I’ve been reviewing “A Few Good Blogs” this morning to see if any promotions/demotions were in order. When I hit Break of Day in the Trenches I was struck, not for the first time, by how much Esther McCallum-Stewart’s pic — which I really like — resembles a sort of nice-girl version of Lucia Atherton, the S&M junkie played by Charlotte Rampling in Il Portierre di Notte. (I myself increasingly resemble Bobby Tripp, the character played by Ned Beatty in Deliverance. 
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Anyway, Esther survives the cut, despite her recent infatuation with fantasy gaming, which I just don’t get, though she claims it has informed her work on British popular culture in the First World War. (No doubt about it: she’s now a Ph.D!)
I’m dropping Blackfive, which I find utterly predictable, reactionary, and devoid of insight.
I’m also pushing Cliopatria down to “More Good Blogs.” Its presence on the main blogroll has always been an aberration, since it is not a blog that focuses on military history or national security studies.
Everybody else looks okay, though I see Dan Todman hasn’t posted on Trench Fever for over a month. But it’s summer and I’ve certainly had my own share of dry spells.
That drops the blogroll down to a dozen, which, in some ways, is where I’d just as soon keep it. Nevertheless, I’m adding Kenneth Anderson’s Law of War and Just War Theory Blog, which of late seems actually to spend significant time addressing its stated subject matter. (He even got instalanched last week.) I particularly liked a recent post in which he contrasted just war theory as depicted by the Catholic Church and by political philosopher Michael Walzer.
