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Remember when I used to post about Iraq all the time? Well, I'm still not doing that. But Baghdad Burning--well written by a 24-year-old Iraqi woman--is. LJ feed is baghdadburning.

While I've got the syndication page open, I might as well share a few other external blogs I read from LiveJournal:

• Talking Points Memo (talkingptsmemo), political commentary from Joshua Micah Marshall, who wrote this article about the invasion of Iraq.
  
• Body and Soul (bodyandsoul_new), more political commentary and questioning, often informed by a religious perspective.
  
• Fluxblog (fluxblog), daily (pretty much) illegal (I assume) MP3s of songs the author likes (today, a song by the Dandy Warhols), and Waking Ear (wakingear), a log of "what song I had in my head when I woke up in the morning".
  
• The War Against Silence (twas), not a blog but a weekly column of (mostly) music reviews.

RSS feeds can be flaky: Some of them have partial text or only headlines, some of them don't include markup like links and images, and sometimes they just get stuck and stop updating, and sometimes they get unstuck and come in a flood. But even the minimal ones are useful as reminders that there's new stuff on the site that you can go and read.

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Oh yeah, the bit about number of people subscribing was for my friend Doug. Syndicated feeds cost "points" to read, and the more people read a feed on LJ, the lower the point cost. Doug doesn't have many points, so if more people were subscribed, it'd be more "affordable" for him.