Kvetching Turds

Increasingly over the last few months I’ve been reading blogs following mostly the US economic collapse, the response to it, the attempt to provide closer-to-universal health care, etc. For a few years I’d been reading Paul Krugman. Through him (I assume) at some point in the last year I picked up Atrios and Baseline Scenario, and then in the last few months Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, and Digby (in no particular order), and then others more recently (see the blogroll) with those five always the starting rotation.

At some point I thought I should find some Canadian content (being Canadian). I figured the reason I hadn’t made more of an effort sooner was that the problems here don’t seem nearly as bad. “At least you have your health (care).”

When seeking Canadian content, I came up empty at first (you can’t just type “canadian blog” into a search engine) and eventually mentioned it to the most politically active person I know. She confirmed the dearth of decent Canadian blogging, and indifferently mentioned rabble.ca. I checked (and check) every so often, but it lacks updates considering the number of contributors listed, and when it’s updated it’s often about nothing related to Canada, and it’s often written like a newspaper column, which isn’t what I’m looking for.

Then I found Steve Munro, which is highly specific but very excellent, and just recently Worthwhile Canadian Initiative and Relentlessly Progressive Economics and with them some intelligent Canada-focused discourse.

Still, it seems Canadian blogs are well below the 1:10 Canada:US rule of thumb. And maybe it is because our problems aren’t as bad. Things are, generally speaking, most of the time, pretty acceptable. That is, unless you’re Aboriginal.