Welcome to my new blog. After four years at the Washington Monthly and 12 years at Mother Jones, I've decided to go full circle and return to blogging at my own site. This gives me a little more freedom to post when I want and a little more freedom to say what I want without worrying about how it might reflect on others.
Aside from that, things will be pretty much the same as always. I mostly blog about policy—I call it "policy lite"—but also about anything else that catches my eye. As always, there are lots of charts and, every Friday, plenty of cats. So settle in and enjoy.
Reporting for doody. No...strike that. For Duty. Yes. Much better.
Howdy as in Vels Doody - Howdy Doody or sumptin' like that
Likewise.
Always appreciate that Kevin Drum has never been so shrinking a violent as Steve Benen, Albert Burneko, or Jack Dorsey.
To not getting banned!
Kevin, you introduced me to the blogosphere. I followed you from Political Animal to Mother Jones. I'm happy to read your blog here. Be well.
This looks fine, but I'm curious why you didn't recreate and reuse Calpundit. I remember it fondly, especially the photo of you in your deck shoes.
I was wondering the same. I've always bookmarked Kevin as Calpundit.
Maybe it was the $7,695 to repurchase the domain name...
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I only come here for the cat pictures.
Kevin
Congrats on the new blog site. Have been a fan since Calpundit days and look forward to many more years of reading your posts (and charts)
SDF
I've followed you from Washington Monthly to Mother Jones and now to here so you seem to be stuck with me. I hope to keep reading your thoughts for many years to come.
Just registering (or maybe not, we'll see).
Put you in my feed reader just like old times.
Firsty
Orange? Again? And tiny!
Gratz
Happy to see your new blog!
Boundless appreciation for your new endeavor, Mr Drum. Long may you blog! Just one suggestion: please take note why New Zealand and Australia's Covid-19 cases and deaths per capita are exceptionally low (due to state governments in collaboration with Federal government). Hopefully, the roll out of their vaccination programs will be as effective.
like the old days
Like others here I followed you from Calpundit to Mother Jones, though I am finding it hard to believe it's been 12 years.
Question: how is the departure from Mother Jones affecting your health insurance?
I've been following you since the Calpundit days - all the best
Looking forward to your new blog...
Looking forward to your new posts in your new online home...
Glad to be here on the new site!
Now that you don't have style editors hanging over you all the time, can you do us a solid and make charts readable? MJ frequently had type too microscopic to see. Embiggening is always an option.
Greetings!
Sad to see you depaty from Mother Jones, but glad that there will still be many, many charts and cats.
Just giving this a test spin.
Another suggestion for convenience in using the Comments feature:
It would be helpful to have an option to sort the Comments chronologically according to one's preference for order--first-to-last or last-to-first.
Lookin’ good...
Moar kitties always welcome...
Video/Link test...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO17hN-YvBc
Looking forward to reading your posts here!
Looking forward to some vorpal analysis.
"Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsey were the borogroves and the mome raths outgrabe.
been following kevin wince washington monthly. happy to make another jump.
Good luck.