Back on April 6, 2007, I started tracking those of you who stumbled in here. At that time, I got the standard 2-year/100,000 visitor warranty package, never thinking I’d hit the 100K mark before the 2-year mark. Little did I know that since then, some influential people, from John Hawkins to Bill Quick, from Ed Driscoll to Ed Morrissey, from Stephen Green to Jim Geraghty, from E.M. Zanotti to the gang at doubleplusundead and a lot of others I don’t have room to thank, would consider Shoebox and me worthy of some of their traffic. That is on top of those sent over by people who I’ve known since before then, bloggers like, Patrick, Dad29, Fred, Sister Toldjah, Jim Lynch, Owen, Kevin, Sean Hackbarth, Kate, and too many more to mention.
I also didn’t think I’d get a co-blogger as good as Shoebox to up the quality of this place. I’m eternally grateful for him wandering in on a couple of my debate liveblogs from the end of 2007/beginning of 2008 and eventually accepting an invite to start blogging.
I would also be remiss if I didn’t mention the contributions of my various guest-bloggers: Fred, Aaron, Patrick, Leslie, silent E and Big G. When I needed time off of this place, they stepped up and kept things rolling.
Here I am on the threshhold of having 100,000 unique visitors (if I cared about hits, that number is somewhere north of that), and uncharacteristically, I’m actually in awe of a number. Actually, I’m in awe of all of you who have dropped in. Whether you came here for Shoebox’s great early-morning prose, stopped in for the Scrambles that ultimately became too hard to distill (because there are that many good posts out there on a daily basis), or stumbled into one of my rants, I thank you.
Now, let’s break this place.
