Slate‘s The Best Political Weblogs looks like a very interesting feature, although their declaration that by featuring selected blogs they are somehow democratizing journalism, would be more convincing if they actually featured weblogs from people other than their well established, published journalist buddies.

The Equal Rights Amendment has been re-Introduced in Congress. Rock on. Here’s hoping that (1) it actually gets through this time, (2) it doesn’t paralyze NOW into a one-issue group for the next several years, and (3) Phyllis Schlafly stays in her cave for the duration. The ACLU‘s heavy-handed self-congratulations patting itself on the back over its feminist record is rather hypocritical, but that is another post entirely….