I've added Hilzoy to my short blogroll. Some time around the new year I gradually came to recognize her as the big-name blogger I'm most likely to agree with, but it wasn't until recently I found enough free time to follow one more blog with any regularity. Given that my political views don't fall nicely into any of the standard molds, it was a surprising find, and it's a completely unfamiliar feeling to me to read any political writer with the expectation of agreeing on almost everything. If anyone out there has been eager to label me politically, you can go ahead and call me a "Hilzoy liberal" now.

I'm still not sure how I feel about the blogroll tradition. Does anyone really care what other blogs I read? If my list got longer than ten, I think I'd be inclined to omit it. But at the moment my regular reads have topped out at five (including Callimachus).

Though I confess I've liked him less during the primary season — what with his irrational hatred of all things Clinton and a mad crush on Obama that is sometimes nauseating even to me, an Obama supporter — Andrew Sullivan is still my main political read. When things get busy, he's the last one I drop.

Sullivan and Hilzoy both link to this article in Time titled "The Five Mistakes Clinton Made". Both of them quote a passage including this part:

Isn't that a rather optimistic view of high school civics students? Do we honestly think they all know how the Democratic Party allocates delegates in the state of California? I'm not denying that it's outrageous that a senior campaign strategist didn't know. I mean, I knew, and I would guess more than half my readers knew ... but every high school civics student? Honestly, I'd be surprised if every high school civics student could tell you that the capital of California is Sacramento.

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