Humor From the Liberal Wing of the Liberal Blogosphere

Jane Hamsher at firedoglake writes:

…when liberals like TBogg or Gavin M. or SZ or Roy Edroso or any other of the wits of the liberal blogosphere sit down behind their keyboards and start tapping out daggers, slicing up the right with eviscerating humor that cuts to the bone, they know full well they are going into battle with unarmed opponents. I don’t know what it is about the right that they completely lack any ability to appreciate humor, but they sure as shit can’t write it either. I would never mess with the General for fear of what he’d come back at me with. Digby? Oh lord. Atrios, Wolcott, John Rogers … and I personally send Roger Ailes a fruit basket once a month just to stay on his good side.

While I have only seen a couple of the bloggers Jane mentioned above in person, and none in the buff, and I seem to remember that Digby has refused to disclose her or his gender, I’d fairly confidently guess that only one of the bloggers listed is female: SZ of World O’Crap. She is also consistently the funniest, and the least likely to resort to sexism, gay baiting or bigotry in her humor, though several of the others are quite decent (and “liberal”!) in this regard as well. Read today’s World O’Crap post, “A Day Without Wingnuts” and note how artfully she takes down Hugh Hewitt and Tom Tancredo without once calling them gay, bitches, slutty, feminine, “cracker,” (okay, admittedly they aren’t Southern) or fat.

Here are some other smart, funny women bloggers Jane could have listed: Pam and Amanda at Pandagon, Susie at Suburban Guerilla, Belle Waring at John & Belle Have a Blog, Sheezlebub at Pinko Feminist Hellcat, Flea at One Good Thing, Shakespeare’s Sister, Dr. Bitch at Bitch Ph.D., Dr. Violet Socks at Reclusive Leftist, Twisty at I Blame the Patriarchy, Roxanne at Rox Populi, Mrs. Goatwax at Molly Goatwax … cripes you get the idea already, and I’ve only scratched the surface – feel free to leave other examples in the comments.

–Ann Bartow