Speaking of Kevin Drum, I can't think of a better blogosphere success story than his transition to Political Animal. Like a lot of people, I started reading Calpundit when he was the source for breaking news on Bush's tangled TANG days.
Kevin offered much more, of course, and he became one of my regular reads. But since moving over to front page real estate at The Washington Monthly he's really raised his game. His posts are tighter and the language crisper and more concise. I suspect being a professional blogger has inspired Kevin, and that as part of the deal he acquired a good editor. (Can you give credit where it's due Kevin?)
I don't agree with Kevin on all the issues --- he's definitely to my left on most of them --- but value every word he writes. Finding out that, like me, he voted for John Anderson in 1980 --- I'll be saying a lot more about this shortly --- only makes me enjoy him more. Read Political Animal, you'll like it.
Update: I forgot to include a reference to one of Kevin's best posts in recent weeks, his analysis of GWB's "CEO Presidency." Read it in combination with Jacob Weisberg's The Misunderestimated Man and then try to sleep well at night.
The Washington Monthly does indeed have an excellent editor named Paul Glastris, and he's one of the reasons everyone should read the magazine. The blog, however, is unedited, and I write it the same way I did back when I did Calpundit.
The only real change, I think, is that my blogging is almost exclusively political these days, with very few off topic or personal posts. This has happened gradually over the past few months, probably due more to the campaign news cycle than anything else. There's just too much political stuff to write about to have time for much else.
Posted by: Kevin Drum | May 12, 2004 at 05:17 PM