The blog world is so much about links, tags, visitors, RSS feeds, diggs, etc. and so on. To that end, I've been tagged by Theo Johnson at Now That's What I'm Talking About with a Thinking Blogger Award.  The award was initiated by ilker yoldas and in receiving it I am to select 5 blogs that in turn, make me think. The participation rules are simple: 1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think. 2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme. 3. Optional: Proudly display the 'Thinking Blogger Award' with a link to the post that you wrote (here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn't fit your blog). So here are the 5 bloggers I'm tagging for making me think. 1. The Anti-Essentialist Conundrum - This 2nd year law student (Sylvia) has an extremely provocative blog that shines a light on all aspects of racism and sexism.   2. Dallas Progress - Mike Davis not only talks about it and writes about it, but he is about it.  He's ...