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 BaldJean wrote:

 micky wrote:

 emigre80 wrote:

^ I've dropped in on Raff's blog a few times, and found some interesting music suggestions there. She's the reason I'm now into the Amazing. 
I'm a political junkie, so like Daily Kos and Plum Line. do those count as blogs?

I'm also addicted to Wonkette.

great group!  She can thank me for that, and I can thank Jim (Finforest) who turned me to them on while I was turning him off to politics on FB 

I do love politics... but I prefer discussing it rather than reading it.

I have often thought of starting my own blog. I do have a lot of interests outside of music, women's fashion, military history, sports, men's footwear, and work related interests like explosions and fires.  I just never got around to it. It would probably be just like my failed attempts at having a FB life. I'd see or hear something that rubbed me the wrong way and I'd start foaming at the mouth and laying waste to all around me.

it's a strange thing, but when men are interested in history it is almost inevitably military history. I have a degree in history, but I have to say the military aspect of it was always the least interesting for me.

as to blogs: I used to be s regular visitor on the website of Terry Pratchett, but since he is dead now I no longer go there

missed this earlier Jean

not surprising Jean. It isn't like you were likely brought up around guns, learning to shoot them at an early age and where you looked up to your father and grandfather that served. Of course it is a generality with many exceptions but yeah, boys do tend to grow up playing with plastic army men, hearing stories about those of our family who served and all that sh*t. Later many often feel the call to do what their parents and grandparents did and often serve and have our own firsthand experiences and knowledge we then bring to our studies. Combine that large group of predominantly males with those who have a natural love of history and you have a have pot of ready made military historians haha.  

I always thought military history is quite fascinating. Not just the dates and places but especially the in the individuals.  Funny though one of the best books I ever read was by a woman though. You could tell it was a labor of love on her part exploring a little understood (overshadowed) military disaster that she had relatives involved with.

Edited by micky - November 29 2015 at 09:20