The Thinking Blogger

I'm honored Coturnix tagged with the "Thinking Blogger Awards" meme. The 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).

Gold suits me just fine, thank you.


Now to the hard part. The task at hand is to identify blogs that make me think. There's really two options here: blogs that make me think that also are likely to respond by propagating the meme, and blogs that make me think whose writers barely know this blog even exists. What ended up making me choose the latter group was the fact that one of my choices of the former group, Upyernoz, has already been tagged by Bark Bark Woof Woof. So this post will likely be a dead-end for the meme, but it's also a shot in the dark since it'd be interesting to know who makes those on my list think if one of them responds. They're mostly group blogs and highly focussed (meaning you usually won't find them posting memes or trunk monkeys), thereby further reducing the likelihood of meme propagation. Here goes (alphabetical):

The Agonist
The Oil Drum
Prometheus
Real Climate
Washington Monthly