We are at 9,969,409 views
On this platform, DL is closing in on its 10 millionth view. And many of them were not me re-reading my own stuff and giggling my ass off.
Anyhoo… I feel like the 10 millionth viewer should get something. A case of car wax or some such other old-timey consolation prize.
9,969,410 here
Atta guy
YAY, victory is in sight!
You’d have gotten there sooner if you hadn’t blown it and pushed the good writers onto a more popular blog.
The writers you refer to left because they couldn’t stand criticism. Having fellow progressives point out that they were wrong about Hillary Clinton is what “pushed” them over to a blog that I doubt you can prove is “more popular.”
good writers.
[N.B. Alby had his 1993 essay on the Claymont Xmas weed in today’s NJ print edition. Special for Xmas Eve. By popular demand, it said.]
In my defense, it was an assignment from an editor, who told me he wanted a child’s fable about the weed for the next day’s paper, to run with a story about the armed guard he hired to stand over what IIRC was the seventh tree to decorate the spot; I forget whether that counted the original weed.
I thought it was rather telling that he had to hire an armed guard, but he thought that was too cynical for Christmas. To quote the old Irish folk song, such a custom as that he could find any day.