Aargful and Aceless

I constantly fight the urge to meta-blog because it's both what I want to do and because it's what I want to do, so when articles like this one, Casual Blogging Not Just Lunch Money Now, appear in a major newspaper, I permit myself to indulge myself.

Ready? I'm throwing third:

Whew, that was fun. Left-handed and twenty-five years younger that metablogging makes you feel.

Now, let's enjoy the blogosphere's slow, lingering, pointless and (mostly) profitless death together, shall we?

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• Krugman on the progressive moment.
• Ruth Marcus discovers teenagers have sex, and even more shockingly, greedy capitalists sell sex for large profits! Oh my!
• Body found near my few attempts at farming (in those rural days).
• You just thought traveling to that side of the river sucked.
• Feinstein dances on Garyland's grave!
• Quotes of the year.
• Albums of year as voted by All Song's listeners. Meh.
• Toolio knows something about micromanaging, and projects!
• While The Forehead lectures you on proper godding.
• Please note that this Post article doesn't mention that Bush's signing statement included a sentence avowing his right to utterly disregard the bill he just signed into law.
• NYT list of notable deaths in 2007, and as I type this NYT reporting Benazir Bhutto assassinated.
• Leading candidate for stupidest, most condescending, and shallowest column of today!
• Rafsanromney v Huckadinejad! (h/t Cernig).
• Important stories in 2007 you never heard or heard but neglected: Gay Nebraska!
• Yet another fabulous photoshopped Star Trek allusion!

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Dunk the Dope for a Dime - the most important thing you'll read today.

It's striking how quickly that Glenn Greenwald/Ezra Klein kerfluffle on Teh Left disappeared from the chattering Left's elite blogs. Let that be a reminder of what's permissible to say.