There's been some really interesting stuff out there if you look hard enough. Two in particular stood out for me, Louis Proyect's effort on Baseball and Capitalism was fascinating even if my interest in the sport is pretty limited. It was a profound insight into sporting culture nevertheless.
A pretty vital contribution to discussion of the pogroms in South Africa from Black Looks, going beyond a liberal expression of outrage towards understanding the systemic violence in that country. Somewhere else I saw a post, entitled 'South Africa at the crossroads', which got me thinking that the 'crossroads' was 10-15 years ago and the ANC government chose the path marked 'expand social inequality, suppress the poor and entrench the new political and economic elite'.
