politics

My new tenant from Blog Explosion is RenaRF who maintains the blog On The Left Tip. As you can probably gather from the name, Rena tends to the left. As she states in her profile area: "A proud member of the 49% who voted for John Kerry".

She also posts to several other blogs such as Daily KOS and Boycott Thieves.

Rena started her blog, On the Left Tip, on Wednesday, August 24, 2005 and posts regularly. On her first day she posted this:

People learn a lot about me by seeing what news attracts and holds my attention. I consume my news from a host of different sources. In the so-called mainstream, I turn to CNN and MSNBC for televised news and read The Washington Post and The New York Times for print news. I also subscribe to Sirius satellite radio and listen to BBC and C-SPAN. I'd say the greatest diversity of news I consume comes online, however. I visit a host of blogs, the most prominent being Daily Kos. I also read international news sources like online newspapers from Mexico and online English-language editions of Al-Jazeera. We exist in a vacuum if we care only what we are saying about what we're doing - it should and does matter what others are saying about it as well. It flabbergasts me that we don't turn more readily to international news sources - for no other reason that it at least provides some perspective.

which explains a lot about how Rena finds and thinks about the news that she posts about.

Rena lives in Washington DC though she comes from Texas where most of her family still lives. She's a Christian though she doesn't attend church very often. On the other hand, she did attend the anti-Iraq war protest in Washington DC on the weekend of September 24th.

It's not all about politics either--here's a picture from her post about one of the newer citizen's in the zoo.

Rena's a golfer, which I can kinda understand even though I have a 25 handicap, but what I just can't understand is her love of bad football. In her words:

Just so we're clear, I bleed burgundy and gold. From August to February every year, if the Redskins are playing, I'm watching. Period.

Another great thing about Rena's blog is that she has A list tenants from Blog Explosion. Her current one is Glyn from Zephod's Heads. A blog I heartily recommend.

I pay attention to politics largely due to its affects on domestic economics but I usually don't care all that much who's in power at the moment. In the end I think it all washes out the same. However this administration is the worst in my lifetime and I think history will judge it the worst in 0ver 100 years. Rena's got a lot more interest in politics and she has the knowledge and eloquence to post much better onthis subject than I ever will. Do give her a read.