Birthday present

On this, the second anniversary of the blog you are reading at this very moment, I can think of no better way to commemorate it than by asking you to consider visiting a couple of blogs I've recently found and who, for better or for worse, have had the temerity to link to me. Some other stuff--amusing, inspiring, what have you--also appears under the fold.

As an aside: as I mentioned below, when I first started blogging, I had a difficult time finding really good, substantive blogs; recently, though, I have been finding more and more of them, thanks to the fact that the good blogs I've been reading themselves tend to read (and link to) good blogs. Funny how that works. Anyway, Thank You to the lot of you for enriching this experience for me.

*The lovely Belle Lettre (what else could she be with a name like that?) of Law and Letters writes in a loving/hating sort of way about law school and culture. Her recent posts here and here should be required reading for anyone the least bit curious about attending law school. Funny because true because funny. (Hat tip: A Frolic of Her Own (who, by the way, needs to blog much more regularly than she does))

*Auntymarianne of Tomato and Basil Sandwiches is that rarity, a do-gooder bureaucrat. She distributes humanitarian aid on behalf of the European Union and, on her blog, distributes wisdom and witticisms about life in Brussels and on culture generally. As to her manner, let's just say it's not exactly button-down. (Hat tip: R. Sherman of Musings from the Hinterland)

*The Plank today links to this excerpt from an interview in GQ that is truer than the speaker knows.

*And finally, Andrew Sullivan links to something that, I swear, you do not have to love baskeball in order to love. Maybe even get a bit misty-eyed over. (Note: the video was "unavailable" when I tried it just now. Keep trying.)