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Six Years O' Blogging

SIX YEARS O' BLOGGING....In all the excitement of moving to a new home, I forgot to mention that today is my sixth blogoversary. Or is it blogiversary? In any case, I've been doing this for six years now. Let that be a lesson to you all.

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Congrad-u-blosophary. Or is it congrad-o-blophary?

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Are the Calpundit archives available anywhere?

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i follow you

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Congrats Kevin!

At the rate you post, I'm guessing you're at around 20,000 or more by now.

Was it a roller coaster or have you loved it every step of the way?

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Thank you. I follow too...

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How about con-blog-ulations? I haven't been following you as long as some, but I've been around a few years.

What I admire most is what drives some people nuts: your consistent reasonable tone, and your tendency to err on the side of moderation.

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Never trust a blogger over 3!

And your consistent reasonable tone and tendency to err on the side of moderation? Drives me nuts!

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I think I've been reading you for almost that long... But not quite six years. I think I started monitoring blogs in the run-up to the Iraq War.

Happy anniversary!

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Congratulations, and many more!

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i assume jerry is being funny. upon that assumption, i second him.

in a knee-jerk left blog world that makes me not always like the people on my side, you are a jewel, kevin. you are on point, rational, and aware that, if one believes that one's position is wiser and better supported, ranting and categorically demonizing the other is no more justifiable for liberals than conservatives. in other words, you'd be a terrible comment leaver, but you're a great blogger

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And a sincere wish for many more Kevin. You are a sane, perceptive voice on all the shouting.

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and i believe i have been reading you for that long as well. is this your third or fourth url?
keep em coming Kevin. i may no longer live in the states, but you are my anchor to what is going on over there.

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Kevin, I almost never commented at calpundit or washington monthly, but read your stuff religiously daily. Hate the MoJo layout here, but trust that you'll have a hand in hanging some new drapes. Best in the new digs.

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is this your third or fourth url

I keep telling people Kevin is the Duke of URL.

Am I dating myself?

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Congratulations Kevin - on the bloggin' and your new digs here. Please keep up the great work.

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I've been reading it for most of the way, so congrats!

max
['It was the worst of times... boy, it just really sucked.']

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this is Kevin's 4th home

newbies.

Happy 'versary, Kevin.

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Congrats Kevin. Here's to another 6 years of successful blogging.

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You date yourself too? Well one advantage is the jokes rarely go over my head....

in a knee-jerk left blog world that makes me not always like the people on my side
I really need to say how much I understand and agree with lynch's sentiment here.

Question Authority, even our progressive liberal thought leaders and their thought police.

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Kevin,

Your blog cleans up a bit nicer if you add this filter "http://www.motherjones.com/assets/email*" to Adblock Plus.

Also, I am somewhat surprised to see the number of advertisers that mojo shares my clicks and ip address with. Luckily, a bit of NoScript helps clean that up too.

On the otherhand, mojo's website requires javascript to post comments. I think that's great. It shows mojo is considering costs by hiring stupid web programmers who have to use the latest and greatest and most likely to fail technology.

It's too bad for people surfing on anything other than a modern, full fledged browser, like people of limited incomes that Mojo probably claims to write for.

The upside is their programming crew will have something nice on their resume when they next work for Halliburton, Exxon, or some DOW 30 company.

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Now that everyone in MSM has accounced Biden as the choice, I have to say it is a bit disappointing to note that Obama broke a promise to let his supporters know first (by sms). Trivial detail, but given the fuss they made about it, appears bigger than it is.

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Yes Kevin - congrats. I was struck when you announced you were leaving WA Monthly after "4 years" that the time had flown as it didn't seem that long since the days of Cal Pundit.
Best wishes and keep blogging.
Steve

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This is slightly off-topic, but posting it here because a) only slightly off topic; and b) there is more chance of someone seeing it.

The site currently has an ad down the right-hand side for photo essays, one of which is entitled Phone Sex Operators.

This is going to get the blog instantly black-listed by web filtering software that is used by folks at home who want to protect their kids from ACTUAL sex pages, AND by corporate filters that are used at almost all companies larger than a handful of people, libraries etc.

It would be a pity if Kevin's work were suddenly much less visible, all because of a stupid ad.

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Blagoversary.

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I remember how unreasonably upset I was when you quit cat blogging when you first went to Monthly. Glad that's back and thanks for all the enjoyable reads over the years!

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Congrats.

Me too (in the Follow the Leader movement.

BTW - anyone heard from Norman lately? :-)

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And I've loved *every* minute of it...

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Unless your new overlords want your readership to start adblocking EVERYTHING they need to eliminate that Flash pop up ad which opens right over top of your last post immediately. Not a good way to welcome new readers that follow you... Few things offend me more than pop up Flash and I'll block every single ad in retaliation.

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Congratulations!!

I think I have read you pretty much daily for the last five years.

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Please get MoJo to go slap Yahoo around so I can add you to My Yahoo.
Thanks much.

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Have followed oh have followed but sorely miss handsome Wash Monthly web site design vs the strip mall tacky of MoJo esp at top with in face subscription solicitation.
Small things loom large for those of us who think and live by special blogs (+ lotta friggin books!).

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One thing I miss about Calpundit was the terrible photos of you that everybody could make fun of. Certainly more entertaining than those friggin cats.

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Blogging allows the quieter, less-pushy personality to join the media fray. Now, can we figure out a way to use the net to get that same personality type into politics?

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Please, for god's sake, do something about the layout soon! Busy Busy Busy may work for Bokonon but it makes a web site painful to read.

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What everyone above said about web page appearance. Especially about those detestable Flash popups. I've left more than one website solely because of them and, if they can't be stopped, I'm outa here, too.

Same thing applies to all the other intrusive panhandlers that MoJo appears to have sold to or supplied with my ip address.

I admire your thinking, as always. I simply have some big problems with the presentation and the opened door to hucksters.

Surely MoJo can do something about this.

Wiley

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