching the border. Both pictures and coverage are great, be sure to spend some time reading it (as well as looking at some of his old pieces). I won't deign to comment extensively on it, because Blackfive has done it well.