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Well, my attempt to plug

Orlando — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:03:25 +0000

In reply to My Celebrity Crush: Steve Benen of the Washington Monthly

Well, my attempt to plug Steve Benen backfired a bit, albeit in a good way for Dag. I'm afraid he won't get nearly as many hits from Dag as this post has gotten from Political Animal.

For anyone reading, I hope you'll make Genghis happy and visit the Dag front page. We do have quality writers here, and they write about more than politics--which I realize might sound a bit like sacrilege to some.

As for me, in Steve's very nice link back to this post, he said it made him smile. So, my work here is done.

As the self-anointed

Michael Wolraich — Thu, 14 May 2009 02:04:37 +0000

In reply to My Celebrity Crush: Steve Benen of the Washington Monthly

As the self-anointed promoter-in-chief of dagblog, allow me to express some frustration. We've got over 1000 people dropping in read Orlando's praise of Steve but as so often happens with the occasional blockbuster post, hardly any visitors pause to read anything else. So if you're new to our humble blog and have read this far, I encourage you to check out the front page. We've got some great writers here, and we love to get the snark on. You won't be disappointed. Well not very disappointed anyway; clicks are cheap.

Way to go Orlando, working

Bluesplashy — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:41:00 +0000

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Way to go Orlando, working hard getting Dagblog out there! Maybe someone should send you a Dagblog.com teeshirt to wear this weekend.

Thanks for the link, nice.

Hello. Yeah, Steve Benen is a

Neil B. ♪ — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:57:20 +0000

In reply to My Celebrity Crush: Steve Benen of the Washington Monthly

Hello. Yeah, Steve Benen is a mostly great blogger. He's smart and can dig into the principle of things. The snark can be funny, but his mock bafflement about ReRushlickin (my flaky coinage) & conservative silliness or malice can be so deep that it gets tiring and could confuse unfamiliar visitors. Still, he's a must read. In addition, which OP didn't mention, is that the commenters are very sharp, cleverly humorous and well-informed as well. We (well I included others so it's not too narcissistic) go to lots of trouble to compose comments, often quite long and thoughtful - for no pay or much credit.

Even the trolls are often interesting, especially a long-running "entity" going as "Al." Al started out a sincere, "actual" rightist pedant who put up nearly archetypal talking points. Later (and we heard he died from some), parodists started doing him and now he is a sort of archetype from the collective unconscious - a transpersonal hive intelligence! He drops in from time to time, usually sounding the same but ocasionally more outré or spicy when an offbeat parodist is invovled (;-) BTW I don't think he was "Uncle Al" of UseNet fame and also abrasively conservative when not talking science and endlessly promoting his chiral gravity theory.

It's okay, G. Steve is an

Orlando — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:25:19 +0000

In reply to O, did you realize that Steve

It's okay, G. Steve is an enlightened type. I don't think he'll care if a boy is crushing on him too.

Don't worry. When I mean I'm

Orlando — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:24:00 +0000

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Don't worry. When I mean I'm more relaxed, I mean I don't feel like I'm going to throw up every day. I'm still working on the ground. Look for me on the news this weekend in the all the coverage of the Notre Dame graduation. Obama supporters have a little something planned.

Update: I read this comment and realized it makes might make me sound like I think I'm important..."Look for me on the news this weekend?" Barf.

What I meant is that I, along with many other committed volunteers, am still working at the grassroots level to postively impact our community and to keep Indiana blue. I might be on the news in the broad sense, like when the camera sweeps across a crowd that I am in. But I won't be actually speaking. Because that is scary and there are people more articulate than I to speak about our group and our purpose.

Correct. Elections are

DF — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:51:37 +0000

In reply to Well, if you want to be on

Correct. Elections are important only in that they affect what happens in between them, which is what is really important.

Well, if you want to be on

slappy magoo — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:29:18 +0000

In reply to My Celebrity Crush: Steve Benen of the Washington Monthly

Well, if you want to be on Steve's good side, I'd suspect one thing you shouldn't do is say stuff like "My side won so I can afford to be a little bit more relaxed this year." It's all about the vigilance and the diligence, something is awful as the past 8 years can happen again in an instant.

O, did you realize that Steve

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:25:14 +0000

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O, did you realize that Steve Benen linked back to this post? http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_05/018166.php

Maybe I have a crush on him now too.

"Might I suggest doing some

Shantyhag — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:12:08 +0000

In reply to "and NOT from

"Might I suggest doing some cyber-stalking? It is pretty fun!"

And, for now at least, legal!