December 2, 2008

Legal Department

I Must Have Good Taste in Blogs

Or at least no worse taste than the American Bar Association, which just named their top 100 blawgs, including several of my favorites:

Defending People

Rather than using his blog to shake his fist at injustice everywhere, Mark Bennett focuses on how lawyers can make their own justice in the courtroom. He shares his philosophies through analogies and anecdotes from his Houston criminal defense practice.

Simple Justice

New York City criminal defense lawyer Scott Greenfield calls out politicians and journalists on their missteps and offers sarcastic coverage of criminal justice stories that outrage him. And the world is such that he's usually good for a couple of rants a day.

Blonde Justice

Blonde Justice, who has been at this blogging game since 2004, reports that she is back in her "dream job" as a public defender after a depressing foray into private practice. Though she hides her name and location behind a wall of pink, she otherwise doesn't hold back when she's writing about her life and her work.

I would have been on the list myself, but they dropped the Wild-Eyed Libertarian Photographer Blawger category at the last minute. Curses.

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Thanks. Now get back to blogging! Your volume of posts this year has not been up to your earlier standards! I DEMAND more funny stories!

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Libertarian-ish

Hit & Run
Cataloguing every inch of our daily slide down the slippery slope towards a more totalitarian state.
Virgina Postrel
Author, columnist, and famous kidney doner.
The Agitator
Radley Balko, libertarian at large.
Nobody's Business
A blog about negative liberty.
Ravings of a Feral Genius
The one, the only, Jennifer.
Honest Courtesan
Notes from a retired call girl.

Bloggy Goodness

Duly Noted
Yet another Lindsay Beyerstein blog.
InstaPundit
Law professor, author, columnist, music engineer, the founding father of the blogosphere.
StrategyPage
News and commentary on all things military.
Last One Speaks
A complicated woman with simple tastes.
Ethics Alarms
Jack Marshall at large.

War on Drugs

StoptheDrugWar.org
Taking the drug war debate to the blogosphere
DrugWar Rant
More reasons every week for hating the War on Drugs.
DUI Blog
The road to hell is paved with good intentions and patrolled by Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
The D'Alliance
The Drug Policy Alliance blog.
Vigil for Lost Promise
A counterweight to the DEA's exploitive site.

Blawgs

a Public Defender
Rants, explanations, and complaints from a public defender.
Simple Justice
Rants, explanations, and complaints from a private lawyer.
Defending People
The art and science of criminal defense trial lawyering
Probable Cause
The legal blog with the really low standard of review.
Unwashed Advocate
Former Military Underdog
Indefensible
David Feige, creator of Raising the Bar and former public defender.
Koehler Law Blog
Don't be fooled by how pretty it is
Not Guilty
A lawyer in search of a clue.
Norm Pattis
Norm will fight for you!
The Legal Satyricon
Entertainment and First Amendment Law
Gamso - For the Defense
An Ohio criminal defense lawyer
Criminal Defense
It's like a criminal defense blog, but from Florida
ECILCrime
East Central Illinois criminal defense.
Underdog Blog
Criminal defense, politics, and God only knows what else.
CrimLaw
A big, goofy, ballcap-wearing prosecutor who even likes dogs. [review]
Blonde Justice
Funny stories about criminal defense.
Crime & Federalism
Legal analysis and bitching. [review]
Seeking Justice
Tom McKenna, Virginia prosecutor on a mission from God.
The Volokh Conspiracy
Smart legal experts.
D.A. Confidential
Making prosecutors seem just like normal lawyers
Crime and Consequences Blog
Because we're just not punishing people enough
Graham Lawyer Blog
Interesting writing about the law.
New York Personal Injury Law Blog
Better than you'd think from the SEO-friendly name
West Virginia Criminal Law Blog
Also better than you'd think from the SEO-friendly name
South Carolina Criminal Defense Blog
And one more that's better than you'd think from the SEO-friendly name

Geek Stuff

Schneier on Security
Smart thinking about computers and other security problems.
The Daily WTF
Crazy stories about bad things inside computer software and how they got there.
xkcd
Extremely geeky comics.
Google Blogoscoped
Smart writing about search engine technology.
The Altruist
Agony Unleashed in EVE Online.

Economics

Steven Landsburg
The Armchair Economist
Greg Mankiw's Blog
Aurhor of the most popular macroeconomics textbook
Marginal Revolution
Everything happens in the margins
Megan McArdle
Business and economics

Photography

Strobist
How to light everything in the world with speedlights
iN-PUBLiC.com
Very cool modern street photography.
Digital Photography Review
Detailed reviews of digital cameras and vicious forum debates too.
Ken Rockwell
Strong opinions about photography.
Dan Heller
Photographs and the business of photography.
Bert P. Krages II
Photography and the law.

Chicagoland

Leslie's Omnibus
I have no idea what this blog is about.
Marathon Pundit
John Ruberry runs, drives, and blogs.

Media

Eric Zorn
Possibly the Chicago Tribune's first blogger.
Miss Manners
A marvelous writer and deeper than you think.
Roger Ebert's Journal
A great writer and a useful film critic.

Resources

WolframAlpha
Data + Computation = Fun Knowledge.
Institute for Justice
A merry band of libertarian litigators.
EFF: Bloggers
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's page for bloggers.
CIA World Factbook
A brief summary about every nation.
Wikipedia
The mostly-useful encyclopedia of everything.
Current Impact Risks
It has to happen some day.

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