UC Berkeley and UCLA law schools are teaming up to create a new enviroblog that focuses on policy and law. And no, they don’t have any writers called Robert—we checked.

Called “Legal Planet,” the blog is made up of 12 contributors, six of which are from UCLA and seven who come from Berkeley (and yes, we did count that right).

Legal Planet has been around since January, so there’s plenty of content for you environmental law fans—and you can bet you won’t get doubletalk.

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Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy [Website] via Newscenter

According to Gothamist–yet another “Ist” blog–Bourdain and Waters are set to duke it out, face to face, at a forum for gourmet heavyweights in May. We certainly look forward to hearing about this one. It promises to be a real ”food fight.” (Ha! Take that, Gothamist! Or … not.) 

Update: More Waters-bashing on NPR.  Wow, things are getting way more intense than we anticipated, up in here. 

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Anthony Bourdain Talks Alice Watersgate [Gothamist], via Eater SF 
Waters Backlash, Cont. [Eater SF]
Earlier: Alice Serves Mouthwatering Cuisine in D.C., Sparks Blog-oversy

We mourned the passing of College OTR’s best writers, honked noisily into kleenexes at Beetle’s departure in May, and raised a brow at Dangierre’s disappearance from the collective blogosphere that same semester. But waddaya know? New voices on the internet are never lacking.

Vacaville’s newspaper’s cobbled together a team of California college bloggers to cover college life and its related shenanigans. Nah, we don’t know where that is either. But hey! Melanie Garcia’s blog talks about tree woks, midterms and the raptures of asphalt research. Looks infrequently updated, but quotation marks around words like drag-queen and transsexual? That’s something new. (We say, neutrally.)

Sarah Morrison, an Edinburgh native, spent a year studying abroad at Cal, and, incidentally, reporting on student life for the Daily Cal.  Now she’s written a concise, insightful overview of her experience for The Guardian. Spark Notes version: American students are turbocharged versions of their pint-swilling, pub-dwelling cohorts. Represent!

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Sarah Morrison on her year abroad at UC Berkeley [Guardian]
Reporter U [Blog Central]

Did our predecessors ever have a debate about the relative merits of “clog” as a noun, versus “clog” as a verb? Because waddaya know, the Philadelphia Clog totally has a more charming header than us.

Oh, and plus five in the brownie points column for the posts about Lost. Some of us are incurable fangirls like that.

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The Clog [Philadelphia City Paper]

OK, so it’s not so much of a surprise. Someone snitched to Danigerre a while back, but now it’s confirmed. And no, the Clog is not going anywhere. Sorry.

The Clog would like to welcome its fellow blog brethren to the Intrawebs. Say hello to:

- Bear Bytes, the sports blog
- Notes From the Field, the extra-news blog
- It’s What’s For Blog, the arts blog

Then there’s also the Editors’ Blog, which has been up for a while actually. We might as well throw that one some love as well.

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Daily Cal Blogs [Daily Cal]

The jokingly paranoid dude wrote:

bq. I call smokescreen. We still covet precious Tedford. In two weeks the Bears face off against Oregon; if Cal wins the drumbeat will intensify. Ted-ford. Ted-ford.

Now, is it ridiculous to blog about a blogger’s fake criticism of another blogger’s football assessment? Umm … No?

A few thoughts on Tedford, while we’re on the topic. Though JT is our “ass-kicking savior“:, he can’t seem to save us from annual demolishing at the hands of USC. True, we don’t receive the, ahem, “extra benefits” that a private school gets. But Cal should be snagging some better recruiting classes. It’s not like there are a bunch of pissed-off, tree-dwelling hippies standing/climbing in the way of athletic facility construction.

Oh, wait.

(Checking Internet for the first time in 7 months)

On second thought, Tedford’s a miracle worker. Eat snow, you home-wrecking Michigan Wolverweasel fans. And chill out, Berkeley sports blog community.

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Unverified Voracity Unveils The Time Portal [MGoBlog
Recap: The best team that could be awful [TBIOOTF]
Earlier: An Evil Michigan Plot to Steal Tedford? Damn You, Mitten State!

The Clog has to be candid on this one: We’ve been underwhelmed by quite a few Lakoff lectures. So underwhelmed that we considered placing Robert Reich in front of George in the battle for most prominent height-challenged, bearded, famous, liberal, Jewish Berkeley prof-pundit.

Oh, but what have we here? It looks like GLake just killed it in “his latest Huffington Post blog” (best to use battle rap lingo for liberal vs. conservative beefs). Not to get all Tucker Carlson and coldly pontificate on the “spinning” of an important issue, but Lakoff really showed some fire with this article. After hearing so much of didactic George, it’s refreshing to read genuinely angry George (what about independent George?).

But why is Lakoff so pissed? It’s not like the government is doing anything destructive or deceptive. That kind of thing could only happen when the descendents of a bygone righteous protesting era focused on the wrong things. Like, if those torch-bearing democracy-checkers “obsessed over the sanctity of some old Oak trees” instead of organizing against the war and other important people-centric issues.

If something crazy like that did happen, it would probably be indicative of a massive atrophy in intelligent dissent. Hmm, such misplaced anger might even help give government officials a free pass on a bungled war and the dismissal of constitutional rights. Only at that point of insanity would Lakoff’s current frustration fit within the parameters of propriety. Oh wait … Shit.

Whose Betrayal? [Huffington Post]

The rundown’s a bit corporate friendly but could serve as an adequate inculcation for our country’s luddites. The Bay is well represented, not surprisingly. Frankly though, the editors of “PC World” don’t know shit about the massive sports blogging community. Strange, you’d think there’d be a bigger overlap in that Venn diagram of nerdiness.

We’re not even going to make that “somehow, we didn’t make the list” crack because it’ll show up on a million blogs by the time this sentence has a period at the end of it. For a much more refreshing taste of that sweet, sweet web nectar, one need only click on any typical blogroll. Except for ours. Because it doesn’t “exist.”

100 Blogs We Love [MSN]