Blog Spotlight: The Archdruid Report

Thanks to Bison for mentioning The Archdruid Report a few months ago. I've been reading it ever since. The link is in my "links to live by" section on the left hand side of my blog. To put it lightly the guy knows his stuff. He lays out exactly what's going on now, what he sees happening in the future (which I, for the most part, agree with) and he backs it all up with historical evidence. While I don't agree with everything that he writes, he's so close that I can read what he's written and say that there's no one else that comes closer to explaining my vision of the future. He's just a lot more articulate than I am and he spends a lot more time on his posts so I'll leave it up to him. His posts are a bit long but he only posts once a week and he keeps you interested. If you're just as interested in the how and why as you are the when and where then this is the blog that you should keep tabs on. He's not exactly a doom and gloomer but he doesn't have a sunshiny, happy, optimistic view of things to come, either.

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Anonymous said…
I like reading Bison too, and consider him as more the poor mans survivalist, as compared to Rawles. This places Bison closer to what many of us experience who do not have deep pockets or a trust fund to rely upon.
August 13, 2008 at 6:44 AM
The Urban Survivalist said…
This spotlight was for The Archdruid Report but I like Bison, too. If you read this blog then you probably already read Bison so it would be kinda pointless for me to spotlight him.
August 13, 2008 at 8:16 AM
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