Two smart additions to the blogroll

To be honest, I thought I already had the mighty Headmistress on the blogroll and was very surprised to see that I’d neglected her. I love the site – it’s smart, varied, funny, thoughtful, and while the focus is on homeschooling and family, it’s also about politics, faith, books and all sorts of common and uncommon issues. I never go there without taking something good away.

Snarky Bastards I never saw before today, but I fell in love with this group-blog’s vigor and their clear love of words, language and pithy quotes. Words are their playthings. Smart, a little edgy and very funny-when-they-wanna-be – stumbling into this blog made me feel like I was 20 years old and listening to my smartest friends riff away on any topic, subjecting everything through a brainy, pop-culture savvy filter. My birth mother – who, madness aside, was a very sharp woman – would have loved ’em, too.

Don’t be afraid of the pop-cuture line. This is way smarter than Maureen Dowd ever thought of being. Please check out these two sites – I think you’ll like them.