[blogfocus saturday] 17 more lambs to the slaughter

One of Chicken Yoghurt’s graphics This evening I’d like to present 17 more bloggers for scrutiny. DK has mentioned that he can’t see anything particularly brutal in my treatment of my subjects so I hope he likes his own section this evening. Here we go: 1 Chris Dillow heads this evening’s list and rightly so – he’s a peerless blogger whose point form explanations of life, the universe and everything in terms of economics are usually novel, always sound, often amusing and have built up a loyal and expanding readership. He’s high on the list of my required daily reading and long ago I ran a mini-bio of this Leicester cricket devotee. Here he writes of Milton Friedman: He developed the permanent income hypothesis, which argued that ordinary people were at least as rational and forward-looking as experts and rulers.He was a lifelong advocate of school choice, so that the poor would not be trapped in bad schools. So, what does it say about our politics that he is regarded as a right-winger? 2 Devil's Kitchen is the hotbed of swear-rich ranting by the end-of-year-impecunious computer whiz, Worstall devotee, UKIP unofficial spokesperson and Eurosceptic Roundup hoster who’s built up a cult following of likeminded and in some cases flatteringly imitative bloggers, as well as those who … er … don’t swear as much and that following is about to mushroom on Monday evening to mindboggling proportions, threatening even to knock Iain Dale off his lofty perch. Already close to top of the Scots bloggers list, is there no limit to this man’s dangerous rise? But a word of warning, DK – there is such a thing as the greasy pole, old chap: Your humble Devil is unreasonably excited! First because he has blue potatoes galore (blue mashed potato with pink trout very much piques his aesthetic senses).Second, your humble Devil will be making his debut on 18DoughtyStreet on Monday evening from 9 until 12 to, no doubt, answer for his less than kind initial assessment of some of the presenters and shoot the shit for a while. Tune in! 3 Mr Eugenides can swear. Oh yes, the man can swear like a navvy but he can also write and to quote The Pedant-General in Ordinary, "Mr Eugenides may not know it, but he is, in fact, a genius of the highest order." In deep cahoots with DK and host of the popular Swearbloggers Roundup on Mondays [send nominations to mreugenides@hotmail.co.uk.] he’s never posted any of my nominations [as I’ve always nominated him] and yet he remains an example of the camaraderie in the blogosphere which is one of the more satisfying aspects of the game. He also qualifies as required daily reading on my blogrounds and can get to the core of the matter quite simply: Blogs are merely loudspeakers through which ordinary people voice their frustrations with the way they are governed. And those who choose to sit at a keyboard to air those views are actually a more representative sample than you might think. If you're going to be tough on shrill, be tough on the causes of shrill, too. The other 14 bloggers are lurking here ...