The most recent 20 comments posted to Electrolite by Kevin Drum:

I've been writing the same kind of stuff for nearly three years now. I'm a moderate, analytical liberal with a moderate, analytical temperament. It's just what I am, and most of my readers read my stuff because they like that. There's a tiny percentage of wild eyed commenters who go apeshit whenever I go 5% off the liberal reservation — like inviting an extremely moderate conservative to guest blog for four days — but there's nothing forcing them to read my site if it's too much for their blood pressure. I'm not Atrios or Kos, and that's never been my goal.

Besides, Patrick, I can't imagine that anyone comes to my blog because they want a diet of 100% red meat. If they are, they're mighty dim, since I haven't been providing that in the entire time I've been blogging.

I for one would be pretty unhappy if the political blogosphere becomes the print version of talk radio, although that's the direction it's unfortunately heading. There's room for all kinds of blogs, and we'd be collectively foolish not to take advantage of that.

Oh, right. I see a bunch of people already pointed this out. I guess I really ought to read the other comments before I mouth off.

Carry on.

The blogroll is still on my site. It's in a dropdown box at the bottom because the site designers thought it was cooler that way. I had already spend a bunch of time arguing about other stuff, so I decided discretion was the better part of valor and decided not to object too strenuously to this.

And of course Instapundit weighed in with his praise of this policy days ago:

"Some people think the looting is bad, but I think that a certain amount is good."

This isn't much, but it's a start. I wrote it back in October:

http://calpundit.blogspot.com/2002_10_06_calpundit_archive.html#82701399

Just as the most obvious additions to this, I would add a stronger commitment to multilateral institutions like the UN, considerably greater resources dedicated to fighting global poverty, disease, hunger, etc., and helping to create market economies in third world countries.

Just wanted to let everyone know that no insult was intended. And I was critical of both left and right in my original post.

My "sense" was just that, and it's only based on what I read in blogs. I just haven't seen many liberals blogging about what we should do to reduce the danger of unstable states, that's all.

I realize that opposing the war is more urgent at the moment, but I still wish there were more people on both left and right talking about what we should do to make the world safer outside of war.

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