Where are the blogs of yesteryear?

My favority brilliant lefty blogs have a habit of dying sudden deaths:

• Fafblog, surrealistic snark. Ceased being updated a year and a half ago.
  
  
• Whisky Bar, mordant, trenchant, informed analysis. Site pulled down abruptly,
  but lives on in the Internet Archive, and has an ongoing fan site Moon of Alabama.
  
  
• The Poor Man, general mockery of wingnuttery. Seems to have died recently, would normally be managing the Golden Winger awards for 2007. Also lives on in archives.
  
  

This keeps happening. I predict Who is IOZ? will be the next to go. It has the same level of acidic, incendiary brilliance that leads to sudden flare-out.

Fortunately, there is really no shortage of good, biting material on the left -- the Bush administration has spawned a cottage industry. But I still miss the above trio.

TGGP notes a similar phenomenon in his rather different corner of the blogiverse.