Blogs That Make Me Think

Usually, i don’t care much about Awards.

Usually, Awards are something to earn money or to manipulate people – the Oscar was invented to push the sales of movies and the Mother’s Cross aimed at a high production in breeding.

So usually, i don’t care much about Awards.

But last week Miss Cellania told me, that she tagged me for the Thinking Blogger Awards. Needless to say, that i – immediately – had to look for it and to google if there is some hidden agenda to manipulate or to fool people...

because it sounds so good!

Too many blogs, not enough thoughts!

Sure, i wouldn’t be that specific...

it’s not only about blogs being meaningless – look around you, watch TV, listen to the news, pick up a paper! Then i guess you know what i want to say...

My aim with this blog is to offer content that is interesting, informative and things that could really help my friends who are reading it.

Ok, i’m not curios...

(and ok, no one believes me about that!)

so i browsed his site to understand, if he was serious about that:

It is called '5 Blogs That Make Me Think' and I am tagging the following bloggers for the first list:

Despite the fact, that he sometimes contradicts himself or sometimes seem to indulge in usual stereotypes, his readers are obviously quite witty and open minded – you know “show me your readers and i tell you who you are”. Besides that, there were some posts, convincing me – like Pictures Worth A Thousand Words.

So, i began to ponder about the five tags to chose...

because the participation rules are simple:

1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
3. Optional: Proudly display the 'Thinking Blogger Award' with a link to the post that you wrote (here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn't fit your blog).

So, first, because the easiest thing to do (s. sidebar):

The second step is the link back – (and also to Miss Cellanias post) – to fulfill the chain backwards.

And last not least...

the continuation...

'5 Blogs That Make Me Think' – shouldn’t be that difficult, i guess...

alas, it wasn’t that easy...

should i tag Miss Cellania back? Seems to make no sense – not because she doesn’t make me think, au contraire, i like her humorous writing about not always so humorous things, but because, first, she is on my blogroll (Cellania - Thoughts for today) since years and, second, it would waste “meme-creation-power”...

and to be invited to support a meme linking between blogs that make you think, means much to me, being the maybe most Fiery Fan of brain.

So, who to tag?

There are many sites making me think like OpenDemocracy, the London based foundation “committed to human rights and democracy”, offering so many articles beyond mainstream media, there is The Club of Rome or The WhiteRose or The Smirking Chimp or TruthOut or In These Times (in memoriam Kurt Vonnegut) or The Brights or Independent Media or Haaretz or CounterPunch or Mother Jones – and don’t forget Buzzflash!

But that aren’t really blogs, are they?

There is also Edge or DailyKos or Fanatical Apathy or Take Back the Media or Opinions You Should Have or The Rude Pundit – they truly made me think, but there is something “Treasure Hunting” about the Thinking Blogger Awards and these blogs are always very well known, need no further “promotion”.

Then there is Warblogging or Voxfux or Impeach Bush or 400ml, the Girl from India, showing me, how similar life is far from here – RIP.

And Riverbend...

Baghdad Burning...

who nearly stopped blogging because of a criminal war and now has to leave her home...

i hope – from the bottom of my heart – that she will survive the escape, and not only for the sake of herself and her family, but for the sake of America...

because if you ever read her stories (“A Girl Blog From Iraq” ISBN 1-55861-489-3), touching, warm, humorous, then you know, why she is called the second “Anne Frank”...

and when she has to die because of despicable people not knowing what decency is, what humanity is or compassion, spelling “human dignity” as P-R-O-F-I-T...

then she will haunt America like Anne Frank haunts Germany.

So, if you love your children, Neocons, at least a tiny teeny little bit, and don’t want them to be spitted at – fall on your knees and pray for her life.

But back to the rules...

Ladies and Gentlemen, here i proudly present my treasures for the Thinking Blogger Awards:

Last Chance Democracy – because i love the stories about Zach and the Three Wise Men since years and because i learned something about the American Aristocracy, i never would have believed before..

Radar Contact – because he missed Warblogging, too, and because of all the interesting links you can find like this or that...

Believe in Your Visions (in German) – because the first thing, you read is: “You may have expected a web portal of a consulting company. Until March, 2001 it would have been like that. Then, in March 2001, Janalie’s leukemia (ALL) was diagnosed.” And believe me, that made me think about the true meaning of life...

Brutal Women – because her point of view is so unusual, that you have to think about her words - and because she writes Fantasy stories – and because of that quote: “Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.” - Erica Jong

and

MoxxieGirl “I would rather someone was wrapped in the Constitution burning the flag than wrapped in the flag burning the Constitution.” – because her passion is unlimited, and because squirrels can fall asleep in her hand...