MATCHMAKER MATCHMAKER: I got to thinking about my blogroll, and realized I would love to make connections between my readers and other bloggers. So this is an “If you like X, you might like Y” post, along the lines of my shilling for Love and Rockets. I’ll try to match reader categories with blogs outside those categories. So be aware that “like” probably means, “be fruitfully challenged by,” as vs. “often agree with.”

If you read me for arts/comics/movie stuff, you might like the Cigarette Smoking Blog and Racialicious.

If you read me for Catholic stuff, you might like Thunderstruck.

If you read me for gay stuff, you might like CSB again if you’re not reading her already; or Noli Irritare Leones; or the Disputed Mutability archives, seriously, try three posts and I will bet you’ll get hooked even if you think this is the last blog you’d want to read.

If you read me for conservatism, you might like The Agitator and Hit & Run. The former is run by Radley Balko, who should be Man of the Year if you ask me–you know how Catholics use the phrase “social justice”? That’s his job. (Mark Shea and Shea fans, seriously, check him out.)

The latter is the Reason magazine blog, so you might think that you know what to expect, but I’ll just say that I’ve gone back to reading it daily because it has so much to offer for all of us who would critique the modern state–from the left, the right, or the Vatican.

If you’re a libertarian for some reason, you might like Colby Cosh or Ta-Nehisi Coates.

If you’re on the left, you might like Megan McArdle.