I had this long, overwrought post announcing what the rest of you apparently already know--that I'm going to be blogging for the Atlantic--and then it got eaten by Typepad. It was quite wry and humorous. Oh well. I'm just going to say thanks to those who've been posting here from jump (Shani, Breuk etc.) and also how sad I am that Matt won't be fighting in the trenches with me. For what we do, in our way of thinking, there really isn't anyone better than Matt. Anyway, I know I'm not the most reliable lefty, and a lot of you have beef with me from time to time. But I do try to shoot straight guys. It's really all I know how to do. And now I'm just going to do what I should have done five sentences ago--hand the mic over to Outkast.

The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
Huh. Maybe I should actually renew my subscription. I'm pretty upset with their non-Matt bloggers at the moment. Fallows is good, but he's still in the blogger feeling out stage. Not the multiple quick hit style I prefer. Your piece on Cosby was one of the best I've seen in it in a while. I was pleasantly surprised to see your blog linked to by multiple people whose blogs I read not a week after reading the piece.
Posted by crack | July 28, 2008 7:51 PM