We missed blogging Monday due to court and meetings, and we just finished catching up. Here's some of what we missed:

Atrios explains how he got his name.

Anger Management announced he was quitting blogging today...then resumed five hours later. (Via Walter in Denver.) The kid (he's 21) is a good writer, we hope he sticks with it.

Blogshares, the fictional stock trading game that popularized so many blogs, is no more. We're sorry about that too, it was practically an institution.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden of Electrolite weighs in on the President's Thanksgiving Day trip to Iraq.

Oliver Willis notes major bookstore chains are removing the comfy chairs of recent years and he's not a happy camper about it.

Ezra and Jesse at Pandagon are covering the new liberal radio network and thinking, hey, maybe they could get a gig. Actually, we think the idea of some young voices on the network is a good one. Let's hope it's not all 50 year old white men. Nick at Tapped has more, and says, "Progress Media is at least hiring entertainers with a political bent, rather than politicians and pundits with a yen to be the left's Rush. But I wonder if that will be enough." And Skippy weighs in with his usual wit.

Jeanne D'Arc at Body and Soul covers World Aids Day and Thanksgiving at her house--we almost felt like we were there.

And over here at TalkLeft, you may notice we have an ad running on the right side of the page. We like the way it looks, and are pleased we could make the text match the text of the rest of the site. We hope you will click on our ads often so the advertisers think it's worthwhile to keep advertising with us. It's not huge bucks, but it will help us buy a few more Christmas presents for those on our list.

We have another reason besides Thanksgiving for light blogging over the next several days....we got a cast on our right wrist today and we're right handed. It goes around the thumb and to below the elbow. (It's not broken, just severely stressed or something like that.) It's very difficult to hold a pen and it hurts to move it a lot. So, we're picking at the keyboard and trying not to use the mouse--as a result, it takes a very long time to make even one entry.

We'll also probably write shorter entries, with more links to news than analysis--and we may have to be like Skippy for a while and forego caps as they take more hand movement--but we're going to keep at it. Typing is a lot easier than peeling the sweet potatoes for tomorrow's thanksgiving dinner.

We wish everyone a great holiday.

With the holiday just around the corner, lots of bloggers, ourselves included, will be posting light. Here are some good reads we've found:

Arthur of The Light of Reason is back blogging. We don't know if the LA transit strike ended, or Arthur got a car, or what, but we're glad he's back. We found out from Avedon Carol at Sideshow who has a great post on maher arar, conservative media and puritanical mores all wrapped into one.

Lisa English of Ruminate This is back with an insightful post about Medicare and the AARP.

Jay and Jane at the Daily Rant will be moving to www.classlesswarfare.com.

Pacific Views has a wrap at Tuesday Blogging.

Dave Neiwert of Orcinus explains why the political fight has become personal to him. What a superb writer he is.

We'll be back later today.

We've got court, conferences and more to tend to the rest of the day....before the grocery store and then the airport to retrieve our home-bound son. So, have at it, talk about what you want to, but please, play nice.

Say hello to Southern Exposure, a new group weblog on latin american affairs. One of the contributors is Randy Paul, author of the excellent blog on the same topic, Beautiful Horizons.[link via Calpundit]

Ezra Klein of Not Geniuses is moving over to Jesse Taylor's Pandagon. We think it's a great move for both of them.

Update: Someone hacked into the "Blogs We Like" section on the right and substituted repetitive listings of something called "Laura's blog". We don't know Laura and we've deleted the blogroll until we can get it fixed. Hopefully by tonight. Has this happened to anyone else?

Pacific Views does a great job of summing up the Saturday blogs.

We're on the road today, off to Washington for a board meeting of the ABA's Criminal Justice Section Council. There are a lot of important issues on the six page agenda, but the ones we're most interested in are the recommendations of the Innocence Committee to ensure the integrity of the criminal justice system, and recommendations on the Victory Act and SAFE Act.

This is not a group where defense lawyers are preaching to the choir. It is roughly equally composed of prosecutors, defense counsel, judges and law professors.

We'll have our computer for light blogging over the weekend, but we won't be back at full speed until Sunday night. Please enjoy the great sites listed on the right, feel free to toss us a tip through the paypal or amazon links at the left and have a great weekend.

Arthur Silber at Light of Reason has announced that the LA transit strike has done him in financially and he will be putting the blog on hiatus. He explains why the strike matters so much to him here. We're really sorry to hear this as Arthur's voice is one we highly respect. He does have a paypal button if you can spare a few dollars. We hope he'll be back.

Atrios thanks his lawyer who helped him with the Donald Luskin threat to expose his identity and sue him. It is none other than Alabama lawyer Sam Heldman, who writes the blog Ignatz, currently on hiatus. Great job, Sam.

Atrios will be donating his paypal donations for six weeks to a very worthy organization--the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, which provides quality legal representation to those on death row and those without funds to retain counsel. Alabama is a nasty Southern state when it comes to the rights of the accused. Give all you can. You can give directly to EJI by mailing a check to them (let Atrios know because he's keeping a tally):

Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama
122 Commerce Street
Montgomery, AL 36104

Atrios, you're a mensch. And, of course, so is Sam.

Terry at Nitpicker is being called to Iraq. He's looking for someone to take over writing his blog for a year. You can e-mail him at nitpickerblog@hotmail.com. It's really a good blog. We hope someone keeps it going for him.

Baby Kos, now called Ari, is home with his happy and tired parents. Kos wrote the most amazing story of the 23 hour labor and birth that you can read over at his baby blog, FishyShark. You should read it. Kos is a amazing story teller and writes in riveting detail about all 23 hours of Elisa's labor. We read it in one sitting, holding our breath the entire time. Congrats to Markos and Elisa, and to Ari, a big welcome to the Planet earth. Kos and Elisa, you done good!