November 27, 2008
Holiday Cheer Department
Thank You Blawgosphere
The only posts I've got in the pipeline are an announcement about a nasty little web site I'm building and a followup to my series on prositution. Somehow, neither of those feels right for Thanksgiving Day.
So today I'm posting about how thankful I am for the legal blogosphere (or, if we must, blawgosphere).
Windypundit's been around for over six years. Clearly, I'm not on the fast track to blogospheric superstardom. Really, I'm not on any track to superstardom. But somehow in the last year I seem to have found my place in the blogosphere, and it's kind of a surprising experience.
For one thing, I'm a little surprised at where I fit in. When I started Windypundit, I wanted it to be about libertarian stuff: The war on drugs, free speech, the right to bear arms, and free markets. And more or less, it is. I write about those things a lot, and I get links from other libertarian bloggers now and then.
However, it turns out that those subjects have a common thread running through them, and this thread also runs through some of the newer subjects I write about, such as police misconduct and politics. Almost everything I write about eventually concerns the law and the legal system. I've become an honorary legal blogger.
I'm not a lawyer, and the law is a complicated and confusing subject, so it's been surprising to me that the legal community has put up with me and my half-assed opinions. I didn't expect that.
I didn't expect the American Bar Association to include me in their list of blogs. I didn't expect publishers to send me books to review. I didn't expect to receive compliments from prickly New York criminal defense lawyers. It's all very cool.
So, thank you Scott, Mark, and Gideon. Thank you Marc, Mike, and Jon (even though you seem to have trouble with that Thanksgiving Day spirit). Thank you Ken, wherever you are.
Thank you Tom and Serena for making the rest of these people necessary. Thank you David for taking the time to comment on my blog, even if you've gone Hollywood. Thank you Blondie for being our mystery woman, and don't think I've forgotten about you, Jamie.
(Thanks to everyone I've missed. Sorry about that. Be sure to lambast me in the comments.)
Don't expect to hear this ever again, but thank you all for your acceptance, your warm welcome, and of course for the vast amount of fascinating material you post every single day.
I guess you like me. You really like me.
Thank you.
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