Thursday, September 23, 2004

I just rediscovered a blogger whose blog I used to read regularly, but who decided to quit blogging when he started grad school. It was one of those random, weird finds.

I was checking my referrer stats and noticed a link I hadn’t seen before. So I clicked it and found this blog that was in Spanish, but I scrolled down to see how they got to me and got to the BlogSnob ads. Listed in the BlogSnob ads was the blog of the brother whose blog I used to read (are you confused yet?), so I clicked on that link out of curiosity. Read a few posts and then noticed a link for his brother’s blog in his sidebar, so I clicked it.

Looks like Matt decided to return to blogging in August with a new blog called Infinitely Tortuous. He’s been added to This Roll in the sidebar on the right and I’m very excited that he’s back to blogging.

In my perusal of his blog today, I found his post about Iraqi blogs, in particular Iraq the Model.

I just figured I’d plug a blog I’ve been reading regularly since June, and just haven’t gotten around to mentioning here yet. It’s one of many blogs written by Iraqis who are taking full advantage of their new freedom to say whatever they want without fearing for their lives or those of their families.

There are a few such blogs that I read, but I’ve found Iraq The Model to be the best. (It has links to others, which have links to others, etc., for the curious.) It’s written by three brothers—two dentists and a doctor.

I was astonished when I first came across it. All kinds of stories about how thankful many, many Iraqis are for what we have accomplished over there. Do we hear any of it over here? Of course not. Just quick daily sound bites of how many people had died in fighting the previous day. Anyway, I was hooked. These people are not “partisans"… their number one interest is survival, both their own and that of their country.

And welcome back, Matt!